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General comments

IMPORTANT NOTE: All Razor administration MUST be performed via the Razor program group utilizing the various programs items. Don't mix modes and slip into Windows to do things.

The majority of work will be done with either the GUI Razor Admin tool, or one of the provided shells. If you choose to administer Razor using a shell, it is recommended that the "Razor csh"¹ be used since that is the assumed environment for all examples.

The shells are POSIX compliant versions of the c shell and the korn shell and, therefore, require POSIX compliant shell syntax. Of particular importance is the syntax used to represent drive letters, namely //<drive_letter>/. For example, the /tmp directory of drive D: is known as //D/tmp. Referring to "/" simply means the top level of the current drive. When providing a fullpath (i.e. when creating a new Razor database), it is important to include the drive letter, otherwise, the path will be relative to current drive rather than a fullpath. ALWAYS use upper case when providing the drive letter.

The system wide environment parameters, RAZOR_HOME and RAZOR_LICENSE_DIR, are established during installation. Parameter RAZOR_HOME points to the location of the Razor binaries, scripts, help files, etc. Parameter RAZOR_LICENSE_DIR points to the directory containing the license file, etc. The other important environment parameter is RAZOR_UNIVERSE_DIR. This parameter points to one of any number of databases. These environment variables are used internally by the various Razor binaries and scripts.

Starting one of the shells is as simple as double-clicking over the appropriate shortcut in the Razor program group or selecting one via the Start menu (Start->Programs->Razor...).

The Razor program group

Once the installation process is complete, the following program items will be available:

• Razor Admin
• Razor csh (c shell)
• Razor ksh (korn shell)
• Start License Manager
• Stop License Manager
• Start Syslog Manager
• Stop Syslog Manager
• Shortcut to Services (Shortcut to NT Services panel)

Razor Admin is a GUI interface to Razor's administrative functions, such as starting and stopping the license manager and database server. The Razor csh and Razor ksh each start the requested shell. These are POSIX-compliant versions of the c shell and the korn shell. Much of the administration of Razor will be done from either the Razor Admin tool or one of these shells.

Program items "Start License Manager" and "Stop License Manager" as well as "Start Syslog Manager" and "Stop Syslog Manager" are provided as a convenience to the Razor Administrator. The same control is provided via the NT Services panel as well as the Razor Admin tool. You most likely will not need these as the functionality is provided in a nice package in Razor Admin.

Program item "Shortcut to Services" is provided as another convenience to the Razor administrator and does nothing more than popup the NT Services panel.

¹ This shell is available from the Razor group via the Start menu or from the Razor program group folder.