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UD-RMM: A Remote Monitoring and Management Tool Using PowerShell Universal Dashboard for Universities

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Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 1299))

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A Remote Monitoring and Management Tool is a software that performs multiple operations like monitoring a group of computers and observing the behavior, installing software remotely, troubleshoot the computers from a single location. Nevertheless, remotely monitoring a network of more than 500 computers is a cumbersome task. This project aims at implementing a hassle-free solution, particularly for computer laboratories in a University by developing a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based tool with a Software-as-a-Service approach. This tool is built entirely out of Microsoft PowerShell (PoSH) right from scripting the functions of each feature to designing the tool’s GUI, while making use of many Networking Protocols and Standards wherever necessary. With PoSH being available as a cross-platform tool, this tool easily supports the implementation in both Windows and Linux operating systems.

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Acknowledgements

This whole project has been made possible because of the efforts by Adam Driscoll (creator of PowerShell Universal Dashboard) and Pal Sola for his guidance on designing the tool’s workflow.

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  1. School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 600127, Tamil Nadu, India

    Pranav Nagarajan & Jayavignesh Thyagarajan

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Chhabi Rani Panigrahi

  2. Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Bibudhendu Pati

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, S ‘O’ A Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Binod Kumar Pattanayak

  4. Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Université des Mascareignes, Pamplemousses, Mauritius

    Seeven Amic

  5. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

Appendix: UD-RMM for public

Appendix: UD-RMM for public

The source code to build the UD-RMM tool can be found at https://github.com/npranav10/udrmm. The tool has been made open-source and is released under the Creative Commons License.

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Nagarajan, P., Thyagarajan, J. (2021). UD-RMM: A Remote Monitoring and Management Tool Using PowerShell Universal Dashboard for Universities. In: Panigrahi, C.R., Pati, B., Pattanayak, B.K., Amic, S., Li, KC. (eds) Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1299. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4299-6_33

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