What are the NT Server issues related to Remote Control Software?

[Guest_imported]

I am trying to put together a risk assessment regarding remote control software. My options are ControlIT or PCAnywhere. My NT Admins have stated the remote control software impacts the server tremendously by causing it to 'crash' regularly in there experience. My experience is to the contrary. What type of impact can the remote control software pose for a production Windows NT Server with an Oracle Database running on it?

 

[Shad007]

It does depend on the type of remote control software you use. The reason some software 'Crashes' the server is due to the amount of CPU processing it takes to support the screen updates to the local pc...we started using VNC (Virtual Network Computing) at my work but soon changed to Remote Administrator 2.0 goto:

http://www.famatech.com

..this proved to be the best move we ever made..it is 100x faster than VNC..also when you open the remote server screen and go to the Task Manager you will see it utilizes only a very small amount of the server's cpu (around 10%). (Pls be aware that Remote Administrator is not freeware although you can download a trial version)...well worth it.

 

[asteriks]

Hi,

We use PC anywhere over here on our production environment and we have had no serieus problems, the only thing that happens from time to time is that we have to restart the service. At home i did some tests with remotely anywhere. This product was good, but is was slower than PC anywhere and it used more CPU time, but it had a lot more futures. for example, watch your server CPU load through WAP.

Wouter

I hope this was helpfull

 

[tekola]

We use PCAnywhere on all our NT 4 servers since 1997(with password security) with never a problem, but we do not use Oracle.