Virtual CD NMS is a client/server application that lets you manage a variety of features on your Virtual CD client stations. With Virtual CD NMS, all Virtual CD clients are registered centrally on the Virtual CD Network Management Server, enabling management of virtual and physical CD drives, inserted virtual CDs, and other functions on the client machine using the Virtual CD NMS Administration program:

 

 

As illustrated above, all Virtual CD clients communicate with the Virtual CD NMS Service directly over TCP/IP, so that direct data access is not necessary. The Virtual CD NMS Administration program also accesses the Virtual CD NMS Service over TCP/IP. To enable the optimum data access speed, Virtual CD NMS Administration reads some of the data directly from the databases written by Virtual CD NMS Service. That is why the NMS Service installation program sets up a share for the database folders that it creates. This share is automatically entered in Virtual CD NMS Settings when the NMS Administration program is installed. (For details, see "Configuring NMS Administration".)

 

To understand how Virtual CD and Virtual CD NMS work together, it helps to keep in mind which tasks are performed by each of these two programs: