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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. Re:Unrealistic! by eln · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, not before they've spent 6 hours saying "the switch is configured just fine, it must be a server problem" first.

  2. Re:Unrealistic! by BSAtHome · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure we pretend to be busy so that it looks like we are genius. A network admin that needs to run has done a bad job at establishing redundancy. So, not on my shift.