Originally Posted by Jim Galbally

we run a system called big brother but since its monitoring about 20,000 devices its kinda hard to spot one specific point of failure . We also use a simple pinger based monitor just on on-sote servers... lets out a "whoop whoop" noise when it loses comms to one... VERY handy, saved our bacion a few times. Anyway none of that tells me if someone hit the shutdown button or if the thing BSOD'd