System Manager

Installation

First make sure that you have the .NET 2.0 Framework installed by visiting Microsoft’s .NET page

You can either download the System Manager install package and install manually, or install directly from the installation site (sorry Firefox users, this is an IE-only) feature.

Overview

System Manager places an icon in your system tray that, when right-clicked, provides you with shortcuts for managing single system services, or batched service commands – called Service Groups – so you can switch quickly between development engines and services.

Controlling Single Services

System Manager lets you pick and choose individual services to manage quickly via its context menu. Each service you choose will appear in the menu with an assigned letter [A-Z]. When you activate the tray icon’s menu by right-clicking on the icon, you can simply type in the letter of the corresponding service and then type ‘S’ to start it, ‘T’ to stop it, or ‘R’ to restart it.

Controlling Service Groups

You can create a batch of service actions to perform and assign them to a Service Group. Once defined, Service Groups, like single services, are assigned a number in the System Manage context menu. All you do is right-click the tray icon and type in the corresponding number and all of the commands fire off in sequence.

Interactive Tutorial

Watch the tutorial movie by clicking on the image to the left for a quick guide on how to operate System Manager. It’s certainly not difficult to operate, but the movie gives a good overview of how to manage it.