The Monitor itself is a separate program that can be used to monitor all jobs submitted to ITP/Server. The Monitor can run on the same machine as ITP/Server or on a remote machine as long as the remote machine is running Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95/98 or up.
The Monitor program's window shows a list of jobs currently submitted to ITP/Server. You can select one or more jobs from this list and perform several operations, such as remove, hold, release and reschedule. You can also retrieve information about the Document Processors that are offered by your ITP/Server setup and retrieve the log. See the Monitor's Help for more information. To perform its tasks the Monitor needs the Connection protocol, a hostname or IP Address and the Port or Pipe to ITP/Server. All of these, except the host's name, are settings on the Monitor tab.
Choose a protocol on this tab either by setting a port or by naming a pipe. Setting both protocols is also possible.
For TCP/IP a port number or symbolic name must be set and security restrictions can be set.
When no security settings are present the default value will be used.
It can be set to one of:
Access is restricted to the local host. Access is restricted to clients running on the host (when using the IP address 127.0.0.1).
No access restrictions.
Network access list. Access is based on a comma-separated list of numerical IP addresses and their network masks. This list can include and/or exclude specific hosts and/or parts of a network. IP addresses are specified in the format n.n.n.n/m where n.n.n.n is the IP number of the host/network and m is the number of bits in the netmask. All bits in this mask must match the IP number for the entry to match. Example: 10.0.0.10 specifies host 10.0.0.10 (with default netmask 255.255.255.255) 10.0.0.10/24 specifies network 10.0.0. with netmask 255.255.255.0. This defines a range of hosts from 10.0.0.0 to 10.0.0.255. 0.0.0.0/0 specifies any IP address.
Hosts can be granted access by prefixing their address with a '+', or denied access by prefixing a '-'. The first match in the access list will determine whether or not ITP/Server will grant access to the client. Example: PortSecurity=-10.0.0.4,10.0.0.0/24,127.0.0.1 will deny access to host 10.0.0.4 but grant access to all other hosts in the range 10.0.0.0 to 10.0.0.255, as well as to the local server using the localhost address.
Default access is restricted to the local host.