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 at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]