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Managing a number of sites: how can I make things easier?

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    We manage a number of sites for various clients. I am looking for tools to make managing the set of sites easier, starting with an overview of site properties in one place, e.g. have one place to see:

    • What modules are installed on a site?
    • What versions of those modules?
    • What is the size of the various log tables
    • What are error statistics per site?
    • How many users are created on every site?
    • What is the SQL version of the database of the site?
    • When did users log in last?
    • Are there any unauthenticated users?
    • Are there pages and modules in the recycle bin?
    • What are the SEO settings of the various pages in the sites?
    • etc...

    All this info, without going to each site to collect the data...

    We made a start some time ago to develop a scheduled task (installed on each site that we want to monitor) that uses a web service on a central DNN management site to gather some of this info, but it is far from complete and a.t.m. not flexible enough, ie. not easy to extend.

    Any suggestions?






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      If you need all that data from various sites, my first reaction would be to have access. And AFAIK there are 2 solutions that are capable of this:
      https://github.com/cantarus/PolyDeploy
      and
      http://www.dnnadmin.com/

      Now, I don't think that either of these will meet your demands. But ActionGrid will be able to pull all this data and as PolyDeploy is open source, I can imagine you can see what can be done.
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      Growing Member





        PolyDeploy is for roll-out, I just want to gather info, where the application sites are responsible for sending the info the central admin site



        I tried DNNAdmin a year ago back or so and I was not very happy with it.









          We have an exe that allows you to execute sql against all installations on a server, but it's very much an internal tool far from ready for release in the wild TBH





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            Years ago, I was working on a dashboard type service to extract this data, but I got distracted with other things. There have been various efforts to improve some of this, but I don't believe that any true solution exists yet.
            Mitchel Sellers
            Technology Advisory Group Leader
            CEO @ IowaComputerGurus, Inc. a DNN & .NET Solutions Provider
            Technical Blog: MitchelSellers.com





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              It sounds like we all have a similar answer...  I also have a tool we've been working on internally but it's not something that could be put into the wild.  It's helped out a lot with estimates, troubleshooting, and support.

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