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IT Smartphones to Monitor Server Farm

R. Colin Johnson | Date: 03-04-11 | Comments

The first smartphone app to allow IT administrators to instantly monitor and control data-center server farms was approved by Apple this week and is now available for free download.

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IT Smartphones to Monitor Server Farm
IBM this week released the first smartphone app to allow IT administrators to instantly access, monitor and control servers in the data center. The IBM Mobile Systems Remote offers a graphical user interface that provides IT with a GUI view of each server from a smartphone app that can monitor and manage multiple BladeCenter servers.

A table displays the IP hostname of each management module in a BladeCenter Chassis or System-x Rack Mounted server, along with an icon that represents its "health"�green for "go," yellow for noncritical event pending and red for critical pending events.

IBM recently reclaimed the top slot in server sales, according to IDC (Framingham, Mass.), which claims that IBM now holds a greater than 37 percent market share, up 21.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 alone, gaining 2 points of market share that put it on top, according to IDC.

And soon all those servers will be remote-controlled, 24/7, from the convenience of an app developed at IBM's Austin Research Lab, initially for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

The graphical user interface for IBM's Mobile Systems Remote shows an image of the servers plugged in (left) that matches the real BladeCenter Chassis (right).

IBM Research's professed aim with the app, according to its documentation, is to "adapt and explore the potential of leveraging these rich mobile environments for managing IBM systems ... [addressing both] depth in potential functionality, as well as, breadth in supported mobile devices and systems it can manage."

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