DESCRIPTION

  XML::IDMEF - A perl module for easily creating/parsing IDMEF messages

  IDMEF module is a wrapper around XML::Simple, providing an interface
  designed to simplify the parsing and creation of IDMEF messages. IDMEF
  is an XML based standard for representing Intrusion Detection related
  messages (http://www.silicondefense.com/idwg/).

  The interface provided by IDMEF is designed to make it very simple to
  build an IDMEF message while parsing a log file with a key-value 
  structure, which is the most common situation when writing a log export
  module for a given software.

  IDMEF.pm is still in beta stage. It misses documentation.
  To extract the api documentation, do a 'cat IDMEF.pm |grep "##"'.


  ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING *******

   This release (1.01) is a beta release and has not been thoroughly
   tested. Please try it out if you can and report success/failure to
   the author.

   For production systems, please be careful.

  ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING *******




PREREQUISITES

  Requires XML::Simple, XML::Expat & XML::Parser.


BUILDING/INSTALLING

  Once the archive is unpacked, use these commands:

      perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make test
      make install

  If for some reason, you can't run these commands, you can simple copy 
  the IDMEF.pm file to your lib/XML directory. To find out which paths
  perl uses to locate modules, do 
  'perl -e "print join(\"\n\", @INC), \"\n\";"'


STATUS

  This version (1.01) is a beta release, and has not yet been thoroughly
  tested in production environment. It has been succesfully run on both
  linux and openbsd. 
  If you encounter any problems installing or running this release, please
  email the author and provide him as much information as possible on the
  bug and its context.

  Please send any feedback to the author: erwan@cpan.org


NEW IN THIS RELEASE

  Everything ;)

  See 'Changes' for a detailed history.


COPYRIGHT

  Copyright 2002 Erwan Lemonnier, on behalf of Proact Defcom. 

  This module is free software under BSD license.