Network Monitoring Tools & Tutorials
These guys have GetIF, which lets you browse MIBs from Windows. Yay, SNMP.
We've been having shitloads of heating problems at Verio (our colo). I suspect that our near constant server failures (backup server, thank goodness) are due to the poor beastie overheating.
According to this article, the cabinet should be fully perforated on the front, and only perforated on the bottom 25% of the back. I think we're going to try this tonight.
Here's a way to make a scriptable CDrom for booting stuff.