Distributed multi-tier fault-tolerant architecture.

Designed to work with unreliable intermittent communication transports.

Modular plugin-based system with runtime upgrade and reconfiguration, without down-times.

Component oriented, with active components running an instance of the Devil Framework Application Server (MCPs, Collectors, Agents) and passive components accessed through device specific plugins.

Remote components' configurations and plugins are automatically kept synchronized.

Policy oriented configuration system.

Multiple configurations can be assigned to a single system component and automatically activated at scheduled times.

Architecture independent multi-user system.

Internal security system with fine-grained resource access authentication and authorization.

Multiple concurrent communication channels with different encrypted or unencrypted standard (XML-RPC) or proprietary RPC protocols.

Multi-platform system: Windows, Linux/Unix and basically whatever platform is supported by the Python language.

Can be easily interfaced with any kind of hardware device or application.

Data agnostic: any data produced by interfaced devices or applications can be converted to internal events and then managed.

Configurable and extensible multiple event retrieval, filtering, dispatching, detection, reaction and storage sub-systems.

Real-time detection and reaction to specific events or sequences of events. Alarms and actions can be triggered by simple event filters or complex situation detection rules.

Storage agnostic: collected events can be selectively stored/retrieved to/from different back-ends like flat, relational or object oriented database systems, simple files or other applications (via RPC).

Advanced Graphical Console:

• Modular extensible architecture completely reconfigurable at runtime.

• Plugins are dynamically downloaded from the server when needed or when new versions are available.

• Complete system configuration and management.

• Integrated dynamic visual development environment.

• Multi-platform: Windows, Linux/Unix.

• Custom and global user profiles.

Built-in scripting language (Python) with protected access to the resources of the whole distributed system.

Fast and easy development of new plugins to extend system or console functionality.

Debug, modify and analyze the system code and data structures at run-time. This is possible as the system core is written in the Python language, and its interpreter is made accessible to any authorized user.

Built-in internationalization support.

Custom applications development and deployment system.