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*	RasTracker(R) for Windows NT(R) ReadMe.txt		*
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*		V1.40 Argent Software			        *
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Welcome to RasTracker(R) for the Microsoft Windows NT(R) operating
system. RasTracker(R) is a software solution designed to assist you
in establishing RAS policies, tracking RAS usage by user/group/ports,
producing statistics and usage information and to add new features
to the RAS software.

1. Installing RasTracker.
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The Management component of RasTracker (the GUI front-end) may be
installed on NT 4.x workstations/servers. You may remotely administer
your RasTracker server components.

The Server component may be installed on NT 4.x computers equipped
with the Microsoft RAS software. NOTE: The RAS Service must be stopped
prior to installing the RasTracker Server component.

Before you go ahead and install any of the RasTracker components,
make sure you have your license details at handy. For evaluation
demo licenses, please contact your supplier or reseller or email
support@northern.se to obtain a demo license key.


2. Whats new in V1.40?
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- The internal data logging format has been improved. Logged session events
are now stored in separate files for each day. These log data files are
stored in a sub directory of the RasTracker program files directory, called
LogData. The log files can be deleted on a per day bases.


- New "data browsing". A new way of looking at the History View (where you
see all the RAS sessions captured by RasTracker), allows you to look at
events from 1 day, 7 days or 30 days at a time. You navigate back and
forth using two browse buttons on the top of the view. This new and improved
way of looking at historical events, is very much faster and more convenient
than the previous method of displaying all sessions in one window. Store and use
customized column widths. Thats is if you change the columns in a view, it will
store the views for reuse at a later time.

- Copy To Clipboard functionality in the Users view and History view. Select
a number of events and right click, then select the menu entry "Copy To Clipboard" to
copy the selected items and associated data directly to the clipboard. The data
that gets copied to the clipboard is comma separated, and ready to be pasted in
to your favourite spreadsheet application, database program etc.

- A new RasTracker API package is available upon request. The API lets you retrieve
RasTracker Data from your own C/C++ or Microsoft Visual Basic programs. Contact your supplier
for more information.   

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