SYMANTEC--PETER NORTON GROUP

README.TXT--August 27, 1993
Copyright 1993 Symantec Corp. All Rights Reserved.

NORTON ADMINISTRATOR FOR NETWORKS
Version 1.0


Welcome to Norton Administrator for Networks!

Please read this document carefully; it contains important
information not included in the user's guide. This document and 
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CONTENTS
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1. LOADING THE DOS AGENTS
    1.1 Novell NetWare
    1.2 Microsoft LAN Manager and IBM LAN Server
    1.3 Banyan Vines
2. CHANGES TO AND LIMITATIONS OF AGENTS
    2.1 Minimum Memory Requirement to Run Each Agent
    2.2 Additional Information about NANODE.EXE
    2.3 Metering Agents and /NOEXEC Command-Line Option
    2.4 Running LAN Inventory Agent in a DOS Box
    2.5 EISA Systems and Memory Managers
3. CHANGES TO CONFIGURATION FILES AND ENVIRONMENT
    3.1 Changes to NADMIN.INI
    3.2 Environment Variables
4. NETWORKS OTHER THAN NOVELL NETWARE
    4.1 Banyan Vines NIC Addresses and User Groups
    4.2 Broadcast Messages
    4.3 LAN Inventory Information about Networks
    4.4 LAN Manager and LAN Server: Synchronizing Times
        on Workstations with Times on Network
5. NORTON ADMINISTRATOR ENHANCEMENTS
    5.1 Filtering Operators
6. TIPS
    6.1 Stub Executables (Transient Loaders)
7. MISCELLANEOUS
    7.1 DOS and UNC Names for Files
    7.2 Duplicate Selections of Recipients and Licensees
    7.3 QuickHelp Screens
    7.4 Editing .INI Files  

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1 LOADING THE DOS AGENTS
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After you install Norton Administrator for Networks,
you need to load the agents so you can collect data
from, distribute data to, and meter the use of 
applications on each workstation.

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1.1 Novell NetWare

If you have a NetWare network, you probably added the
LAN Inventory and Software Distribution agents to your
system login script so that data can be collected from
and distributed to each workstation easily. You may
want to adjust the login script to use the batch file 
TSRLOAD.BAT that comes with Norton Administrator and
loads the License Metering agent NANODE.EXE to meter
products.

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1.2  Microsoft LAN Manager and IBM LAN Server

Due to the high memory overhead of the NET command
for a LAN Manager or LAN Server network, you may need 
to write a batch file to load the DOS agents that 
includes:
***************************************************
net login user password /domain:domain
*** any net use commands necessary
    ex. net use e: \\servername\c$
cd nadmin\agents   ** be sure that the login script 
		      puts you on the right drive.
nainv
nadist
nanode
***************************************************

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1.3 Banyan Vines

Loading the DOS agents on a Banyan Vines network
requires the use of the postlogin command 
(postlogin command /c agents.bat) in the user profile.
You use a command similar to the following to execute
a batch file that loads all three agents: 
***************************************************

cd nadmin\agents   ** be sure that the login script 
              		      puts you on the right drive.
nainv
nadist
nanode
***************************************************

NOTE:  See Section 4 of the readme.txt file for other
       important Banyan Vines information. 

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2. CHANGES TO AND LIMITATIONS OF AGENTS
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This section explains the changes made to the metering
agents and the limitations encountered when running
the LAN Inventory agent from a DOS box.


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2.1 Minimum Memory Requirements to Run Each Agent

       AGENT                        MINIMUM MEMORY

LAN Inventory Agent:
NAINV.EXE   (for DOS)                    325K

Software Distribution Agents:
NADIST.EXE  (for DOS)                    325K
NADISTW.EXE (for Windows)                2MB (Standard Windows Req.)

Metering Agents:
NAMETER.EXE  (for DOS)                   325K
NANODE.EXE   (for DOS)                   4K TSR (optional)
NAMETERW.EXE (for Windows)               2MB (Standard Windows Req.)
NANODEW.EXE  (for Windows)               2MB (Standard Windows Req.)

NOTE:   Please remember that if running from the login script,
        you will need additional memory.

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2.2 Additional Information about NANODE.EXE

NANODE.EXE has two additional command-line options:

/NODOS   With this option, the TSR does not
         meter DOS applications. When Windows
         starts up, NANODE launches NANODEW.EXE.
/NOWIN   With this option, the TSR does not
         meter Windows applications. That means
         it does not launch NANODEW.EXE.

For the /AGENTS:pathname command-line option (which
provides the pathname to the directory where the
metering agents NAMETER.EXE and NANODEW.EXE reside),
it is best to specify a regular DOS pathname. If you
use the Universal Naming Convention (UNC), Windows
cannot load NANODEW.EXE if the server name or the
volume name is more than 11 characters.

NANODE is disabled if DESQview is launched after NANODE
and returns to normal when DESQview terminates.
NANODE works correctly if loaded from within a DESQview
task.

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2.3 Metering Agents and /NOEXEC Command-Line Option

The /NOEXEC command-line option works with
all the metering agents (NANODE, NANODEW, NAMETER,
and NAMETERW). Without it, an error is displayed when
a system error occurs (because the license system is
not available or fails), but the application is still
launched. With this option, the application is not
executed unless a license can be verified.

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2.4 Running LAN Inventory Agent in a DOS Box

The LAN Inventory agent, when run in a DOS box, cannot
collect the following information or collects it 
inaccurately:
	Information about the network card and setup may
    not be collected.
	Hard disk models are not detected.
	Benchmark information is not collected.
	I/O port information may be inaccurate.

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2.5 EISA Systems and Memory Managers

Some memory managers, when running on systems with an
EISA bus, incorrectly process Interrupt 15.  Therefore,
the LAN Inventory Agent defaults to not performing the
Expansion Slot tests.

If you enable the Expansion Slot test and experience
lockup problems with the LAN Inventory Agent, disable
the Expansion Slots test from the Configure menu in the
Console, or use the /NOSLOTS command-line switch on
workstations affected. The lockup problem may also occur
if the memory manager was manually told to map RAM into
the memory regions starting at segment F000 or above.


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3. CHANGES TO CONFIGURATION FILES AND ENVIRONMENT
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This section covers changes to the configuration
files and introduces the Norton Administrator 
environment variables.

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3.1 Changes to NADMIN.INI

If you use Norton AntiVirus for NetWare and/or
Norton pcANYWHERE for Windows, you can add either
or both of the following sections to the NADMIN.INI
file in your Windows directory.

[pca]              Section for Norton pcANYWHERE for 
                   Windows
path=c:\winaw      Specifies the location of the
                   WINAW.EXE program.
loadanyway=1       Causes the pcANYWHERE icon to
                   load regardless of its path and file

[nav]              Section for Norton AntiVirus for
                   NetWare.
pathnlm=c:\navnlm  Specifies the location of the
                   NAVNLMW.EXE program.
pathnet=c:\navnet  Specifies the location of the
                   NAVNETW.EXE program.
loadanyway=1       Causes the Norton AntiVirus for
                   NetWare icon to load regardless
                   of path and file.

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3.2 Environment Variables

Norton Administrator for Networks has added four
environment variables that can be set from your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file or the command line.

NAINV.EXE, the LAN Inventory agent, has default 
configuration settings that can be changed from 
the console using the Configure pulldown menu. 
In addition, you can add to or override the 
configuration information in NAINV.CFG by setting 
NAINV, the environment variable which configures
the LAN Inventory agent. For example to turn off
the software inventory, you would use:

SET NAINV=/NOSOFTWARE

The environment variable setting can be overridden
by running NAINV from the command line with 
command-line options.

NADIST.EXE, the Software Distribution agent for DOS,
operates in the same way--but its configuration
file is NADIST.CFG and its environment variable is
NADIST. For example, you can change the database
the agent searches for jobs to deliver to a given
workstation by setting the environment variable as
follows:

SET NADIST=/DATABASE:f:\nadmin\data\latest.dst

Two other environment variables assist the LAN
Inventory agent in gathering data about a workstation.
SYMNETWORK and SYMNODE override a workstation's
network number and Network Interface Card (NIC)
address, respectively. For example:

SET SYMNETWORK=00000152
SET SYMNODE=08000900B06D


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4. NETWORKS OTHER THAN NOVELL NETWARE
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4.1 Banyan Vines NIC Addresses and User Groups

Network Interface Card (NIC) addresses are automatically
detected in Banyan Vines versions 5.52 (5) and greater.

If you are not running Vines version 5.52 (5) or 
greater, you must set the environment variables for 
SYMNODE and optionally SYMNETWORK to a unique value
for each workstation on the network that will be 
using Norton Administrator. See the section on
environment variables later in the ReadMe for more
details about SYMNODE and SYMNETWORK.

Example:
       SET SYMNODE=00AA002F5946
       SET SYMNETWORK=001

If your network is very large, then the selection of 
users and groups can take a very long time. Setting the
BAN_SEARCH environment variable to a location restricts
user and group enumerations and improves performance.

Example:
       SET BAN_SEARCH myorg@*@*

The Software Distribution agents (NADIST.EXE and
NADISTW.EXE) will not distribute to groups unless the
BAN_SEARCH environment variable is detected on the
workstation running the Software Distribution agent.

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4.2 Broadcast Messages

On non-Novell networks, users need to check for messages. 
For example, when no more licenses are available for a 
product that has a concurrent-use license policy, users 
can be notified when a license becomes available. On a
LAN Manager network, the user would receive a WinPopup
message. If an application covers the entire screen,
the user would not see the message without specifically
looking.

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4.3 LAN Inventory Information about Networks

On non-Novell networks, some of the data  
collected about networks is not available. These fields
are Server Name, NDIS Version, Vendor, Revision, 
Revision Date, and Copyright. The Detail button on the 
dialog box showing the Network Category of LAN Inventory
is grayed because none of the data on the Network Detail
dialog box is available. 

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4.4 LAN Manager and LAN Server: Synchronizing Dates and Times
    on Workstations with the Date and Time on the Network

For accurate metering and distribution, make sure that 
the date and time on the workstations are the same as the 
date and time on the network. For example, if the 
workstation's date is 1980, distribution jobs with start 
dates in 1993 are not distributed.

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5. NORTON ADMINISTRATOR ENHANCEMENTS
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This section explains enhancements to Norton 
Administrator not covered in the user's guide or in
online help.

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5.1 Filtering Operators

When you are creating a filter you have two additional
operators:

Contains
Member Of

These operators do not apply to all fields.

If a field is alphanumeric, you can search for a partial
match. For example, you can search for server names that
contain a certain substring. The following filter would
find records containing Server Name of "central", 
"innocent", and so forth.

Server Name contains "cent"

The Member Of operator helps you find the users in a
group. The User Name fields in the License Metering Log
and Current Users windows can be used in a filter with
the operator Member Of. For example:
User Name member of "ACCOUNTING"
filters the database for records for anyone who is
a member of the ACCOUNTING group.



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6. TIPS
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This section is designed to save you time and eliminate
problems before they occur.

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6.1 License Metering and Stub Executables (Transient Loaders) 

Often the file that starts an application is only
a stub executable, also called a transient loader.
It launches one or more other files and comes to an end.
The file you really want to meter (to see how long the
product was in use) is one of the ones launched by the
stub. This section provides some examples:

Norton Desktop for Windows
NDW.EXE launches NDWMAIN.EXE. Meter NDWMAIN.EXE.
Word Perfect for Windows
WPWIN.EXE launches WPWINFIL.EXE. Meter WPWINFIL.EXE.
ccMail for Windows
WMAIL.EXE launches CCMAIL.EXE. Meter CCMAIL.EXE.


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7. MISCELLANEOUS
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7.1 DOS and UNC Names for Files

Don't use DOS pathnames of more than 200 characters.

When running a Windows application from the command
line, don't use UNC names with components of more 
than 11 characters.

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7.2 Duplicate Selections of Recipients and Licensees

If you select the same recipient for a Software
Distribution job or the same licensee in License
Metering more than once, Norton Administrator 
eliminates the duplicates when you click OK to
exit the dialog box where you made your selections.

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7.3 QuickHelp Screens

QuickHelp is a new Norton help feature designed
to help you find things quickly. If you are using large
fonts on your monitor, you may find that your QuickHelp
screens are a bit difficult to read. The bitmap is being
stretched beyond its limits.  We recommend not using
large fonts when using QuickHelp.

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7.4 Editing .INI Files  

When you replace an entire section of an .INI file,
the old section is deleted, and the new section is
added at the bottom of the file.

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