Remote administration of WINDOWS2003 servers with Web UI

The Ancients have "in the winning thousands, outside the", that pride must really have a sense of achievement. As a network administrator, the use of the network to manage and maintain the server can be said to be commonplace. So what methods or tools do you use to remotely maintain the server? If your network is based on a Windows 2000/2003 platform, you can easily maintain your Web site with its own web UI (Web user interface).

The Web UI is a Web remote Management service that starts with integration from Windows 2000. With this service, network administrators can manage the common services (such as FTP, Web services, etc.) and common functions (such as managing users and groups) on the server through IE browser on the client. Let's take Windows Server 2003 as an example to talk about how to use the service.

Installing Web UI Remote Administration

The default installation method for IIS6.0 does not install web remote administration and requires us to install it manually. The installation method is summarized as follows:

Open the Add and Remove Programs dialog box in Control Panel, and then click the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the left side of the dialog box. In the Open Windows Components Wizard dialog box, click Internet Information Services (IIS) → details → Web services → details to open the World Wide Web Services dialog box. Then check the remote management (HTML) option and click on the [OK], next step, Finish button to complete the installation.

To ensure normal usage, we also need to make simple settings for Web remote administration in IIS Manager. Click start → Administrative tools →internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, and in the Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, expand the Hostname (local computer) → Web site directory in turn. We can see that this item adds a "administration" option, which is the name of the Web remote administration. Right-click the "Administration" option, execute the "Properties" command, in the Open Administration Properties dialog box, click on the Web Site tab in the "IP address" to the right side of the lower Triangle, point anthology machine IP address. Other options remain in the default settings and click the OK button to make the settings effective. As shown in Figure 1. Finally, close the Organizer window.

Figure 1 Selecting a native IP address

Log on to Web UI remote administration

As long as the client is using a system above Windows 9x, we can log on to the Web UI via ie. Type the following address in IE http://192.x.x.x:8098 to login to the Web Remote administration interface, where "8098" is the port number used by the service, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Web Remote administration interface