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Network Monitor Lua API

This documentation covers the Network Monitor Lua API. Network Monitor uses Lua 5.0.

Lua

Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from byte codes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Note: This documentation does not cover the Lua language. For more information about the Lua language visit http://www.lua.org.

Network Monitor and Lua

Customers can use the Lua scripting language to create custom made monitors to test systems and equipment not supported by any current monitoring solution.

New monitors, actions and events can be created and tested in the development environment provided by Kaseya, before they are exported and used in Kaseya Network Monitor.

A comprehensive library of pre-made classes, such as SFTP client, HTTP client and file management, are available to developers.

The develop environment includes debugger, keyword highlighting, integrated help and other features available in state-of-the-art development tools. The development environment can be downloaded from our homepage at http://www.kaseya.com/

Lua IDE v3