Fujitsu to test robot datacenter inspector that – trust us – won't take your jobs Fujitsu Japan will trial a local 5G network as the sole connectivity option for a robot charged with inspecting a datacenter and reporting on any anomalies it finds. From December 1, 2022 until March 17, 2023, an unnamed robot will roll around the Yokohama Data Center at Fujitsu Research Institute Limited. The bot packs a 4K …
The bot packs a 4K camera that will stream video and sound and, with the aid of unspecified analytics, detect any anomalies in servers by observing their blinking LED lights.
The front display lights on a server can point out SMART warnings, power supplies having died and that's about it.
All of which is available to be provided by the Simple Network Management Protocol, and you could install a (freely available) SNMP client which could be configured to obtain all of this data and then send a report to people via a number of mechanisms if something failed. (or if an HDD was getting low on space etc, which this bot won't be able to do)
So what's the point of this bot? It's not able to even replace SNTP, let alone the person that actually responds to the error reports.
This isn't about the datacenter, this is about the technology.
"well it can do your simple task as it ran a data center for weeks!"
"We've proven this is reliable by having it operate in complex environments for extended periods"
The marketing nonsense will be endless.
At the time of writing there are seven comments, and _two_ of them are asking a question which El Reg has spent fully half the article on answering (to wit, why would you use a robot to do this?).
Is it no longer considered appropriate to read at least the first page of an article before writing a comment?
I presume you're also refusing to have anything to do with the Post Office? They were the ones who tested and signed off on the system, and prosecuted their own employees based on its information.
Fujitsu at least makes some decent kit. (I have no knowledge of their software, but since they bought ICL I wouldn't touch it with a scythe.)
The Post Office has at least started to pay some compensation but I would like to see some of them who where responsible for the following to face some jail time.
<quoue> These were largely private prosecutions by the Post Office relying on IT evidence alone, without proof of criminal intent. Public prosecutions also occurred in Scotland, Northern Ireland and in the Crown Court. Some SPMs were persuaded by their own solicitors to plead guilty to false accounting, on being told the Post Office would drop theft charges. Once the Post Office had a criminal conviction, it would attempt to secure a Proceeds of Crime Act order against convicted sub-postmasters, allowing it to seize their assets and bankrupt them. According to press reports, these actions by the Post Office caused the loss of dozens of jobs, bankruptcy, divorce, unwarranted prison sentences and one suicide. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal]</quote>
I think I have used the Post Office once in the last 2 years.
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