Active Network Monitor: readme
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Please read this file carefully (especially the "Installation" chapter)
before installing the program to your computer.

IMPORTANT! If you obtained ANM not from our web page, but from another
source (CD or a software library), please visit our home page where you
might find a later version.


Contents
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 Program information
 Company information
 Description
 Installation (!)
 Registration
 Copyright and license
 Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
 anm.zip
Program Name:
 Active Network Monitor
Program Version:
 1.21
Program Release Date:
 Feb 4, 2003
Target OS:
 Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Platform:
 Intel x86
Brief Description:
 The centralized administrative tool that gathers information from all computers in the network.
Software type:
 30-day trial


Company information
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Company Name:
  SmartLine, Inc.
Author Name:
  Paramonov Sergey
  Ashot Oganesyan K
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@protect-me.com
  sales@protect-me.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.ntutility.com


Description
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Active Network Monitor (ANM) is a tool for day-to-day monitoring of computers
in the network.

ANM runs under Windows NT/2000/XP and allows Systems Administrators gather
information from all the computers (even from the Windows 9x/Me computers) in
the network without installing server-side application on these computers.
ANM is a centralized network monitoring interface so to monitor entire network,
it can be run on the one computer only.

ANM provides the powerful technology of storing and comparing received data.
Administrators can monitor almost all important parameters on the remote
computers and make "snapshots" of the systems for the future comparing and
finding changes.

ANM has a flexible plug-in based architecture that allows to plug necessary
modules on demand. Each module (plug-in) performs a task and displays
retrieved information in its own window.

ANM ships with a predefined constantly growing list of plug-ins, including
plug-ins for monitoring services, devices, installed applications, disks,
shared resources, hardware resources (IRQs, I/O, DMA and Memory), users,
local groups, global groups, and so on.


With ANM you can:

 - Use growing list of plug-ins for gathering important information from the
   remote computers

 - Scan network computers by types (Server, Workstation, SQL Server, etc.)

 - Scan network computers by names (you can select computers either from
   the network tree or load predefined list from the file)

 - Save retrieved information into the project in the special folder
   or into the external file

 - Load previously saved information from the project or from the
   external file

 - Compare two previously saved projects or external files using special
   simple-to-use Compare Wizard

 - Save compare results to the external file

 - Load compare results from the external file

 - Easy navigate through the compare results using special buttons

 - And much more


Installation
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To install ANM you MUST have administrative privileges.

Run "setup.exe". You'll need to select the target directory for the install.


Registration
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See "register.txt" file.


Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
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See "contacts.txt" file.



                                         Copyright(c) 2001-2003 SmartLine Inc.
                                                          All rights reserved.
                       Active Network Monitor is a trademark of SmartLine Inc.