On Thu, 4 May 2006, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:59, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
My boss wants to put together a Network Operations Center, with a network monitoring server as the centerpiece. He wants that server to have 6 monitors: 4 for network monitoring tools (rrdtool, etc) and two for running commands and the like (ping, traceroute, etc).
I know that with the right video card(s) you can have two monitors, but has anybody had 6?
If you can hide the other PCs you can use one monitor each but pretend they are all one with http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ to make them share the same keyboard and mouse.
There's also the possibility of using 2 or 4 LARGE flatscreen monitors and muliple windows for the various chores. Unless your PHB is hung up on having 6 physical monitors, you can probably accomplish the same thing with a pair of 30" LCDs and a nice 'n purty X Window manager. 2 x 30" LCDs is a lot of screen real estate and a lot less complex to put together.
And use devilspie for application placement.
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]