Spooner

Very interesting. I am not PowerShell savvy but i do have team members that are, is there any documentation related to all the things you can do in devolutions with PowerShell scripting? We have been looking for a faster way of generating entries when we bring on a new customer. I will try your recommendations in short future. Are there plans to put this PowerShell search in GUI form to check all the search variables and confirmation options.

Here is another

3. Recycle Bin Permission. So per user/role to security group give the option for a user to be able to see deleted sessions in that security group and be able to recover. Again i know this is currently possible as RDM admin but it should be a permission that can be issued to users/roles.

Do you have a best guess when this feature will be coming?

Cody we have noticed that the people with edit permissions can hit F2 on the sessions and copy the sessions name. I just wish the session name highlight and copy option was available with out having to give full session edit rights.

I just opened a feature request similar before seeing this thread.

https://forum.devolutions.net/topic29477-session-name-copy-without-edit.aspx?lastpage=1#post115007

Ok here is another symptom we wonder if could be found a solution.

Our RDM session names are referenced a great deal in email and other communications. We have normalized our RDM names to include essential info.

Some people on the team have the luxury to hit F2 and capture parts of the RDM name to clipboard if they have edit session permission.

Is there a way to possibly allow select copy on RDM session name without having edit rights?

Here is an example session name

ZEPI SAP ECC ZEQ ZEPISZEQ00 10.160.42.13 administrator

And i just wanted to copy the IP or maybe the hostname or the whole name except user. I know we do use the copy username hotkeys and for hostname but if some additional parts of the name are required to and it would be easier to allow a highlight and ctrl+c option without giving full edit rights to the sessions. The user does not need to change the name just be able to copy parts of it.

We love the batch edit options but we see a need for an additional change method.

It would be nice if we could select a batch of sessions and then execute a find and replace in the selection.

We are seeing variables in descriptions or names that we cannot easily change with batch edit but if we could do a find and replace execution in a batch selection that would be great.

Example

here are 2 sessions where i might only want to change one part of the name.

ZEPI SAP ECC ZEQ ZEPISZEQ00 10.160.42.13 administrator

ZEPI FTP ZEQ ZEPISZEQ00 10.160.42.13 DIUSER

I just want to change the ZEPI part to COOL in all the sessions selected. So a find a ZEPI and replace COOL would do the trick in all names and descriptions of sessions selected.

The batch edits would require the batch selections to have the same edit fields or the same meassage or name per field edited where the find and replace option would give more flexibility to change more dynamically.

Maybe add a find selection option like name, description, hostname option to tell it where to search. THen maybe a confirm option if you want to confirm each change first to avoid mistaken change.

Ok we have been using RDM for a long time here are some features i think we would enjoy and would help other RDM users.

Here are some User permission options i would like added.

1. Credential Manager Permission. This would allow users to manage credentials only without having edit rights to the whole session. Maybe a key combo to open the credential manager options like change username, domain, password. Copy buttons next to each. and a password change history button at bottom. I know this only allowed for RDM managers but i would prefer to give this permission without full admin rights.

2.Request access permission. This would be an exclusive option meaning if this permission is selected then all others are off. Basically we want sessions visible to many users but do not want them to have access to session without asking for permission. So basically the sessions in that security group would be grayed out and disabled but the user could double click session with a request for access prompt. This would generate an email to the session owner to ask for access.

I could make up some mock screenshots of screens and right click menu options if these text descriptions are not clear enough.

That is exactly what i have done already and changed the icon so it looks like a sudo addon so far.

Looks like i found the commands for Addon

COMMANDS

manager

Launches the Data Protector GUI with all Data Protector contexts activated, or, when additional

options are specified, with the specified Data Protector contexts activated.

mom

Launches the Data Protector Manager-of-Managers GUI with all Data Protector contexts activated

(with the exception of the Internal Database and Devices & Media contexts) or, when additional

context options are specified, with the specified Data Protector contexts activated.

OPTIONS

-help

Displays the usage synopsis for the specified command.

-server HostName

Connects to the specified Cell Manager.

-display HostName:0

Redirects the output to the display on the specified system.

-admin

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Devices & Media contexts activated.

-backup

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Backup context activated.

-clients

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Clients context activated.

-copy

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Object Operations context activated.

-db

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Internal Database context activated.

-instrec

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Instant Recovery context activated.

-monitor

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Monitor context activated.

-report

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Reporting context activated.

-restore

Command Line Interface Reference

omnigui(5)

HPE Data Protector (9.09) Page 405 of 408

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Restore context activated.

-users

Launches the Data Protector GUI with the Users context activated.

EXAMPLES

1. manager

This command launches the Data Protector GUI with all contexts activated.

2. manager -admin -monitor -report -server host3

This command launches the Data Protector GUI with the Devices & Media, Monitor, and

Reporting contexts activated and connects to the Cell Manager with the hostname "host3".

What do you need to develop an addon for HPE Data Protector. It is a corporate level backup tool that we would like to manage user logon and to which cell manager it points to at logon. I can provide the version of the software we are using if you have a cloud drive i can upload to.

I am passing information from a co worker and i am not fully understanding yet either. I guess it is a client software that we download to access these workspaces. We just would probably like an add on into RDM because we are a hosting company and we will most likely have to maintain many connections and credentials and best way to do that is in RDM.

Here is link to the client.

https://clients.amazonworkspaces.com/

here is some intro links

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/?sc_channel=PS&sc_campaign=acquisition_US&sc_publisher=google&sc_medium=workspaces_b&sc_content=workspace_e&sc_detail=aws%20workspaces&sc_category=workspaces&sc_segment=175053292959&sc_matchtype=e&sc_country=US&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!175053292959!e!!g!!aws%20workspaces&ef_id=WVF9WQAAAGr1YGsO:20171025182044

I thought we could access with Wayk but my co worker says that connections are required to go through the Workspace client instead.

Is there and AWS workspace add on or does anyone have experience with managing these through RDM.

One of our users came to me with this screenshot and i cannot find out what the issue is.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nmegzris6icqs7m/Ravs%20screenshot.gif?dl=0

I do not see this option yet. using version 11.7.6.0. I do not see how put playlists in the dashboard. Also when I look at playlists I can still only run them all.

I am not sure how many others are using a terminal server method (Now RDS Remote Desktop Services) with RDM Server. We chose this method for centralized software standards control and more for security at the network level. But as we grow with this method i think we run into issues that are unique or outside the typical distributed client method i think RDM was designed for.

I wanted to start a topic on this setup type to highlight some of the issues and best practices just for RDS solutions.

First topic i would like to ask is controlling the users client settings more. We have been using the centralized default.cfg method so far to distribute out the default.cfg for RDM but some of the caveats of this is some on the team members do not select the "Lose mine" option when prompted to load the default cfg file. When they do not select this option they continue to use old settings. We would like more control here to force the new CFG settings on users when they log in. I am looking to use GPO to overwrite the .cfg file with the latest but i have concerns as i am not sure what effect this will have. What is not clear to me yet is where are things stored. I know datastores are stored in the default.cfg file but what about other settings like columns shown and layout of RDM? What i have noticed sometimes when excepting the new CFG settings is i see many of my personal settings adjusted or removed like i was saying layout and columns shown. I can easily recreate my settings but i would like to understand more and see which other files i might need to control and distribute to maintain a constant RDM Gui experience for our whole team.

In the future we want these GPO to be tied to roles also as some roles like contractors we might want a more rigid RDM cfg file with no options and for our build team member role we might want them to have more options and control in their RDM.

Stefane,

I hope your vacation was nice. I was not able to roll out your 11.6.7 version as we had several large go live events in the company and they did not want me experimenting on RDM during these times. Since you sent this new version 11.6.7 i see that the latest release is version 11.7.2 came out. Since i have a green light to upgrade the RDM client this coming Friday should i just go with the 11.7.2 version are your performance changes rolled into the latest release?

Stefane,

Could you explain the Intelligent caching option and how it works. In old MSSQL version we used to auto refresh every 1 min and then 5 min after performance hits. I was told that we should not have to use auto refresh with the intelligent caching on but what we are seeing is users are not seeing changes unless they manually refresh. So in some cases sessions are getting locked out because the password changed but users do not get the update and lock account out after several people click on.

If intelligent caching is not offering us convenience should I turn back on the auto refresh option on each client datasource? I do not want to degrade performance again so I am not sure what to do. I can give users auto refresh option but then they will complain the performance is bad.

Next question is would it be better to have all clients go offline and then do a auto refresh? So the caching is local and the auto refresh would update the local list.

We are trying many things. Like we just added a second application server to our RDM farm so now we have 2 terminal servers to split up the team of 50 users.

Also the option to turn off per character search and only search with enter key seems to have helped performance a great deal so far.

Please post any solutions as we just upgraded to server 3.2 and client 11.6.2 and have many performance issues also. 50 users and almost 5000 sessions.

If I do not find a solution soon they might tar and feather me. Many complaints from the team.

We are deploying RDM on a Windows server 2012 R2 RDS server with a backend database server with IIS intelligent cache data source.

We looking to cluster our app server to see if that helps. We have increased VM resources many times but it does not seem to help after 30 people start using RDM the performance just drops with many wait times and many times the screen goes white or (not responding) for seconds to minutes sometimes.

We upgraded from MSSQL Datasource 8.2 client to Server 3.2 client 11.5.4. The main driver for the upgrade was for performance issues on the 8.2. But now on new environment we are seeing same performance issues. Client slowness with fade to white screen or stutter hesitation when entering in search field.

We are running on VM ware in a RDS solution with Windows 2012R2 as the RDS server and we have the RDM Server on backend Windows 2012 R2 server using the IIS intelligent caching.

We have about 50 users and our session list is just under 5000.

We have exhausted many options upgrading everything and adding more resorces but we think it is RDM performance.

Could we setup a screen share with your most experienced performance guy and give our environment an overview?

How about to make easy you converge the playlists and favorites. Just keep playlists but make an option to run all in dashboard. That way in its playlists normal state it acts as a favorite list or view. Only if someone hits the Play all button in dashboard will it then open all. Just a thought. I am trying to understand if there is a difference from the two lists favorites and playlists. Plus the features and options in context menu is getting large and confusing to team members a little simplification and consolidation might help.

Maybe you should change the name in Menu to Custom Views maybe instead of favorites. Not sure or maybe favorite lists. Just Favorites alone does not describe the feature if you make it manageable like playlists.

I was wondering if you could make favorites behave just like playlists with being able to categorize local shared or private and be able to put names and descriptions to them.

With our RDM list getting so large we just want to make team favorite views with just the essential sessions. Playlists are great but sometimes we do not want to open all the sessions.

Hello,

We have server version installed with unlimited client installs and we do a terminal server with a backend database. So what this has led to is we have the client install on several servers and we log in with many users needless to say it gets confusing where you are at when the client looks the same everywhere.

So my feature request is to add hostname and username is the status bar of client just so we could easily identify where we are at and who we are logged in with. I know this is not a feature that most would want as they are simpler structures but it would be helpful to us a great deal. And in the status bar would be ignorable to others.

And/or could you offer a theme like control in the ribbon->View to at least allow changing the color of the console so we could then possibly change the color of different users and servers. This would avoid accidental use of the administrator account on back end for example.

Thank You.

We have been a long time user of RDM and what we have seen is that the client refresh has slowed down our client performance we are currently at 5500 sessions and every time a refresh is executed it freezes the client for about 10-30 seconds.

In our old RDM 8.2 on MSSQL we set the auto refresh to every min on the clients and this worked against us in the past with RDM performance really dragging as more users started to use RDM.

After we went to the new RDM server 3.2.1 we no longer do the auto refresh but we see it does refresh before every edit. The problems we see is edits are only seen by the editor unless all users exercise a refresh. So we would like to implement the auto refresh every min but as a suggestion i wish that the server and clients always retained an internal server update version and when a refresh is requested instead of forcing a full refresh of the list it would first compare internal update versions and if the same then no refresh is executed. If the client is below the server version then a forced full refresh is required. This way only clients that are behind on updates are refreshed and clients that are same version the refresh is skipped. I feel this would make the whole RDM experience better for the whole team.

Also maybe if a refresh only updated the session changes and not the whole list this would be an added bonus and truely speed things up.

Maurice,

We recently did a backup of our RDM database from MSSQL 2008R2 using RDM version 8.2 then we recovered to our new RDM server 3.2.1.0 with MSSQL 2014 with client 11.5.4.0 and after the recovery i did a update database in the server settings.

But we are currently seeing odd behavior with some functions. Like the descriptions show up in the edit form and in the column of the navigation pane but does not show up in the Description section of the dash board.

Next issue is that the Logs do not seem to be recording properly or filtering properly per session. Some entries record wrong user or some do not register at all.

Do you have any recommendations. I think we have all the latest patch levels so maybe the backup restore process needs some changes?