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 Offline Area 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.

To manage an offline area, right-click its entry and choose an option in the menu.

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 Directories list displays the details of the subdirectories in the currently selected offline area.

To work with the directories, right-click an entry and choose an option in the menu.