Administration tools / Ping & trace utils

FEATURED: ManageEngine ADManager Plus Listing updated: May 31, 2007

ManageEngine ADManager Plus is a comprehensive web-based solution aimed to meet the growing needs of Active Directory Management. The product, with its ease-of-use, intuitive UI, eliminates the need of using command line tools and scripts to manage the Active Directory. Highlighted features include, creation/modification of users,contacts and group using templates or importing from CSV files, employee self-service portal, end-to-end reporting solution with more than 100 pre-defined reports. Some significant reports include Inactive Users/Computers, Disabled Users, Account Expired Users, Locked Out, Password Reports, Exchange Reports, GPO Reports, Group Reports, OU Reports, Computer reports, NTFS etc.

Help Desk Delegation feature allows Administrators to assign Help Desk Technicians who can attend tickets like reset passwords, create users, unlock users, move computers/users, modify general properties etc.
  • Users' Rating: 4.71 [14 votes] - Vote
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Engineer’s Toolset Listing updated: November 12, 2009

SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset includes a collection of powerful network management tools, all of which can be easily accessed through an innovative Workspace Studio to quickly resolve issues right from your desktop. With the Workspace Studio, you can organize your tools to tackle troubleshooting challenges and then recall that workspace with a click when you need it – saving valuable set-up time. And shared credential management saves even more time as you switch easily between the tools you need without re-entering credentials.

Take control of your day and your network with powerful, timesaving features, including: Monitor and alert in real time on network availability and health with tools including Real-Time Interface Monitor, SNMP Real-Time Graph, and Advanced CPU Load. Perform robust network diagnostics for troubleshooting and quickly resolving complex network issues with tools such as Ping Sweep, DNS Analyzer, and Trace Route. Deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper, and Advanced Subnet Calculator. Manage Cisco devices with specialized tools including Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, Config Downloader, and Config Compare.
  • Users' Rating: 4.65 [20 votes] - Vote
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GFI Network Server Monitor Listing updated: April 8, 2009

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 [152 votes] - Vote
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ipMonitor Listing updated: March 27, 2009

ipMonitor delivers availability monitoring so that you always know what’s happening with your applications, servers, and network devices. With a built-in database and Web server, you don’t need to install anything but ipMonitor.

ipMonitor simplifies network management by: Discovering IP-based network devices and automatically recommending monitoring settings for each device; Performing monitoring of Active Directory, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, FTP, Web, IMAP, MS SQL Server, SMTP, and more; Monitoring end-user experience with synthetic transactions; and more...

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  • Users' Rating: 4.34 [65 votes] - Vote
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Active Directory Janitor Listing updated: February 2, 2009

When Active Directory has been in use for a while you will have a growing problem with old user and computer accounts that do not correspond to real physical users or computers anymore. With Active Directory Janitor you can search the entire network to identify these accounts. You can then decide, from a number of criteria, which ones that are outdated and finally delete, disable or move them.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.7 [10 votes] - Vote
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Hyena Listing updated: February 2, 2009

Using the built-in Windows administration tools to manage a medium to large Windows NT or Windows 2000/2003 network can be a challenge. Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. Hyena uses an Explorer-style interface for all operations, including right mouse click pop-up context menus for all objects. Management of users, groups, shares, domains, computers, services, devices, events, files, printers and print jobs, sessions, open files, disk space, user rights, messaging, exporting, job scheduling, processes, and printing are all supported. In addition to supporting standard Windows system management functions, Hyena also includes extensive Active Directory integration. In fact, Hyena can be used on any Windows NT/2000/XP client to manage any Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 installation.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.92 [37 votes] - Vote
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DameWare NT Utilities Listing updated: February 2, 2009

DameWare NT Utilities is an enterprise system management application for Windows NT/2000/XP, which provides an integrated collection of Microsoft Windows NT administration utilities incorporating a centralized interface for remote management of Windows NT/2000/XP Servers and Workstations. User management for Microsoft Exchange and Windows Terminal Server support is available from the Users view. All of the standard Windows NT/2000 Server and Windows NT/2000/XP Workstation utilities are included, along with many DameWare NT Utilities custom NT tools including Mini Remote Control.

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  • Users' Rating: 4.53 [92 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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Domain Administration Tool Listing updated: December 27, 2007

The Domain Administration Tool is a Windows system tool you can use to manage security, servers, networks and workstations. With the Domain Administration Tool you can: - Select the domain or domains to be administered - Get an overview of your domain - Manage users' accounts and groups - Manage servers - Report on your networks - Reports on file usage In- and export this information for professional management of your infrastructure - Combined changes on users - Information on indirect group memberships - Dumps in multiple forms of user-rights - Comprehensive overview of server properties, expandable with personal columns - RAS property management from the same tool - Finding last logon date and number of logon's through your entire domain - Importing and Exporting Domain Information / Settings...

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  • Users' Rating: 3 [7 votes] - Vote
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MetaLAN Listing updated: July 23, 2007

MetaLAN is a tool for Windows network administrators and support staff. MetaLAN allows administrators to Remote Control, wakeup, shutdown, report on hardware and software, registry manipulation, kill errant processes on Windows servers and workstations. Track installed software for license requirements. Make informed decisions on hardware upgrade requirements and support your business case with reports. Find what computers a user is logged onto. Export data to CSV HTML reports or view reports in MetaLAN itself.

Features: Remote Control; Process Control; Wake On LAN (WOL); Shutdown Tool; WMI Tool; Health monitor; Reporting on hardware and Software; Standalone or Server modes; Search and modify registries in real time; Export of data to CSV and HTML; Centralized access to windows management tools
  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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