I'm looking for a simple & cheap RMM product.

I want to monitor about a dozen Windows servers.
I want to be able to quickly & easily view things that can be obtained via WMI such as, available disk space, CPU, Processes etc.

It also needs to have a mobile app for Android so I can view on my phone.

Alerting would be good.

I don't need any sophisticated stuff, I'll just use it look at values and will log in if work needs to be done, so for example, I don't need to restart services remotely, it's just purely for monitoring.

Wanting to pay only around $20/mth.

thursday morning, we have some sunshine.
sitting in a room waiting for the heater to warm it all up.

WHY, when I have a nice new wsus server, complete with all the required updates, ready to go, do clients look at that server and say, nope nothing there for me, but when I tell the client to go look at the MS update server, they say, Oh, here's all the stuff I need.

And why, when I tell the same clients to auto download, they just sit there and say, Hey, i'm ready to download, when do you want me to do that???

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

happy grey overcast tuesday morning to everyone.

30 years married today.

Sunny but cold here.

Congrats on your anniversary. 🥳

thanks mate.

happy grey overcast tuesday morning to everyone.

30 years married today.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're about to leave for my birthday celebration. I'm not sure of the itinerary besides hitting The Great Lakes Science Center.

happy birthday amigo!!

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@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had one coffee this morning.
Results are inconclusive, require a second cup.

I recommend pouring coffee in you until you can hear the sunshine and/or thread a sewing machine's needle while it is running.

hahahahaha, love it.

many years ago we had a coffee comp at work, who could drink the strongest coffee. 23 teaspoons in one cup. I DO NOT recommend it.

Not seen this error before:

sshhhh, you'll wake them.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Don't you hate it when you can't go use the bathroom yet because your phone isn't charged?

haven't you got any dunny paper?????

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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering how I can talk the wife into moving to Fairlawn. https://www.fairlawngig.net/residential/

Why would she care what your ISP is?

Dense much?

oooh, you're on thin ice there JB, criticising a fella's wife.....

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kids school have gone into lockdown police and air ambulance there

such an alien experience to us non US people.
i thought you were talking about COVID at first.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

monday morning, working on a holiday, am I mad or taking advantage of the peace & quiet?

That depends on how much you want to celebrate the holiday?

I celebrated it by earning more $$$$s

monday morning, working on a holiday, am I mad or taking advantage of the peace & quiet?

saturday morning server maintenance & of course people are logged in
AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!

anyone? someone here must have played with ilo alerts at some point ...

a simply magnificent friday morning after a week of terrible weather, gee i hope this lasts for the weekend.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 I'm weird, actually no, i'm old school, i create a gold image on a device with all updates and apps etc, image it with macrium reflect, copy the image onto 4-6 usb hdds, and image the new devices that way.

I can usually image around 12 devices in 2 hours. Obviously I then need to go and individualise each device, but it works for me.

I do this coz I work at 9 different sites and can't always be gauranteed that I can even get bench space when working at these sites, this makes me pretty self sufficient.

I normally drop the image onto a network share somewhere and load all of them assembly line fashion, but yep.

My annoyance last night stemmed from sysprep requiring all "Microsoft Store" apps to be removed and the multiple trips between powershell and the error log to figure out what was still around that was blocking things.

Ohhhh, I understand and feel your pain.

I've been updating some HP management software on some servers and some backup software as well.

I log in post reboot to find, that Hyper-V manager doesn't display the VMs installed on the Host. The VMs are there and working, you just can't see them.

I've had this problem before once, it's a bugger of a thing to fix from memory.

Dept had around 150 sites down this morning after some wild weather.

@travisdh1 I'm weird, actually no, i'm old school, i create a gold image on a device with all updates and apps etc, image it with macrium reflect, copy the image onto 4-6 usb hdds, and image the new devices that way.

I can usually image around 12 devices in 2 hours. Obviously I then need to go and individualise each device, but it works for me.

I do this coz I work at 9 different sites and can't always be gauranteed that I can even get bench space when working at these sites, this makes me pretty self sufficient.