SVS Admin Enterprise Edition v2.00
Ok, the name Enterprise Edition maybe somewhat overdone, but for our company this is a very valuable tool.
I created it for our helpdesk to manage remote SVS machines.
[Updated to allow you to choose the source of your computerlist and to allow you to export all layers at once or import all layers from the import folder at once. (See the changelog for complete details.)]
Features
It creates a list of the computers in your domain and does have search functionality.
Just click a computername to manage SVS.
Most functions of the standard Admin Console are available.
- Activate
- Deactivate
- Reset
- Rename
- Delete
- Set auto status
- Export/import (local machine only)
It also allows the possibility of alternate credentials, so non-admins can be allowed to manage SVS machines.
Future
Export/import on remote machines is planned for a next version.
Any suggestions to add other functionality are welcome.
Download
You can download it now at: http://k00tje.f-sw.com/
To prevent that the comments wil be a slow chat i ask you kindly to report bug's and suggestions to my e-mail address k00tje@gmail.com
Version control:
V2.00
21-06-2007- Added function to choose the source of your computerlist.
You can now make a choice between
-the "Discovery Services Database" (which i will release soon)
-the Altiris NS server database
-the browselist - Also i have added the possibility to export all layers at once or
import all layers from the import folder at once.
V1.03
04-06-2007- Added option to disable computer enumeration from Active Directory.
V1.02
15-05-2007- Modified "Local machine" button to connect to any machine, computer list can still be used
V1.01
14-05-2007- Removed 1000 computers limit
V1.00
11-05-2007- First release
Comments
How do you...
I think that this is a great idea, and I have been looking for something like this. I have a question: How do you connect to the remote machine?
Thanks,
-trb48
I make connections via the WMI provider
For an example you can checkout this article:
http://juice.altiris.com/node/1376
I agree about the great
I agree about the great tool that you created. I'd like to say how is userful in a company remote computer management.
Thanks
PM
Error message
K00tje, this is a great tool, but i get a error message stating that it cannot initialize, and a serie of numbers.
i use .net 2, and the svs 1.6 beta version.
Do you have some tips for me??
Regards
Erik
www.svs4u.nl
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An additional functionality
An additional functionality could be a menu where discover and filter the network computer list.
I have in my network a long computer list and in the SVS admin there is only the first 1000 computers shown, and the remaining are missing.
Thanks
PM
Good tip
For now i have removed the 1000 computers limit.
(i only have 950 computers in my network, so didn't notice this limit)
This version 1.01 can be downloaded now.
A discovery option takes some more time.
rgds
I tried but still see no
I tried but still see no more than 1000 computers...
Are there any ways to filter the computername or IP address range?
Regards
PM
Please have some patience
It's odd.
In my test lan i created over 1000 computer objects and see them all.
By default the DirectorySearcher returns not more than 1000 objects and i adjusted the code to return it all.
I'm starting soon with a discovery/filter option. In a few days i will put in some sort of option to enter a machine name (as a short term solution)
thnx for your input
SVS 2.1.2069 beta
Hi, i am testing SVS 2.1.2069 beta and SVS Admin Enterprise Edition v1.02 [updated]
can import only to local machine. Fails to import to remote machine with full domain admin user. Is there a log to view the errors in? As the line at the top for the status do not wrap to see the full error.
Regards,
Jaco
computer list
I'm wondering exactly where you are getting the computer list from? I'll just say that I have well over 10,000 devices and the app takes about 5 minutes to come up. Is there any way to limit the list or find out where the device list is coming from? Is it coming from Active Directory?
Computer list comes from AD
Soon i will start with a discovery tool which will run as a service on a separate machine.
My plan is to schedule tasks with it to collect machines and put them in a database which can be read by the admin tool.
A database can be managed in different ways and is therefore a more flexible solution.
10000 machines would be no problem then.
rgds
Computer list comes from AD
I have been getting voice mails from our domain admins regarding me locking out my domain password... This tool tries to log into each device on the domain... i have admin access to the desktops but not to the servers... It would be nice to be able to give it a partial list to query or perhaps an AD OU... Either way, is there a way to pull the workstation list with out "log in"...
Joe
Answer
Prog is NOt connecting to every device in the domain.
It just connects to AD to retrieve a list of all computer objects and put's this in the list.
Just when you click a machine it's connecting to that machine to checkout if SVS is installed.
I have written a big part of the code for a discovery service and will also change the way computers can be retrieved.
But this cost a lot of time, so be patience.
As a quickfix i have added an option in the configure window to disable automatically collect computers from the domain.
You can download this version (1.03) now from my website.
Great Tool
Just wanted to say that this will definitely help our transition to SVS move along much more quickly than it is right now. Keep up the great work.
John
Vista support?
Hi k00tje,
Does this tool happen to detect the svs client installed on Vista machines? I have SVS installed in my test lab on several Vista boxes but when I query it with the SVS AdminEE tool it says that no SVS client is installed. It works great on the XP boxes. I have no plans on deploying out Vista anytime soon but thought I would ask. Thanks.
John
error 1010
I'm getting a error 1010, when i try to import to a remote machine. Tried with a dom.admin account... same error.
anyone had this problem and solved it?
1010 FSL2_ERROR_EXTRACT
A remote import/export is currently not possible.
As soon as i figured out how to manage this i will put this in a next version. I wonder what you did.
With this error i should check the path to the import folder.
Keeps Getting Better
The "Enterprise" tool that keeps getting better everytime, I was wondering when it was going to start being called NCC-1701.......sorry a little Star Trek humor...
Thanks - Tom Fronza
Firewalled
I need to get this through our firewall, but the ports seem to change. What exception do we need to include?
Website address has been changed
Hi All,
Since Juice has been moved to "Connect" i'm not able to update my own articles anymore and Symantec is not responding to my mail :-(
Therefore i do this update in the comments.
My website has been moved to : baars.it
rgds
k00tje we have merged your
k00tje we have merged your previous account with the new user account - you should be able to edit your old articles now. Anytime you need help give me a "ping".
Thanks!
Cheryl
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