10 Free Android Apps for System Admins

'What all can you manage from your Android device?' Was the question that we were wondering before we found thousands of apps on the Android market that could be useful to each one of us. Here in this article we would focus on system administration and check how these apps can be used to check health of the network. Before you use these apps you need to have a connection between your Android based device and the machine or network you are trying to check. We did this by having a wireless network with the same subnet as our wired network. Plus all these applications are freely downloadable from Android market.

Ping!Up

We all know the importance of a ping test, but how about your ability to ping from your Android powered device? This application while pinging an IP address gives you information about, bytes of data, ttl, icmp_seq, and time.

HTTPing

This application lets you check the latency (web server and network) of any URL and gives you time it takes to connect to a particular URL. It is a great feature if you want to check response of your web-based applications.

Network Discovery

Want to know what all devices are connected to your wireless network? Simply use this application that gives you all the connected nodes along with their IP addresses.

Port Scandroid

A port scanner for Android, this application lets you know what all ports are open on the target machine. To use this simple put target IP address and the range of ports you need to check and get all the information right there on your Android device.

ConnectBot

Want to connect your UNIX-based server from your Android, simply use this powerful Open Source secure shell client which can handle simultaneous SSH sessions, create secure tunnels, and copy/paste between other applications. The only issue we found was regarding the resolution as the app has no zoom feature.

Remote RDP Lite

How about accessing your PC from your Android application? It is a free RDP client which supports keyboard and mouse. We found this application very effective but needs time getting used to. With the zoom in and out feature you can zoom in using this application from small screen.

WiFi Analyzer

If you want to diagnose which channel you want to give to your newly installed wireless router then this free app can help you out. Simply use this app to check what all channels are less crowded. One can also use this to find out the range of the signal.

Free ActiveDir Manager

How about a app that lets you see all your Windows-based Active Directory entries. This app would free you from burden of taking remote connection of your AD, simply use your mobile/tablet to see what all is going on in your AD.

Remote System Monitor

Get health status along with advanced hardware information of your Windows-based server using this application. There are two components of this application: one runs as service on target Windows machine and second is the app on your Android.

AndFTP

This is a FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP client that lets you manage several FTP configurations. It comes with both device and FTP file browser with download, upload, synchronization and share features. Now you can even manage FTP server from your mobile.