This is the architecture of the Oracle Enterprise Manager ([OEM]): an OEM "console" has the ability to send "scripts" for execution on a "remote agent", that is, an individual monitored server. A restricted form of Tcl (version 8.0, as of 2001?) is the language of these scripts. See [http://download-west.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/em.901/a88771/chap4.htm#46268] for Oracle's documentation, which claims it is using Tcl 7.5 ... OEM is built with [Oratcl]. Among the technical reasons Oracle might rationally have chosen Tcl for OEM over, for example, [Perl]: * Oratcl's distinguished history; * Tcl's record of achievement with [SNMP] applications; * Tcl's [event]-orientation; * Tcl's tradition of "[agent]" work. ---- See also "[COMPANY: Oracle]".