Remote Monitoring System

The need for a comprehensive Remote Monitoring System in the Educational and Office Environments has been the source of inspiration for this project. The Project has been conceived and developed to work effectively in the above mentioned environments. The main aim was to reduce the burden on the System/Network administrators from responsibility of monitoring the Clients connected to a Server in the typical Ethernet based Client–Server network architecture. The Remote Monitoring System (RMS) monitors the Clients connected to the Server by providing information such as Client’s Name, IP address, User currently logged on and the Desktop Image of the Client. RMS also provides the functionalities such as Messaging and Control operations that can be performed on the Clients. The Supervisor can use these features to effectively monitor the Clients. The Architecture of Remote Monitoring System has two components: An Application which runs on the Server machine. A DLL which resides on the Client Machines. The Graphical User Interface based Application acts as the monitoring tool and provides the various functionalities to monitor the Clients. The DLL which resides on the Client machines sends required information as per the need to the Application at the server. Rapid Application Development paradigm of Software Engineering has been used to develop the system. The system’s development has been done based on the Application Programming Interface (API) of the Windows Environment, so that the system complies with all existing flavors of the Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems. Rational Rose tool is used for analysis and design using Unified Modeling Language and the platform of implementation being Visual Studio 6.0