Monitoring

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Iphone remote control of your pc

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software on January 15, 2008 by HAL

A client asked me if it was possible to have remote access to desktop resources from his O2 based Iphone. My immediate thought was no – not if the iphone isn’t allowing you to install applications … but …. ShapeServices have an option for this go to https://www.rdmplus.com/ and download the windows component and register […]

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Upgrading your Sensatronics Senturion firmware ! Updated

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software on January 10, 2008 by HAL

As the new rack mountable Sensatronics Senturion climate monitoring device beds in new functionality and fixes to existing options are being issued. I suspect the next year will see a raft of additional features and to that end new firmwares will appear. So how do you go about the upgrade procedure ? Well as you […]

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Sentry – the software part

This entry was posted in Monitoring Programming Software on January 8, 2008 by HAL

Powershell and the Sentry Hardware – how to interface. Serial port access using Powershell – as covered in the article entitled Powershell and serial ports for the Sentry Project does not cover that actual syntax of the commands required to send instruction to the Sentry project hardware only the basic serial IO commands available. So […]

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Powershell and Serial Ports – for the Sentry Project

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software on January 4, 2008 by HAL

Using Microsoft Powershell to send and receive info via the serial port was a suggestion I got from Robert at Intellipool (www.intellipool.se) when I was looking at creating a piece of hardware to integrate with Intellipool Network Monitor (INM) for the display of status information on monitored systems. Robert suggested Powershell as a platform that […]

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Sentry – the hardware part

This entry was posted in Monitoring on December 19, 2007 by HAL

Setting up the hardware for the Sentry project requires relatively little time. However to correctly configure you should install the included BV application. This article shows how to connect, configure and test each individual device before linking them in series. Get a coffee and I’ll begin ! Hardware Connect the 5 pin end of the […]

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Hail Senturion

This entry was posted in Gadgets Monitoring on December 14, 2007 by HAL

Today I received the latest monitoring device from Sensatronics (Available from Openxtra www.openxtra.co.uk) A departure from the previous form factors the Senturion is a 19 inch 1 U rackmount device with built in temperature, humidity and light sensors and 8 additional external sensors ports. The initial setup is pretty simple – if you have dhcp […]

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i AS i you like it – or an introduction to the Intelligent Asynchronous Serial Interface

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software on December 13, 2007 by HAL

As part of the Sentry prototype I used hardware supplied by Byvac www.byvac.co.uk linked together with an IASI cable – the significance of which was lost on me until I started to connect and use the devices and cable. So in order to more fully appreciate the significance of this approach – here is the […]

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Sentry – a hardware integration project for Intellipool Network Monitor

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Sentry on December 12, 2007 by HAL

I’ve been asked in the past how to integrate in a simple way between various systems and a display device to allow non technical staff to be aware of various problems or issues. Taking as an example a monitored computer room or cold store – the idea of having a simple visual display device which […]

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