Situation: Remotely Managing Large Computer Centers in a timely and cost effective manner

Read these questions and see if you are looking for the answers that MO provides:

Should Operations Staff lose sleep and upset significant others by having to travel in late at night to reboot or re-power a down system?
Should the need for physical access by operations and system admin staff to the compute center be eliminated to improve data center security?
Or Should you reduce the need for physical access by operations and system admin staff to the compute center to improve security?
Should operations staff have access to the latest technologies such as Intel’s Active Management technology?
Should system administrators have access to KVMs and serial ports of many different vendors from one unified command console?
Should Users wait to have a system rebooted or re-powered or should it be done automatically with notification?
Should Security have a log of each session on the serial command ports?
Should Operations and Firewall Administrators know what rules were changed, by who and when without compromising the internal Network’s Security?
Should third party vendors be provided with a secure, fully logged access to your system rather than via labor intensive dialup modem?
 Should users be automatically logged onto a HP ILO or LOM to begin their work or to power down a system?
Should your operations staff leave systems’ critical command and control ports connected to a terminal server and not know who is connected to the terminal server or the system?
Should  more than one person have access to the system’s command port at the same time?
Should your data center policy require system admin or operations staff to continually engage compute room technicians or facilities staff to accomplish the task of rebooting or re-powering a device?
Should critical info be lost that is coming to a serial port of a server system including messages that only come to the console port?
Should time should be lost in not having this critical info acted upon immediately by an automated response such as reporting the problem to the vendor/responsible staff person(s) or take planned action?
Should space be taken up by monitors in a data center?
Should you make it easier to allow outside vendors to remotely access the systems they support?
Should you provide vendors with same remote access you have rather than requiring them to actually enter the compute center or be the man in van who always has to go on site and then go offsite to get the replacement part?
Should  operations staff have the ability to turn off power for more than one system at a time?
Should the operations staff be required to memorize what port is connected to what server on what terminal server?
 Should operations accessing a system in trouble be able to view the last bit of activity on the system’s serial command port?
Should operator have to remember what they did to fix a problem or have a log of what they did to fix it?
Should operations be able to access more than one system at a time from a single command window to reduce the time to complete repetitive tasks to same type devices?
Should data center managers have the ability to define who gets to send breaks to systems that need to be rebooted?
Should operations staff know what signals are actually active on system’s console port to determine whether it is actually turned off or just in need of reboot?
Should it be important to know the immediate availability of the server, network device or storage equipment?
Should it be important to automated response to problem?
Should it be important to get an immediate health of the system snap shot?
Should operations staff be able to access a system whose login access has been maliciously tampered with?
Should facilities and operations staff  have the same view of the same devices they both have responsibility for?

MO is your answer if these questions are important!