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This section summarizes the prerequisites for using ConnectView and how you should prepare to use it.
IMPORTANT: If you are using the NetWare Client (VLM) 1.2 software, you can run ConnectView in both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 environments. If you are using the Novell Client for DOS and Windows 3.1x software, you can run ConnectView in the Windows 3.1x environment. If you are using the Novell Client for Windows 95 software, the statement that loads BREQUEST.EXE is moved from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to the WINSTART.BAT file, to enable you to run ConnectView in a Windows 95 environment.
The ConnectView workstation must include the following hardware:
NOTE: If you have removed ManageWise® from your workstation, ensure that the NMS.INI file is removed from the \WINDOWS directory.
If ConnectView is to operate in a WAN environment, you must have a ConnectView workstation and the hardware and software capable of connecting the WANs. This hardware and software could be a router capable of routing IPX traffic.
IMPORTANT: ConnectView does not support SNMP over IP.
ConnectView manages the Novell Internet Access Server 4.1 remote access software and NetWare Connect 2.0 servers.
IMPORTANT: The BSPXCOM.NLM and NCMA.NLM files must be loaded on the managed servers.
ConnectView's trend analysis enables you to monitor resource usage, proactively distribute resource utilization, and perform capacity planning. To effectively use this ConnectView feature, ensure that
The ConnectView accounting feature allows you to create account profiles with specific billing formulas and rates, apply profiles to users, and generate accounting data in accounting log and accounting report format. To effectively use this feature, ensure that
Before displaying trend analysis data or starting the accounting process, ensure that the audit trail option is enabled and sufficient data has been recorded. Trend analysis data can be viewed only after the remote access software has recorded data in the current server's audit trail file, or there is access to data stored in an archived file. The audit trail file and/or archived files must be available before any trend analysis data can be displayed.
Because ConnectView uses the remote Btrieve client to access audit trail records, you must have READ/SCAN rights to the server's SYS:\SYSTEM\CSLIB directories in which the audit trail file and archived files are stored.
IMPORTANT: Ensure that only the audit trail file and archived files for the Novell® Internet Access Server 4.1 are used. ConnectView will not display data from other files.
For ConnectView to display trend analysis data or process accounting data, ensure that the following NetWare® Loadable ModuleTM (NLMTM) files are loaded on the managed server:
Also, ensure that BREQUEST.EXE is running on the ConnectView workstation.
Because accessing large amounts of data could require a substantial period of time and trend analysis graphs are not scrollable horizontally, plan the display of data in manageable amounts. For example, displaying trend analysis data from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in hourly intervals for one day or displaying data in daily intervals for 30 days results in manageable displays of data. However, displaying data in hourly intervals for a large number of days (60, for example) could result in long delays in data processing and data that is difficult to view.
If you are accessing large amounts of data in the current audit trail file and/or archived files, displaying trend analysis data could require a substantial amount of time and memory. Also, if low memory conditions occur and Windows is configured to swap data to disk, this could increase the amount of time required to process the data.
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