Send Message
KeyConfigure allows an administrator to send a bulletin message to a
specific user, or to all users. This feature may be useful if you want
to send important information to users. For example, you may want to
inform users of a new program which is supported by KeyServer.
Selecting Send Message... from the Admin
menu will bring up a dialog to send a message to all users. You can
also get this dialog by right-clicking in the list of users in the
Users Window, without having a specific user selected, and selecting
Send Message to All...
You can send a message to a specific user
by right-clicking on the user in the Users Window and selecting
Send Message...
At the top of the dialog, you will see either Message to All Users
or Message to: username depending on whether you are
sending a bulleting to all users or just one user. Following that is a text field where you
can type the message you wish to send. Clicking OK will send the message
to the user (or all users).
The following macros may be placed in the message, and
KeyAccess will replace them with the appropriate values:
- ^d
- date on active KeyServer
- ^D
- date on local (KeyAccess) computer
- ^f
- "KeyAccess" (name of client software at start up time)
- ^n
- network name of active KeyServer
- ^t
- time on active KeyServer, shown in local (KeyAccess) time zone
- ^T
- time on local (KeyAccess) computer
- ^u
- name of user
- ^^
- single caret ("^")
Additionally, there are two Emergency Options in the lower
left of the dialog. Normally, you should not need to use either of these options.
- The Send All Bulletins Immediately option is only available when
you are sending a bulletin to all users. It will cause all messages to be
sent immediately, instead of sending the message to one client at a time.
This option will only make a difference at large sites. On small sites,
the time required to send each message one by one is hardly slower than
the time required to send all at once.
- The Force Immediate Disconnect option will cause
KeyAccess on any computer that receives
the message to immediately disconnect. After doing this, all running programs
on the client computer will continue to run, regardless of whether they
are controlled or not, and even whether they are keyed or not. New
launches of unkeyed programs will immediately succeed, and new launches
of keyed programs will cause KeyAccess to reconnect to the KeyServer,
in order to request a license. KeyAccess will also reconnect to KeyServer
if the client computer is restarted.
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Do not depend on this message system to deliver crucial messages! Although the
KeyServer guarantees delivery to all users who have a good network connection
to the KeyServer, they may be away from their computer when the message
arrives. Users who have configured their KeyAccess to
Remove messages after 5 minutes will
miss the message if they are away from their computer for more than five
minutes.
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