put your switches in there, making sure not to block the lights with the cables, nice light show with the link activity lights. And if you have to, setup a box with multiple multiple-port nics ( like the adaptec 4 port ethernet adapter ) assigning each their own IP, and then create a batch or script that will pseudo-randomly light the link activity lights via PING or short copy commands. Maybe force a couple to 10mb, normally a different link light color ... and for dog and pony shows, if you've got drive cabinets in the racks, setup a box with a batch/script/command file that just copies and deletes files from a sandbox folder, to make the drive lights continuosly flicker nice <g> you could even remotely trigger the copy/delete sequence from another machine right before they do the 'show and tell' and kill it when they leave ...
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 7:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Rackable 'lights' etc I have a client that just purchased several 3u and 4u servers to go in a couple of cages. The guy asked me for some lights and action to put in to show investors and such. I was looking for maybe some rack mount environmental device monitor or something. Nothing too expensive its mostly just for show, but I figured there had to be some neat/stupid stuff out there, I just couldn't think of anything. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
