James,
We do some monitoring for Linux based desktops and it works relatively well. As long as those remote sites can talk back to your Xymon server on port 1984 it shouldn't be a problem from a network perspective.
From a monitoring perspective, you'd probably want to run some tests while the user isn't at their system and watch the memory usage and network traffic. If there is a bottleneck in your network implementation that may be helpful, and if your app has heavy JavaScript or Java use, watching the memory info would be helpful too. If it's an app that does a lot of disk writes on the client, that's another place to look (something like an iostat for Windows).
HTH, Matt.
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From: "James Wade" <jkwade at futurefrontiers.com> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Date: 04/05/2010 01:02 PM Subject: [hobbit] Desktop Monitoring
Is anyone doing any kind of monitoring of Desktop Clients with Xymon?
I?m using the Windows Client to monitor the Windows Servers, but I?m thinking of monitoring desktop clients at remote sites.
We get users complaining that their desktops are slowing accessing our Web Based Applications. (This is a dedicated business with remote offices and several thousand users).
We want to try and track their desktops and what?s happening with them.
Any suggestions?
Thanks?James
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