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- USING INTEGRITY MASTER ON A NETWORK
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- The following suggestions come from users of Integrity Master on a
- variety of different local area networks (including Novell, LanManager,
- Banyan and Lantastic). The details vary slightly but the following
- procedure should allow you to get benefit with minimum work.
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- The benefits of this procedure are:
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- 1) You can run SetupIM only once to get IM installed for most users,
- yet anyone who has special needs can configure IM to work exactly
- the way they want by running SetupIM on their workstation.
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- 2) Since there's only one copy of IM.EXE and SetupIM.EXE, you can
- quickly update everyone's software by doing a single copy
- operation.
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- 3) Any files that are transferred from workstation to workstation can
- easily have their integrity verified since all workstations share
- a common integrity data encryption format.
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- 4) Each workstation will automatically maintain a complete change
- history in the form of the report files on that workstation. This
- facilitates centralized problem solving; if anything stops working
- on that workstation, the report files provide a complete change log
- to track down exactly what was changed, added, or deleted.
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- SUGGESTED INSTALLATION:
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- 1) Copy IM*.* and SetupIM.EXE to a directory on a server which is
- included in the DOS path of all workstations on the LAN. It's best
- if LAN access rights do not allow the workstations to write to this
- directory.
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- (If your LAN is configured without shared executable directories,
- just copy IM.EXE to a directory on the DOS path of each
- workstation).
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- 2) Run SetupIM (new install) on a workstation that has the most common
- configuration on the LAN. What matters here is the organization of
- the disks on the workstation. By this I mean the physical
- partitioning of the hard drives. If the first disk is usually
- partitioned as two logical drives, choose a PC with that
- arrangement. An arrangement that is a superset of another is the
- best choice. In other words, if your most common configuration is
- to have two floppy drives with the first hard drive partitioned as
- two logical drives, choose such a PC. But if some of these PCs
- also have additional hard drives, that's even better. Choose one of
- the PCs with the extra hard drives to run SetupIM.
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- 3) Move the IM.PRM file created in step 2 to the shared directory
- where the IM.EXE file is located. This allows all PCs that have a
- compatible configuration to execute IM and allows you to quickly
- upgrade to new versions of IM by simply copying the new IM.EXE file
- over the old one.
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- 4) If you have workstations with incompatible configurations or users
- with special needs, you can run SetupIM separately on those
- workstations (but do not place a copy of SetupIM on the
- workstation; simply execute the copy on the server) This will
- create an IM.PRM file local to the workstation. The user of that
- workstation will still execute the shared copy of IM.EXE but IM
- will behave according to the configuration and options information
- stored in the local copy of IM.PRM rather than the shared copy.
- It's useful to install a batch file in a directory on the DOS path
- of the workstation to make sure that the local copy of IM.PRM is
- always used. The batch file contains this line:
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- IM C:\LOCAL\IM.PRM %1 %2 %3 %4 %4 %5 %6
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- ("C:\LOCAL\IM.PRM" could be any disk, directory or file name.)
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- This procedure allows a single setup for most users but still
- allows the flexibility to enable anyone to configure IM exactly
- the way they want.
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- 5) Run an Initialize "Entire disk integrity" ("IM /IE") on each
- workstation. This will scan the entire PC for known viruses and
- also provide full integrity checking for all files. Also initialize
- the "CMOS memory". (If you are not interested in integrity checking
- but only virus scanning, you can skip this step.)
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- SUGGESTED USAGE:
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- 1) Configure each workstation so that it runs a daily check in "quick
- update" mode. The IMQ.BAT and IMONCE.BAT files contain some
- statements that can be inserted into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file or
- elsewhere to make sure this happens. Some people prefer to just let
- the user of each workstation run a quick update once a day (or
- other appropriate interval). The full version of IM comes with
- RunMaybe, a program that allows you to execute IM (or any other
- program) at any interval you choose. The quick update (quick scan)
- will catch viruses as effectively as conventional virus scanning
- but it is much, much, faster and optionally provides a complete
- change log for the workstation. If you wish to do only
- conventional virus scanning, you can substitute a virus scan for
- this step ("IM /VO").
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- 2) Each workstation user should use IM to scan or check all new
- diskettes and especially all new software. The batch files,
- IMSCAN, IMSCANM, and IMSCAND, will scan disks, multiple diskettes,
- or single directories respectively.
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- 3) A full integrity check should be run at intervals on each
- workstation. This will make sure that the disk is thoroughly
- checked and will detect more subtle hardware or software problems
- as well as unknown viruses. Once a week seems to be the most
- popular interval to run a full check.
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