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RiverMaster Administrator’s Guide
Appendix A
Glossary
distance phone service, connection to the ISP POP , ISP authentication
settings, and so forth. On the Enterasys Networks Aurorean Policy Server ,
the Prescriptive Diagnostics Engine uses the call home feature to provide an
alternate route that tests end-to-end operation and isolates tunnel problems,
and also allows the remote user to download missing or updated files.
Remote Client/User
A computer user who wants to access data on a corporate network from a
remote location, such as a field office, home office, or temporary lodging.
Remote users working from a fixed location are often referred to as
telecommuters or day-extenders (if they access the network after regular
work hours). Remote users who travel frequently and attempt to access the
network from different locations are often called mobile users.
RiverMaster
A management application running on a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation/2000
Professional computer which communicates with
Aurorean Policy Servers
and Aurorean Network Gateways . Using RiverMaster, a network
administrator creates user databases, sets policies for user groups, views
activity logs, and generates usage reports.
Routers
Devices which direct network traffic among LANs or WANs until the data
reaches its destination. To do this, routers communicate with one another
using dedicated protocols such as IGRP (Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)
and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to transfer information on network
addressing, status, and configuration.
Thread
Described by Microsoft as an executable entity that belongs to a single
process, a thread in Aurorean Client is a login process. In RiverMaster, you
can increase the number of threads to permit more authentications by users
attempting to connect simultaneously. The IR Authentication service is the
only multi-threaded process that can be configured as such in Aurorean
Client.