DUsing RAS Utilities D

Overview

To improve Microsoft Remote Access Service features, several RAS utilities have appeared on the market. This appendix provides a general description of the following popular RAS utilities:

RAS Manager

RasTracker

Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)

RAS Manager

RAS Manager, from NTP Software, is a client/server application that provides full-time control, real-time monitoring, and session-by-session accounting for RAS connections on a user-by-user basis.

RAS Manager enables you to:

Establish and automatically enforce a RAS management policy

Generate RAS use information for your corporate charge back system

Allow or deny RAS access to users

Control the length of RAS sessions

Limit RAS access to specific servers

Specify network peak- and off-hour time limits

Create custom time-remaining online messages

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