Siemens V4.0 manual Using Wins Manager, Viewing Wins Server Status

Implementing WINS Using WINS Manager

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 information for each of the specific administrative and configuration tasks that you need to perform to manage WINS servers. See WINS Manager Help for specific task lists and instructions.

10.6.1 Viewing WINS Server Status

WINS Manager allows you to view administrative and operational information 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.

10.6.2 Configuring WINS Servers and WINS Client Behavior

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 partner. You should have multiple WINS servers installed on your network for the 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 database 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 replicas. A push partner is a WINS server that sends update notification messages to its partner when its WINS database has changed. When its partner responds to the notification with a replication 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 records. 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.

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