HP to Release Server Management Apps for iOS, Android

HP to release Server Management Apps for iOS and Android. This application will allow system admins to administer servers through hand-held devices.

The renowned company Hewlett-Packard said on Monday that they will be releasing new smartphone and tablet applications for Apple iOS and Google Android. These applications will allow system administrators to control and configure servers remotely.

During and interview at the HP Global Partner Conference held in Las Vegas, Direction of modular systems product marketing of the company John Gromala said that this application will not only provide servers' health information but also allow system administrators to shut down and remotely manage servers.

The director further stated that the ability to manage servers through a hand-held device is a powerful too. With this app, system administrators can also login to management subsystems and swiftly identify and address server problems instead of logging on to management consoles in data centers.

This is one breakthrough in android application development and iPad/iPhone application development. These applications are designed in such a way that they take advantages of HP's new Gen8 servers which were announced the same day. These servers feature tight integration of hardware and software that allows delivery of better performance-per-watt at the same time reducing maintenance and electricity costs in data centers.

 

Features also include analyzing, monitoring and diagnosing server issues across 1,600 system parameters and an HP seravice app will be able to access that data in order to get information about the server health. The monitoring information is gathered by a secondary processor and controlled by a management application called Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) management engine.

An HP representative who declines to give his name said, “A separate mobile application will allow system admins to run scripts that help in configuring applications on servers” “This scripts can be simply cut and pasted which the app will thereby help configuring the servers”. In short, database servers can be configured by scripting in the application.

This application will be a hit in all software development companies for the system admins will also be able to check the location of a server in a data center through it. This will thereby help isolate specific server problem in the software development company.

The service will be provided directly by HP or its partners to customers who choose to receive the data. However, the company did not share information regarding the time when the application will be available for download.

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