Remote Access To Web Server Using Palm Pilot? 12
ed tellefsen asks: "If and when our server goes down, I'd love to be able to reboot it remotely using a palm pilot. I searched at Google and found some open source software called
PalmVNC. Anyone familiar with it? Are there other options available?"
SSH, telnet, and web. (Score:2)
Google searches for any of those, possibly including "palmos", will return the appropriate URLs. I use ptelnet on a regular basis for configuring routers and whatever else you need to plug a serial terminal into.
Hope this helps!
Yes (Score:1)
I'd use a terminal program, personally, but I suppose you could load up an x-term in PalmVNC.
It's definately usable (Score:1)
Use a telnet client (Score:1)
Another alternative is to use a telnet client. ptelnet [em.com.br] is free and works very well. I've been using it while on travel to telnet in and use pine for e-mail. I have a keyboard which helps a lot, but you can be functional with the stylus if you have to be.
Re:It's a software AND hardware problem (Score:2)
The reason why this isn't the default is that all PC's would turn themselves on after a power failure, even if you were on holiday. So this is only really desired for servers.
First figure out how to reboot remotely (Score:2)
If the server can still be logged into remotely, go with telnet or if you give a damn about security, SSH. There are Palm clients for both that will work over a modem or a woreless gizmo like a Minstrel/Omnisky.
If you're talking about rebooting it when it's frozen solid, no application on your server is going to help with that, since your Palm ain't going to be able to connect to it. At that point, you're talking about solutions involving hardware that triggers a reboot through a special hardware interface or power-cycles the machine. Check the manuals for your server hardware or UPS to see if you have this capability.
If you have such a means of restarting it, the next step is to build an interface to it that you can get at remotely. If you can't get SSH access to a command line on the machine that does the rebooting, a protected web interface that executes the apprporiate remote-reboot command might be an okay way to go. Once you've got that, something like a Palm PQA to prompt for your password and trip the URL should be enough.
DON'T a telnet client (Score:2)
Re:How far down? (Score:2)
IBM (Score:1)
Is it just me or is IBM one of the only companies that follows up the statement 'Look at our cool stuff' with the all-imporant 'You can buy it right over here'?
I use (Palm)VNC for remote reboots... (Score:2)
However, for some specific stuff (like just reboots) you could probably use some sort of telnet server, or general CLI -- it would be much quicker.
Re:I use (Palm)VNC for remote reboots... (Score:2)
According to the VNC web site, The WinVNC server is slow period. I use it mainly with x2vnc [hubbe.net] to control my windows machine from my linux machine. When I move my mouse to the edge of the screen in X, it starts moving the mouse in windows and linux keyboard input goes to the current windows program. I've tried using the X vnc client with the WinVNC and it is painfully slow. The X VNC server is much faster.
Re:SSH, telnet, and web. (Score:1)