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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.
-
- The benefits of this procedure are:
-
- 1) You can run SetupIM only once to get IM installed for most users,
- yet anyone who wishes to can configure IM to work exactly the way
- they want by running SetupIM on their workstation.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-
- SUGGESTED INSTALLATION:
-
- 1) Copy IM*.* and SETUPIM.EXE to a directory 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.
-
- (If your LAN is configured without shared executable directories,
- just copy IM.EXE to a directory on the DOS path of each
- workstation).
-
- 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
- usually partitioned as a 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.
-
- 3) Move the IM.PRM file created in step 2 to the shared directory
- where the IM.EXE file is located. This now allows all PCs that
- have a compatible configuration to execute IM and allows you to
- quickly upgrade new versions of IM by simply copying the IM.EXE
- file over the old one.
-
- 4) If you have workstations with incompatible configurations or users
- with special needs, you can run SetupIM separately on those
- workstations. This will create an IM.PRM file in that directory.
- The user of that PC 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 handy to install a batch file in a directory on
- DOS path of the workstation to make sure that the local copy of
- IM.PRM is always used. The batch file contains this line:
-
- IM C:\LOCAL\IM.PRM %1 %2 %3 %4 %4 %5 %6
-
- ("C:\LOCAL\IM.PRM" could be any disk, directory or file name.)
-
- 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.
-
- 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.)
-
-
- SUGGESTED USAGE:
-
- 1) Setup each workstation so that it runs a daily "quick integrity
- update". The IMQ.BAT file contains some statements that can be
- inserted into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file or elsewhere to make sure this
- happens. (Or IMQ can be run directly) Some people think it's
- wiser 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 integrity
- update will catch most viruses and system problems since it checks
- the system sectors, all directories, and all changed files. If
- you are not interested in data integrity, you can substitute a virus
- scan for this step ("IM /VO").
-
- 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.
-
- 3) A full integrity check should be run at intervals on each
- workstation. Once a week seems to be the most popular interval.
- We strongly suggest you subscribe to our automatic update service
- so that your copy of IM will always recognize the latest viruses
- by name and characteristic.
-
-