[munin]

> Honestly I wonder, who the hell buys these overpriced networking appliances?

people that need to switch more packets than what you buy off of newegg can handle.

edit: oh that and when you have a network of thousands of routers and switches that you want to centrally manage in a way that "mass ssh" doesn't scale to and you just want to buy the management software from someone that has written it before and not spend a while getting the software wrong before you get it right.

if you can count the number of routers you need in your head, you probably should just be using beige boxes with a commodity OS...