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Centralise Windows administration with Hyena

Scott Lowe Tech Republic

Published: 14 May 2003 12:12 BST

Expanding the Ralph entry results in a number of serviceable entries, including disks, local connections, services, scheduled jobs, and events, as shown in Figure B. Notice the expanded Services option, which provides a list of services that can be managed.

Figure B

Hyena can handle a whole host of services.

Right-clicking on any machine in Hyena and choosing Properties from the shortcut menu provides a variety of information about that system (Figure C).

This information isn't as easily gathered using other Windows utilities. For example, perhaps you want to know if a particular machine is acting in a browser role for the domain or workgroup. In Figure C, you can see that besides being a domain controller, Ralph is also a time source and the master browser for the domain.

Figure C

What is your server doing today?

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