How can I administer TIMP from another machine?

Even though I have the server mapped on my workstation, I cannot run the TIMP Management Console executable. It appears that I have to actually run the console on the server otherwise it never comes back from collecting info on the server.

Correct, the TIMP Management Console runs only on the same machine where the TIMP server is installed.

From other machines, you can manage the TIMP server using a Jabber client (CLI interface), if you are the Administrator of the TIMP server; just add this JID: admin@ate.yourserver to the roster of the administrator (should be administrator@yourserver the first user created).

To add other administrators add it to the custom part of the admin plug-in (using TIMP Management Console), like in the following example:

administrator@Console
user1@yourserver
user2@yourserver

Only administrators can "talk" to the admin plug-in!