Sitecore 9 Administration Tools List

The Administration Tools within the Sitecore 9 Control Panel (Administration Section), are an often forgotten, but powerful arsenal in managing your Sitecore environment.

Some of these tools, such as rebuilding the reporting database, have prerequisites. In the case of the “Rebuild Reporting Database” tool, it requires you to create a Secondary Reporting Database and connectionString named reporting.secondary prior to use. See https://doc.sitecore.net/developers/xp/reporting/rebuild-reporting.html for details.

Other tools are ready for your use via this screen versus trying to recall what the URL to the tools are. While this is not a complete list of the Admin tools available in Sitecore 9, as some may be also reside in the /Sitecore/admin directory, it should be your first place to look when administering Sitecore 9.

Some of these tools provide viewing/logging type actions while others, such as the Event Queue Statistics, allow you to not only view but clear the Event Queues as appropriate. Also, rather than digging through log files on the file system, the “Logs” tool provides easy access to logs and allows you to trim to the last few lines of logging.

Per Version 2.1.1-r00210 of the Administration Tools, they are as follows:

Tool Name	Description
Cache	An overview of the caches
Database Cleanup	Perform various cleanup operations on specific databases
DB Browser	The interface for various item manipulations
Dependency Injection Configuration	Check the configured services
Event Queue Statistics	An overview of the Event Queue
Install Language	Install a new content language
Jobs Viewer	An overview of the jobs
Logs	View and download Sitecore log files
Media Hash Generator	Generate hash values for dynamic image scaling URLs
Package Item	Make a package of items and their dependencies
Pipeline Profiler	An overview of pipeline execution
Publish Queue Statistics	An overview of the Publish Queue
Raw Search	Search for the specific string in a database or in the file system
Rebuild Reporting Database	Rebuild the Reporting database
Remove Broken Links	Remove broken links from a database
Rendering Statistics	An overview of the performance of renderings
Restore Item	Restore items from the archive
Security Tools	Login and user management tools
Serialization	Serialize and revert a database
Set Sitecore Application Center Endpoint	Change the endpoint address of the App Center
Show Config	Merge configuration files
Show Config Layers	Merge configuration files depending on configuration layers and roles
Sql Shell	Use connection strings to execute SQL scripts
Support Package	Generate a package with support information
Unlock Admin	Unlock Admin user
Update Installation Wizard	Install Sitecore updates
User Info	Logged in user details

All of these tools can be found in the /Sitecore/admin directory if you prefer the direct URL route (ex. <sitename>/sitecore/admin/RebuildReportingDB.aspx).

For most, the tools within Sitecore will meet their needs. However, there could be instances in which you may want to develop your own “tooling”. If that is the case, create the custom .aspx page that calls the desired actions and consider creating your own “Administration Tools” page as the aforementioned page just provides quick links to the tooling with the admin directory.