Offline Area Manager
Offline areas are shared directories that are used to transfer data from and relay instructions to Clients.
Vector AM automatically creates an offline area when you create a new Site; you can also add additional
offline areas to Sites to help distribute the work of collecting Client data across your network.
Use the Offline Area Manager to view the details of the offline areas assigned to the Site selected in
the Vector AM Console and to manage the Client directories associated with each of the Site's offline
areas.
To open the Offline Area Manager, right-click the Offline Areas folder in the Console tree and choose
Manage Offline Area.
The Offline Areas List
The list contains the details of all the offline areas in the currently selected Site. To display
the directories in an offline area, select its entry in the list.
The offline areas list displays the following information:
Location The directory path of the offline area.
Directories The total number directories in the offline area.
Registered clients The number of Clients that use the offline area.
Size The total size of the files in the offline area.
Metering data If you selected the Include obsolete metering data option in the Analyze
Site Offline Areas dialog, this field displays how much of each offline area's stored metering data
exceeds the age specified in the Show metering data older than field.
Client kit Shows whether the Client kit settings have been changed since the offline area was
created.
Unused directories lists any directories that are not in use if you selected the Include
unused directories option in the Analyze Site Offline Areas dialog.
Status Specifies whether the offline area is currently accessible to your Console.
To manage an offline area, right-click its entry and choose an option in the .
Select:
Explore Offline Area to display the selected offline area in Windows Explorer.
Delete Metering Data to delete old software metering data from all Clients in the offline area.
(Software metering data is automatically deleted from offline areas after the number of days specified
in the Purge client data after how many days field of the Software
Metering Settings dialog. Normally, this option is required only when the software metering collator
has not run.)
Create Dynamic Group to create a group
that contains all Clients assigned to this offline area.
Configure Client Kit to view and edit
the settings of the offline area's Client kit.
Apply Kit Settings to Clients to apply the current Client kit settings to all existing
Clients assigned to this offline area.
Reset Client Kit to reinstate the original default settings of the Client kit.
Modify Offline Areas to create new offline areas or link existing offline areas to the current
Site; to copy the standard Client Kit to an offline area; and to specify the details of accounts with
which Clients, Consoles and Schedulers can access the offline area.
Click Refresh to re-analyze the Site.
The Directories List
When the Vector AM Client first runs on a PC, it automatically creates a subdirectory in the offline area
specified in its Client settings file, and saves the PC's data to that subdirectory. Vector AM uses the
presence of these subdirectories to identify new Clients. The
list displays the details of the subdirectories in the currently selected offline
area.
The Directory list displays the following information for each subdirectory in the selected offline area.
Directory Displays the name of the directory.
Type Specifies how the directory is used.
Client If the directory is used to transfer information to and from a Client, specifies the
name by which the Client is known to the network.
Size The total size of the files in the directory.
Metering data If you selected the Include obsolete metering data option when you opened
the Offline Area Manager, this field displays how much of each Client's stored metering data exceeds the
specified age.
Status Shows the current status of the Client directory.
To work with the directories, right-click an entry and choose an option in the .
Select:
Explore Directory to display the selected directory in Windows Explorer.
Change Offline Area to move the selected Client subdirectory to another offline area. You can
also reassign a Client by dragging and dropping it on an entry in the offline areas list.
Undo Offline Area Change to cancel the previous Client reassignment.
Delete Unused Directory to delete any subdirectories that are not being used by Clients, and
which do not contain a Client kit or an software installation kit.
Delete Metering Data to delete old software metering data from the Client. Vector AM deletes
any data that is older than the number of days specified when you open the Offline Area Manager.
View Client Settings to display the current settings of the selected Client.