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From: Woody on 25 Jun 2010 18:22
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > <http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/server-admin-remote/id300347476?mt=8>
> > > >
> > > > This looks really neat. If a similar prgram could be created to manage
> > > > the same services on other operating systems (I presume such a thing
> > > > doesn't already exist), that would be even better.
> > >
> > > It would be pretty easy to do. The thing that makes it easy to do on OSX
> > > server is that the same tools are used on all OSXs, whereas other
> > > servers have varying types of monitoring software, so it would have to
> > > be a lot more flexible.
> >
> > What do you reckon? �1000 worth of development?
>
> To make an app that does what that one does, ie, gather existing stats
> from a group of servers, probably a couple of thousand if you want it
> slick and good looking. A few weeks should do it (assuming it doesn't do
> anything not apparent from the screenshots)
> To do that with other types of servers though, not even close if you
> have to generate that data first.
>
> Although I am sure there is some open source monitoring that you could
> use (or commercial).

see - told you there was a message left in my macsoup from when I took
my macbook pro to apple to be fixed. It is back today with a new logic
board!

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Woody

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