Other SGI ONYX2s deliver High Definition video to Sony monitors through-out the building. We use Sensorsoft SCOM on IRIX for computer control of these Sony monitors. We also use SCOM along with the Sensorsoft Soft Thermometer to monitor the temperature of our supercomputers to prevent possible overheating. In the event of a temperature alarm, administrators such as myself are notified by e-mail and pager. I use the scom program to capture message feeds from the National Weather Service.
Text is appended to a daily log file.
I wrote some PERL scripts to extract individual messages and produce near real-time updates to our Web server. The messages contain important weather information such as forecasts, alerts and warnings. The SCOM software is a well packaged product which installs its own man page in the man pages directory. The product has proven to be reliable and easy to use. In our application, a shell script uses SCOM to transmit a variety of messages to alpha pagers to alert our systems people about changes or failures in our computer systems.