To open the Settings window, open the main command menu and click on the Goverlan Option button (next to the Exit Application button.) You can also click on the Application Option button located in the top right corner of the application.
Set container focus - Used by the Administration & Diagnostic feature. Goverlan can remember the containers you last opened and reset the focus to them when it opens. You can also select to have Goverlan set the container focus on particular containers regardless of the last opened containers.
Mouse Scroll Wheel - Defines the scrolling speed of miscellaneous list views in Goverlan.
Disable user interface - Miscellaneous options to make the interface more responsive with slow computers.
Configure the behavior to adopt when Goverlan establishes a connection to a remote machine which is not equipped with the Goverlan Agents or is equipped with a different version of the Goverlan Agents. A different behavior can be configured for the Administration & Diagnostic feature and for the Scope Action feature.
For more information, see Goverlan Agents.
These options allow you to configure the colors to be used for each view in the Administration & Diagnostic feature.
Communication Port - Modify the TCP socket port used by Goverlan to communicate with the Goverlan Agents on a remote machine. For more information, see Modifying the Communication Port.
Always test connectivity - Goverlan always sends a ping to a remote machine before attempting to connect to it. If the ping is not answered, the remote machine is considered unreachable. This paradigm is implemented to avoid waiting for the configured network time out which is usually lengthy. The Time Out value is the number of seconds Goverlan waits for a ping answer before assuming the remote machine is unreachable.
Note: If your firewall infrastructure doesn't allow pings, you need to turn this option off.
Resolve IP addresses to NetBIOS names - Enable to have Goverlan automatically resolve an IP address to a NetBIOS name when appropriate. Disable to prevent Goverlan from resolving IP addresses.
Convert computer names to DNS names - Enable to have Goverlan automatically convert a computer name to it's DNS name. This feature may use reverse name resolution. Disable this option if some machine names are resolved to incorrect DNS names.
Optimize Goverlan for slow connections - Enable if the Goverlan Management Console is installed on a computer connected to the network over a slow link. When enabled, some features behave differently to limit network bandwidth usage.
Goverlan can automatically prompt you for alternate credentials if you are undertaking an action with a user account which doesn't hold enough privileges to complete it. To enable this feature, check Automatically prompt for alternate credentials.
You can use the Credential Manager to view, modify, add or delete alternate credentials.
For more information, see Using Alternate Credentials.
Forest Manager - If Goverlan failed to detect your active directory forest or doesn't detect an Active Directory forest that you need to administer, use the Forest Manager. In most cases, you do not need to use the Forest Manager. For more information, see Working in a Multi-Forest environment.
Don't look for NT Domains - Enable to prevent Goverlan from listing Windows NT domains. If you do not have Windows NT domains, enabling this option will increase the start time of Goverlan.
Don't look for Active Directory - Enable to prevent Goverlan from listing Active Directory domains.
Sort Active Directory result sets - When you query the objects contained within an Active Directory container, they are returned in the order they were created. Enable this option to have the result set sorted before it is displayed.
Note: For some network configurations, enabling sorting will result in failed attempts when listing objects in an active directory container. In such cases, disable this option.
Object Query Page Size - If your Active Directory Containers contain large number of objects, increase this value to speed-up opening these containers. This value should be set to about 1/10th of the total number of objects in the largest container of your domain.
Enable DFS shares detection - Enable if your users are configured with a roaming profile path which points to a DFS share.
Enable Terminal Services Profile Paths - Enable if your users are configured with a Terminal Services roaming profile path.
Query and display OS information - When using the Computers view, Goverlan sends a small network call to all machines visible in the view to query its status and OS information (see Managing Computers - Overview). To prevent Goverlan from querying information on all visible computer objects, disable this option.
Note: If you disable this option, the status and OS information of remote machines are not displayed.
Automatically update the Wake On LAN cache - The Wake On LAN feature requires a machine's MAC address in order to send a WOL message. Since the MAC address of a machine cannot be queried if the machine is not accessible, Goverlan keeps a cache of all resolved MAC Addresses for an IP (see Wake On LAN). In order to keep a more accurate Wake On LAN cache, Goverlan can automatically execute an IP to MAC address resolution for each computer visible in the Machines view. This is done as an additional step when querying statuses and OS information as mentioned above.
To disable automatic Wake On LAN Cache updates, disable this option. Note: This option is automatically disabled if the Query and display OS information option is disabled.
To access and manage the Wake On LAN Cache, click on the Wake On LAN Cache Manager link.
Use common Favorites database - Enable this option if you want a common Favorites database to be used by Goverlan, Goverlan Remote Control and WMIX.
These are the directories used by the Goverlan Application. Make sure that the configured directories are accessible and can be written into by Goverlan.
Application Data - Defines the directory used by Goverlan to store miscellaneous data. For instance, this directory is used to store custom action, custom controls and scope action definition files.
Application Shared Data - Defines a network resource path used to store information about objects which can be shared (such as custom controls and custom actions). This is optional.
Output Data - Defines the directory used by Goverlan to store output data files. For instance, this path is used as the default location to store Scope Action report and log files.
Temporary Data - Defines the directory used by Goverlan to store temporary data files.