Suggestions for tablet solution for Xymon monitoring
list Jeremy Laidman
Hi If you had a budget to buy some tables for support staff, what would be your "solution". I know of (but have no experience with) an Android Xymon app. I've found nothing for IOS. But perhaps it shouldn't matter what the device is, as long as it has a reasonable screen size and a browser, and probably SIM slot for GSM/LTE data. Cheers Jeremy
list Paul Root
The Xymon app for android is XymonQV. It works very well. It just gives you an overview. You can see what is alarm, but you don't get details or graphs. In my case, my Xymon server is well within my firewall. But with just a few key shell scripts externally facing web servers, I get what I need. There isn't anything for IOS. You just use the web browser. And with a tablet, you would probably just want to use the web browser and not bother with XymonQV. I have an iPad and an android phone. Personally, I like Android better. That's just personal. I'm also an old school Unix person. Can't stand PCs, etc. Just full disclosure. iPads have better, easier VPN setups, especially for Cisco VPNs. But 'VpnCilla' on android works very well. There is ssh clients available for both. VNC for both. There are VMware clients available for both but my require a (free) appliance to get connectivity. So for a single purpose to make the decision of what to get. The biggest concern is a VPN, I'd say. Get the high resolution screens, on either. At least Android 4.1.
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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:07 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Suggestions for tablet solution for Xymon monitoring
Hi
If you had a budget to buy some tables for support staff, what would be your "solution". I know of (but have no experience with) an Android Xymon app. I've found nothing for IOS. But perhaps it shouldn't matter what the device is, as long as it has a reasonable screen size and a browser, and probably SIM slot for GSM/LTE data.
Cheers
Jeremy
list Jeremy Laidman
Thanks Paul. On 1 April 2014 00:14, Root, Paul T <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid> wrote:
The Xymon app for android is XymonQV. It works very well. It just gives you an overview. You can see what is alarm, but you don't get details or graphs.
In my case, my Xymon server is well within my firewall. But with just a few key shell scripts externally facing web servers, I get what I need. There isn't anything for IOS. You just use the web browser. And with a tablet, you would probably just want to use the web browser and not bother with XymonQV. I have an iPad and an android phone. Personally, I like Android better. That's just personal. I'm also an old school Unix person. Can't stand PCs, etc. Just full disclosure. iPads have better, easier VPN setups, especially for Cisco VPNs. But 'VpnCilla' on android works very well. There is ssh clients available for both. VNC for both. There are VMware clients available for both but my require a (free) appliance to get connectivity. So for a single purpose to make the decision of what to get. The biggest concern is a VPN, I'd say. Get the high resolution screens, on either. At least Android 4.1. *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Laidman *Sent:* Sunday, March 30, 2014 8:07 PM *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [Xymon] Suggestions for tablet solution for Xymon monitoring Hi If you had a budget to buy some tables for support staff, what would be your "solution". I know of (but have no experience with) an Android Xymon app. I've found nothing for IOS. But perhaps it shouldn't matter what the device is, as long as it has a reasonable screen size and a browser, and probably SIM slot for GSM/LTE data. Cheers Jeremy