SIAM Service Inventory Abstraction Model SIAM is intended as a common API that would connect to enterprise-specific service inventory systems and present the inventory data in a uniform format. The purpose of this universal API is to reduce the integration costs for such software systems as network monitoring, CRM, Customer self-service portals, etc. For more details, see: lib/SIAM/Documentation/DataModel.pod -- detailed data model specs t/driver-simple.data.yaml -- reference data for testing lib/SIAM.pm -- API usage guidelines INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc SIAM perldoc SIAM::Documentation::DataModel You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=SIAM AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/SIAM CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/SIAM Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/SIAM/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2011 Stanislav Sinyagin This program is distributed under the MIT (X11) License: L<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.