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R2-D2 Monitors Your Web Servers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

1sockchuck writes "What happens when you hire Star Wars enthusiasts as the system admins for your data center? You end up with the R2-D2 server monitoring system. The staff at Japan's Syun (only if you read Japanese) have converted an R2-D2 DVD projector into a Nagios-based server monitoring system that alerts them whenever a server goes offline." Say what you will, but that's a lot harder to ignore than a beeper.

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  1. George by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    is going to sue.

    1. Re:George by dunnius · · Score: 5, Funny

      is going to sue. It looks like we may finally see the Chewbacca defense used in court for real!
    2. Re:George by Provocateur · · Score: 2, Funny

      Especially if you have a first name like Sosumi.

      j/k

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  2. Obligatory Joke: by DarkMage0707077 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Help me, DBA Server Geek...
    You're my only hope.

    1. Re:Obligatory Joke: by Zosden · · Score: 5, Funny

      I fear the day when my server turns to me and says I am your father.

    2. Re:Obligatory Joke: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      "Admin, who's your daddy?" WHAP!

      Admin: cringe.

      Server: "Damn right, you pasty-faced geek!"

  3. Unrealistic! by tumutbound · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever seen a network administrator RUN to fix a problem? I think not.

    1. Re:Unrealistic! by s0litaire · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was their Bit Torrent line that was cut :)

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  4. Beep beep bloop beep bloop blip blip by Haoie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sigh, it was funnier in the movies.

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  5. These are not the droids your looking for by madcat2c · · Score: 4, Funny

    These are not the droids your looking for.

  6. and the option is ? by Kingston · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens when you hire Star Wars enthusiasts as the system admins for your data center? What, there is a different type of sysadmin we don't know about ?
  7. Hard to ignore by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Say what you will, but that's a lot harder to ignore than a beeper.

    Yeah, but it's not as hard to ignore as the Chewbacca Server Monitor, who comes in and rips your arms off if you don't fix the problem.

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    1. Re:Hard to ignore by Suzuran · · Score: 3, Funny

      Spells like my boss too.

  8. Re:R2-D2 by cstdenis · · Score: 5, Funny

    C-3PO of course.

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  9. Re:Link to the Youtube Video by isorox · · Score: 2, Funny

    The site is getting hammered by slashdot No problem, C3P0 will say "we're doomed", and R2D2 will get on and fix it with some quality network cables

  10. Cute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Meesa bein' muy muy worried about da servers.

  11. That's nice and everything, but... by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...what'd *really* be cool would be a Dalek server.

    Provided it was capable of saying "Exterminate" in a harsh metallic voice and had real death rays for those troublesome cases of PEBKAC.

    Actually, forget the server bit, you just want a Dalek, full stop.

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    1. Re:That's nice and everything, but... by Gazzonyx · · Score: 3, Funny

      But what if the admins are upstairs? However would a Dalek get up there?!

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