http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_stranger/archive/2008/07/09/can-xplat-monitor-linux-monitoring-device.aspxSource: Cnet News.com &#8220; Plat'Home , a Linux company from Japan that specializes in combining eco-friendly, small, tough hardware with their own version of Linux, is announcing another in their series of MicroServers. Kanshi BlockS Pro , made toen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_stranger/archive/2008/07/09/can-xplat-monitor-linux-monitoring-device.aspx#3086425Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:33:51 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3086425jpavleck<p>255 servers max? I guess for &lt;a href=&quot;<a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://firewireshop.stores.yahoo.net/kablpro.html&quot;&gt;">http://firewireshop.stores.yahoo.net/kablpro.html&quot;&gt;</a>$1400.00&lt;/a&gt; in a small shop with next to no monitoring it'd be alright. But it doesn't seem like it would offer us anything more then an old desktop with MRTG, Cacti, OpenNMS, Nagios or one of the dozen other tools I can think of offhand.</p> <p>Pretty though.</p> http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_stranger/archive/2008/07/09/can-xplat-monitor-linux-monitoring-device.aspx#3114424Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:45:17 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3114424dmuscett<p>XPlat is EXTREMELY cool, but you need to be able to install an &quot;agent&quot; on it, indeed.</p> <p>Xplay agent packages basically consist of openwsman, openpegasus AND the SCX CIM provider for openpegasus which is not YET available. </p> <p>Anyway, in the meantime you could still probably use Syslog to monitor it...</p>