Spanning the industry's widest range of platforms, MLINK™ Server provides high-speed, automated, and unattended data transport. It is the ideal solution for IT managers who require a high-performance, cost-effective polling solution adaptable to today's diverse network environments.

MLINK Server is designed for companies with multiple remote locations. It is ideal for use with applications such as retail point-of-sale, sales force automation, and mobile computing. With MLINK Server, sessions are centrally defined and scheduled to control sending and receiving of files, as well as execution of local and remote commands. Its benefits include:

• Guaranteed Error Free data transport across multiple industry platforms.
• Lower Costs with time saving data compression and checkpoint restart.
• Reliable delivery of time-critical information.
• Quick and Easy to set up, administrate, and manage.

In the map above, data transport sites are mapped to their geographical locations with the Unicenter WorldView map, a standard feature of PollView Advanced and PollView Enterprise. All data transport functions can be monitored and controlled from the context pop-up menus on each icon. This provides the data transport administrator the ability to:

• Quickly determine the status of transport operations as the site icons change color to indicate initialized, active, successful, or failed transfers
• Initiate delivery from or polling to the central site
• Start and stop the data transport server operation
• Monitor the status of transfer ports
• Remotely control a site to perform diagnostics
• Generate site status or detail reports
• Start the various manager interfaces directly from the map

• Create and maintain the MLINK Server databases.
• Start and stop the MLINK Server databases.
• Initiate demand calls for ad hoc requests.
• Check the current status of your sites.
• Generate reports.
• Add, delete, and edit sites, sessions, task lists, tasks, alternate paths, and ports.

• Send File. Allows you to send a data file to be written on a remote system.
• Receive File. Allows you to retrieve a remote data file to be written on a local system..
• Local Command. Allows you to execute a command on the MLINK Server.
• Remote Command. Allows you to send a command to be executed on the remote site.

Sites are defined in the database.
Sites can be machines on a LAN, WAN or dial-up.
Modem number, Node Name or IP address is specified.
Group Sites to simplify management: Regions, Super Stores, Mall Stores, Laptops, District Managers, etc.

• Send a file
• Receive a file
• Execute a Command on the MLINK Server
• Execute a Command on the Remote Site

Group tasks into logical work units called task lists. Task lists can contain branching logic. For example alternate tasks can be performed based on the success or failure of previous tasks.

Sessions define when your tasks are to be done. Schedules can be very simple or very complex to suit your needs. Sessions can have starting and ending times for a particular day, for a specific time range, for a date range, or for all days excluding certain days of the week, month, or year. Sites can have multiple Sessions so as to communicate multiple times over the course of a day.

• Supports TCP/IP and asynchronous protocols.
• Supports a wide range of Windows NT, UNIX, and workstation platforms.
• Supports a variety of connection types (dial-up, satellite, frame relay, internet, and more).

• Provides advanced data compression to maximum network productivity.
• Offers the benefits of an adjustable frame size of up to 32K, to significantly reduce line turnaround time in event of a transmission error.

• Blocks are automatically retransmitted until they are received correctly, or until the user-defined retry limit is exceeded.

• Provides automatic checkpoint/restart and error recovery in case of transmission failure.
• Offers CRC checksum algorithm to ensure error detection and correction.
• Detects broken connections.

Rest Easy with Automatic Retries. When a connection to a remote system is unavailable, or when communication problems interrupt a session, MLINK Server automatically attempts to reconnect for a user-defined number of times. Delays may be used to allow the remote system to reset or give priority to sites not contacted. Unnecessary retransmissions are avoided by skipping files already transferred.

Scalable to the Size of Your Enterprise. Available on Windows NT and most high powered UNIX platforms, MLINK Server communicates with a large number of sites through its ability to operate multiple concurrent ports. MLINK Server dynamically assigns tasks to all available ports, and gives the operator full control over port configuration at all times.

Real-time Display Of Activity. A port monitor screen provides real-time display of activity on each communications port, and comprehensive session tracing can be enabled for troubleshooting sites. All status, audit trail, and tracing information is automatically archived for future analysis. A configurable archive cycle controls the volume of information stored online.

Security. The MLINK Server site database allows you to define user names and passwords for each site. This information is verified by the remote system at the beginning of each session.

Robust Right Out of the Box. For even the most demanding solutions MLINK Server's rich feature set and flexible configuration options serves most organizations needs right out of the box. For those seeking to extend functionality by tightly integrating MLINK Server with in-house or third party applications, MLINK Servers script language, command line interface and programmers API provide the tools to accomplish the most challenging tasks.

Powerful Update Facilities. MLINK provides a variety of approaches for easy database maintenance. By using default records, including group defaults, you can modify site definitions quickly and easily. Powerful update facilities make it easy to change task lists even for a network of thousands of sites. MLINK Server can even be driven by your host applications to automatically update your site database. Macros allow you to automatically embed site numbers and dates in file names to be transferred. Distribution lists provide powerful grouping capabilities for downloads , and can be automatically deleted from the sending system upon completion.

The Only Choice For Managed Data Transport
MLINK provides features that go beyond the simple transfer of information from one system to another. This robust functionality is what differentiates MLINK from basic file transfer software products. These features help ensure the delivery of data when and where needed, and can help you meet your goals of providing greater return on investment to your organization through increased productivity and reduced network usage costs.