We experienced some minor but annoying installation glitches. The Windows 98 station acting as the administrator console came up with errors when starting the program, and we had to reboot it. Elron should reboot by default instead of giving you the option to run the program immediately. We also had to manually add the batch file that starts the NetWare server portions of SofTrack to the NetWare start-up batch file. Clients are tracked through their NDS activity, so use of server-based applications is monitored immediately.
Local applications require a local program to run and report back to the server.
A check box tells SofTrack to alert the network manager when local control files are bypassed, allowing nonmetered access to local applications. The manual says the program can't track DOS applications within a Windows DOS box, but SofTrack immediately caught our 3C5x9CFG.EXE network board configuration DOS program within a Windows 95 client. You can select applications to monitor from a list of programs discovered by the SofTrack servers, or you can type application executable files by hand. If your client applications are stored on local and network drives, you must add a client program to track local files and monitor them separately. Reports cover a variety of management details and are based on log files stored by SofTrack.