Submission + - Suggestions for cheap metrics eye candy software?
Banquo writes: "I have a friend who has a small datacenter (SQL/Mail/IIS/File Repository..5 or 10 servers)and he was saying that his boss wants to see some kind of "Visual display of changing metrics"
Net/server/sql stats with moving lines and graphs and pretty colors etc.. etc..
Basically they want something to display on a big LCD panel that will give a tiny bit of "Wow" factor to customer visits. Back in my datacenter days I saw a million packages to do this stuff but I was always blessed with an IT budget for metrics/monitoring etc...
Can anyone suggest a free/cheap package that will make pretty moving pictures, moving lines, graphs etc.. from server/net stats?
There's no worry about actually using this for real data tracking or metrics purposes. He has a pretty robust log/alert/metrics setup but command line is a little too dry for marketing purposes. I jokingly suggested he just use a looped flash animation but he actually does want stats that are coming from and reflect his environment.
Anyone know of any cheap or free "Data center stats/metrics "Eye Candy" software out there?"
Basically they want something to display on a big LCD panel that will give a tiny bit of "Wow" factor to customer visits. Back in my datacenter days I saw a million packages to do this stuff but I was always blessed with an IT budget for metrics/monitoring etc...
Can anyone suggest a free/cheap package that will make pretty moving pictures, moving lines, graphs etc.. from server/net stats?
There's no worry about actually using this for real data tracking or metrics purposes. He has a pretty robust log/alert/metrics setup but command line is a little too dry for marketing purposes. I jokingly suggested he just use a looped flash animation but he actually does want stats that are coming from and reflect his environment.
Anyone know of any cheap or free "Data center stats/metrics "Eye Candy" software out there?"
