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

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EPT
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6/18/2019 11:19 AM

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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6/18/2019 3:19 PM
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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6/19/2019 11:50 AM

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.

Timo Breumelhof Host (SU)
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6/19/2019 11:57 AM
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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6/20/2019 2:12 PM
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.
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6/20/2019 2:56 PM

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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