You know! I truly do agree with the "less reading" part. I do not have anything against reading, but reading this kind of technical stuff on your on can be a bit overwhelming. Though, I should be used to it reading all the Cisco Docs I have read, but still. As far as the modules go, you hit the spot, SNMP and Perl combined is one of my major interest. I have made a couple of scripts that do some very interesting things. I have just given up on a script that was meant to trace an IP all the way back to its access switch. Unfortunately there is no correlation on a CDP index and a iFindex, thus, this makes it very difficult for me to complete my program.