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Copyright (c)2002 TECSys Development Inc. Printed in the United States of America. TECSys Development Inc. (TDi) makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents hereof and specifically disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Fur-...
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Table of Contents 1.This Guide ...............................................................................................................................................1 1-1.Purpose ...................................................................................................................
Page 7 - Introduction and Overview; Installation Process
2. Introduction and Overview 2-1. Introduction to Console Works Console Works is an application built to monitor console port text or SYSLOG messages and to directly manage any device supporting console port connections. It runs on OpenVMS, Unix and NT/2000 platforms. In addi-tion, Console Works can...
Page 8 - Installation Concepts
and optionally, • adding Console Works to the system startup, • editing templates to customize event and user templates, and • importing existing Users, Consoles, Scans, Events and/or Databases. ♦ note: Technically, Console Works has created an invocation after this stage of installation is complete...
Page 12 - Installation Tips and Recommendations; Special Note for Polycenter Console Manager (PCM) owners; Console
Installation Tips and Recommendations Console Works supports customizing an invocation's templates. Each invocation has its own directory and subdirectories. The original templates created during installation are located in the Config subdirectory under the installation directory specified during th...
Page 13 - Exclusivity; is available on CD ROM or from the Internet
3. Pre-Installation This section contains information on the fundamentals required for installation. Note: 1) When installing the Console Works Server on Windows an error will be displayed if you try to install V1.5 when a previous version is installed. You must uninstall the previous version before...
Page 17 - I accept the terms in the license agreement; item and press Next>. The Customer Information panel
When all checks are completed successfully, the following panel will be displayed. Depress the Next> button to continue. The installation process will now display the License Agreement. Select the I accept the terms in the license agreement item and press Next>. The Customer Information panel ...
Page 21 - Server; and the Services Control Panel; to the system startup; manual starts and manual shut-
4-5. Starting the Console Works Server To start the Console Works server access the Services Control Panel and start each executable, 1) Console Works LMF Server • note: if you would like to make certain all of your licenses loaded properly, you may check the contents of the following file: C:\Progr...
Page 22 - databases; Database; Databases; Default Templates
and click on 'Stop.' Then select Console Works LMF Server Service and click on 'Stop.' It is recommended that the licensing service be shutdown when the Console Works Server Service is shutdown. 4-9. Adding functionality Import existing scan definitions Console Works comes with several scans. The sc...
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corresponding template file is used for the help file. When Help ( ? ) is selected in the web browser the contents of the applicable template file are displayed. Once the Event, Console or User is modified, a separate *.info (where * is the name of the Event, Console or User) file is created for tha...
Page 24 - User Template Files; At this point installation is complete,; requires configuration.
help window will be the text contained in the CONSOLE.TEMPLATE file. The text in the file can be modified or completely replaced. If HTML tags are included, they are displayed only as the raw HTML tags and are not in-terpreted in the window. The file is used in a text box in a web browser environmen...
Page 25 - Server and License Manager; Client and Server Programs; Server and Client Programs
5. Software Update This section provides information regarding an Update of the Console Works software. Note: If Console Works is being installed as an update to Version 1.4-0, a new directory structure will be created. Save exist- ing template files, action routines, etc. prior to the installation ...
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Appendices Appendix 1: Profile Rules and Examples Appendix 2: HTML Directory Edits Appendix 3: Directory Listing - of a default Console Works installation on Windows NT/2000 Appendix 4: Console Works Version 1.4-0 to Version 1.5-0 Directory Cross-Reference. 23
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Appendix 1: Profile Rules and Examples Profile Rules rule 1: each profile has only one set of privileges per console port, rule 2: each profile may have access to one or more console ports, rule 3: each user may have only one active profile at a time, rule 4: more than one user may have access to an...
Page 31 - Appendix 2: HTML Directory Edits; The Console
Appendix 2: HTML Directory Edits The Console Works HTML directory contains static HTML files used by the Console Works web server. These files are NOT intended to be modified by Console Works customers. If these files are modified, the results may be unpredictable and are not supported by TDi custom...
Page 33 - Appendix 3: Directory Listing - of a default Console; installation on Windows NT/2000
Appendix 3: Directory Listing - of a default Console Works installation on Windows NT/2000 Below is an example directory listing for a Console Works installation on Windows NT/2000. Volume in drive C has no label.Volume Serial Number is 1380-0FE3 Directory of C:\Program Files\TECSys Development, Inc...
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