Designing and using client/server solutions for remote administration - even for Linux machines - is passe at best.

Do you own any hosted assets? Have you ever needed to support some number of 9's up-time? Then perhaps you have also spent time thinking about the remote-administration domain. Let me tell you a little story about my recent experiences there...and by design opine on where there is.

My hometown is Brooklyn, NY (although I live in Red Sox universe now). For the bulk of my life I expected IJW from public utilities. The notion of power outage seemed mythical - ranking up there with sprites and "Europe". The only cause for VCR re-programming was an errant game of tag yanking a cord out.