> We may cover this topic in our bi-weekly [4]IRC chat this

> coming Thur Sept 1.

Apologies for not attending this. I had gone on holidays,

and didn't know about it until I got back to work today.

>    David, can you explain what you mean by 'zenoss

>    external method' and

I probably mean a Zope "ExternalMethod" added via the /manage web interface

and implemented in Python.

>    'remote python client'?

A python program running on different machine from the zenoss server stack,

POSTing to the URL corresponding to the external method.

>    Also, are each of these multiple python clients on

>    different machines, or the same machine (wondering

>    about IP address)?

Yes, they were on the same machine => same IP Address.

>What is the use case for multiple calls?

I am implementing a python API which supports starting and

stopping zenoss Jobs and monitoring the state of the Jobs and of

devices with which they are associated.

I decided to facilitate testing by running two python

instances, one repeatedly dumping the job state, and one

dumping out the device state. I was surprised to find the

one of the state dumps failing because it got the wrong type

of state.

The type of state returned by the ExternalMethod was

controlled by a POST parameter. I thought maybe it would work

better if I had two ExternalMethods, one for each type of

state. However that didn't seem to work either.

Regards,

David.