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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. Is this News? by Dyne09 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this news? Why do stories like this even make it on /.? This is the nerd equivalent of celebrity watch on the evening news. If I make a video about a robot that wipes my ass for me and hums a jaunty toon, will that get posted here too?