Plugins

Nodewatch is designed to provide a practical degree of segregation between end-user modules, referred to hereafter as plugins, and core system functionality. This separation is applied by keeping the following concerns internal to Nodewatch:

• Process Supervision (an obvious one)

• Remote code loading

• Gathering data from sensors

• Publishing data to sink-interfaces

• Administering sensors and sink-interfaces

• Managing subscriptions

Sensors and sink-interfaces can therefore be built without concerning oneself with these issues.

All Nodewatch’s internal sensors and interfaces are implemented as plugins. The source code for built in modules is therefore a perfect reference for implementors.

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