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Remote Monitoring Software

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by subtle, Nov 3, 2010.

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    Hi All,

    I work for a large website here in Australia and we have a number of employees abroad and like to monitor their progress. We do this by taking a screenshot of their desktop at fifteen minute intervals and review the screenshots before processing their invoices. They are completely aware of this, though are unable to view the screenshots and alter them.

    The current software we were using was a custom piece of software written quite some time ago and is now riddled with bugs once we upgraded to Windows 7.

    We are currently looking around for another piece of software, and was curious to see if anyone else out there has had some experience with this sort of software and could perhaps recommend something to me.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    subtle, Nov 3, 2010 IP
  2. moneygame

    moneygame Peon

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    Have you thought about monitoring and paying them through odesk.com? That way you can kill two birds with one stone (payroll & monitoring). I did it about a year ago and it worked great.
     
    moneygame, Nov 4, 2010 IP
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    for my opinion good way to solve problem wit employees monitoring is install a good aplications tracker with keylogger function.such as ActyMacDutyWatch for example.they don't know,you sleep good and save a lot of money.
     
    meantime, Dec 23, 2010 IP
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    Remote monitoring software is the perfect tracking solution if you need to monitor a computer, but do not have frequent access to the computer that you need to monitor.
     
    computerlaptop, Dec 23, 2010 IP
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    meantime Peon

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    By the way,mac users can try Logon_sentry from ProteMac-good solution for wise people.
     
    meantime, Jan 10, 2011 IP
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    For pc , you can use remote monitoring software from pc-remote-monitoring.com or remote-pc-spy.com
    For mac , you can try mac keylogger from keylogger-mac.com
     
    newpig, Jun 14, 2011 IP
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    JulietS, Jul 19, 2011 IP
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    BuzzHost Peon

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    Hmm I am curious about what type of site you work for it may be that whmcs could work for your needs as for invoicing the other workers. I think alot of people are forgetting that whmcs is not just for web hosting but can be adapted to use with many other website integrated functions that deal with invoices and so forth it could possibly be tracking work progression. Just a thought and it may not be able to be used for your type of site depending on the site it self.
     
    BuzzHost, Jul 25, 2011 IP
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    summerology Greenhorn

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    I think you might need a newer version of employee monitoring software or some other tool. I'd suggest you check out TimeDoctor. Hope it helps! :D
     
    summerology, Oct 21, 2011 IP
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    I had a friend who are using this to monitor their staff in Malaysia. I heard it is pretty good
     
    expertvm, Oct 22, 2011 IP
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    I used rescuetime.com for a few months when I had freelance developers working on a project for me. It doesn't slowdown the computer by taking screenshots, instead it lists the programs and websites the users opened in a daily report even the ones they used for a few seconds.
     
    amgadhs, Nov 14, 2011 IP
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    I had to use remote monitoring software in my company so I did a research and started using Praetorian Guard a few months ago. I don’t have any complaints from it so far. My computers are running on Windows 7. I’ve set the screenshots to be taken every 2 minutes but you can set them to whatever time frame you need. It also has the option to view data for an employee’s PC by playing it as a slideshow or as a movie (which has been very handy :)).
     
    Jennifer555, Mar 16, 2012 IP
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    online searching will show a lot of options
     
    RobertStev, Mar 18, 2012 IP
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    DesktopGate can collect all hardware information with a single click. It is an employee monitoring solution with lots of other benefits such as this.
     
    GGjonah, Nov 12, 2012 IP
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    badolfus, Nov 13, 2012 IP