[175586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOC Calendar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Oct 24 13:31:30 2014
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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAKnNFz-xJYMKCzi5-osLno7mBSZM9Zf4ZZuwje35Opy0UD4eAg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:31:15 -0400
To: chris <tknchris@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:38 AM, chris <tknchris@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I was looking into something like this a while back and one thing that
> didnt seem to exist but I thought would be cool is if you could have a =
x86
> box or appliance that could take video output of lets say a couple =
virtual
> machines and encode it into a standard TV signal so your average TV =
with a
> builtin tuner and have each VM's display encoded into a different TV
> channel. This way you could throw up TV's everywhere and easily change
> whats displayed at any time without having to have devices plugged =
into
> every TV.
>=20
> If this already exists or someone has built anything like this I would =
love
> to hear about it.
We have large screens in our NOC but these are mostly not used as the =
NOC operators have the same displays on their multiple monitors at desk. =
This all depends on what ones use case is and the size/scale which is =
feasible in your space.
Having a proper procedure (I think we use WebcalNG or something similar) =
which emails out reminders of each bit of scheduled work, emergency or =
not to remind the people of what is occurring is seen as easier. There =
is also a =E2=80=9Cstatus page=E2=80=9D where well known ongoing issues =
(e.g.: cable cuts) can be posted. This is on the big screens, so people =
coming on-shift can see them as they sit down.
Hope this helps,
- Jared=
