The Prelude Library is a collection of generic functions providing
communication between the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite components. It
provides a convenient interface for sending alerts to Prelude
Manager with transparent SSL, failover and replication support,
asynchronous events and timer interfaces, an abstracted
configuration API (hooking at the commandline, the configuration
line, or wide configuration, available from the Manager), and a
generic plugin API. It allows you to easily turn your favorite
security program into a Prelude sensor.