Overview
A primary activity for system integrators is the building of Windows servers with automated techniques. System administrators often have to add necessary troubleshooting tools after-the-fact as opposed to having the tools available when the problem occurs.
The aim of the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit offers a solution to this problem by combining the primary tools used for troubleshooting IIS installations in one single installable package. The tools, although available individually, cover most of the top problems system administrators are faced with. The tools included in this package are the following:
- Authentication and Access Control Diagnostics (AuthDiag) 1.0
- SSL Diagnostics 1.0 (SSLDiag)
- Debug Diagnostics 1.0 (DebugDiag)
- Log Parser 2.2
- SMTP Diagnostics 1.0 (SMTPDiag)
- WFetch 1.4
- Trace Diagnostics (TraceDiag)
Features
The tools featured in this toolkit will help solve problems with your IIS servers in the following areas:
- Security:
- Authentication
- Authorization
- SSL Configuration
- Certificates
- Debugging
- Process rashes
- Process hangs
- Memory leaks
- Email
- DNS configuration failures
- SMTP relay problems
- Log parsing
- Site log files
- HTTP error logs
- Event viewer access
Benefits
The main benefit to a consolidated toolkit is easy of deployment of a suite of tools. This toolkit can enhance your readiness when and if a problem occurs with your Windows and IIS servers.
The combined toolkit can also install just a custom, specified number of applications rather than the entire toolkit.
The primary benefit to the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit over individual packages are the following:
- Simplifies deployment to mutiple production servers
- Supports multiple versions of IIS, including IIS 4, 5, 5.1, and 6.0
Requirements
The IIS Diagnostics Toolkit supports the following Windows operating systems:
- The Diagnostics toolkit works on any 32-bit version including:
- Windows NT 4.0 (reduce feature set availble for most tools)
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2003 R2
- When installing on 64-bit Windows, some tools support 64-bit while others install 32-bit versions (for WoW support)