| The IntranetManager is a
freeware-program. Its main purpose is to let it
connect your Intranet to the Internet without the
need of a special router or a gateway-computer,
that has to be on all the time. It has some
basic features, as can be found in alot of simple
freeware-programs:
- Collecting of the time being online
The IntranetManager monitors your Dialup-Network
(RAS) and collects information about your
connection times.
- Proxy-Server
If you have a small intranet,
IntranetManager offers the services of a
Proxy-Server. It can act as a standard
http-, ftp-, pop3 and Socks5-Proxy, but
it can also pass-through connections on a
given port to another address.
- Email-notification
The IntranetManager monitors some of your
mailboxes for new email and playes a
soundfile as a notification.
Now you may ask, what is so special about the
IntranetManager? Here it comes:
- Intranet-wide collecting of the time
being online
If you have a network, where some
computers have the ability to dial-up to
your Internet-provider, you want to know
when which computer has been online. That
is where the IntranetManager comes in: If
it is installed on all computers, it now
only locally monitors your Dialup-Network,
but it also promotes this information in
the Intranet. It does this transparently
in the background. All you have to do is
to power on some computers at the same
time, so the local IntranetManagers can
share their information.
- Intelligent Proxy-Server
As you know from the last paragraph, the
IntranetManager promotes its information
about the Dialup-Network through your
Intranet. So the IntranetManager knows,
which computer is online (or not) at a
given time. The integrated Proxy-Server
now forwards all Internet-Traffic in your
Intranet to the computer that is online.
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