I don't know if it's applicable, but I once wrote an uptime monitor that gives a view of all servers that it is responsible for monitoring, and the ports it's supposed to be watching on, and if a server did go down it would email you directly. It wouldn't be too hard to have it draw a pretty picture of a rack, to show the positions as long as you told it in advance which server IP addresses were located where.
Let me know if your interested and I'll see if I can go Jurassic Park on this old dinosaur code. Sincerely, Steve On Jan 24, 2008 4:04 PM, Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 15:51 -0700, Daniel wrote: > > I don't know of anything that can detect or display physical positions > > in racks, but I know that cacti (http://www.cacti.net/) has a way to > > show server trees. This allows for hierarchy so you could group the > > servers by rack and order them by physical position in the rack. If > > you have several racks of equipment you may already know of cacti. > > And if you've got more than a few racks, you probably are aware of > Cacti's miserable performance. I'd say beyond about 100-200 devices it > really starts to crumble. It is a pretty nice tool for smaller networks > though. > > Corey > > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
