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Connecting to a Server Automatically

If you want to establish a connection with the same set of servers each time you run the client, you can use NerveCenter's Autoconnect feature.

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   Before you activate the Autoconnect feature, you might want to manually connect to the NerveCenter Server, to verify that you can indeed access the server.

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  To set up a list of servers to which you'll connect at startup:

1. From the client's Client menu, choose Configuration.

   The Client Configuration dialog displays.

   

2. Enter the hostname or IP address of the server to which you want to connect in the Server Name field.
3. Generally, you'll leave the default value in the Server Port field.

   However, if the administrator who configured the server you want to connect to has changed the server port to be used for client/server communication, you must enter the new port number here. The NerveCenter Client uses this same port number for every NerveCenter Server to which it attempts to connect.

4. Check the Autoconnect checkbox.
5. Type a user name and password in the User ID and Password fields, or leave these fields blank.

   If you're running the client on a Windows machine and you want to connect to a NerveCenter server using the same user name and password you used to log in to Windows, you can leave these fields blank. Otherwise, you must enter a user name and password. The user whose name you enter here must be a member of the NerveCenter Users or NerveCenter Admins group (Windows) or the ncusers or ncadmins group (UNIX).

   On UNIX, if you have activated Autoconnect and your password changes, you must manually update your password in the Client Configuration dialog box for the Autoconnect feature to work. For the Autoconnect feature, NerveCenter does not update your password automatically.

6. Select the Add button.

   The server's name and automatic-connection status are displayed in the list near the bottom of the window.

7. Repeat step 2 through step 6 for each server you want to connect to automatically.
8. Select the OK button.

When you restart and log on to the client, you will be connected to the servers that have an Autoconnect status of On. Alternatively, you can connect, or reconnect, to these servers by selecting Autoconnect from the client's Server menu.