Date: 08/12/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: database, web

One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/need-for-dedicated-server-management-api/