Configurable Web Interface for Launching Applications

NetMan gives you a wide range of options for delivering Windows applications and CD-ROM applications to your end users. In addition to a web interface modeled on the familiar Windows Explorer, applications can be presented in a list or in an alphabetical index. A further option is to call applications from an external web interface. An example of this technique is calling programs from CD-ROM databases in the DBIS system.

NetMan Desktop Manager cannot offer this level of flexibility in web interface configuration; it provides only the Explorer-like interface for launching applications.

Authentication in the Web Interface (LBS, ALEPH, etc.)

Information service providers are always faced with challenges when ensuring that their content is accessible only for authorized users, especially when resources are in CD-ROM/DVD databases and online databases. Furthermore, internal differentiation is usually a requirement stipulated in contracts with database manufacturers for access to data. NetMan gives you the option of performing authentication and authorization against a variety of databases. Authentication against a Windows NT database or an Active Directory are generally the exception, rather than the rule, in such environments.

Specifically, NetMan enables login on the following:

This helps ensure that users can be checked against databases in library environments. NetMan Desktop Manager supports only login on an NT server or a domain.

Simultaneous Use of Per-device and Concurrent-use Licensing

With NetMan you can use both per device and concurrent use licensing schemes simultaneously.

For example, you can assign concurrent-use licenses for remote users and the more economical per-device licenses for in-house workstations. The concurrent-use licensing schemes counts the number of users running NetMan at any one time. This is well suited for use with CD-ROM based information systems, for example, in which many different computers access the system. For computers that constantly run NetMan, the per-seat scheme is easier to use. Thus NetMan is completely adaptable, even in the area of licensing. This support for simultaneous use of both licensing schemes is a new feature in NetMan, starting with version 3.7. NetMan Desktop Manager, on the other hand, supports only per-device licensing.

Integrating e-Resources with HAN

E-resources managed with HAN can be integrated directly in NetMan, in the web interface or in NetMan Desktop Client. This is an integration interface that can be used, for example with HTML View, to integrate CD-ROM/DVD databases, e-journals and online databases into NetMan. Moreover, the user's HTML View login can be passed to HAN automatically.

More informations about Hidden Automatic Navigator (HAN): http://www.hh-han.com

The NetMan Installer

When you use NetMan Installer to monitor an installation on a terminal server or workstation, it can automatically generate packages for automatic distribution of the applications installed. To do this, NetMan Installer creates SnapShots of the system in question both before and after installation, and then runs a detailed comparison to determine all system changes that resulted from the installation. NetMan Installer is available exclusively as a module for NetMan.