Hyena Tech.-Info

Windows NT and Windows 2000 contain several facilities for tracking events and statistics for nearly everything that happens on your network. Unfortunately, the built-in administration tools don't provide an easy way to centrally collect, monitor, or analyze this information. The following products are designed to help manage events on multiple systems, including monitoring your system, and reporting/alerting on particular events.

Hyena supports both direct access to the native Windows NT and Windows 2000 event viewers, as well as its own customizable event viewer. Hyena's reporting capabilities, and its multi-computer event scanning and viewing features provide for an easy and fast way to manage both Windows NT and Windows 2000 event logs from the same application

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. 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.


• Full support for new Windows 2000 event logs.


• Sorting support on any event column in the view window.


• Customizable event display.

Both Windows NT and Windows 2000 have built-in job scheduling systems, designed to run scheduled tasks at predetermined times. Unfortunately, the native system administration tools do not provide an easy way for administrators to view or management remotely scheduled jobs. Hyena overcomes this limitation by providing easy access to any scheduled job on any Windows NT or Windows 2000 server or workstation.

• Hyena's job scheduling functions support:


• Viewing all scheduled jobs on one or more computers at the same time.


• Automatic detection of remote computer job scheduling interface: AT or Windows Task Scheduler.


• Adding, modifying, or deleting scheduled jobs. New jobs can be scheduled for immediate execution, or for any valid day-of-week or day-of-month combination.


• Scheduling a job to run on multiple computers at the same time, with logging options and customizable job intervals.

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.

Hyena can display any printer, even non-shared printer, installed on any computer or server. Hyena's printer and job 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 and cancel.


• Full printer control: pause, resume, purge all print jobs.


• Deleting (removing) printers.


• Copying printer information from one computer to another.

• Easiest user interface


• Downloaded, Installed and configured within 5 minutes


• Used by more than 300.000 systemadministrators worldwide

• Users


• Printers


• Events


• Disks


• Registry


• Services


• Shares


• Performance


• Open Files


• Disk Space


• Current Logons


• Exchange and CITRIX

- and much more, in one easy interface

Hyena provides full support for Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units, directory searching, universal groups, management of object properties, security auditing, and other AD mixed and native mode features.

Hyena adds a new Windows 2000 domain object class. When a Windows 2000 domain is expanded in Hyena's tree window, additional sub-objects are displayed, specifically: Containers/OUs, All Users, All Groups, Global Groups, Local Groups, and Universal Groups objects. All management of the display of Active Directory objects are handled entirely by LDAP queries to Active Directory.

Organizational Units (OUs) are fully supported, both for browsing OU contents, as well as for creating new users, groups, contacts, and computer objects directly into an OU.  A powerful Find feature is available for any OU, allowing selectable criteria for finding and filtering AD information.  OU properties are also available, including full support for management of Group Policy Object (GPO) information.

• Hyena's OU Filtering Bar provides for powerful object filtering when browsing the contents of any OU, including traversing into sub-OUs.



• Hyena is the only product that supports customizable Active Directory queries at every object level.  Define your own queries, or use any of the predefined queries to display custom "views" of exactly what directory attributes you want to see for organizational units, users, groups, or computers.



• Hyena supports the use of the standard shell property pages for management of many Active Directory objects, providing for full MMC-like functionality, while still providing Hyena's legendary ease-of-use and navigation.  Hyena also supports the display of the shell context menu for most directory objects, providing access to popular Microsoft functions such as Exchange Tasks for email-enabled objects, as well as 3rd-party shell extensions.



• Active Directory administrators know how difficult it can be to keep track of delegated security rights.  Hyena makes keeping track of this much easier with Active Directory Security Listing views.



• Hyena provides access to the standard Microsoft Active Directory "Find" dialog, but add two important features: The selection criteria can be saved for future or external use, and the objects that are found can be returned to Hyena for further management tasks.



• Hyena supports management of Exchange 2000 mailboxes: mailbox creation, deletion, and property modification can all be easily controlled in Hyena's powerful GUI.



• As always, Hyena's output window, including any Active Directory displays, can be easily exported or integrated into Hyena's built-in Microsoft Access database.