What Is WAN Traffic Manager?

WAN Traffic Manager allows you to manage traffic across WAN links, reducing network costs. It consists of three elements.

• Wtm.nlm

  Wtm.nlm resides on each server in the tree. Before NDS^TM sends server-to-server traffic, wtm.nlm reads a WAN Traffic Policy and determines whether that traffic will be sent.

• WAN Traffic Policies

  These are rules that control the generation of NDS traffic. WAN Traffic Policies are text stored as an NDS property value on the NetWare Server object, the LAN Area object, or both.

• An NWAdmin Snapin

  The snapin is the interface to WAN Traffic Manager. It allows you to create or modify policies, to create LAN Area Objects, and to apply policies to LAN Areas or to servers. When WAN Traffic Manager is installed, the schema will include a LAN Area Object and three new detail pages on the NetWare Server object. These are LAN Area Membership, WAN Policies, and Cost.