Or you could also title this “How to talk your company into buying you a high end gaming rig for your desktop”
So I’ve been playing with this web service I’m writing for OpsMgr. I was doing a bunch of practical things with it, that you’d normally want to do with it – but then I thought screw that, let’s do something fun with it.
I like to play Team Fortress 2. I like to monitor things. Why not put them together?
Well friends, once you’ve made a web service that talks to the system, it’s fairly trivial to write something to take that information and put it somewhere else.
Let me demonstrate (And yes, you probably do want to click and view the larger version of this)
Stay Tuned…. Video coming soon.
Alas, it seems those Danes are just as goofy as I am. And I’m happy to hear it!
Jakob Svendsen over at CoreTech released a management pack today. That management pack will alert you when the coffee in your coffee pot gets low. I’ll go ahead and embed the video below, but you’ll have to go to their site to download it.
Now, I return to my dank and dark office, where I shall create a SUPERIOR coffee pot monitor!
I’m actually waiting on an order from SparkFun and Jameco to get here as we speak.
Yes, it’s true. You can have fun with Operations Manager. Right now I’m currently on the bench, and then probably unemployment soon since jobs are scarce, but it won’t be slowing me down In fact, I’ll be able to work on a lot of the wacky creative uses for OpsMgr – things like:
- Tracking your Dominoes pizza
- Recording and reporting on things other then performance data – like stock prices, the weather, etc
- Get emailed when your friend’s flight is about to land
- Interacting with the physical environment using the Arduino microcontroller (Think: Turning on a fan when the heat gets too high)
- And much much more!
So I’m rebuilding my current SP1 environment and turning it into an R2 RC one. Then I’ll start adding wacky monitors. And I’ll create a full management pack to do it, and you’ll learn step-by-step. It’ll be a fun time! So stay tuned, and you stay classy, San DIego!
