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Question from HP Engineering team

Brad Klein — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:08:35 GMT

We are looking at different technologies that can be used in producing web-based management applications for system administration and some of them require browser plugins. We would like to get some information from you related to the prevalence of Adobe Flash plugins on administrator's browsers.

1. Do you currently have the Flash plugin loaded in the browser you use for system administration? If not, why not?

2. Are there policies at your workplace that prohibit the installation of the Flash plugin (or plugins in general)? (please elaborate)

Thank you for any insights you provide.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Chris Finn — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:49:13 GMT

Answers:

1. I do have the Flash plugin loaded

2. No policies that I'm aware of as of yet, but I'm new here...

-chris

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Rancher — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:01:16 GMT

If you are referring to the Shockwave Flash Object, ActiveX control, then yes, I have it installed on my station. There are no policies in my workplace prohibiting the installation of plugins.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Rob Buxton — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:19:15 GMT

1. Yes - Various plugins installed.
2. No policies at this point to prevent any specific plugins.

Would rather keep browser & OS independence - so Active X not ideal.

Java seems to be ever present but the various flavours / dependencies can be a pain.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Jason Rackle — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:07:15 GMT

The shop I am in has very tight network and access controls on every desktop (thin client). Management of servers is thus not possible except via an RDP session into dedicated management servers. Tools, ActiveX Controls, programs, etc are installed onto these management servers on a "as needed" basis.

I do not believe the Adobe tools are installed but we could always install them if need be. :-)

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

L Davis — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:50:21 GMT

1. Yes.
2. No policies here that restrict us.

Cheerio.

Leon.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Neysters, Lutz — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:41:50 GMT

1. No. I didn't need it until now, because with this PC and its browser I keep to business, only intranet and sites inside our customer's network.

2. No.

I still would like to keep SIM as browser & OS independent as possible (like Rob mentioned). It is annoying enough I can't have a look at disk thresholds if I open the SMH directly from the server monitored - because of the lack of Java.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Larry Shaw — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:19:38 GMT

1. Yes

2. No, in fact we use Flash for some internal applications and have it on most workstations.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Astro2 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:12:57 GMT

1. Yes
2. No

Regards

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Dmitri Manushin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:26:01 GMT

1. Yes
2. No

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Edward Latzko — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:34:56 GMT

1. Yes
2. No

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

jason gorell_1 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:38:12 GMT

1. Yes
2. No

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Igor Karasik — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:23:50 GMT

1. No. Our main network is not connected to Internet (security ....), therefore we just don't need Adobe flash plugins on our computers used for internal network administration

2. We prohibit installation of plugins for regular users, but not for administrators

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Arian van der Pijl — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:07:07 GMT

1. Yes, Flash comes standard within our 'ghost' image.
2. Yes, normal users are standard Domain Users, 'the rights' of installing plugins is therefore not allowed. Administrators however are allowed to install almost anything.

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Brad Klein — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:06:01 GMT

Thanks to all who provided feedback -- this will be very helpful for us as we move forward with decisions about the presense of plugins and their acceptability.

Thanks again!
Brad

Re: Question from HP Engineering team

Brad Klein — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:06:57 GMT

Closing thread...