Haha I like the car/ghetto ride idea actually.
Maybe I can wire something that connects to the led light of the dells and push out some ‘activity’. I will have to keep digging it sounds like. I mean it would be nice if the items had an actual function. Right now I dropped on the firewall log from Sonicwall onto the server monitor, and color coded it (syslog) so you can see the traffic. The phone guys just rigged the dialer output (asterisk) to pump into an overlay on the 4 lcd tv’s around the sales floor stuff from their call campaigns. All pretty neat. From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Rackable 'lights' etc I was going to suggest that you go to either Autozone, or some other auto shop, that specializes in tricking out either a car or truck. Find some blue or purple flouresent lights, the ones that you put under a car to make appear as if it were floating, hook that up to a 12vdc output and string them in the cage/cabinet. You could really be fancy and find some sort of LED Lights that flicker, or brighten, when the volume gets 'pumped up'. Find some small walkman radio or cd player, hook up the lights to the earphone or speaker output and then watch the light show. Or, you could do the Farnsworth approach. Hook up an old CRT device to the top of your cage and output a dollar sign on the screen. Worked for him. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: put your switches in there, making sure not to block the lights with the cables, nice light show with the link activity lights. And if you have to, setup a box with multiple multiple-port nics ( like the adaptec 4 port ethernet adapter ) assigning each their own IP, and then create a batch or script that will pseudo-randomly light the link activity lights via PING or short copy commands. Maybe force a couple to 10mb, normally a different link light color ... and for dog and pony shows, if you've got drive cabinets in the racks, setup a box with a batch/script/command file that just copies and deletes files from a sandbox folder, to make the drive lights continuosly flicker nice <g> you could even remotely trigger the copy/delete sequence from another machine right before they do the 'show and tell' and kill it when they leave ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 7:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Rackable 'lights' etc I have a client that just purchased several 3u and 4u servers to go in a couple of cages. The guy asked me for some lights and action to put in to show investors and such. I was looking for maybe some rack mount environmental device monitor or something. Nothing too expensive its mostly just for show, but I figured there had to be some neat/stupid stuff out there, I just couldn’t think of anything. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
