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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. Link to the Youtube Video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site is getting hammered by slashdot but the entire article is basically just this youtube video so go here if and when the site dies.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15rUkIJ25EE

    1. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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 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.

    3. Re:Unrealistic! by aarggh · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If all us admins took 2 minutes to fix a 2 minute problem, that would just serve to place unrealistic expectations that all problems require a 2 minute fix, thus leading to tears and suffering when a big problem occurs. And the user would probably also get upset!

      I know of one guy here who has made a career out of looking busy walking around with a piece of paper while every 2 minute job takes AT LEAST a week! True! Unfortunately for us he is a moron, albeit a highly paid moron.

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

      It was their Bit Torrent line that was cut :)

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    5. Re:Unrealistic! by mollymoo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I know of one guy here who has made a career out of looking busy walking around with a piece of paper while every 2 minute job takes AT LEAST a week!

      You're not alone, most of us have managers.

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

    Sigh, it was funnier in the movies.

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

    These are not the droids your looking for.

  7. 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 ?
  8. 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.

  9. My friends are building something like this, Robob by MRe_nl · · Score: 2, Interesting

    from their website http://www.robob.nl/

    Robob is a robot that can be controlled trough the internet. By logging in, Robob becomes your physical avatar. Robob can be disguised as anything: a puppet on a bar chair or a hitchhiking Furby.

    Robob is a telepresence project. It works by adding speech and recognizable humanoid features to a webcam. By optimizing the web interface it becomes possible to put your soul in Robob. You are Robob.

    In the future we want to make a Robob network. The aim is to make it possible to see and speak to the world without travelling. We will publish a Linux startup cdrom with the Robob software. Everybody will be able to make a personal Robob with an old computer. All Robobs will be available though one portal.

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

    C-3PO of course.

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  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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  12. Very pretty by caller9 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only problem I see is that it would take a while for the projector to warm up.

    Now if they made this thing capable of walking up and using a telescoping robotic arm to replace the cable, then they would have something. VPN from 200 miles away and direct this thing to do physical layer stuff for you. That would be awesome.

    Still pretty nifty in a dog-and-pony show way.