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iStat released!

MacToddB

MacToddB

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rdowns said:
Curious, why would you want to monitor your Mac remotely with this?
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If you're hosting a web server on your Mac. I believe there is a co-location service (web server rack farm) that gives this app away free so their customers can keep tabs on their own Mac.

There are times when I want to know the temperature, etc., of my computer while I'm in the same room. This is a neat tool. And I just bought Free Memory!
 
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Highland

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rdowns said:
Curious, why would you want to monitor your Mac remotely with this?
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We use it on our webserver (a Mac Mini hosted with Macminicolo.net). It might also be handy for people who have a Mac media center (me again!). In the future we'd love to add Linux and maybe Windows server monitoring too (a lot of web servers run Linux).

In those cases, stuff like HD space and network traffic are very handy to know (running out of HD space can be an issue with servers that aren't being closely monitored).

MacToddB said:
If you're hosting a web server on your Mac. I believe there is a co-location service (web server rack farm) that gives this app away free so their customers can keep tabs on their own Mac.
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http://www.macminicolo.net/ is the company. We haven't had anything to do with them prior to finding hosting for Bjango. They've been brilliant so far, so we started talking about iStat and what our plans were... they were very happy to work out a deal where every Macminicolo customer gets 5 free copies of iStat.

When we say "free", we mean: you buy it, then send Macminicolo your account name from inside the app, then they deduct the amount from your next bill. More info here: http://bjango.com/help/istat/macminicolo/
 
MacToddB

MacToddB

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Highland said:
We use it on our webserver (a Mac Mini hosted with Macminicolo.net). It might also be handy for people who have a Mac media center (me again!). In the future we'd love to add Linux and maybe Windows server monitoring too (a lot of web servers run Linux).
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I'm gonna buy it. I have a Mac Mini as my media center too.

I will also look into Macminicolo.net as I'm not thrilled with my hosting provider (1&1).

Let me know if you plan to add Solaris support (I worked for Sun for 16 years) and this would be useful for some of my colleagues!
 
Ninja Dom

Ninja Dom

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I downloaded it and think its great!

I use my Mac Mini as my entertainment server now. It also does a bit of Handbraking. I leave it to do various tasks while I'm at work.

It's great to be able to monitor how the Mac Mini is performing while I'm away.

The iPhone status part is good too. It never crashed on me when Freeing Memory, I only had 1Mb free before performing that.

It's been said before but it'll be nice to see iPhone battery information displayed too.

Fantastic app!!
 
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SkillsToShow

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Ninja Dom said:
I downloaded it and think its great!

I use my Mac Mini as my entertainment server now. It also does a bit of Handbraking. I leave it to do various tasks while I'm at work.

It's great to be able to monitor how the Mac Mini is performing while I'm away.

The iPhone status part is good too. It never crashed on me when Freeing Memory, I only had 1Mb free before performing that.

It's been said before but it'll be nice to see iPhone battery information displayed too.

Fantastic app!!
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Definitely am going to buy this app, it looks great and I love the Dashboard widget on the mac :). Being able to see the iPhone battery information would be amazing just like the coconutBattery app for the mac.
 
MattZani

MattZani

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I Really like the app, its well made, and the GUI is one of the best i have seen on the iPhone so far.

Also, i cant get the Remote monitoring to work, im not sure what IP to enter, i put in the one on iStat on my MBP, but i got the 'X'

But then again, i cant get Remote to work either!
 
macduke

macduke

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I've purchased this app and it's pretty neat.

One quick question though, how does one remotely monitor their Mac? Do I need to be running OS X Server? It works fine on bonjour, but I'm not sure what to do to get a remote server going.
 
Ninja Dom

Ninja Dom

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macduke said:
I've purchased this app and it's pretty neat.

One quick question though, how does one remotely monitor their Mac? Do I need to be running OS X Server? It works fine on bonjour, but I'm not sure what to do to get a remote server going.
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There are two ways of remotely monitoring your Mac. The first is having the iPhone and the Mac on the same wifi network and using bonjour. That's quick and easy.

The next is to monitor using the cell network on the iPhone. What I had to do was type in my Mac's IP address into Safari on the Mac. This gave me access to my wireless routers setup page. I then had to tell the router to leave a particular port open which was gonna be used by iStat. That worked fine.

Remotely monitoring works a treat on both 2G and 3G.
 
notnek

notnek

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i can only remotely monitor my mac remotely if i set my firewall to allow all incoming connections, which i'd rather not do in the long run.

does anyone know how to configure the firewall in leopard to allow incoming connections from port 5109?

EDIT: I reinstalled iStat Server and it worked properly with the firewall this time.
 
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diotav

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Love this app! :D

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Telp

Telp

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I am having trouble with the port forwarding. I don't know the settings to set it to. Nothing I have tried is working. Any help?
 
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Highland

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TheSpaz

TheSpaz

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Highland said:
Mine's not quite that good, but still ok.

A screenshot can be seen on the Remote Mac monitoring tab here: http://bjango.com/apps/istat/ ;)
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What's the deal with the temps being so freakin' high in iStat for the iPhone but, looking at iStat Pro on the Mac, the temps look normal....

Edit, nevermind... I was looking at the degrees in Fahrenheit
 

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MrD1sturbed

MrD1sturbed

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Downloaded for the iPhone network tools alone. Great App!!

Can't wait to see Windows monitoring too since I don't have a Mac Server yet:D
 
TheZimm

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the app is soo great, can't believe it can clear up to 46 mbs!

Also if you're on the edge about the app, go to my site and submit the newest contest we have. All you have to is comment =]

Zym
 
Telp

Telp

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I don't have an apple airport extreme, im using a verizon fios router.
 
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