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From FD 2.00 and above the connect time of outbound calls is posted to OUTBOUND.HIS. From FD 2.01 and above also the connectiontime of incoming calls is posted to INBOUND.HIS. That makes it possible to calculate the exact costs of using FrontDoor from this files. To calculate the costs with FDHM it is recommended that you have to pay your phonebill on a unit base system !!! If you are running a timebased system where you have to pay a fixed rate for every minute you can properly take the costs from your nodelist setup. Although you can also use FDHM but never run FDHM POST (see below). With FDHM you will have full access to the history files of FrontDoor. You can browse and edit them and FDHM will show you a lot of information normaly not in this files. More than that, if you make changes and calculate the costs you can also see the changes in FrontDoor by pressing alt-o and alt-i. Normaly you will only keep your FrontDoor historyfiles for a short period, say 14 days. And you cannot make a difference in keeping inbound and outbound. With FDHM you can. FDHM is using its own history files named SAVEIN.HIS and SAVEOUT.HIS. These files are 5 time shorter than the original files. Though it should be possible to hold the history of a complete year on your harddisk. F.e. the inbound file on my system with 7000 entries for a period of 160 days only take 150 kB of diskspace. ┌────────┐ │ Points │ └────────┘ Normaly, points should have very low or completely non incoming traffic. You can tell FDHM that your system is a pointsystem. ┌────────────────────┐ │ Where to install ? │ └────────────────────┘ FDHM must find the following files either in the directory you invoke it or in the directory the environment string FD points to: INBOUND.HIS OUTBOUND.HIS PASSWORD.SYS and if you have registered also FD.SYS On startup, FDHM first searches for the inbound files. If not found all functions wich depends on these files are disabled. ┌───────────┐ │ Two Modes │ └───────────┘ FDHM knows two modes: 1. Fullscreen mode You will find the fullscreen mode looking similar to FrontDoors setup program. This way I don't have to say any word on using it. If you already have setup FrontDoor you will fell familar with FDHM. 2. Command mode Syntax: FDHM <keyword> [options] valid keywords are: POST will calculate the exact costs based on your costtable and post them into FrontDoors history files. PACK all new entries in FrontDoor files not already in the FDHM files are copied. DO *NOT* change the timestamp of the SAVE* files. You will see that the timestamp represents the last entry prozessed in the FrontDoor files. DAYREP write out a dayly report. Without options, FDHM will take the actual day. The default filename is TREPORT.TXT Options: -t<days> Example: -t1 will write the report for yesterday. -f<filename> MONTHREP write out a monthly report. Without options, FDHM will write a report for the actual month. The default filename is MREPORT.TXT Options: -m<months> difference in months Example: -m5 will write the report for the month 5 month before now. If this was in the last year FDHM will take it in account. -f<filename> You can combinine all options on one line with the exception that -f is valid for the last report file. Though it's possible to write: FDHM POST PACK MONTHREP DAYREP -t1 -fyesterd.rep It is recommended to run FDHM POST PACK once a day !!! ┌───────┐ │ Setup │ └───────┘ Setting up FDHM should normaly be done in less than 10 minutes if you follow the instructions given below. Defaults: ───────── Address - a network address taken for the default input on every place you have to enter addressen. This should allow you to use short form input where f.e. 1 will be replaced with zone:net/1 Unit - the costs of one unit Overlay - modems with MNP require a short time to figure out if the other end can also use MNP. While this time is not honored by the CONNECT message you can set it up here. 3-5 seconds should be a good value for a HST modem. Mydefault - default timezone for nodes in your own zone Othdefault - default timezone for node in foreighn zones Startlow - time when phonecalls get cheap Endlow - time when phonecalls get exspensive SaveDay - default inputvalue for cleaning the FDHM files FDDays - default inputvalue for cleaning the FrontDoor history files RegNo. - your registration number Timezones: ────────── You can enter up to 10 timezones. Name - a string that represents the name of the zone. Low - the time in seconds you can call for ONE unit if phonerates are cheap. F.e. this is 720 for germany while you can phone 12 minutes with one unit. High - same as before but for exspencive rates Nodemanager: ──────────── You can enter up to 500 nodes in the nodemanager. While FDHM is using wildcards in an extensive way you normaly have to put in only a very few nodes. Please take in account the the nodemanager is coupled with the default fields. That will make it very fast set it up. The fastest way is to set it up in groups for every timezone. Put this timezone as default and setup the node. Remember that you can use short the addressing form ! A -1 has the meaning of 'All' though 1:-1/-1 should represent thousands of nodes in fidozone 1. To show you the logic of FDHM let's make a short example: 2:241/5800 local -- that's me 2:241/5802 local 2:241/5804 local 2:241/5806 local 2:242/1 local 2:245/60 local 2:241/0 50km zone 2:241/1 50km zone 2:240/-1 Germany 2:241/-1 Germany 2:-1/-1 Europe 1:-1/-1 Overseas 3:-1/-1 Overseas now we are searching for: 2:241/5800.2 found, local (see below) 2:241/5802 found, local, completely defined 2:241/7000 found, Germany, because 2:241/-1 2:512/1 found, Europe, because 2:-1/-1 1:380/15 found, Overseas, because 1:-1/-1 FDHM will find all of your points if you define your own nodenumber. Everytime you leave the nodemanage all entries are sorted in the form: timezone - net - node. A good way to see if your setup is complete is to got to the history files of FrontDoor and look if the timezone is listed when you press enter on various entries. ┌─────────────────┐ │ Inbound Costs ? │ └─────────────────┘ It should be clear, that there are no real costs for your inbound mail traffic. The costs listed in the inbound files are the costs of the caller, not yours. This way you have a good overview how much money your phonecompany makes with your system. And if you can follow the costs for a special node, you can take over to send the mail to this node if he is paying you the phonebill. This is a good thing if someone is on vacation and does not want to make his system outgoing calls. ┌──────────┐ │ Cleaning │ └──────────┘ FDHM allows you to cleanup every history file seperatly. Unlike in FrontDoor you can manage to get the same size for both FrontDoor files. F.e. I'm normaly running my FD under Desqview in a small window. Everytime I invoke the internal manager of FrontDoor it tells me that there is not enough memory to load the entire inbound file. Running FDHM PACK every day, I can set FrontDoor's 'days to keep history' to a very short value that allows me to look at the complete inbound file. In order to make life easier FDHM will insert the values from the defaultentries if you invoke an option. Replacing: To prevent miscalculation if a nodenumber changes during a period of calculation you can replace the old nodenumber with the new one. ┌──────────┐ │ Graphics │ └──────────┘ Nothing to say about - enjoy. ┌─────────┐ │ Reports │ └─────────┘ Only one note: To prevent FDHM to write out the statistics for inbound calls you can setup FDHM into 'Pointmode'. Go to 'Setup-Defaults' and enter an address with a pointnumber. You will see [Pointmode] now in this window. To change back, just press enter twice on the address. Now play with the reports.