Ask an IT Pro what’s the most important thing at work. Servers? SAN? Exchange? Active Directory? Not even close. It’s the coffee pot. And no one likes and empty one.
Wilbour Craddock just sent me a link to an article with a demo video. In the video one of the authors of the Operations Manager 2007 management pack created a solution to visually monitor a coffee pot using a digital camera. It alarms on empty, below warning threshold and below error threshold. It automatically changes to a healthy state using a monitor. Superb!