Is it even possible to manage XMR remotely (read only in my case, just monitoring the rigs)?
I'm really interested in the answer to this. I am fairly new to mining but I have found in all my testing that I am getting the best performance from Claymore's CPU miner (this one). However I am mining across a number machines that are spread around geographically. Being able to monitor them from one place would be great, just so I know what is performing well and what isn't. Being able to actually manage them in some way would be icing on the cake. Being able to monitor them would allow me to deploy even more miners, but right now it's a lot of work to keep up with them.
Thanks!
Monitoring them, and a certain degree of managing them as well, is very easy via the Chrome Remote Desktop app. You simply need to install the app on your main (monitoring) PC, enable remote management on your target PCs, and have Chrome installed on all. They you set a pin for security purposes and you are all set! I have been using this for about 2 months and it works great. You can essentially log on and control the PC 99% like you were in front of it. The only thing you cannot do of course is a hard reboot if your target machine crashes and hangs but other than that, it is an amazing and very easy to install and use tool. I tried getting Windows Remote to work prior to finding this and it was a huge pain to try to configure and I never could get it to work outside of my own home network.