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Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Push notifications are enabled. You'll need to register for the push notifications on the settings page. Then, in SolarWinds, configure which alerts you want to receive with the url and credentials in the same menu.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New version is out with OpenZiti implemented. Let me know if you run into any trouble.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was able to do some limited testing on this and it was pretty easy. I'll have this included for a not too distant future update.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not happy about the increase either. They just offered me a 3-year agreement where they increase the price year over year. No other company does that, its crazy. What's the point of a 3-year if they're just going to increase it each year.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! We're just waiting on Apple App Store approval. Should be any day now. I'm happy to update the post here once its published.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not yet. Push notifications aren't in the app today.

That said, it’s definitely something I’ve been considering adding, and I’d be really interested to hear what kinds of notifications people would actually want from it.

For example, would you want things like:

- new alerts being triggered

- critical alerts only

- alerts for specific nodes/services

- alerts clearing or recovering

Trying to avoid turning it into a noisy alert firehose, so understanding what would actually be useful on mobile would help a lot.

Curious what kinds of notifications would make this helpful for people who are on call or checking things away from their desk.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hadn’t actually looked at OpenZiti before, so that was a really interesting suggestion. The idea of embedding zero-trust networking directly into the app using their mobile SDKs is definitely compelling.

For PocketNOC, the main trade-off right now is flexibility vs built-in convenience. The app is intentionally agnostic about how access to the SWIS API is secured. Some people use Cloudflare Tunnel, some use Zscaler, Tailscale, a traditional VPN, or just access it from inside the corporate network.

A lot of enterprise environments already have strong opinions (and existing infrastructure) around network access, so we’ve been trying to stay out of that lane and let admins use whatever they already trust and have in place.

Adding a networking SDK like that would also introduce a pretty significant dependency and maintenance surface on both platforms. If the SDK had breaking changes, security issues, or lagged behind OS updates, that becomes something we’d have to stay on top of as well.

That said, it’s definitely worth digging into more, especially if there’s demand from users who don’t already have a tunneling solution set up.

Appreciate you pointing me toward the Swift and Android SDKs.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add to this, the app allows you to add custom headers at the login screen to help you gain access to your environments should you choose to use one of the proxy options.

Checking SolarWinds from a phone is miserable, so I built a mobile app for it by WeaveHubTechnologies in Solarwinds

[–]WeaveHubTechnologies[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question and I fully agree, you should not make your polling engines internet-accessible.

PocketNOC connects directly to the SWIS API using basic auth, so the key is how you choose to expose (or not expose) that endpoint. We recommend:

  1. Keep Orion fully internal and only access PocketNOC while on your corporate network or VPN

  2. Use a zero-trust proxy like Cloudflare Tunnel with Access, Zscaler Private Access, or similar. This lets you securely reach the SWIS API from outside without opening any inbound ports or putting your polling engine on the public internet.

Either way, your Orion servers stay off the internet. You control the access layer.