The SQL Server 2012 Performance Dashboard is a free tool from Microsoft and assists in viewing the health and status of your SQL Server instance. It even works on SQL Server 2008. You can download it from (here).
Here’s an article (here) on the implementing a log shipping solution using Powershell scripts. This article is from SQL Server Central, so you will need to register on the site to log in.
Anyway the article suggests this solution comes into play when you are constrained by