"Carl J. Van Arsdall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yea, there are other free solutions you might want to check out, I've > been looking at ganglia and nagios. These require constant > communication with a server, however they are customizable in that you > can have the server take action on various events. Cheers!
There's some pretty tricky issues with desktop-class PC hardware about what to do if you need to reconfigure or reboot one remotely. Real server hardware is better equipped for this but costs a lot more. I remember something called "PC-Weasel" which was an ISA-bus plug-in card that was basically a VGA card with an ethernet port. That let you see the bootup screens remotely, adjust the cmos settings, etc. I remember trying without success to find something like that for the PCI bus. Without something like that, all you can really do if a PC in server gets wedged is remote-reset or power cycle it; even that of course takes special hardware, but many colo places are already set up for that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
