MfgSys on Linux?

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We buy off lease PCs and use them out on the shop floor. They normally run us about $130.
We give our users an internal email client and then RDP for Vantage.

The really special ones might get solitaire if they are lucky :)(Not really)

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "brucewbrannan" <bruce.brannan@...> wrote:
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> We run our MES on thin clients. The most popular ones in this forum seem to be the WYSE clients but I found HP t5325 clients for about $180 each (much cheaper than WYSE). They come with a keyboard and mouse, though we swapped the keyboards for the dust/water proof rubber ones. You can configure them as a kiosk where they just immediately load the RDP client to your terminal server. HP also offers a free management software to manage them all from a server but with just a few clients its total overkill. All you have to do is configure one and then backup its image to a flash drive. You can deploy the image to the other clients in minutes. If you have a power outage they just reboot right back to the rdp session like nothing happened. We have about 16 of them and zero problems in a year.
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> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "deferr86" <d.e.ferrier@> wrote:
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> > Is anyone running the client application on Linux machines? We are considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?
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Is anyone running the client application on Linux machines? We are considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?
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We run linux based thin clients. Not really the same thing, but it works
pretty well.
I've talked to a couple people that tried to run the client through Wine. I
don't recall anyone having much success.

You may wanna check the list archives, I think there was a thread about this
a while back.

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Yes, we do this. Our data collectors run Ubuntu with touch-screen
hardware. The Linux RDP client launches a Vantage session hosted on our
terminal server. We also run RDP Vantage sessions on our Macs, iPads
and Android tablets. Works very well.


have fun,
john




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From: "deferr86" <d.e.ferrier@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:07:19 -0000
Subject: [Vantage] MfgSys on Linux?

Is anyone running the client application on Linux machines? We are
considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?













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Thanks for the help.

How do you configure this so that client computers only login to MES and nothing else? Can you run concurrent sessions on one terminal server? Is this terminal server the same one handling the database?

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "John Sage" <list@...> wrote:
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> Yes, we do this. Our data collectors run Ubuntu with touch-screen
> hardware. The Linux RDP client launches a Vantage session hosted on our
> terminal server. We also run RDP Vantage sessions on our Macs, iPads
> and Android tablets. Works very well.
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> have fun,
> john
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> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:07:19 -0000
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> considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?
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In general, the RDP client launches a client session on the terminal
server that looks like a Windows desktop. From that desktop you can
launch any kind of Vantage client session that you wish. We're on v6.1,
so we launch the Data Collector client. However you can just as easily
launch the full Vantage client.

You should not run terminal services on the same server that hosts the
Vantage databases, or any other function for that matter. Terminal
Services is include in the Windows Server Standard or Enterprise
license, so you'll need to purchase the appropriate server license.
Then you'll need to purchase client access licenses (CALs) for each
remote session you plan to run.

Look here for more info:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/terminalservices/default.mspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755399(WS.10).aspx


have fun,
john




----- Original message -----
From: "deferr86" <d.e.ferrier@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:12:00 -0000
Subject: [Vantage] Re: MfgSys on Linux?


Thanks for the help.

How do you configure this so that client computers only login to MES and
nothing else? Can you run concurrent sessions on one terminal server?
Is this terminal server the same one handling the database?




--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "John Sage" <list@...> wrote:
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> Yes, we do this. Our data collectors run Ubuntu with touch-screen
> hardware. The Linux RDP client launches a Vantage session hosted on our
> terminal server. We also run RDP Vantage sessions on our Macs, iPads
> and Android tablets. Works very well.
>
>
> have fun,
> john
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> ----- Original message -----
> From: "deferr86" <d.e.ferrier@...>
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:07:19 -0000
> Subject: [Vantage] MfgSys on Linux?
>
> Is anyone running the client application on Linux machines? We are
> considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?











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We run our MES on thin clients. The most popular ones in this forum seem to be the WYSE clients but I found HP t5325 clients for about $180 each (much cheaper than WYSE). They come with a keyboard and mouse, though we swapped the keyboards for the dust/water proof rubber ones. You can configure them as a kiosk where they just immediately load the RDP client to your terminal server. HP also offers a free management software to manage them all from a server but with just a few clients its total overkill. All you have to do is configure one and then backup its image to a flash drive. You can deploy the image to the other clients in minutes. If you have a power outage they just reboot right back to the rdp session like nothing happened. We have about 16 of them and zero problems in a year.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "deferr86" <d.e.ferrier@...> wrote:
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> Is anyone running the client application on Linux machines? We are considering using Linux for our data collector computers. Thoughts?
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