Feature Matrix

Automise Professional gives System Administrators the tools for automating IT processes in corporate Windows environments.

The features included in Automise are detailed below:

Features Professional
IDE Features
Easy to use and powerful GUI tick
Hierarchical logging to database tick
Debugging (Watches, Breakpoints, etc) tick
Integrated ActiveScript tick
Run projects in IDE or on command line tick
Schedule projects tick
ActionStudio tick
Run multiple actions in parallel tick
Set and change project edit password tick
Action Studio Features Professional
Develop actions in .NET, VBScript, JScript tick
Property Page designer tick
Script editor tick
Integrated help tick
Actions Professional
Archiver actions tick
CD/DVD burner actions tick
Files & Directory actions tick
GUI Automation Actions tick
Interactive actions tick
Internet actions tick
Iterator actions tick
Miscellaneous actions tick
PsTools actions tick
String and Path Manipulation actions tick
Actions operating on Variables tick
Windows Adminstration actions tick
XML actions tick
Database actions tick
Flow control actions tick
PDF & Image manipulation actions tick
Registry and INI actions tick
Windows Installer & MSI actions tick
Windows OS actions tick
.NET Tool actions tick
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IIS Actions tick
FTPS Actions tick
EC2 Actions tick
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) actions tick
NTFS Junction points actions tick
SFTP Actions tick
System Restore points tick
Stack & Queue actions tick
Virtualization Software actions tick

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Complete Action List

Actions Operating on Variables Professional
Set Variable tick
If Variable Defined tick
Reset Variable to Default tick
Define Variable tick
Save Variables to INI file tick
Load Variables from INI file tick
Append to Variable tick
Log Variable Values tick
Archiver Actions Professional
Create Zip File tick
Extract Zip File tick
Pack files with WinRAR [ WinRAR] tick
Create Archive (7z, Zip, Gzip, BZip2, Tar) tick
Test Archive (7z, Zip, Gzip, BZip2, Tar) tick
Extract Archive (7z, Zip, Gzip, BZip2, Tar, RAR, RPM, CAB, CPIO, DEB, Split) tick
Update Archive (7z, Zip, Gzip, BZip2, Tar) tick
List Archive (7z, Zip, Gzip, BZip2, Tar, RAR, RPM, CAB, CPIO, DEB, Split) tick
Delete from Archive (7z, Zip, Gzip, BZip2, Tar) tick
CD/DVD Burning Actions Professional
Burn CD/DVD tick
Create ISO tick
Burn ISO tick
Check Ready tick
Erase CDRW/DVDRW tick
File & Directory Actions Professional
File Dependency tick
Check if File Exists tick
Create Directory tick
Delete Directory tick
Move Directory tick
Copy Files tick
Delete Files tick
Move Files tick
Set File Attributes tick
Touch Files tick
Concatenate Files tick
Rename File or Directory tick
Read Text File tick
Create Text File tick
Write to Text File tick
Text Replace tick
XCopy [ MSDN] tick
Authenticode File tick
Extract Version Info tick
Robocopy [ Robust File Copy Utility] tick
Run Robocopy Job tick
Robocopy Move tick
Robocopy Mirror tick
Copy/Move File List tick
Calculate File CRC32 tick
Calculate File MD5 tick
Beyond Compare [ Scooter Software] tick
Araxis Compare Files [ Araxis] tick
Araxis Compare Folders [ Araxis] tick
Get File Date tick
GUI Actions Professional
Wait for Window or Control tick
Perform Mouse Click tick
Perform Mouse Move tick
Send Keyboard Input tick
Set Scrollbar Position tick
Interactive Actions Professional
Ask Question tick
Prompt for Variables tick
Multi Question tick
Prompt for File or Directory tick
Prompt for Variables (Enhanced) tick
Beep tick
MessageBox tick
InputBox tick
Internet Actions Professional
Send Email (SMTP) tick
Telnet Client tick
HTTP Get File tick
WGet [Multiple HTTP Get] tick
Web Service tick
Web Service Iterator tick
Send ICQ Message tick
Send MSN Message tick
NNTP News Post tick
FTP Connect tick
FTP Upload File tick
FTP Download File tick
FTP Change Directory tick
FTP Change Up Directory tick
FTP Get Remote Directory tick
FTP List Directory tick
FTP Get File Size tick
FTP Create Directory tick
FTP Delete Directory tick
FTP Delete File tick
FTP Rename File tick
FTP No-op tick
FTP Wait for File tick
FTP Check if Connected tick
FTP Disconnect tick
FTP Client (Deprecated) tick
Iterator Actions Professional
File Contents Iterator tick
File Iterator tick
Folder Iterator tick
List Iterator tick
Ini File Iterator tick
WMI Process Iterator tick
XML Node Iterator tick
Miscellaneous Actions Professional
Comment tick
Action Group tick
Export Log File tick
Save Automise Project tick
Run Script tick
Get Date/Time tick
Text Find tick
PSTools Actions Professional
PsLogList (List event logs) tick
PsInfo (View System Information) tick
PsSuspend (Suspend/Resume Process) tick
PsGetSID (Security ID Info) tick
PsFile (List/Close Remote Open Files) tick
PsKill (Kill Process) tick
PsList (List Processes) tick
PsLoggedOn (Logged on users) tick
PsShutdown (Shutdown computer) tick
PsService (Service Manager) tick
String and Path Manipulation Actions Professional
String Trimming tick
String Casing tick
String Encryption tick
String Quoting tick
String Padding tick
String Concatenation tick
Path Manipulation tick
String Reverse tick
String SubString tick
String Replace tick
String Add Breaks tick
Windows Administration Actions Professional
Create Share - creates a new network share on the local machine or remote machine tick
Remove Share tick
Find Share - can find a share with particular properties, and various behaviour options if share is found or not tick
Activate Windows tick
Update Windows tick
Manage Printer - allows pausing, resuming, printing a test page, setting as default printer, and renaming the specified printer on the local or remote machine tick
Manage Print Jobs - allows pausing, resuming, changing priorities, and removing print jobs tick
List Hot Fixes - can list hot fixes to file or variable tick
Is Hot Fix Installed - queries for a particular hot fix tick
System Information tick
Backup tick
Empty Recycle Bin - includes logging each file deleted tick
Is Recycle Bin Empty - can fail if recycle bin is not empty, and can get the list of files and total size taken by the files tick

System Information

The System Information action can retrieve information from the local or a remote machine. The system information includes: Operating System, Hot Fixes, Installed Applications, Codecs, Processes, Services, Startup Programs, Environment Variables, Processor, BIOS, Memory, Plug and Play Devices, Network Adapters, Network Shares, Video Adapters, Displays, Disk Drives, Partitions and Printers. The selected information can be output to a file or variable.

Backup

The Backup action can perform an automated system backup to disk or tape. The action also includes the following backup types:

  • Normal,
  • Copy,
  • Differencial,
  • Incremental, and
  • Daily.
XML Actions Professional
Transform XML tick
Merge XML tick
Extract XML Fragment tick
Edit XML File tick
Validate XML tick
Delete XML Nodes tick
Read XML Value to Variable tick
XML Node Iterator tick
Create XML Node tick
Altova DiffDog [ Altova] tick
Database Actions Professional
ADO Execute SQL tick
ADO Execute Stored Procedure tick
ADO Dataset Iterator tick
MSSQL Execute SQL tick
MSSQL DTSRun tick
SQL Server Backup DB tick
SQL Server Remove Unused Space tick
SQL Server Check DB tick
SQL Server Check Catalogue tick
SQL Server Update DB Statistics tick
SQL Server Rebuild Indexes tick
SQL Best Practices Analyzer tick
SQL Server Restore Database tick
SQL Server Set Access Mode tick
Flow Control Actions Professional
ASync Action Group tick
If .. Then tick
Else tick
If Prev Action Failed tick
Switch tick
Case tick
Delay tick
While Loop tick
For Loop tick
Stop Build tick
Run Action List tick
Exit Action List tick
Include FinalBuilder Project tick
Raise Exception tick
Error Handling
Try tick
Catch tick
Finally tick
End tick
Wait for...
Wait for File tick
Wait for Script Result tick
Wait for Process tick
Wait for Variable tick
Wait for Remote Computer tick
Wait Until (specific time/day) tick
Wait for INI File tick
Wait for Registry tick
Wait for Command tick
Wait for File on FTP Site tick
Actions Professional
PDF actions
PDF Merge Files - merges two PDF files into one tick
Convert to PDF - converts RTF files to PDF tick
PDF Insert Text - inserts html formatted text at a X,Y location in a PDF file tick
Convert PDF - converts a PDF file to HTML, Excel, Bitmap, XHTML, Jpeg, EMF, RTF, Text or TIFF tick
Image manipulation actions*
Rotating tick
Flipping tick
Mirroring tick
Resizing tick
Converting to another format tick
JPEG lossless transform tick
Stack/Queue Iterator tick

*The types of image files supported are:

  • JPEG (*.jpg),
  • Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif),
  • Tagged Image File Format (*.tiff),
  • Portable Network Graphics (*.png) and
  • Bitmaps (*.bmp)

Registry and INI File Actions Professional
Read INI file tick
Write INI file tick
Save Variables to INI File tick
Load Variables from INI File tick
PropertySet load from INI File tick
PropertySet save to INI file tick
INI file iterator tick
Wait for INI File tick
Read Registry Value tick
Set Registry Value tick
Delete Registry Value tick
Export Registry Key tick
PropertySet load from Registry tick
PropertySet save to Registry tick
Wait for Registry tick
Windows Installer Actions Professional
Windows Installer - Install (allows specifying properties and values) tick
Windows Installer - Uninstall (by MSI file or application name) tick
Windows Installer - Reinstall tick
Windows Installer (MSI)
MSI Update Properties - update properties inside an MSI tick
MSI Merge - merge and update into the Base MSI tick
MSI Transform - generate MSI transform files or apply transforms to existing MSI databases tick
MSI Validation - perform an Internal Consistency Evaluation (ICE) on an MSI database tick
MSI Generic - modify an existing MSI database file using standard SQL statement against the internal tables tick
Windows OS Actions Professional
Execute Program tick
Run DOS Command tick
Windows Exists tick
Register DLL/OCX tick
Subst Drive tick
Send Net Message tick
Get Disk Free Space tick
ShellExecute tick
Close Process tick
If COM Class Registered tick
Map Network Drive tick
Unmap Network Drive tick
Rasdial VPN / Remote Network Connection tick
Create Shortcut tick
Generate new GUID tick
Control NT Service tick
Windows Scheduling
Schedule Add tick
Schedule Delete tick
Schedule List tick
WMI Actions
WMI Run Process tick
WMI Kill Process tick
WMI Process Info tick
WMI Process Iterator tick
Remote Reboot (WMI) tick
Remote Shutdown (WMI) tick
COM+ Actions
COM+ Register tick
COM+ Delete tick
COM+ Shutdown Application tick
COM+ Start Application tick
COM+ Edit Application tick
PSTools Actions [ PsTools]
PsLogList (List event logs) tick
PsInfo (View System Information) tick
PsSuspend (Suspend/Resume Process) tick
PsGetSID (Sercurity ID Info) tick
PsFile (List/Close Remote Open Files) tick
PsKill (Kill Process) tick
PsList (List Processes) tick
PsLoggedOn (Logged on users) tick
PsShutdown (Shutdown computer) tick
PsService (Service Manager) tick
.NET Tools Actions Professional
GAC Install tick
GAC Uninstall tick
GAC Download Cache tick
Register assembly in COM tick
Run ASPNET_REGIIS.EXE tick
Precompile ASP.NET 2.0 Application tick
Active Directory Actions Professional
Get Info tick
Add User(s) to Group tick
Remove User(s) from Group tick
Enumerate Group tick
Edit User Properties tick
Move Object(s) tick
Rename tick
Create User tick
Create Group tick
Create Object tick
IIS Actions Professional
IIS 7 [ Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0]
Start / Stop / Restart Website (IIS 7)
Create Website (IIS 7)
Delete Website (IIS 7)
Start / Stop / Recycle Application Pool (IIS 7)
Create Application Pool (IIS 7)
Delete Application Pool (IIS 7)
Create Virtual Directory (IIS 7)
Delete Virtual Directory (IIS 7)
Create Application (IIS 7)
Delete Application (IIS 7)
IIS 6 [ Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0]
Backup IIS Metabase (IIS 6)
Restore IIS Metabase (IIS 6)
Start WWW Service (IIS 6)
Stop WWW Service (IIS 6)
Restart WWW Service (IIS 6)
Start Website (IIS 6)
Stop Website (IIS 6)
Pause Website (IIS 6)
Unload IIS Application (IIS 6)
Create Virtual Directory (IIS 6)
Delete Virtual Directory (IIS 6)
Create Web Site (IIS 6)
Delete Web Site (IIS 6)
Create Application Pool (IIS 6)
Delete Application Pool (IIS 6)
IIS 6 FTP Administration [ Configuring IIS6 FTP on Technet]
Start FTP Service (IIS 6)
Stop FTP Service (IIS 6)
Restart FTP Service (IIS 6)
Start FTP Site (IIS 6)
Stop FTP Site (IIS 6)
Pause FTP Site (IIS 6)
Create FTP Directory (IIS 6)
Delete FTP Directory (IIS 6)
Create FTP Site (IIS 6)
Delete FTP Site (IIS 6)
IIS 5 [ Microsoft Internet Information Services 5]
Backup IIS Metabase (IIS 5)
Restore IIS Metabase (IIS 5)
Start WWW Service (IIS 5)
Stop WWW Service (IIS 5)
Restart WWW Service (IIS 5)
Start Website (IIS 5)
Stop Website (IIS 5)
Pause Website (IIS 5)
Unload IIS Application (IIS 5)
Create Virtual Directory (IIS 5)
Delete Virtual Directory (IIS 5)
Create Web Site (IIS 5)
Delete Web Site (IIS 5)
Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Actions Professional
MSMQ Wait for Message tick
MSMQ Send Message tick
MSMQ Create Queue tick
MSMQ Delete Queue tick
MSMQ Clear Queue tick
MSMQ Peek Message tick
MSMQ Receive Message tick
NTFS Junction Actions Professional
Mount Volume tick
Get Mount Points Volume Names tick
Remove Mount Point tick
Get Mounted Volume Name tick
Permanent Remove Mount Point tick
Clean Old Mount Point Entries tick
Disable Automatic Mounting tick
Enable Automatic Mounting tick
SFTP Actions Professional
SFTP Check If Connected tick
SFTP Connect tick
SFTP Copy Remote File tick
SFTP Create Directory tick
SFTP Disconnect tick
SFTP Download File tick
SFTP Download Files tick
SFTP List Files tick
SFTP Query Available Space tick
SFTP Query Home Directory tick
SFTP Remove Directory tick
SFTP Remove File tick
SFTP Remove Files tick
SFTP Rename Files tick
SFTP Upload File tick
SFTP Upload Files tick
SFTP Upload Fileset tick
System Restore Actions Professional
System Restore Enable tick
System Restore Disable tick
System Restore Create Restore Point tick
System Restore perform Restore tick
System Restore Get Last Restore Status tick
Restore Get Configuration tick
System Restore Set Configuration tick
System Restore List Restore Points tick
Stack & Queue Actions Professional
Stack/Queue define tick
Stack/Queue Log Items tick
Stack/Queue Push Items tick
Stack/Queue Pop tick
Stack/Queue Peek tick
Stack/Queue get Count tick
Stack/Queue Insert Item tick
Stack/Queue is Empty tick
Stack/Queue Clear tick
Stack/Queue Iterator tick
EC2 Actions Professional
EC2 Get Instance Properties tick
EC2 Change Instance States tick
EC2 Run Instances tick
EC2 Terminate Instances tick
EC2 Get Image Properties tick
EC2 Create Image tick
EC2 Deregister Image tick
EC2 Get Volume Properties tick
EC2 Attach Volume tick
EC2 Detach Volume tick
EC2 Create Volume tick
EC2 Delete Volume tick
EC2 Get Snapshot Properties tick
EC2 Create Snapshot tick
EC2 Delete Snapshot tick
EC2 Get Availability Zones tick
FTPS Actions Professional
FTPS Change Directory tick
FTPS Change Up Directory tick
FTPS Check If Connected tick
FTPS Connect tick
FTPS Create Directory tick
FTPS Delete File tick
FTPS Disconnect tick
FTPS Download File tick
FTPS Download Files tick
FTPS Get File Date tick
FTPS Get File Size tick
FTPS Get Remote Checksum tick
FTPS Get Remote Directory tick
FTPS List Directory tick
FTPS No-op tick
FTPS Remove Directory tick
FTPS Rename File tick
FTPS Send Command tick
FTPS Upload Files tick
Virtualization Actions Professional
VMWare Workstation [ VMWare Website]
VMWare Start Virtual Machine tick
VMWare Stop Virtual Machine tick
VMWare Suspend Virtual Machine tick
VMWare Reset Virtual Machine tick
VMWare Check Virtual Machine Status tick
VMWare Create Snapshot tick
VMWare Revert to Snapshot tick
VMWare Server [ VMWare Website]
VMWare Server List VMs tick
VMWare Server Start VM tick
VMWare Server Stop VM tick
VMWare Server Reset VM tick
VMWare Server Suspend VM tick
VMWare Server Check Virtual Machine Status tick
VMWare List Virtual Machines
VMWare Change Virtual Machine State
VMWare Snapshot
VMWare Execute Guest Command
Microsoft Virtual Server [ Virtual Server Website]
Virtual Server List VMs tick
Virtual Server Start VM tick
Virtual Server Save VM State tick
Virtual Server Turn Off VM tick
Virtual Server Reset VM tick
Virtual Server Pause VM tick
Virtual Server Check VM Status tick

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