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Connecting Administrator to a NerveCenter Server

Before you can use the NerveCenter Administrator, you must connect to a NerveCenter Server. The NerveCenter Server provides the functionality required to manage your network. Also, it gives the NerveCenter Administrator access to the settings found in the NerveCenter database.

You can connect your NerveCenter Administrator to more than one server at one time. However, only one NerveCenter Server can be the active server at a time. The active server determines which NerveCenter database is used when you are configuring settings.

 
  To connect a NerveCenter Administrator to a NerveCenter Server:

1. Open NerveCenter Administrator. See "Starting NerveCenter Administrator" on page 48.
2. From the Server menu, select Connect Server.

   

   The Connect to Server window is displayed.

   The Connect to Server Window in NerveCenter Administrator

   

3. Do one of the following:
   1. If this is the first time connecting to the NerveCenter Server, type in the Server Name field the hostname or IP address of the machine on which the NerveCenter Server is running.
   2. If you have connected to the server before, select the name or IP address from the Server Name list.

      The first time you connect to a server, the list is empty. After that, it contains a list of the machines to which you've connected, or attempted to connect, in the past. The list will not display the names of machines to which this NerveCenter Administrator is already connected. (For information on removing an entry from the Server Name list, see the section Deleting a Name from the Administrator's Server List.)

4. In the User ID and Password fields, type an appropriate user name and password or leave these fields blank.

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   Tip    If you are running NerveCenter Administrator on a Windows NT machine and you want to connect to a NerveCenter Server using the same user name and password you used to log in to Windows NT, you can leave these fields blank. Otherwise, you must enter a user name and password.

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5. Select Connect.

   If the machine to which you try to connect is not running a NerveCenter Server, you will see the message: The server did not respond.You must first start the NerveCenter Server and then try to connect again. See Running the NerveCenter Server for more details.

When the NerveCenter Administrator connects to a NerveCenter Server, the Administrator window for that server appears.

The Administrator Window for an Active NerveCenter Server