Re: Urgent Feature Request: Can we have a monit client for coffee machines, please?

[Scott Silva]

on 5/2/2011 3:38 AM Marcus Mülbüsch spake the following:
> Hello all,
> 
>    our coffee machine just went into maintenance mode. Unfortunately I didn't
> notice it until I had a look at the display.
> 
>    This breakdown of coffee supply suddenly decreased the effectiveness of the
> whole IT-department - and isn't monit supposed to monitor IT critical
> infrastructure?
> 
>    We urgently need a monit client for coffee machines!
> 
>    Okay, this is a joke, but newer coffee machines really have modules for
> remote access, for example see here:
> http://www.juraworldgastro.de/produkte_zubehoer.php?zubehoer=22 (page is in
> German).
> 
>    Does anybody have any info on how it could be possible to connect such a
> machine to monit?
> 
Would you have to program it in Java?  LOL...