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

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

  3. 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 ?
  4. 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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    The enemies of Democracy are
  5. Re:R2-D2 by cstdenis · · Score: 5, Funny

    C-3PO of course.

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    1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
  6. 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!