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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