Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I’m always looking for ways to make my life easier. I have MobileAdmin on my Blackberry so I can access the server at work no matter where I am (as long as I have a data connection). I can access my webservers via ssh from the same phone and even post from the phone if I need to. I’m continually looking for ways to enable a life of leisure on a beach somewhere while my servers whirrrr away in their oblivious state.

While stumbling around the net today I came across a pretty cool system from uplogix for managing servers. Their unique device will monitor any device in your NOC, datacenter or server room. Its not the cheapest device out there, but it does go a long way towards making things easier.