DCE Cell Manager 1.5 boosts Cell Manager 1.1 performance with these new features.

Overall Enhancements

• Compatibility with OSF DCE version 1.1
• Enhanced performance of all tools
• Increased ability to customize tool interface
• Streamlining features that speed the performance of repetitive tasks (such as adding several users to multiple security groups)
• Asynchronous operations, which allow users to start a second task before the initial task has completed
• Support for Windows NT (agent only)

Launcher

• Timer that indicates the remaining duration of the user's ticket
• Ability for user to refresh ticket and avoid exiting tool when the login ticket expires
• Simplified licensing to streamline installation

Namespace Manager

• Editing of multiple ACLs simultaneously
• Adding and deleting of more than one object into multiple profiles or multiple groups
• Advanced clearinghouse management
• Search by attributes and object types (for example, search for directories, elements, links)

Security Manager

• Editing of multiple ACLs simultaneously
• Templates for adding, adopting, and editing principals
• Full sorting and filtering capability on the tree view
• Ability to stop and start security replicas
• Ability to update individual organization, group, or principal entries without refreshing the entire security registry

Configuration Manager

• Asynchronous configuration of remote hosts
• Ability to configure read-only CDS or security servers.
• Expanded configuration of DTS clients and servers
• SNMP-based asynchronous notification of core DCE daemon failure