                                 Total Control Manager 5.5.0
				  -- Release Notes --


This file describes:

 1. The MANDATORY actions you must take to complete the installation of TCM

 2. Description of the contents of the TCM Distribution CD

 3. The location of the updated TCM Help file.

Please refer to the TCM Installation Guide and Chapter 3 of the TCM Reference
Manual for more information regarding the "SERVICES" and "HOSTS" files
discussed in the sections below.

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MANDATORY actions to complete the installation of Total Control Manager
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Before you install TCM 5.5.x, you must uninstall the previous version of TCM
if there is any. Click on the "Start" button, open the "USR Management
Applications" folder and run "Uninstall Total Control Manager". It will remove
all old files used by TCM from you system.

Once the automated installation completes, you must perform the following
steps to ensure the proper set up for the Accounting/Logging server.

TCM's Accounting/Logging capabilities use UDP port 1646 and hence must be 
registered as a TCP/IP SERVICE.

1. If you already have a TCP/IP SERVICE file, add the following line to 
   your file:

	radacct  1646/udp

   Then skip to step 3

2. Establish a SERVICES file using \nms\bin\net\SERVICES.SMP as a sample:

   a. Create a directory to hold the TCP configuration files, 
      such as c:\net\tcp.

   b. Add the following line to your NET.CFG file:

	PATH TCP_CFG    c:\net\tcp

   c. Copy \nms\bin\net\SERVICES.SMP to the TCP configuration directory as 
      SERVICES(with no extension).

3. Exit windows and reboot your computer so that your system recognizes the
   new TCP/IP service.


U. S. Robotics management applications are 100% compatible with Novell's WINSOCK.DLL. The WINSOCK.DLL  shipped with other products may be incompatible with the WINSOCK.DLL shipped by U.S. Robotics. Another
WINSOCK.DLL can cause the Accounting Server to fail to locate the SERVICES file.
The Accounting Server then reports the error message:

 "Could not locate entry for ---- in the SERVICES file"

To correct the problem , be sure that the U.S. Robotics' WINSOCK.DLL is loaded , rather than another WINSOCK.DLL . One way to do this is to place a WINSOCK.DLL in the directory with the Accounting Server , and to run the Accounting Server before any other application that uses WINSOCK.DLL



