53.6. How RPC Works
RPC is a protocol that one Webmin system can use to control another. An RPC request is usually a call to a function in the library of some module, and includes the parameters to that function. There are, however, other RPC request types for transferring data to and from a server, checking to see if a module is available, getting a module's configuration, and executing a piece of Perl code. This section explains the technical details of how it works, and can be skipped if you are not a programmer and not having any trouble with RPC connections.
When you set up the System and Server Status module to fetch status information from a remote system, an RPC call is made to functions in the same module on that system to determine ...
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