Open Source Tools in Data Centers

An anonymous reader writes "There is a nice presentation on the L.A.S. Linux site entitled "Managing Data Center Functions with Open Source Tools" which was presented at Comdex 2003. It covers everything from IPtables to OpenNMS. As well as covering some less known but nice tools like NeDi, which lets you easily manage Cisco routers and swiches from a web browser."

Re:vservers

[Anonymous Coward]

you want user mode linux
google for it, mighty isp owner

Re:My favorite use of OS

[AndroidCat]

10K printers in thousands of sites around the world with only 2 print admin's

They must be awfully busy putting paper in the printers! :^P (Yeah, you'd think most people should be smart enough to figure that out, but you'd be wrong.)

It does sound like a cool setup.

Re:Link Looks awful in Mozilla

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks pretty good in OpenCavity [goatse.cx] though. Check it out, it's 100% open source, as you will immediately recognize.

Re:My favorite use of OS

[lisany]

Remote print servers can take over controll of print queues quickly in the event of a print server failure and queues can be rerouted to a new print device should a physical printer fail all without client reconfiguration!

I can see it now...

Boss: Hey Lloyd! Where's that document I printed twenty minutes ago?
Lloyd: Umm, its not here--ah. the printer was broken and sent off for servicing
Boss: FIND IT!
Lloyd: Well, boss, I found the document--
Boss: Great! Where is it?
Lloyd: Well, that's the thing, Boss *gulp* Its in our Singapore office. Boss: *thinks: but this is New York!*

Re:HP OpenView

[delong]

But OV costs an arm and a leg. And paying people with experience in OV costs and arm and a leg.

Even WorldCom (formerly UUNET) doesn't use OV for its hosting datacenters. Too expensive. They use open source tools on linux.