- Remote Performance Observer 3.0 Guards. — Maintaining the working state of 3-4 computers in an office is rather easy. But, maintaining 5-10 computers is much more difficult. Maintaining two dozens computers turns into a hard and complicated process, which requires certain professional skills. And, how about maintaining hundreds of computers? In fact, it is almost impossible without a number of special tools. However, such tools are very useful for maintaining…
- SMTP Preprocessor 1.01 Strong Tool for Wise Admin — SMTP Preprocessor is a tool for SMTP server administrator. This minimalist tool allows powerful on-the-flow pre-processing of SMTP messages. It can be useful for cutting the loading of the main server software, quick black-listing and rejecting other abuse attempts, and for some much more advanced things we’ll cover below. When SMTP Preprocessor is started for the first time, it may seem a bit confusing: the main window is showing…
- RemBoot - The Remote Reboot Utility. — Serious work with remote Windows servers sometimes suffers from lack of control over those servers. Of course, letting just about ANYBODY to control your server is not the greatest idea. But the owner and administrator of the server often feel that their hands are tied when the computer is miles away, the support team is fast asleep and unlikely to respond quickly to a pager, and all that is needed is a quick system rebooot…
- Global Network Inventory, Examining The Network — Any computer network administrator has a large responsibility area concerning all network computers configuration. This area includes both hardware and software configurations, and control of all them is really important for network safety, reliability and stability. But as soon as the number of computers in the network exceeds about 7, no administrator, even a genius one, can control them all timely without an automating tool. There are…
- Beyond Remote Support, Focus on Problem, Not on Getting to It — Solving a tricky problem on a remote box is often not as hard as getting to that problem. Helping a newbie to obtain, install and run a remote assistance program sometimes may be harder than resolving the original problem. A remote assistance application has got to be something really easy, not harder than making just a few mouse clicks. This idea was picked up by Data Apples Corp., and they came up with…
- Auto Shutdown Manager — Most of us never give a thought to the power consumption of our computer systems, regardless of the number of energy-thirsty devices we have in our homes or offices. We often leave our machines on when leaving work, so as to save a couple of start-up minutes in the morning. We pay our bills, but never ask ourselves how much we could save on power consumption and how the rest of the world…
- EMCO Remote Desktop Professional — Administering networks is something all system administrators do on a daily basis. Unfortunately, minor issues and major problems tend to happen from time to time and in most cases require immediate and resolute actions, as any network downtimes affect the whole company and its clients. However, sometimes problems come when they are least expected — for instance, when the system administrator is away or on a sick leave and…
- Reboot Service - ad hoc control over the stability of remote servers — If the stability of your corporate network or the proper operation of your clients’ applications depends on how your server performs, its uninterrupted work and long uptime should be your primary areas of concern. Whenever your server’s memory is full, memory overflow errors cause the server to perform poorly or lead to complete freezing. In these cases, being close to the server to reboot it is vital…
- Live Desktop - remote assistance from any location — How many times over the past year did you have to explain a simple task to a computer novice on the phone? And even if you thought that the task was extremely easy and self-explanatory, your vis-à-vis probably had a totally different opinion and couldn’t grasp your ideas. When verbal instructions are no longer efficient, you end up driving over to the unfortunate user and fixing the problem in a couple of clicks…
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