Remote monitoring and control of a Labview program

[AKA_TG]

I would like to control and monitor my robot program written in LV version 6.1. It runs inside a professional firewall at my company. I need to see and control the main VI and any other VI's that may pop up on the "target" machine from my home PC. Can this be done in a secure way? PS: I only know my own IP address, the target IP address is probably not available to me due to firewall protection. Also I am not expert in TCP/IP protocol.

[Tim.S]

LV6.1 does have built in functions for remote control or remote viewing (faster) through an Internet browser or another PC running LV. I don't think you need to know much about TCP/IP either. The web publishing tool does all the work. Select the menu "Tools" -> "Web Publishing Tool" and click Help to get started.

Also search the online knowledge base:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/e789515b9976253786256b1f007e039b?OpenDocument
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/09B82EFACFF958A586256BC800779CB4?opendocument

The first step would be to get the remote control working the way you want it from inside your firewall (i.e., run your equipment from your office PC).

Getting it to run from outside the firewall will be more difficult and m
ay require access by your IS department. Hopefully, someone who has done this can help you out.

[AKA_TG]

Thank you Teccor.
I have not yet studied your links but I did save them from the title's I can see you obviously have given me some very good tips!
I will try your suggestions

Thanks again

[Joe_Guo]

You can also try out remote control softwares, such as VNC or Remote Administrator. They not only allow you to monitor your application but also allow you complete control of the remote machine (edit your application, etc). But, please study each such software in detail before using them, as some of these do not provide any encryption. Also, you will need to get IT involved to forward a port to the remote computer.

-Joe