No matter who you are, whether you're an IT administrator,
a computer enthusiast, or just a regular old gamer,
there's probably been a time when you've needed
to do something remotely on one of your systems,
and you're not in a place where it's very convenient,
whether it's power cycling, updating your software,
or just troubleshooting a program.
But if you're like me, services like TeamViewer
never fully scratched that itch
due to limited functionality
or the dreaded commercial use suspected shutting you down.
Thankfully for us, the guys over at Pulseway
offered to sponsor a video showcasing
their management software,
and we thought it'd be a great fit for you guys.
So let's check it out, shall we?
Here on the roof of our building, because why not?
So Pulseway is what's known as an RMM,
or remote monitoring and management software,
which sounds really, really, really boring.
But there's more here than meets the eye.
So the main idea behind Pulseway
is simple but powerful computer mesh.
Oh crap, that still sounds boring, doesn't it?
Okay, no, no, wait.
So once you've installed the Pulseway software
on your system, systems, or like your entire office space,
although we recommend using their deployment tool
for that last one, you'll be in full control
of those devices using bare control interfaces,
and you can do it remotely.
So we're gonna start with the web version
and save the best, the Pulseway app, for later.
So let's get started. So we're gonna start with the web version and save the best, the Pulseway app for later.
So we're gonna start with the web version and save the best, the Pulseway app for later.
Once you've logged in, right away,
you're gonna be greeted by a list of the systems
that you set up earlier.
In our case, we installed it on a couple
for demo purposes here.
First is our patent-pending Google wrecker,
followed by our Steam caching server, Jake's Workstation,
and then of course, our main production storage server, WANIC,
because who doesn't test software
on their most mission-critical machine?
Yeah, well, it's your idea.
Clicking on any one of them is gonna reveal a ton of more
of monitoring goodness.
So by default, there's actually quite a few unique controls
and monitoring, like, we'll call them tabs
that you can play with.
So here, we can see CPU usage, RAM,
the temperature of the individual cores of our processor,
what motherboard it's running,
and even what BIOS version that the system is running.
So you'll know which units,
like let's say you've got a whole deployment
of a bunch of systems,
you can tell which ones need updating
against security vulnerabilities,
like Spectre, for example.
You can also view the total and remaining space
on your drives,
view and kill specific processors,
like say if they're pegging the CPU at 100%,
rendering it unusable,
and you can even send a test print page from that system
to see if the printer is actually broken,
or if it's just yet another ticket
from like that one dude in accounting
who doesn't know the difference
between printing to a printer and printing to a PDF.
Like, this is, there's no option to save this.
Export to PDF.
Wait, don't you think that should be,
there's not an option to do it on here.
Oh, did I mention that you can view, execute,
and schedule updates with it,
even down to specific types?
And that's all before you even go into the features
that aren't enabled by default.
So with network monitoring,
we can see who's using up all the bandwidth,
torrenting at work.
And with the notification system, this is really cool,
we can go through the literally 12 tabs
of different notification options that can be customized,
on a system by system basis,
so that for example, you'll be notified
as soon as your server room sets on fire,
and not when Colton shuts off his PC
after getting fired for the 383rd time.
But you've probably noticed by now
that at least a couple of the machines
that we're showing off here aren't running Windows.
Compatibility is another really strong point for Pulseway.
They've got clients for most Linux distros,
Raspbian, Mac, and Windows.
And the software has a full fat REST API.
So you can actually code monitoring
and management functionality into the services
and applications that your own company develops.
Then you can control those
with the regular Pulseway web interface.
Back to more regular users though,
Pulseway also has this really cool automation tab.
So basically what it includes is a bunch of sample scripts
that should compliment any PowerShell or bash scripts
and that can easily be scheduled,
like checking for and installing any critical updates
outside of work hours,
ensuring that you never have to look
at another Windows update,
or using it as an easy way to run
that screen melting executable
that you've been cooking up in Visual Studio
to prank your coworkers.
And all of this can be done on their app
for iOS and Android as well.
It is basically a complete copy of the web interface,
except in mobile form.
So you aren't sacrificing
any functionality when you're on the go.
For example, you could turn on your Plex server
via Wacom LAN, download your favorite show,
and basically prepare yourself for a flight
without ever thinking about breaking out your laptop,
which admittedly probably isn't a very common use case,
but I think you guys get the point.
It's very, very versatile.
So thanks to Pulseway for sponsoring this showcase
of their RMM software.
Let us know down in the comments
if you have any cool ideas for how you,
we could use Pulseway.
Maybe it's finally time to set up monitoring
on all the servers.
So, yeah.
So stay tuned for the next server room update.
Cause yeah, we should definitely do that.
So thanks for watching guys.
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Let us know in the comments
if you want to see a tour of our roof.
We actually were counting.
And we have almost as many rooftop cooling systems
as the entire rest of our building
and the two other buildings in our complex combined.
Cause we're ridiculous like that.
We just care about our employees' comfort.
Brandon's comfort.
Brandon's comfort in particular.
And Tyler.
Mostly Tyler.
Yeah, Brandon and Tyler.
They got, they have the highest HVAC investment
per person in the company.
Per capita.
Yeah.