Preface

SCO Doctor™

has been created as a genuinely automated utility, which not only monitors but manages your system, differentiating causes and selecting appropriate cures. SCO Doctor's intelligent Inference Engine administers your system proactively instead of reactively by identifying and solving problems before they become critical. Extensive data capture facilities allow you to analyze any system parameter through the graphical doctor interface or via detailed, color reports which help you to assess usage trends.

SCO Doctor for Networks™

is an enhanced version of SCO Doctor capable of managing large installations of up to several thousand systems over a LAN or a WAN. Incorporating centralized control and clear graphical presentation of multiple systems, SCO Doctor for Networks considerably reduces the systems management load of network administrators and support staff. It also provides file transfer facilities, remote command execution, remote control and system deployment. As a result, support staff can accurately plot usage trends, compare one system against another, remotely install software, and effectively control operations at any number of distant stations within the network. Unlike other systems management tools, SCO Doctor for Networks is efficient, cost effective and runs over low-speed, dial-up modems.

SCO Doctor Documentation

gives you the confidence to use SCO Doctor to assist you with the complete management of your systems. This User Guide contains everything you need to know to use and operate SCO Doctor to its full capacity.

Chapter 1, ``Getting Started'' provides a good review of the product. Subsequent chapters elaborate the various features of SCO Doctor.
All information specific to Doctor for Networks is contained in Chapter 11, ``SCO Doctor for Networks'' and Chapter 12, ``Communications Over a Network'' .
The SCO Doctor Release and Installation Notes provide the information regarding the installation and removal of the product as well as known limitations and workarounds.
The SCO Doctor Technical Reference documents all components of SCO Doctor and gives low level configuration options to customize SCO Doctor to your requirements.