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>> Tried running a Java applet recently? ;P > The answer to this question is almost certainly "no". For me, it's a yes. My employer uses some ancient monito
by tablespoon 5y ago
>> Tried running a Java applet recently? ;P
> The answer to this question is almost certainly "no".
For me, it's a yes. My employer uses some ancient monitoring application called SiteScope. They recently "upgraded" from an ancient version to a newer one (I think the latest), and nearly the whole frontend appears to be implemented as a Java Applet. Since no browser on the Mac supports Applets anymore, their workaround was to download some Java App that ran the UI.
The older version we had used HTML.
- latchkey 5y agoI love the concept that the solution is to work around the applet issue and not find some new monitoring software. I wonder how effective ancient monitoring software is.
- tablespoon 5y ago> I love the concept that the solution is to work around the applet issue and not find some new monitoring software. The workaround is actually part of the software itself (there are instructions right below the login box). My understanding is they're only upgrading because the old version didn't support modern versions of TLS, and there's a big push to get off of those. Finding new monitoring software would be probably be more work. At a minimum, the new version probably supports all the features we're using, and at best all our configuration can be automatically migrated. I don't know the details: I'm not part of the project, I just have an some apps with some monitors setup for them. > I wonder how effective ancient monitoring software is. It gets the job done.