Network-Monitoring Data Put to Music

StrongGlad writes "Building on the idea that people are naturally attuned to sound, the Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning has created software that translates network and server activity into music. And, their IT department operators can interpret the music to detect problems in the system." Talk about finding the beauty in Spam. From the article: "Last Friday, IT department operators began listening to what sounds like classical music but is actually a precise audio model of system metrics. They are trained to recognize instruments, chords, tempo and other musical elements of music as a translation of e-mail activity from 15 servers over three subnets. Every aspect of the music correlates to information. Probes detect server activity and send about 20 summaries a second to the iSIC sound engine. The data is aggregated and transformed into an audio format."

The Simpsons Already Did It

[Bin Naden]

He's a loser Marge, dump him! :sings: I travelled the world and the seven seas, I am watching you through a camera!

Maybe we can finally answer the age old question..

[BeardsmoreA]

Just what does a slashdotting sound like?

Thanks guys!

[Anonymous Coward]

It wasn't bad enough that my cube-mate eats cereal by the handful from the box with his mouth open, or that there are 6 cell phones and 5 desk phones in a five foot radius of where I try to concentrate on difficult computational problems.

Now there is an entire orchestra of uncomposed dissonance playing at all times that I'm responsible for listening to.

Grand.

Just Grand.

./ to music

[BennyB2k4]

I'm imagining cannons firing and drums crashing as their site gets slashdotted.

If the music corresponds

[m93]

to specific patterns of network activity, then I would love to hear the Barry White-like sounds that the system would produce by monitoring all the pr0n coming through my Exchange server at work.......

Re:Maybe we can finally answer the age old questio

[a_nonamiss]

More importantly, if your site gets slashdotted in the woods and nobody's around to hear it, does it make a noise?

Uh oh

[faloi]

The server farm is playing Taps again. It's going to be a LONG weekend.

Re:Maybe we can finally answer the age old questio

[john83]

Just what does a slashdotting sound like?
Ever hear cats in heat?

Re:Uh oh

[db32]

And on Patch Tuesday it plays Darth Vader's theme.

Tried this

[anticypher]

My network sounded like a couple of trains crashing into each other, in the middle of a field of empty rusting bathtubs, with a cold, harsh, north wind blowing at hurricane force. And that was on a good day :-)

the AC

Port scan

[drZool]

Will a port scan sound like playing the scale?

Re:Been done before? Like 30 Years Ago

[RobotRunAmok]

By a buncha Germans calling themselves Kraftwerk [kraftwerk.com]. And I still can't get that damned "Autobahn" outta my head. Damn you, Ralf and Forian! Damn you to Hell!!

Re:Maybe we can finally answer the age old questio

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm guessing a Funeral Dirge set to Dante's Inferno

However

[Toreo asesino]

I wonder what delightful number would be produced should something like the Blaster virus be unleashed on the network?

A death metal remix of Mozart perhaps?

Yet another reason to not run Windows Servers folks - think of your poor ears!

Hey guys...

[raddan]

...what does it mean when Wagner comes on?

Re:./ to music

[Cylix]

I rather prefer flight of the bumble bee for a good slashdotting.

ballet dancers...

[Anonymous Coward]

From TFA:
'music has got nothing to do with work, dude, and I work.' It's kind of like saying I have a bunch of ballet dancers, and I'm going to bring them into your workplace.

Almost everyone I know listens to music at work, so I'm not sure why he feels people don't "get it". The ballet dancers OTOH is an awsome idea. I could really use a dozen or so athletic women in skin tight clothing bouncing around in the server room. If something goes wrong, they can glissade their butts over and tell me about it.

I'm gonna go talk to the CEO now...

Re:The Simpsons Already Did It

[PastAustin]

You get used to it. I-I don't even see the code. All I see is Blonde, Brunette, Redhead.... Is John in development visiting porn sites again?