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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. 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

  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.

  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 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 s0litaire · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was their Bit Torrent line that was cut :)

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

    These are not the droids your looking for.

  5. 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 ?
  6. 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.

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

    C-3PO of course.

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  8. 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!
  9. 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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