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vLogServer
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vLogServer

Put it on one always-on PC and the whole fleet reports to it — hardware, software, activity, screenshots and control, on one dashboard, with no website and nothing exposed to the internet.

The problem

vLog on twenty PCs is twenty streams of reports that have to land somewhere. A website with a database is a thing to provision, secure and keep alive, and it puts your machines’ details on the public internet — which is exactly what an office monitoring tool should not do.

vLog Server is that somewhere, as a program. It runs on a PC you already own, keeps everything on that PC, and is reached only from inside your own network. There is no site to run and no database to look after.

What it does

1One dashboard for every machine

Each PC’s make, model, serial, processor, memory, drives and free space, network cards, installed programs and everything that has happened on it — sortable, searchable, and filtered down to the one machine you care about.

2It makes the key and shows the address

Open it once and it generates the signing key and shows the address to paste into each client. Nothing about the setup involves editing a config file by hand.

3Screenshots, in a gallery

Turn capture on for a machine, request a shot, and it lands in a per-machine gallery you can browse and save to a folder you choose. Off is the default and the client always shows when it is on.

4Push a message to any PC

Type a note and it appears in the centre of that machine’s screen until the person acknowledges it — and the dashboard shows that they did.

5Deploy across the fleet

Hand it an installer and it rolls the update out to the machines you pick, each download verified and every step signed, with nobody at the far end clicking anything.

6Publish the web files without FTP

For the branch-office relay, it signs and uploads the PHP itself over https — there is no FTP password to hand around, and the one file that holds your secrets is never sent.

7Branches fold into the same view

PCs in another building report to a small PHP relay on your website; the server collects from there, so a branch machine sits in the same list as a head-office one, and the routers stay shut.

8It keeps its own house in order

Duplicate machines can be merged, a decommissioned PC forgotten, and old screenshots pruned automatically so the gallery does not grow without bound.

Why it is worth it

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Nothing is exposed to the internet

The server listens on your own network and the clients dial out to it. There is no public dashboard, no database open to the world, and no port to open on a firewall.

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No website, no database, no upkeep

It is one installer on one Windows PC. There is nothing to provision, patch or back up beyond the machine it already runs on.

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Every command is signed

The server signs each instruction with a publish key and each client checks it, so a machine acts only on a request that genuinely came from your dashboard — never on anything a stranger on the network sends.

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It is the same family

The look, the shortcuts and the honesty are vTools’. If your office needs the dashboard to behave differently, that is a conversation, not a support ticket into a void.

How you use it

1
Install it on the always-on PC

The machine that is on when people arrive — a server, a reception PC, whatever is reliably running.

2
Copy the key and address

It shows both. That is what each vLog client needs, and nothing else.

3
Point the clients at it

Install vLog on each PC and paste the two values. Reports start arriving within a couple of minutes.

4
Run the fleet from one window

Watch what changes, request a screenshot, push a message, or deploy an update — to one machine or all of them.

What it needs

Windows10 or 11, 64-bit. Server editions work
Installs toPer machine — one administrator prompt at install
Reached fromYour own network only; the clients dial out to it
For branchesA small PHP 7.4+ relay on your website, which it can publish itself
Keeps its dataOn the PC it runs on — no database, nothing in the cloud

See vLogServer on your own machine

A short screen-share is usually enough — we open it on your PC, with your files.

Or write to info@issmart.in.