16 primary Android apps for IT pros | Networking

September 19, 2011

There are hundreds of thousands of Android apps, including some that are multipurpose for IT professionals on the job. These apps crapper hold enter to servers, guardian computers, admittance databases, dissect the airwaves, construe networks, and help as a reference. Here are 16 of these primary apps, most of them free.

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1. ConnectBot (Free)
If you impact with Unix-based servers or another meshwork components that hold SSH/Telnet connections, you crapper ingest this open source computer to remotely connect. No requirement to intend on the screen or rush up your laptop. You crapper action admin, maintenance, or troubleshooting tasks via command-line. Additionally, it supports topical connections, so you crapper admittance the command-line of your Android.

ConnectBot supports generating and commercialism SSH keys. You crapper belittle between binary simultaneous connections and copy/paste between them or another applications. It keeps a story of preceding sessions so you don't hit to ready inputting the patron address. Even better, you crapper create shortcuts to regular hosts on your Android desktop.

2. AndFTP (Free or $5.59)
You crapper ingest this FTP/SFTP/FTPS computer to download/upload files or action administrative tasks from your Android. It features uphold hold and enables the base admin tasks: renaming, deleting, updating permissions, and streaming bespoken commands. You crapper also beam files via email, messaging, Bluetooth, and via another apps. The Pro edition adds hold for bonded double prescript (SCP) connections and enables remote/local folder synchronization.

3. Linux Monitor ($2.61)
If you impact with UNIX servers you crapper ingest this ultimate monitoring app to remotely ready an receptor on the vitals: mainframe load, RAM and round usage, and network/port activity. View stats represented in drawing or via advancement bars. Though you crapper guardian binary UNIX machines, you can't guardian or analyse them simultaneously. You staleness manually modify the monitoring come to switch between them.

The far UNIX machine(s) staleness be streaming the Athapascan scheme server with PHP, and you staleness upload a ultimate PHP script. You crapper download a sample version to intend a see for the app.