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Features Summary

This page includes a summary of features in the NetXed suite. Please refer to specific pages listed on the NetXed home page for more detailed information.


Computer Management

  • Computer Management Console with:
    • Unlimited views of the network
    • Fast, low-bandwidth connections to multiple computers concurrently
    • Copy files to and from remote computers
    • Powerful reporting on computers and audit information
    • Process audit information into the database
    • Macro Manager to perform multi-step jobs on multiple computers
    • Zip and encrypt
  • Perform scheduled and on-demand updates to some or all computers
  • Scheduled and on-demand task management with sequencing, integrated security, remote task execution and much more. Computers/Servers can execute tasks on remote computers as part of a task sequence.
  • Simple but powerful auditing of computers
    • Hardware, OS, IPAddress, memory, etc.
    • Users, programs, files, INI settings
    • Configuration, printers, Registry, processes
    • Convert what it can find

Enterprise Reporting

  • Support reporting for any department, office, store, application, data, etc.
  • Browser-based report requests and distribution.
  • Output reports in PDF, XLS or RPT formats
  • Organize reports by class under flexible menus
  • Control what users can request which reports
  • Control the scope of information users can request for a report
  • Personal end-user lists of requested reports by class managed automatically by the system.
  • Information does not need to be moved to a central database. Only the finished report, not data, is moved across the network.
  • Report templates created using Crystal Reports®

Data-enabled Web Forms

  • Quick to create browser-based forms
  • Forms can be organized by class under flexible menus.
  • Security controls what users can access which forms.
  • Personal end-user lists of completed forms by class automatically managed by the system.
  • Review of completed forms by the author or via a URL that can be emailed to other parties. Security ensures only those authorized to view a form can access the form on review.
  • Forms created from a field definition library to minimize effort
  • Rich control set including static or query-based select lists, option buttons, checkboxes, single and multi-line text fields, calculations, cascading views, much more
  • Preprocess and postprocess functions to integrate with existing data.
  • Forms can initiate processes on the end-user's computer for process automation.
  • All submitted form data stored in easy to utilize database tables.

Software Updates

  • Scheduled, event-driven, or on demand updates.
  • Silent or interactive updates
  • Option to run from an Admin context for locked-down users
  • Update history with rerun capability
  • Automatic tracking and make-up of missed updates
  • Rich scripting capability
    • Simple to create user dialogs with many controls including file and folder browse buttons, message and confirmation boxes, etc.
    • Read/write the Registry
    • Create/modify shortcuts
    • Read/write text files with surgical string manipulation
    • Launch and optionally wait for external programs, including Windows programs.
    • Programmatic commands, variables, routines, etc. for simple to complex scripting.
    • Pre-defined variables for datestamp, timestamp, OS version, current path
  • Future date updates
  • Integrated Zip and encrypt
  • Define different "types" of computers to allow one script to update the computers differently.

Database Automation

  • Perform database operations on any remote computer
  • Sequenced multi-task jobs
  • Move data between any two data sources
    • Databases
    • Delimited files
    • Fixed format files
    • XML using simple, intuitive syntax to read or create multi-level XML files.
  • Exectue any SQL operation including update queries, schema changes, stored procedures, etc.
  • Zip and optionally encrypt data directly from database tables to an encrypted zip file.
  • Connection information stored in encrypted files
  • Optionally encrypt task definition files
  • Dynamic (DSN-less) connections for any database supported by Microsoft's MDAC.
  • Connect to any supported database via ODBC and a DSN.
  • Set run-time options by passing variables on the command line.

File Management

  • Comprehensive file handling including:
    • Copy
    • Move
    • Delete (remove files)
    • Clean (remove files and folders)
    • List files found
    • Synchronize recurisve directories
    • Rename including prefix, suffix, and auto-increment
  • Combine many criteria to control file operations:
    • File masks
    • File modified date including date arithmetic
    • Options for recursion, overwrite, recreate folders, relative paths, read-only
    • Create lists of files acted on
  • Sequenced multi-task jobs
  • Zip and encrypt files
  • FTP files with connection information stored in encrypted files.

Security

  • Tightly integrated with Microsoft Domain security
  • All sensitive configuration information stored encrypted
  • Connection files are encrypted
  • Script definition files optionally encrypted
  • Capability to execute in different contexts including a configurable "RunFrom" mode for locked-down users.
  • Console and socket connections require special logins
  • Zip capability supports clear files, standard strong zip encryption and optional reencryption of the encrypted zip file so 3rd party zip programs cannot see, add or delete files.
  • Private passphrases

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