Ninja Game Family Computer

[Michelle Benitone]

Studentsare invited to participate in the study sessions to prepare for quizzes, to discuss programming concepts, and to get upbeat assistance while working on weekly laboratory assignments. Our CS mentoring team is dedicated to helping students (especially those who have no prior knowledge of computer science) develop excellent problem-solving and programming skills in a friendly, confidence-building environment. In order to fuel this project, snacks are provided at ninja sessions.

Lauri Courtenay, our Academic Support Coordinator and ninja wrangler, also serves as a mentor. She welcomes the opportunity to discuss CS and life with students and future students! Please contact her at lauri at cs.swarthmore.edu or 957-6062.

When the ninjas are not in the lab you will find them across campus singing in a capella groups, swimming or playing soccer, tennis and squash, working on biology and engineering projects, listening to music or playing violin or piano, learning new languages, backpacking, sailing, improvising, robotics, hiking, Aikido, cooking and writing poetry. Our motto: Everything's better with ninjas!

Brief rundown of my situation. I have a fairly large family (cousins, aunts, uncles, parents etc.) and I married into a family in need of basic support on a semi regular basis. I also have a handful of friends that need support on a regular basis (One that has a house of 8 kids and 6 computers). I offer support to them for really cheap with managed AV (because they always forgot to renew their AV and would call me with virus issues). So in my mind it would cost me less time, and them less time if I managed their AV, and Windows updates and such to keep issues from occurring in the first place than try and fix the systems when all goes wrong.

I came across Ninja RMM which says it has a number of good features including software deployment, integrated AV, premade scripts, teamviewer integration etc. and apparently a number of the people working on the project came from packettrap. I have never heard of Ninja RMM nor have I found any reviews on them. So was curious if anyone had heard of them or used their product.

We had early access to Ninja RMM. those guys are legit. they helped develop another RMM tool that Dell bought called PacketTrapMSP. We still use it for serious networking monitoring for our clients even though Dell has shelved it. I recently received a call from Dell Rep, stating that they were partnering with Ninja to integrate PacketTrap with it, so we will be giving it a look.

They just got back in touch with us saying reporting and SNMP is released 7th Oct. Reporting was a real sticking point with us. My only issue right now is the TeamViewer remote solution and the lack of concurrent connections without buying extra licences.

We are still in discussions on how we can cost effectively move from GFI / LMI. One sticking point is the per channel pricing of teamviewer, since we are used to having basically unlimited concurrent sessions with LMI and with GFI Take Control. Jason, what are you migrating from?

should consider this a beta product. having said that it is pretty good. we have looked at Kaseya, have used Labtech and Nable and then, for a couple years, LMI (pro for servers and alerting - yes, LMI pricing triggered our move though we have never been really happy with LMI as RMM and were always on the lookout to switch products) so my Labtech and Nable experience are long in the tooth. but Ninja is better than i remember them being. it is more intuitive to use that i remember those products.

Chris, we are working in a mixed environment with Kaseya right now. As stated a few times, Ninja is really still in a Beta mode, it does not yet have all the functionality we need. The main item we are missing is remote file level access/remote command prompt access/remote access to manipulate running services. However, the patching and AV in Ninja are definitely better implemented, and the use of Teamviewer is a big plus in our book. VNC from Kaseya took up to 60+ seconds to connect to a remote machine, while Teamviewer is amost instantaneous.

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