Servant: A Web-based IIS management tool

Servant for IIS is a simple and automated Web management tool for managing IIS. The process of installing Servant is very simple. You only need to double-click the batch file Install Servant Service. bat and follow the instructions on the screen. You can access the service directly through a browser or using a smartphone after providing relevant authentication information.

Compared with the common IIS manager, the main new feature of Servant is the browser interface. Currently, you still need to remotely log on to your server or set "IIS manager for remote management" for management. This is difficult for different locations or workstation scenarios. While Servant can be accessed from a browser-without VPN or other software, you only need to access it directly as needed. So this is a very useful IIS extension tool, and the project itself is open source, the author of the project site http://www.jhovgaard.com/,Servant for IIS download URL: http://servant.io /.

1. After the download is complete, uncompress the compressed file and decompress it to C: \ servant-1.1 to execute the Servant. Server program. Remember to use the admin permission to execute the script.Install Servant Service. bat.

2. After starting Servant. Server, you will see the following configuration interface in the browser, mainly to set your IIS host name, login account and password

3. After setting, you will be asked to log on again. At this time, You need to log on with the account and password you set earlier.

4. Many options for IIS configuration and control are not available, which is very simple. Let's continue

5. First, we can create a Web Site for IIS. Some basic settings are available, such as setting the Web Site Name, path, Application Pool version, and IP location.

If it is a virtual directory, open the site and manage it through Applications:

6. The Setting interface of the tool itself is quite simple. It is something that can be configured during the installation and can be configured in Setting later.

7. To manage the Web Site, you only need to stop and restart the Web Site, recycle the Application Pool, and modify some Web Site configurations. This is enough for Web management.

8. Servant helps you immediately track all unhandled exceptions. Servant will provide a site in advance, and then capture the server Event Log, so that you can view all thrown exceptions in this site. Many. NET developers are struggling to find the appropriate exception from the Windows Event Viewer (or installing plug-ins similar to ELMAH. After using Servant, you do not need to worry about these issues.

There is a list of unprocessed exceptions of each WebSite under each WebSite.

The above is probably the use of this tool, which is simple to use. The features of the author's plan are as follows:

• Deployment through Git is allowed (each site can be used directly)
• Multi-server
• Monitors thrown exceptions and provides alarm features
• Server Health Monitoring
• Integrates APIs to enable other services to work with Web servers.

Remember this is an open-source project, you can work together to improve this tool, the code is placed in the https://github.com/jhovgaard/servant