Misc. network administrator tools

FEATURED: Active Administrator Listing updated: January 23, 2008

The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.

Active Administrator is an Active Directory management and auditing solution that takes over where the management tools supplied with Windows leave off. Active Administrator, the Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.38 [13 votes] - Vote
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Desktop Authority Listing updated: January 1, 2008

Desktop Authority comprehensively manages the Windows desktop throughout the desktop lifecycle, reducing the total cost of desktop and application ownership by enabling administrators to proactively manage, inventory, secure and support desktops from a central location.

With Desktop Authority, you can eliminate logon scripting so you can manage printer deployments, Registry values, drive mappings, application deployment and more from one centralized console.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [3 votes] - Vote
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GFI Network Server Monitor Listing updated: November 13, 2007

GFI Network Server Monitor automatically monitors the network & servers for failures. It allows you to identify issues and fix unexpected conditions before your users (or managers) report them to you! Alerts can be sent by email, pager or SMS, for instant problem notification. Actions, such as rebooting a machine, restarting a service or running a script can be done automatically.

Built-in monitoring rules include: Exchange Server 2000/2003, MS SQL, Oracle and ODBC databases, Active Directory & NTDS, Disk Drive health, TCP, UDP, ICMP/Ping, SMTP & POP3 Mail Servers, Printers, Processes, Services, UNIX Shell Scripts (RSH), SNMP & Terminal Server. You can also write custom monitor functions in VBscript and leverage ADSI and WMI, allowing you to monitor virtually anything.

GFI Network Server Monitor tests the status of a service by actually logging on, testing and logging off, rather than deducing a service status from generated events (as other products do), which is the only real way to ensure server uptime!

GFI Network Server Monitor is easy to set up and use, and is competitively priced. A free, fully functional, 30-day trial is available for download on our website.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.24 [148 votes] - Vote
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LanFlow Net Diagrammer Listing updated: October 26, 2007

LanFlow is a drawing tool for laying out, designing, and documenting a network, LAN, internet, vector or other communications system. Drop in components like computers, workstations, routers, and servers and connect them with lines and cables. Choose components from built-in symbols and clip art or add commonly available clip art formats. Use lines to connect your components and add dashes, curves, arrows or complex combinations for a custom look. Enter descriptive text anywhere, using a grid that helps you keep your work symmetrical and aligned. Contains features like full zoom, OLE connectivity to add your diagrams to other documents, poster printing, graphics import and web page export, automatic routing, flow symbols, and more. Includes simple outline components and a full set of 3D network equipment symbols resembling the standards set by Cisco books and documentation.
  • Users' Rating: 4.9 [21 votes] - Vote
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NetWrix Password Manager Listing updated: September 28, 2007

Gives end users the ability to securely manage their passwords and resolve account lockout incidents in a self-service fashion without involvement of helpdesk personnel. This allows organizations to implement strong password policies in Active Directory environments, to meet regulatory compliance requirements and address identity management challenges.
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Desktop Password Reset Listing updated: September 28, 2007

Gives users the ability to securely manage their local computer passwords and resolve account lockouts in a self-service fashion, without gaining privileged access to computers. The product provides secure password management for computers in disconnected workgroup environments, such as laptops that are not members of the domain.
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Account Lockout Examiner for Powershell Listing updated: September 28, 2007

Account Lockout Examiner for PowerShell is a set of Windows PowerShell cmdlets that lets administrators automate the detection and resolution of account lockouts. Administrators can now identify account lockouts, examine the most likely causes for account lockouts, and unlock accounts directly from scripts developed using the product. The product provides a very simple set of cmdlets in order to simplify the basic aspects of account lockout troubleshooting by leveraging Windows PowerShell (TM).
  • Users' Rating: 4.56 [9 votes] - Vote
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Fastream IQ Reverse Proxy Listing updated: September 5, 2007

Secure your web server with cache, load-balancing, bw limits, configurable NTLM/HTML/HTTP/1.1-digest/basic authentication and 256-bit industry strength SSL/TLS encryption, authentication, bandwidth limiting and load balancing with failover protection as well as GZip acceleration and link translator, anti hot-linking and security for the Windows platform by utilizing multiple CPUs/CPU-core.
  • Users' Rating: 4.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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Service Hawk Listing updated: September 5, 2007

Service Hawk can periodically restart services on a user-defined schedule regardless of their state, ensuring that your services are running smoothly and stay operational. Often a service reports that it is "running" but is in a hung or frozen state. Scheduling an automatic restart is the solution! Tell Service Hawk which services you want to monitor and how frequently and the rest is done for you! Service Hawk will monitor your services and if they happen to go down, Service Hawk will automatically restart them for you. If you choose, you will immediately be notified through either email, alertbox notification, or sound alert so you will be aware of the service failure. Service Hawk also logs the service failure to a log file for you to keep a running history.
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Alter-Ego Listing updated: June 22, 2007

Alter-Ego is a fully automated profile and domain migration system for Microsoft Windows systems. From a centralized console, Alter-Ego is able to simultaneously move PCs between one or more domains or workgroups while migrating user accounts on hundreds or even thousands of workstations! Alter-Ego requires no scripting expertise or desktop visits to install or use.
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