Server Administration Tools By Nanda Ganesan, Ph.D. © Nanda Ganesan, All Rights Reserved

Accessing Administrative Tools There are different ways of accessing the administrative tools From the the Start menu From the control panel

Start Menu

From the Control Panel

Computer Management An important administrative tool This is the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Snap-ins can be used for additional management options

Management Components Systems Tools Storage Services and Applications

Systems Tools

Event Viewer An important tool that traces the events to locate errors Events –Application –Security –Systems – Important Color code: –Blue: No errors –Yellow: None critical errors –Red: Critical errors

Obtaining More Information On Errors Double click on the error

Error Logs Error logs can be cleared and stored

Hardware Resources Resources used by the hardware can be examined One application would be to resolve interrupt conflicts

Performance Logs and Alerts Monitor the performance of the sever An example would be to monitor the performance of virtual memory

Virtual memory monitoring.

Shared Folders More features are available for managing shared folders

Shares Administrative shares are marked by a dollar sign Administrative shares are available only to the administrators Other shared are available to those with the permission to access and use the folder contents

Stopping the Sharing A share can be stopped It is not a good practice to stop administrative shares

Device Manager Very useful tool for troubleshooting and managing server hardware Example: –Troubleshooting and/or browsing a NIC

Typical Resources Used by NIC I/O Range Memory Range IRQ

Creating and Managing Users Users and groups can be managed by this option Local users are created and managed in a non-Active Directory environment Management of users are more sophisticated in an Active Directory environment

Storage Management An important issue in server management

Storage Management Options

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