a tip for the new year - monitoring your computers

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I have to admin a number of computers and I'm not always near them. I am currently doing the windows updates on our servers via my Android phone from the comfort of my server.

I can monitor hard disk use, CPU use, memory, CPU temp, services, active directory, exchange, iis and hyper-v. I can also set up alerts on conditions for these so I am alerted to low disk space, high CPU load, services stopping etc.

I can stop, start, suspend and restart hyper-v virtual machines, shutdown and restart computers, log users off.

I can also check for windows updates and install updates.

All of this via my phone from anywhere.

Mobile PC Monitor is a paid app for iOS, Android and winmo for monitoring and controlling the server and there is a windows dashboard for monitoring. The service is free for 4 computers and then you can subscribe for more.

www.mobilepcmonitor.com

It has made my life much easier and I thought I would share :)
 
Hi,

Glad you've found something that works for you. Most of this could be done for free though with TeamViewer or Logmein.

Paul.
 
They aren't proactive in alerting you. They are great for going and doing the admin, but not warning you about high memory or CPU usage or warning you an important service has stopped etc.

I get warnings or alerts sent to me, I don't manually have to do a health check on each computer.
 
Ah ok, what servers are they, don't they have monitoring software built in? HP SIM etc.
 
Dell physical servers and a number of virtual machines. The dell software will audibly alert you and you can log in to a web page to look at issues, but that won't alert you if you are a hundred miles away.

Most manufacturer alerting systems cost a lot
 
It's been a while since I've used Dell, and then it wasn't too much! Most server monitoring software can be configured to send an email on certain alert criteria though.
Not too many of our corporate customers choose Dell these days, mainly HP/IBM for wintel or IBM/Sun for unix.

Paul.
 
For those on a budget the dell, HP or IBM stuff is just to expensive.

The dell stuff relies on snmp and then a machine listening to snmp to send alerts.

You cannot monitor inside virtual machines with the hardware vendors tools, so you need one set of tools to monitor physical and one tool to monitor virtual.

For anyone not corporate this is a great tool.
 
the HP software is very good, and in most cases if bought direct will come with a single liscence for the HP Openview software AFAIK, which will also work on non HP servers :)

if im honest, i dont want to know when my server goes down, if im at home, i know, if im at work there isnt a right lot i can do *runs home to turn media server back on* i dont think so...
 
I like the Solarwinds software (Orion), good interface as well for integration with a corporate blackberry or iPhone....
 
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