For more detailed information on WiseMachine, select Help from the menu bar and then click ReadME.

What you are looking at is the main window for the WiseMachineLocal program.

The upper left window is a list of applications that are deployable to your machine.

The lower left window is a list of application groups that are deployable to your machine.

The right hand window is a list of your drives.

To bring up the Installed Applications window, click on "Installed Applications" on the menu bar.   To switch back to the Drive Folders window, click "Drive Folders" on the menu bar.

Installed Application Window
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The Installed Applications window displays a list of applications that was deployed to your machine using WiseMachineLocal.   It has no way of knowing other applications that was installed outside of the WiseMachineLocal program.

You can recreate the WPS objects for a particular application (or groups of applications) by right clicking that particular application and select Create ICON or Create ICONs.

The System Files branch contains a list of the "important" files in your system.   The information is obtained from the file x:\os2\archive\os2.key, where x: is your boot drive.   If you right click on any of the file objects, you can either edit the file with the system editor, or an ini file editor - if one has been installed in your system (WiseMachine simply issue the command iniedit filename for this).

Application Window
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The Application Window contains information in the file \TVoice\Config\program.lis.   This file should only be modified by licensee of the WiseManager product (a separate package from WiseMachine).   If you are a eCS upgrade protection subscriber, the eComStation distributors may send you new sets of control files from time to time to make additional applications deployable to your system.

Application Deployment
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WiseMachine is NOT an application installer.   One of it's function is to redeploy an application package from it's original installed location.   For instance, if you have an application xyz installed on E: when you booted from D:, now if you booted from C:, your application might not be runnable without a reinstall.    This is a very time consuming task.   WiseMachine can help redeploy that application without a reinstall - provided it is one of the standard packages WiseMachine supports.

To "deploy" an application, simply drag-n-drop a particular application to the desired destination location.   A confirmation window pops up with the following options: 

(a) Program source

By default, the actual program package of an application you are trying to deploy is assumed to reside in a zip file or subdirectory under \TVoice\Wiseprog.   For instance, the application netscape is assumed to be located in either \TVoice\Wiseprog\Netscape.zip, or in the subdirectory \TVoice\Wiseprog\Netscape.    WiseMachine will search for the zip file first, then for a subdirectory.   If neither the zip file nor the subdirectory can be found, you will see a message that the directory or file does not exist.   You can then use the Select button to point to the actual location of the program package, or you can place the eCS Third Party Application CD into the CD ROM.

(b) Destination

Check to make sure the destination directory is correct.

(c) Copy program to destination location

This option is normally checked.   However, if you have an application that was installed in the system already, or if the application requires that you run their install program, and you wish to have WiseMachine keep track of that application, you can uncheck this option so that no actual file transfer occurs but WiseMachine will be able to "remember" that you have this application in your system.

(d) Create desktop objects

WiseMachine contains a database of information about commonly available program packages in the market.    If this item has been grayed out, it means the particular application you are trying to deploy does not create any WPS objects.

(e) Modify config.sys

If this item has been grayed out, it means the particular application you are trying to deploy does not require changes to your config.sys.   

Likewise, if this option is checked but you do not wish WiseMachine to make changes to your config.sys, you can uncheck this option.

(f) Modify startup.cmd

If this item has been grayed out, it means the particular application you are trying to deploy does not require changes to your startup.cmd.   

Likewise, if this option is checked but you do not wish WiseMachine to make changes to your starup.cmd, you can uncheck this option.

Note that this option affects only the startup.cmd.  It has nothing to do with the system startup folder.  That's determined by the desktop WPS object creation process.

(g) Install

If you click this option, the application will be deployed to your system.   

Some applications require a reboot before the program can be used.  If that's the case, you will see a WPS object indicating that a reboot is required.   

Some applications requires following some carefully coordinated steps for it to register the required WPS DLLs.   The scripts employed by WiseMachine takes care of all these automatically.   However, if you are deploying a WPS aware application for the first time, you might see some message indicating that WiseMachine is unable to register a certain DLL.

Some WPS applications will display DLL error messages the first time you deploy the application.   This is normal and indicates that a reboot is required in order to register the affected WPS DLL files.

If after reboot, the desktop WPS object still indicates that a reboot is required, or if the unable to register dll message persists, something is missing from the application you are trying to deploy.

Application Group Window
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The application group window allow you to drag-n-drop deploy a group of applications to your system.   The destination drive letter must be the same for all the applications in the group, and the source of these applications is assumed to come from zip files or subdirectories within \TVoice\Wiseprog as described above.  (This function is not working yet in the preview version of WiseMachine).

You can also define your own Application Groups.   To do so:

(a) Right click on the white space of the Application Group window

(b) Select Add and define a new application group

(c) expand an application category from the application launch window (upper left)

(d) drag and drop a particular application onto the newly created application group folder

The Application group information is stored in \TVoice\Config\program.ini.

