R2-D2 Monitors Your Web Servers

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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Link to the Youtube Video

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Obligatory Joke:

[DarkMage0707077]

Help me, DBA Server Geek...
You're my only hope.

Re:Obligatory Joke:

[Zosden]

I fear the day when my server turns to me and says I am your father.

Unrealistic!

[tumutbound]

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

and the option is ?

[Kingston]

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 ?

Hard to ignore

[Chris Burke]

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.

Re:R2-D2

[cstdenis]

C-3PO of course.

Re:George

[dunnius]

is going to sue. It looks like we may finally see the Chewbacca defense used in court for real!