[AG-TECH] New Gentner Software

[Jay Beavers]

I control all of my Windows XP based nodes over the network today,
including all A/V settings as well as adjusting my network diagnostic
tools to suit the network situation of the hour ;-)  I do this using
Remote Desktop / Remote Administration which is an integral feature to
Windows XP / Windows 2000.


We've been asked to consider a web management interface to each of the
Windows XP nodes for use by network technicans et al who we don't want
to give remote desktop capabilities to but who need to be able to
monitor diagnostic status and adjust settings on an individual node
basis.  That's high on our priority list.


Regarding the security comment, I've run Windows NT et al, Linux, and
BSD boxes on the net in production capacity since 1994 and have never
had a box on any OS compromised in any way because I spent the time
during setup to properly secure them and spend a few minutes each week
checking logs and checking for security related patches.

 - jcb

-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Buchhorn [mailto:Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au] 
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:52 PM
To: Robert Olson
Cc: Don Morton; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] New Gentner Software



Well, if we're adding wishes to this list... :-)

Allow this control application to run over the network, so that one 
operator can manage multiple nodes, or a remote operator can manage a
given 
node.

At first blush, a web browser would make a very nice harness for this. 
Perhaps implement as Apache modules? (apologies to Jay ;-) ). Save you 
having to develop at both ends of the network pipe (as with e.g. a Java 
applet).

If it's lean enough, it could be driven from a PDA :-)

Jay - can you put some hooks into your pending A/V application (the one 
with the misshapen playback buffers ;-) ) that would allow it to be 
controlled remotely?

We could also pick up some of the hacks that allow you to drive the
various 
PTZ cameras through a web page. It could also hook into
monitoring/logging 
systems...

Cheers,
         Markus

At 06:23 PM 26/07/2001 -0500, Robert Olson wrote:
>That's precisely what I'm thinking. Audio levels & control available
>per-mic, aggregate outgoing, aggregate incoming, and per-site incoming;

>fine tuning of video, placement, etc etc.
>
>--bob
>
>At 05:21 PM 7/26/2001 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
>>Bob Olson wrote:
>> >
>> > That would be a great thing if someone wanted to do it. It's not 
>> > hard, just a fairly large amount of detail to cope with to get it 
>> > useful & right. There are other reasons for doing just htat, 
>> > including enabling hte creation of a unified control panel 
>> > application.
>>
>>
>>Am I reading this correctly?  Are you envisioning a single control 
>>panel for vic, rat, gentner, etc., all to maybe run on control 
>>machine? Strikes me as a wonderful thought (if that's what you were 
>>thinking) and maybe something I might want to add into my Research 
>>Experience for Undergraduates proposal (the other thing is a 
>>distributed PDF viewer so we're not restricted to Power Point in our 
>>presentations).

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