There are a number of great iphone applications available for sysadmins who doesn’t always enjoy carrying a laptop with them everywhere they do. I wish we had iphones when I used to be a sysadmin 5 years ago, it would have made a lot of simple tasks like rebooting server or checking up on system usage or just monitoring systems in general a lot more convenient without having to sit in front of the computer all the time. Webmasters, sysadmin or even hobbyist server owners will hopefully find these iphone applications very useful just as I did.

1) Network Ping: A nice little application to maintain or debug network problem on Local Area Network with the ability to access router by Telnet console.

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Website: http://mochasoft.dk/iphone_ping.htm 
Price: Free (lite) $3.99 (Pro)

2) Network Utility: This app lets you ping your server, do TCP/IP port scans, make whois query among other thing.

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Website: http://www.codepacity.com/netutil/
Price: $0.99

3) iSSH: Perhaps the most comprehensive SSH client for iphone. Including some very unique features including emailing session transcripts.

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Website:  http://www.zinger-soft.com/iSSH_features.html
Price: $4.99

4) pTerm: If you love PuTTY you will love this app because this app is entirely based on the features available on PuTTY – which is a very widely used Windows and Unix SSH client with many features.

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Website: http://www.instantcocoa.com/products/pTerm/
Price: $4.99

5) Jaadu VNC: A high quality powerful VNC client on your iphone, but it comes with a high price. If you can ignore the price, this is actually a very useful application which gives you a full screen view of your desktop on high resolution.

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Website: http://www.jaaduvnc.com/features
Price: $24.99

6) Mocha VNC: If you can’t afford Jaadu VNC this one is for you. They have more or less the same features but you have the option between a lite (free) version and a full version.

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Website: http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_vnc.htm
Price: $5.99


7) iNag: This is a frontend viewer to get information about your server being monitored by open-source network monitoring system Nagios.

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Website: http://idevelop.fullnet.com/iapps/modules/apps/inag.php
Price: $14.99

Since I host most of my projects on slicehost, I also use their very useful iphone app which they recently made it free for everyone. If you are a slicehost customer this is recommended. Which app do you use for your network monitoring tasks? Please share with us.

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