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Remote Management & RMM

Discover RMM platforms, remote access tools, and automation solutions for IT service providers.

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11 results in Remote Management & RMM

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Shortlists for Remote Management & RMM

Explore collections with tools relevant to this category, grouped by deployment, source model or workload.

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How to choose remote management & rmm tools

Remote monitoring and management platforms put a lightweight agent on every managed workstation and server so a technician can watch health, push scripts, deploy software and open remote sessions from one console. They are built for managed service providers and internal IT teams that look after many machines across sites. Where endpoint management focuses on policy and patch compliance, RMM centres on daily technician work across fleets.

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Who uses these tools

  • MSP technicians supporting many client sites
  • Internal IT teams managing distributed workstations
  • School and lab administrators maintaining shared machines

Capabilities to compare

  • Agent coverage across Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Remote shell, file transfer and desktop sessions
  • Script library and scheduled automation jobs
  • Alerting on disk, service and hardware health
  • Multi-tenant separation of clients and sites

Operating considerations

  • Agent privileges make the console a high-value attack target
  • Per-endpoint pricing as the managed fleet grows
  • Self-hosted server sizing and certificate management
  • Integration with ticketing and documentation systems

Selection checklist

  1. Install the agent on a representative mix of machines and confirm it survives reboots, updates and network changes.
  2. Review how the console enforces multifactor login, role separation and audit logs for every remote session.
  3. Check whether scripts can run against groups of devices with output collected centrally for review.
  4. Estimate total cost at your expected fleet size, including technician seats and add-on modules.

What belongs in this category: Products listed here combine an installed endpoint agent with a central console for monitoring, remote control and scripted actions across many devices, rather than offering only remote desktop or only patching.

Remote Management & RMM on iThub in figures

iThub lists 11 tools in Remote Management & RMM. 9 of 11 are open source, 9 of 11 can be self-hosted, 9 of 11 have a free, freemium or open-source pricing model and 5 of 11 offer an API.

Tools listed
11
Open source
9
Self-hostable
9
Free to start
9
With an API
5
Web app
9
Desktop app
10

Recently added: Sunitech, JumpServer, OpenUEM, RustDesk

Typical use cases

  • Running maintenance scripts across hundreds of client workstations overnight
  • Opening a remote session to fix a user's printer issue
  • Receiving alerts when a server disk or service fails
  • Resetting shared lab computers between classes

Trade-offs to model

  • Self-hosted RMM servers keep agent traffic under your control but leave patching and uptime of the console to you.
  • Hosted RMM services start quickly, though every managed endpoint then trusts a third party with administrative access.
  • Broad suites bundle backup and patching, while lean tools focus on remote access and scripting and integrate elsewhere.

Common mistakes

  • Rolling the agent out to every client before testing alert thresholds, which floods technicians with noise.
  • Sharing a single administrator login among technicians, which removes accountability for remote actions.
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