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Computer Management

Securely manage and automate your IT resources.

NetXed assists IT staff in monitoring, maintaining, updating and automating your computers. Using the NetXed suite of products, you can:

  • Track and manage installation and maintenance of hardware and software aspects of your business.
  • Define and schedule tasks on any computer in the network.
  • Allow remote connectivity with integerated domain security.
  • Find and convert data even if you do not know exactly where it is.

These features grouped with the other funtions of NetXed enable your staff to effectively and efficiently allow your business to automate anything, anywhere.


Management and automation of the network

A central management console lets you see, manage or connect to computers in your network easily.

  • Reports of both the master database and audit data can be created easily and exported to other formats such as Excel or PDF.
  • Central network management console to provide and maintain multiple views of the network.
  • Conncurrent connections to multiple remote computers.
  • Reports on all computers in the network including information in an audit file.
  • Task definitions, scripts and connection files are encrypted so they can be distributed securely.
  • Create and maintaining multiple views of the network.
  • Macros to perform multi-step jobs on multiple computers.

With NetXed an operator can connect to multiple remote computers, create and run tasks, develop new task definitions and other aspects of computer administration.

Scheduling and remote connectivity

NetXed includes a console function that can be used by support personnel in the field. The console is available the the central management console, but a command mode version is available from any computer running NetXed.

A scheduling and remote control program includes comprehensive, secure task definition and scheduling. In addition, a console capability enables connection to a computer from the remote console program. There is also a command line console interface available from any computer to connect to any other computer. NetXed provides the following features.

  • All definition scripts encrypted
  • Periodic, event driven or on-demand task scheduling
  • Task sequencing, even between Windows programs
  • Extensive remote console operations
  • Copy files directly from any computer
  • Integrated Microsoft Domain and internal security authentication
Consolidating and managing computer audit information

NetXed includes audit/conversion capability to facilitate remote management of computers. With simple definition scripts, extensive information about a computer's hardware and software environment can be extracted. Audit information includes:

  • Standard set of hardware and software audit functions
  • Query any Registry key, optionally all subkeys, with selective search criteria
  • Find files or search directory trees and optionally return version information
  • Selectively extract content from any text or INI file
  • Extract properties of Windows shortcuts in directory trees
  • Provides information about hardware, software, system configuration, users, even running processes.

A powerful conversion feature is combined with auditing capability is included. Most information that NetXed can find in files, shortcut properties or the Registry, it can convert. For example, if a new server is put into a network with some network resources moved to it, NetXed can find and replace the server name in drive mappings, shortcuts, network printer paths, etc. Since NetXed can search entire directory or Registry trees, you do not need to know ahead of time everywhere the server name is on the system.

NetXed allows you to gather or convert system and configuration information about computers running Windows 9X/ME, NT4.0, Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003 and write the information to an audit file. The central management console quickly converts audit files into database tables for analysis and reporting. Features include:

  • Combine information into a master database and multiple audit dBs.
  • Requires no setup or supporting programs
  • Can be run from a central server
  • Configurable audit options and output file
  • No end user interface (silent)
  • Powerful conversion capabilities
Software updates fully automated and on demand

NetXed is designed to efficiently update and manage software on workstations attached to a LAN (Local Area Network) or WAN (Wide Area Network). Updates can be centrally created and administered, then automatically applied to any number of computers in the network, including 'lock down' machines. Features include:

  • Supports 32-bit for Windows 9X/ME/NT/W2K/XP/Server 2003
  • Updates different types of computers differently with a single update
  • Future date updates
  • Redo the last update
  • View and/or rerun multiple historical updates
  • Runs from server or workstation
  • Modify files, Registry settings, or Windows shortcuts
  • Launch external programs in timed sequence
  • Programmatic control in updates
  • User interface messages and/or input
  • Embedded Zip and Encryption
  • Integrated with Microsoft Domain Security to execute under administrative credentials

Security

NetXed implements security on several levels.

Tasks and Computer security

All tasks definitions and associated credentials are stored encrypted on the computers and must be distributed in encrypted files. You can use embedded encryption keys or define private passphrases for your own implementation of NetXed.

NetXed includes tight integration with Microsoft domain security so that Admin domain credentials can be defined and securely stored. NetXed can then execute functions under a domain credential with sufficient authority to perform the tasks.

Authenticate console connections

NetXed includes internal credentials for support personnel to access remote computers. All credentials are store encrypted on the computers. Personnel with a NetXed console credential can initiate connections from any computer to any computer configured to authenticate that credential.

Zypt (Zip & Encrypt)

NetXed includes standard Zip compression, with or without encryption, PLUS a separate layer of encryption (called NetXed encryption). With standard Zip files, even if the files are encrypted anyone with a compatible program (WinZip, PKZip, etc.) can see what files are in the Zip and even add or replace files. With NetXed's double-encryption the zip file is secure. Several of the NetXed programs support the zipping and encryption capability.

For example, the database utility can extract information from a data source directly to a doubly-encrypted zip file. The data is never in the clear, not even in a temporary work file.

Scripts and Connection Information

One of the long outstanding issues with distributed computing has been security for the information needed to support the distributed functions. NetXed solves this by encrypting virtually all sensitive information. This includes connection files for database and FTP functions, task definition, scripts for software updates, database tasks or file management.

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