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Table Of Contents
- Symantec pcAnywhere™ Administrator's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
- 2. Creating custom installation packages
- 3. Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
- 4. Performing centralized management
- About centralized management
- Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
- Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
- Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC
- Creating a configuration group
- Adding computers to a configuration group
- Configuring administrator host and remote connection items
- Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator
- Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files
- Managing hosts in a configuration group
- Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
- About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- About centralized logging
- 5. Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services
- 6. Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
- Index
For more information, consult the dcomcnfg.exe online documentation.
To modify DCOM settings
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In Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista, open the \WinNT\System32 folder,
and then run dcomcnfg.exe.
About AwShim
AwShim is the management component that bridges pcAnywhere and the
centralized management integration. The pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
uses AwShim to start and stop host and remote sessions. For each action, you can
assign specific host or remote configuration files.
AwShim uses the following parameters:
■ -A Action
■ -B Bhf File Name
■ -C Chf File Name
■ -H HostName on which to perform action
■ -R Remote machine to which to connect
Supported actions with the -A parameter are as follows:
■ STARTHOST
■ STARTREMOTE
■ STOPHOST
The -B and -C parameters specify the Be a Host and Call a Host items that are
contained in the CMS folder in the pcAnywhere directory.
The -H parameter identifies the name or address of the host computer on which
the action is performed.
The -R parameter is only used with STARTREMOTE to specify the name of the
host computer to which the remote connects. Whenever a remote is started, all
connection parameters specified in the CHF file are used, with the exception of
the host computer address. This address must be specified with the -R parameter.
When a password-protected connection item is run on a managed computer, the
password prompt appears only on the managed computer. The password prompt
is not displayed on the computer from which the administrator initiated the action.
71Performing centralized management
About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)