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On-Call Options
Oct. 3rd, 2008 09:17 pmThe mood at work is a'changin - we have many bike riders among the on-call IT crew and the on-call pack is a huge, gruesome albatross (big, heavy old laptop, a sack of magic string, phone and more magic string, pager, docs, it's the weight of a medicine ball with none of the joy. We're after a change.
Our on-call needs are simple and generic: get called, get online, and VPN onto the work network, then use Remote Desktop to piggyback around from server to server. 3G or wifi is needed to get online without suckage. We need to be able to run the Cisco VPN client, which is available for Windows / Mac / Linux. Some of the options we're thinking about:
Our on-call needs are simple and generic: get called, get online, and VPN onto the work network, then use Remote Desktop to piggyback around from server to server. 3G or wifi is needed to get online without suckage. We need to be able to run the Cisco VPN client, which is available for Windows / Mac / Linux. Some of the options we're thinking about:
- A Windows smartphone. Not used one myself, but IIRC there are flisters who've been using things like the Nokia Communicator and its descendents for ever. Can they run full-fat Windows apps these days?
- An Asus EEE or similar little netbook. 3G is the issue here, I think.
- Can you bludgeon the Cisco VPN client into working on an iPhone? I know there's Remote Desktops for it... The boss is a sucker for shiny objects (and so am I).
