Hyena Tech.-Info

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

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


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• Exchange and CITRIX

- and much more, in one easy interface