accessing the epo console 1

[terry712]

how are people accessing the management console

just now i have it on a 2003 server - just a stand alone and just ts'ing into it - but thats only in admin mode so it's not multi session aware - dont want to licence it as not really an ms shop -

can it be setup so people can access it over a browser or from their pc ?

 

[JimmyZ1]

are you using the remote console that comes with ePO?

It's the same installation as the server just choose the console only.

Living la vida ePO

 

[terry712]

cheers
will give it a go

 

[cmintwood]

Also, it is only recommended to have 6 or less remote consoles installed within your environment. And, your post notes that this isn't an MS shop, you may have visibility issues between the remote console machine and the ePO server. Just experiment with hosts or LMhosts files to resolve visibility issues. Or register both machine in the same WINS server.

 

[terry712]

thanks

what i've done is - at this remote site - installed a 2003 server - with AD , dns and dhcp - usual type of stuff
i have then configured a netware server at our site with a secondary dns zone and a zone in from the 2003

so as the clients are update they are replicated to our site
this means their clients can find the epo no probs - and if we want to check the log via browser on one of their pc's then the local dns can resolve it

and i have a redundant copy of their dns and it's on a platform that i undersatnd

 

[JimmyZ1]

6 or less remote consoles? I have about 80 remote consoles and don't have any problems with them at all.

 

[VictorySabre]

I think you can install as many consoles as you want, but up to 6 consoles can concurrently be connected and processing data from the ePO Server.

6 or less is recommended for ePO Servers running with MSDE. If you use the full SQL Server product, you can run more consoles. (Limitation of the database engine)

 

[JimmyZ1]

Yeah, we have a SQL database machine to service our epolicy server... everything's running smoothly