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PC Monitoring Program, Remotely?


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Hi All,

I look after a good number of remote computers and would like a program which I install on my pc, and then link client pcs to it by installing a standalone client on their machines.

Then I can monitor things like their up time, windows updates, virus definitions etc.

Spiceworks is great but I'm looking for an alternative, it could be web-based to!

Any help would be great :)

Thanks!

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Hi All,

I look after a good number of remote computers and would like a program which I install on my pc, and then link client pcs to it by installing a standalone client on their machines.

Then I can monitor things like their up time, windows updates, virus definitions etc.

Spiceworks is great but I'm looking for an alternative, it could be web-based to!

Any help would be great :)

Thanks!

you could allways use some thing like citrix's goto assist express or

teamviewer which is free for non comerical use.

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spiceworks is going to be the best for free.

If you are looking to spend some money

http://www.kaseya.com

http://www.levelplatforms.com

http://www.servoyant.com

We are switching to servoyant soon coming off of levelplatforms, the company I use to work for put in kaseya.

IMO, kaseya is better than level and if what I have heard about servoyant, it will put the other two to shame. The one company I am working for as a sub currently has spiceworks and is looking for something a bit more powerful, servoyant also integrates with our ticketing/crm system.

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teamviewer :alien:

Give me a screenshot out of teamviewer that gives me this without remoting into the pc, even spiceworks can give you that without remoting into the pc. He is looking for a spiceworks replacement, not a remote app. Logmein pro can't do this

"I can monitor things like their up time, windows updates, virus definitions etc."

I can run queries that give me this at a glance all on one page. If only it weren't so retarded to run queries, I need training on the damn software or a book/pdf. I never use the crap, I do get annoying messages like 100% of memory has been in use for over 5 min in my email. I also get environmental messages and hard down messages. It is customizable but I haven't done crap with level platforms....could be the reason we are going off of it.

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Give me a screenshot out of teamviewer that gives me this without remoting into the pc, even spiceworks can give you that without remoting into the pc. He is looking for a spiceworks replacement, not a remote app. Logmein pro can't do this

"I can monitor things like their up time, windows updates, virus definitions etc."

I can run queries that give me this at a glance all on one page. If only it weren't so retarded to run queries, I need training on the damn software or a book/pdf. I never use the crap, I do get annoying messages like 100% of memory has been in use for over 5 min in my email. I also get environmental messages and hard down messages. It is customizable but I haven't done crap with level platforms....could be the reason we are going off of it.

Yea thats exaclty right, i use logmein pro at the mo but as you said.. you need to remote access each pc to find their stats.

Hmmm maybe spiceworks will be best then :(

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When you say install on your pc? This would not be the point of any monitoring software, you wouldn't install to anyone's workstation - you would install it on a server (could be a pc), I say server in the sense that it is on 25/7/365 and not used for day to day functions a user would do. For example are you checking your email on the box, are you creating office documents on it? Browsing the web, etc.

As to just "monitoring" of systems this has little to do with remote control of said system, they clearly do not have to be tied to the same product. You could use something like prtg or cacti or munin to monitor health aspects of the sytem, etc. There are plenty of monitoring systems.

Spiceworks is a good FREE tool for the small business to be sure. But I would not be running it on your PC, maybe that is the issue your having with it?

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That could well be my issue budman, im gonna look into getting spiceworks setup on a server and see how it performs then :) ive just seen that its got web-access aswell, thats pretty decent.

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When you say install on your pc? This would not be the point of any monitoring software, you wouldn't install to anyone's workstation - you would install it on a server (could be a pc), I say server in the sense that it is on 25/7/365 and not used for day to day functions a user would do. For example are you checking your email on the box, are you creating office documents on it? Browsing the web, etc.

As to just "monitoring" of systems this has little to do with remote control of said system, they clearly do not have to be tied to the same product. You could use something like prtg or cacti or munin to monitor health aspects of the sytem, etc. There are plenty of monitoring systems.

Spiceworks is a good FREE tool for the small business to be sure. But I would not be running it on your PC, maybe that is the issue your having with it?

Some monitoring tools have their own client that talks to a server (be it remote or onsite). The client from these packages give you a bit more than monitoring though. You can backup with it, remote in with it (the servoyant software let's you remote in behind the scenes and let's you have a desktop session without the user knowing, this allows you to clean the pc while the user works or install apps). It can allow you to make a complete image of the pc. The end user can create tickets from the client in te sys tray. It is more powerful than what wmi can give.

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Im with you sc302, yes I agree there are quire a few monitoring/management packages that you run an agent on each client/node. And yeah those agents can be very useful!

But again I doubt you would have these agents reporting to a workstation machine.

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No definitely no reporting to a workstation. Either a remote server outside the network that can be used to detect internet down or server down or a onsite server.

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