ViewPoint Software Components

The ViewPoint software program consists of several different components. These components include: MySQL Database, Tomcat Web server, a syslog server, and SonicWALL ViewPoint software files.

MySQL Database

MySQL is a relational database management system. It is open source software that uses SQL, or Structured Query Language, the most common standardized language used to access databases. To learn more about the MySQL database system, visit http://www.mysql.com.

Tomcat Web Server

Tomcat is a Web server and Java servlet engine developed by the Apache Software Foundation. More specifically, Tom- cat is a Java server that invokes servlets when JSP pages are requested. To learn more about Tomcat software or the Apache Software Foundation, visit http://www.apache.org.

SonicWALL ViewPoint Software

SonicWALL ViewPoint software includes proprietary HTML, Java and servlet files as well as a Syslog Daemon. The SonicWALL Syslog Daemon receives syslog messages from a SonicWALL Internet security appliance on UDP port 514 and then forwards the messages to the MySQL database.

ViewPoint software operates on Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 or greater.

Active ViewPoint Services

For maintenance or other reasons, it may be necessary to start or stop ViewPoint services. ViewPoint-related services in the "Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services" directory include ViewPoint, Syslogd, and MySql.

Processes initiated by ViewPoint that appear in the Windows Task Manager include mysqld-nt.exe, java.exe, syslogd.exe, and srvany.exe.

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