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.