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: The thought of spending over an : hour staring blankly at a powerpoint presentation while someone : cheerfully instructs me on how to fill out a web form and click submit : could only lead to me inflicting great physical harm upon one or more : of those bastards. Oh, no, it was much better than that. Drop an app on every machine, and it will magically talk to Sun, who will process and archive the performance and hardware information it collects, and then make pretty pictures for us to look at over the Web. No web-forms experience necessary. And it's all FREE! (well, for now. And except for the almost-sounds- useful bits.) Can we download the actual numbers, instead of pretty pictures? No. Can we have the information that it uploads? No. Well, maybe. There's an RFE in for that. When it detects a hardware problem, does it open a ticket for us? No. What happens if your hostid changes? Hostids don't change! Sure they do. Oh, well, in that case you have to reregister the host, losing all of the historical information. Does the monitoring utility keep track of time and page again if no one clears the first error? Oh, no. You only get one page ever. What dependences does it have? Oh, SunCheckup, Explorer, Sun StorADE, maybe T3 Extractor, a little of this, a dash of that. How do you keep them all up to date? Um, heh, heh, next question please! All this extra stuff won't impact your performance more than 0.5%! We *promise*! What happens if the network is broken? Well, the network better not break. Or you can buy our optional frame-relay service upgrade! And how about security? Well, it's all SSL from you to us. No, we can't tell you exactly what's on the backend. Trust us! How is Sun NetConnect 3.0 different from, oh, say, any one of the ten thousand other monitoring and graphing tools out there, which run on more than one platform, and several of which we're already using? Well, the web page comes with a pretty Sun logo on it! Logos will save the world.There's stuff above here
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