Requirements to Run Message Manager

Software and Hardware Requirements

For Message Manager 4.5 and later, the following minimum requirements are necessary to support Message Manager:

• Minimum of a 486, 66 MHz PC with 16 MB of RAM and 19 MB of available hard disk storage (assuming a Personal Address Book with 400 entries).

  Exceptions include:

  • The tutorial requires an additional 10 MB of disk storage.

  • Possible additional RAM is needed by your operating system for better performance (for example, 32 MB of RAM for Windows NT).

• VGA or higher monitor (color recommended)

• LAN interface card

• Windows Sockets (WINSOCK.DLL) access to TCP/IP (either through a NetWare Loadable Module or a TCP/IP protocol stack)

• Recommended: Mouse supported by Microsoft Windows

• Optional Equipment:

  • Speaker Phone

  • Telephone headset

  • A Microsoft Windows-compatible soundcard with speakers

  • A microphone, or a computer headset for hands-free operation

One of the following compatible operating systems:

• Windows XP

• Windows 2000

• Windows Millennium Edition

• Windows NT Version 3.51, with Service Pack 5

• Windows NT Version 4.0

• Windows 95

• Windows 98

LAN and the Messaging Server Requirements

Requirements for the local area network (LAN) include:

• LAN configuration that provides TCP/IP transport between the messaging server and client PC

• Ethernet network with valid physical connection: either Gigabit Ethernet, 100BaseT, 10BaseT, 10Base2 (thin coax), or 10 Base5 (thick coax) for a messaging server

• A customer-provided router or other device to convert token-ring protocol to the required Ethernet protocol if Message Manager is to communicate with a token-ring network

Internet Messaging Requirements

Message Manager uses Internet Messaging to send email over the Internet. Internet Messaging requires:

• Communication Manager Messaging R5.0 or later

• Internet Messaging for the messaging software and site license

• Two dedicated trusted servers (automatically installed on a new messaging system)

• Professional Services (highly recommended) for consultation and implementation assistance.

System Capacity

The following system capacities apply:

• Up to 300 clients can be registered at one time. A client is registered when a subscriber starts the client application from a PC, which invokes a TCP/IP session. (Subscribers must exit the client application to "unregister" the client.)

• Up to 64 messaging login sessions can be in progress at any one time, depending on the messaging platform used. A messaging login session starts when a subscriber logs into a messaging mailbox from a PC. The messaging software terminates a login session if a session has been inactive for the amount of time set in the LAN Session Timeout field on the System-Parameters MCAPI-Options screen. However, the client registration is still active, and a messaging login session is established automatically again when the client starts using Message Manager.

• As many audio sessions as voice ports purchased can be in progress at any one time. This means that a subscriber is logged in to the messaging software (one of the up to 64 login sessions) and an audio session is active (for example, a subscriber is listening to a voice mail message). When the audio session is completed, the messaging software disconnects the voice port. The client application remains one of the messaging login sessions until the inactivity timeout takes effect or Message Manager is minimized or closed.