b4 provides IT process automation. Automate processes for servers, workstations and SNMP devices. Create Automation Rules with the innovative b4 Graphical Rules Editor with which complicated IT process automation scripts become simple drag and drop commands. Use a single console to manage, monitor and automate your entire IT infrastructure. Rely on b4 to consistently execute your routine tasks and automatically react when an application has failed to perform or stops running.

AutoMate Business Process Automation (BPA) Server is a multi-tiered platform for Windows automation, meaning it logically separates high-level workflow design from the complexity of building detailed automation routines. It provides centralised control over event-driven automation routines involving one machine or the entire enterprise.

Active Administrator, the comprehensive Active Directory solution from ScriptLogic provides administrators the ability to establish, view and enforce delegated security throughout Active Directory management, perform comprehensive Group Policy management including Group Policy reporting and Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) as well as powerful auditing and reporting of changes within Active Directory.

Active Directory Management involves the delegating, securing, configuring, managing and auditing of changes to Microsoft¿s implementation of LDAP directory services for use in Windows environments. The main purpose of Active Directory is to provide central authentication and authorization services. Active Directory has native tools for basic administration, but, lack enterprise-class management capabilities that give administrators the ability to view, audit and report on the ever-changing state of their Active Directory infrastructure.

DameWare NTU supports Microsoft Windows Network implementations through a dynamic browser tree view. Domain controllers, servers and workstations, as well as non-browseable machines can easily be managed by machine name or IP address after being added to the network browser tree view. DNTU contains several custom tools including the DameWare Mini Remote Control (MRC) program, and supports the use of standard shell property pages and shell context menus.

Examples of DameWare's NT Utilities

Using the NDTU console you can select a sickly Windows Server and view its services, furthermore, you could start or stop a service if that would cure the problem. Another troubleshooting technique is to look for errors in the event logs, or run native Windows tools such as Perfmon.