It's not the feat, it's the humility.

A motley crew

• Lots of "little tools" from different sources

• They all like different formats for input

• They all give output a little differently

• They don't necessarily even work consistently

What we want

• A single output format, accessible via scripting languages and reporting tools

• An extensible tool, so that we can rapidly tweak functionality to meet our needs

• A consistent user interface, for easy wrapping in perl

Aimed at the hard cases: large, disorderly environments