Siemens V4.0 10.6 Using WINS Manager

Implementing WINS Using WINS Manager

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10.6 Using WINS Manager

To use WINS Manager, both Advanced Server and WINS must be running. Use WINS

Manager to view and change parameters for any WINS server on the network for which you

have Administrator privileges. WINS Manager Help is organized to provide inform ation for

each of the specific administrative and configuration tasks that you need to per form to

manage WINS servers. See WINS Manager Help for specific task li sts and instructions.

WINS Manager allows you to view administrative and operational infor mation about WINS

servers. When you open WINS Manager, the title bar shows the IP address or computer

name for the currently selected server, depending on whether you used the address or

name to connect to the server. The right pane displays basic statistics about the selected

WINS server.

For detailed information about the fields displayed see Windows NT Help.

You will want to configure multiple WINS servers on your network to increase the availability

and balance the load among servers. When using multiple servers, each WINS server

should be configured with at least one other WINS server as its replication p artner. You

should have multiple WINS servers installed on your network for t he following reasons:

●To distribute NetBIOS computer name query and registration processing load.

●To provide WINS database redundancy, backup, and disaster recovery.

Configuring a WINS server includes specifying information about when databas e entries

are replicated between partners. A pull partner is a WINS server that pulls in replicas of

database entries from its partner by requesting and then accepting re plicas. A push partner

is a WINS server that sends update notification messages to its partner when i ts WINS

database has changed. When its partner responds to the notification with a repl ication

request, the push partner sends copies of changed records of its current WINS database

to the partner.

For each WINS server, you must configure threshold intervals for triggering database repli-

cation, based on a specific time, a time period, or a certain number of new re cords. If you

designate a specific time for replication, this occurs one time only. If a time period is

specified, replication is repeated at that interval.