Screen emulation - session shadowing
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Good morning Devolutions team
We have several screens used for monitoring and visualizing running systems. Our objective is to have the ability to view the current screen of a remote machine without allowing the user initiating the connection to make any changes—essentially receiving a live video stream only.
Would it be possible to achieve this functionality using the RDM Agent in the future (is it perhaps on the roadmap)?
We are aware of the session shadowing feature available in the latest release of Gateway. However, we have some concerns:
- If the session remains active and unterminated for an extended period (potentially several months for certain OT systems), the recording file may become significantly large.
- The current video quality is not ideal for our needs.
A session shadowing option without recording, coupled with improved video quality, would also be sufficient.
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Hi,
This would be a feature request. If I understand correctly, the current session shadowing feature would fit your needs if there was a way to do it without session recording? Is the file persistence and file size the main issue?
I wonder if we could simply add an option to delete the video file on session termination. This would make session shadowing easier - we still need the video up to the current point, but it would become a temporary file instead.
As an improvement, you would like better video quality.
Did I understand it right?
Marc-André Moreau
Yes that is correct.
Would it be possible to separate the session recording and session shadowing? As two separate features?
Session recording - creates permanent recording files.
Session shadowing - not to hold any permanent files, so it does not consume disk space? Just provides live view?
For instance, we have a shared account which is always logged in to the server. So we can open a VNC connection to it at any time, without causing screen locks (that RDP does).
Could we use that VNC connection, but only to "view" the screen, no need for recording or to control of the machine. Basically just a remote screen emulator.
Another solution for us would be if you could integrate support for NDI screen capture?
https://ndi.video/tools/screen-capture