Server Status Board using Triklits

Here’s a cool server status board you can make using Triklits, which are color changing LED strings.

In September, I read a post on one of my favorite blogs about these Triklits programmable LED light strings and I instantly fell in love with them. I ordered two strands as well as the USB interface card and had a ball making these things come to life. After fiddling with them for a couple of weeks, I began to build this automated statusboard to help me monitor systems for me and my clients. The board updates every 60 seconds and displays information from several different sources including my Nagios installation, my source code repository, a bug tracking database, and a soon-to-be-implemented build server. I’m still working on the Perl scripts that I use to query the different sources, but when I’m done, I’ll post the source code here.  This was a fun one to hack at last weekend!

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3 Responses to Server Status Board using Triklits

1. Izl says:

   August 29, 2007 at 11:45 am

   nice but you wouldnt really use it everyday
2. girrrrrrr2 says:

   August 29, 2007 at 12:01 pm

   yes you would if you had a large server(like a college) that you had to run…
3. Izl says:

   August 29, 2007 at 12:18 pm

   true but then you would most likely buy a professional one no?