Data center monitoring

[Geckotek]

Hope this is the right area, I couldn't find a forum it fit in perfectly.

I'm hoping some of you more experienced guys can help w/ the request I just received from my boss. We're building out a new data center. Currently we have about 30+ servers. Soon we will have about 30-40 more and I forsee going 100+ in the future. While this is not humongous, it's the most I've ever managed.

My boss is asking for an application that will monitor all our servers and give us a nice GUI layout. While monitoring is part of the purpose, "BLING" is a larger part! B) My boss wants the data center manager in NC to drool when he sees our data center.

His request specifically was:

Grapical layout by rack

Double clicking on rack drills down to view of servers in rack w/ labels on each server

Double clicking on server opens a view of that servers info such as OS, Hardware specs, and vitals

Of course it doesn't HAVE to work in that exact manner, I think you get the idea of what he is wanting it to do. The idea is to have this displayed on a 42" widescreen plasma or LCD or to put together several smaller LCDs in an array.

Let me know if any of you guys are working with a solution or know of one that would accomplish this. Again, the "BLING" factor is high on the priority list. It must look good.

[Geckotek]

Hmmmmm...should I move this to another forum? Any ideas where I might get an answer to this?

[prathapml]

Hehe.... your topic is in the correct forum alright.

But probably your very high emphasis on the "BLING" factor is scaring away answers

Let's hope you get more responses!

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

I'm afraid you should ask questions like these at forums like datacentertalk... Although I really would like to give you answer, I must confess that I have absolutely no clue

I guess the 'focus' of these forums lies somewhere else