[Remotectrlctr-users] Possible improvements

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Great tool, I hope it develops as well as OCSInvenory has!

Some suggestions for your TODO list.

1. I was thinking that a tree like structure would improve RCC particularly
in allowing the user to group nodes and sessions to reduce the clutter when
there are large numbers of nodes each with several sessions. Something
along the lines of:

ENTERPRISE
     |
     |
     +--DOMAIN/WORKGROUP/SUBNET/IP-RANGE1
     |                |
     |                +--NODE1.1
     |                |    |
     |                |    +--SESSION1.1.1
     |                |    |
     |                |    +--SESSION1.1.2
     |                |    :
     |                |
     |                +--NODE1.2
     |                :    |
     |                     :
     |
     +--DOMAIN/WORKGROUP/SUBNET/IP-RANGE2
     :                |
                      +--NODE2.1
                      :    |
                      :    +--SESSION2.1.1


Where exploring at each section displays a list or icon view of the branch
contents. This means that selecting a SESSION from the tree will list the
SESSION's properties. It should be possible, as an option from the context
menu, to fork a new RCC window for any branch down to the NODES level. If
the command line options could also allow RCC to open with the view
starting at a particular location on the tree then users could create
shortcuts to open up RCC for a subset of their systems.

The icon view could at the top level show icons for each
DOMAIN/WORKGROUP/SUBNET/IP-RANGE object. Double clicking on one of these
would open up a view of the NODES in that particular object. Double
clicking on one of these NODES could open up a view of the SESSIONS
associated with that particular NODE. Double clicking on one of these
SESSIONs should launch it and the session context menu should be applied to
these objects. Context menus at each level should allow new objects,
appropriate to the level, to be added. Configurable icons (vis-a-vis
OCSInventory) might also be useful.

2. VNC through SSH is great but it would be nice to be able to use
UltraVNC's encryption plugin MSRC4Plugin.dsm and to be able to configure
more of the options provided by UltraVNC for example MS Logon, NT Security
and Active Directory support.

3. Remote installation of VNC works fine for standard VNC but an option to
use "fastpush" (http://www.darkage.co.uk) to perform the installation would
allow greater control of the install process, particularly where other
flavours of VNC are concerned. The ability to maintain a list of fastpush
flavours would allow RCC to keep up to date with new VNC releases as they
are incorporated into fastpush. The other fastpush options could be handled
on a single dialog box.

thanks again for another great tool.




Derry Birse
Senior IS/IT Engineer
ALSTOM Power Conversion Ltd

Phone: +44(0)1788 563315
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