Hyena Screenshots

Hyena is the tool to use instead of the built-in Windows administration tools to manage a medium to large Windows NT or Windows 2000 / 2003 network, which can be a quite challenge. Add multiple domains, hundreds or thousands of servers, workstations, and users, and before you know it, things can get out of hand.

Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration.

This functionality inb Hyena is provided in a single, centralized, easy to use product. Used today by more than 300.000 system administrators worldwide, Hyena is the one tool that every administrator cannot afford to be without.

Exporter Pro is included with Hyena and is a standalone component of Hyena that supports the creation of exported delimited text output files of:

• Computers
• Users
• Groups
• Printers
• Shares
• Services
• Disk space
• Scheduled tasks
• Network configuration
• Registry
• Active Directory information

The simple and easy interface, is still better and faster for all daily management tasks than any other tools on the market - at any price.

Hyena's disk space view provides for a simple yet powerful overview of the disk space information for any server or workstation. Moreover, this same view can also be used on multiple computers at the same time, providing a fast and efficient way to monitor disk space across many computers.

The disk space functions do not require any server agents to be installed, and can be customized for a variety of server configurations, including some non-Windows platforms.

As with all disk views, Hyena provides full access to the Explorer shell under both Windows NT and Windows 2000. Hyena's settings can be configured to display disk space information in a variety of formats. And as always, this information can be copied to the clipboard, exported to delimited text files, or viewed on one of Hyena's many Microsoft Access-based reports.

In addition to integration with the Windows NT/2000 native Event Viewer and MMC, Hyena also incorporates its own more powerful event viewing mechanism. Any server or workstation event log can be accessed in Hyena through the computer's context-menu.Ê Hyena also supports advanced event viewing capabilities, as shown on the image below, including:

Viewing any event log for more than one computer at the same time.
Filtering events by date/time range, event ID, event type, category, description text, user/group, or source.
Full support for event log clearing and backup.
Viewing of any previously saved event backup (.evt) file.
Full support for new Windows 2000 event logs.
Sorting support on any event column in the view window.
Customizable event display.

Most of the features in Windows NT and Windows 2000 are controlled by services, some of which operate under different logon accounts. Stopping and starting services remotely and changing service startup accounts and passwords can become time consuming. Performing these actions on a large set of computers can become a maintenance nightmare.Ê Hyena can manage services on any number of computers at the same time, plus perform service control and startup changes in mass.
Fast viewing and sorting of all service properties on any computer
Service control: start, stop, pause, continue, and restart
View service dependencies
Service installation on multiple computers
Service removal
Modify service properties
Control services on multiple computers at the same time
Change service startup information, including password, on multiple computers
Remote viewing of device drivers
Full support for Windows 2000 service features, including Recovery options

As a Windows NT or Windows 2000 installation grows, so do the number of printers that are installed on print servers and individual workstations.
Unfortunately, the native tools on Windows NT/2000 are not very good at managing remote printers. Hyena was designed to overcome many of these limitations, and give system administrators and help desk staff better control over printers and print jobs.

As the image below shows, Hyena can display any printer, even non-shared printer, installed on any computer or server. Hyena´s printer and job management functions include:

Listing printer information
Access to printer properties dialogs and desktop shell functions
Adding new remote printers (Windows 2000 only)
Viewing all print jobs from one or more printers at the same time with automatic refresh
Full print job control: pause, resume, restart, cancel
Full printer control: pause, resume, purge all print jobs
Deleting (removing) printers
Copying printer information from one computer to another

Hyena can display the standard shell property pages for all Active Directory objects. In the image at left, the new Domain Properties dialog is shown, which is the same standard property page for domain objects used by MMC.

This high degree of Active Directory integration gives Hyena several advantages:

Familiar interface for management of object properties as found in MMC snapins.

100% compatibility and functionality.
Improved support and functionality when user has restricted/delegated rights.
Access to Security dialog for complete management of Active Directory object security.
Increased support for more objects, including Active Directory shares and printers.