MacroView Studio VNC
I’m currently working on a VNC extension to the MacroView Studio functionality and its nearing completion – at least for this version anyway. Its implemented in C# from scratch which allows for a bit more control on the client side both from both a functionality and a commercial perspective. Here’s a few screenshots of the connection settings screen. It can connect to a running VNC server using the typical VNC ports (5901…) but its expected that most of the time users will leverage the MacroView metaserver functionality for ease of deployment and authentication. As long as the Xvnc executable is in the path when the metaserver process is started up, then metaserver will handle all of the VNC server settings requests and Xvnc startup. It leverages the Xvnc -inetd and other command line arguments to achieve this.
The ability to VNC into a server via the Studio environment is handy in that you can flip between graphics, scripts, reports and the remote system very easily – but the main purpose will be in a viewer that integrates the MacroView Unix/Linux graphics with a .NET client side reporting system plus programmable extensions. I’ll post more on the viewer as its developed.
Here’s an example VNC session running in one tab with a MacroView report in another tab.
The following links are to sites which make an Xvnc server available for the Solaris 8 and SCO Openserver platforms. Typically Linux distributions have a VNC server as one of the install options.
- http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc8.html
- ftp://ftp2.caldera.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/tightvnc-1.2.2-VOLS.tar