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Title:	Zap Technical Conference
Notice:	ZAP Version 5.3 is available. See note 1.1
Moderator:	ZAPDEV::MACONI

Created:	Mon Feb 24 1986
Last Modified:	Mon May 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	170
Total number of notes:	492

122.0. "pathworks and zap" by OTOOA::ESKICIOGLU (Never smile at a crocodile) Thu Nov 05 1992 08:45

    
    
    How does ZAP treat PC users integrated with PATHWORKS ?
    
    I have installed ZAP at a couple of customer sites before and both
    myself and the customers were impressed with its capabilities. It does
    what it is advertised to do and the various options for time slots
    process exclusions are great.
    
    Now, my new site is inquiring about ZAP, but I don't know how ZAP will
    behave in their environment. They don't have any users on the server.
    All of their 30 users are pathworks clients. Will they get the same
    functionality from ZAP or will ZAP start zapping busy pc users thinking
    that they are idle ?
    
    Also, can ZAP be used to free DECserver ports from inactive
    connections. In this case the concern is not VMS resources or
    VMS security, they are just trying to economize the usage of their
    very precious 8 ports. 
    
    Thanks a bunch
    
    Lale

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122.1 ZAP and Pathworks should have no problems ZAPDEV::MACONI The Doctor is In Fri Nov 06 1992 08:49 13

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122.1	ZAP and Pathworks should have no problems	ZAPDEV::MACONI	The Doctor is In	`Fri Nov 06 1992 08:49`	13
	We utilize Pathworks and Xcursion at our site and have had no problems with ZAP killing off non-idle processes. We do not run ZAP on our dedicated Pathworks server, but since there are no users logging into that system, we do not need to. ZAP should have no problem in handling your Pathworks users as long as it is set up correctly. One thing to remember is that ZAP will not be able to know that multiple connections from the same PC are the same user and will disconnect each one independently. Other than that, there is very little difference for ZAP if the remote system is a PC, VAX or RISC system. Keith Maconi

	We utilize Pathworks and Xcursion at our site and have had no problems
with ZAP killing off non-idle processes.  We do not run ZAP on our dedicated
Pathworks server, but since there are no users logging into that system, we do
not need to.

	ZAP should have no problem in handling your Pathworks users as long as
it is set up correctly.  One thing to remember is that ZAP will not be able to
know that multiple connections from the same PC are the same user and will
disconnect each one independently.  Other than that, there is very little
difference for ZAP if the remote system is a PC, VAX or RISC system.

						Keith Maconi