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Accessing Remote Devices

Remote devices can be accessed for two reasons:

  • Accessing their data remotely
  • Controlling them remotely

Administrators can Add new devices and assign them to existing users (or groups of users) for management.

adminui-group

Accessing Remote Data​

This is enabled by collecting Data Collector section of a Device's settings panel.

adminui-datacollector

This feature is covered in extended detail in the Devices section.

Controlling devices remotely​

The ELN allows users to control a device remotely using a websockify/noVNC connection. This can be configured in the noVNC settings section of a Device's settings panel.

adminui-noVNC

Once a device is configured, access to the remote device can be given to a user (group). This triggers the visibility of a device in the remote control area of the ELN where users can access devices through the ELN UI.

VNC using Websockify​

The concept of our implementation is as follows:

adminui-vnc

For more details of websockify, please see this repository.