Now you can monitor your servers with music
First time when i ran ethereal in my network; it was really fascinating. Looked like there exists a different world, a very busy one, under our feet that many are not aware of. (sth equivalent of the 9 3/4 platform that harry potter crashes into, only a few souls can see) Now a bunch of college folks have made a good attempt to show those busy packets to common folks in a format that all can notice without using ethereal - music.
The Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has created software that translates network and server activity into music. They call it Informational Music (iSIC). The institute’s IT department has started using iSIC. Operators listen to what sounds like classical music but is actually a precise audio model of system metrics. They are trained to recognize instruments, chords, tempo and other musical elements of music as a translation of e-mail activity from 15 servers over three subnets. Every aspect of the music correlates to information. More here>
Oh, thats our datacenter; iSIC enabled ofcourse!
(image courtesy nutsabouthifi.com.)