http://www.microsoft.com/SNA/sna2113.htm (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Microsoft SNA Server virtually eliminates restrictions on how you can mix LAN and SNA protocols, how many connections you can allow, or how those connections are made. This makes SNA Server an excellent choice in a multivendor, multiprotocol environment, ensuring that the gateway you standardize on is capable of handling your changing business needs.
Easy configuration and management
Context-sensitive online Help walks you through configuration, complete with suggestions and references to host parameters.From one screen, available locally or remotely, you can configure and monitor all servers, connections, LUs, and users in the entire Windows NT domain. Enjoy the usability-tested design of the setup, administration, and diagnostics tools.Once SNA Server is configured, you can monitor performance graphically with the Windows NT Performance Monitor, review a comprehensive event and audit log, and perform tracing without disrupting existing users or host connections. Management from NetView® is equally efficient: receive any Windows NT event as an alert in NetView and issue any Windows NT command from the NetView console.
SNA Server uses system resources efficiently, reducing the cost of expanding your system over time. Available memory shifts automatically to the active connections: if there is not enough memory for peak loads, the system benefits from Windows NT virtual memory so that no sessions are lost. Asynchronous I/O, multithreaded design, and SMP and RISC platform support make it possible to gradually scale to larger systems as your needs grow. In fact, a single SNA Server can support 2,000 users and 10,000 LU sessions. Moreover, you can easily run other server applications on that same system.
Secure and reliable throughput
Fault tolerance, load balancing, and tight security make SNA Server an excellent platform for reliable access to corporate data. Clients automatically balance the load among servers that provide the requested connection to the host. In case of connection failure, the client is automatically routed to a backup connection, either on the same or a backup server. This ensures consistent high availability of host-based data. SNA Server is integrated with the security in Microsoft Windows NT Server, extending the C2-level security to SNA data, even in a NetWare® or a TCP/IP environment.
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