Supervisor Series Version 5.4b April 1993 The Supervisor Series is a program set which allows users at one terminal to observe or control terminals of other sessions, or to record or play back terminal sessions. In addition, the HANDIN utility is designed to allow creation of "secure" copies of terminal sessions where the person whose session is recorded cannot edit the log. A terminal may be controlled for several of these functions at once, and essentially all TT class terminal devices are supported. Notice to a user that he is being monitored and the ability to control who may or may not be monitored is supported. The Supervisor Series originally was a commercial product which was submitted to DECUS after its owner company was sold, and which is being maintained by Hunter Goatley of Western Kentucky University. Operating System and Version: VMS V5.0 or later Software Version: PHOTO V5.4b SUPERVISOR V5.4b Academic Computing and Research Services Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky There are four utilities that comprise the Supervisor Series: o SUPERVISOR o PHOTO o HANDIN o PLAYBACK __________________________________________________________________ 4.3 Product Incompatibilities The Supervisor Series utilities are not compatible with the following products and may crash the system, depending on usage: o Session Support Utility (SSU), a DEC layered product o DEC/Test Manager, a DEC layered product o ACMS, a DEC layered product (when the /NORETURN switch is used) o Terminal Fallback Facility (TFF), a component of VMS o Third-party terminal monitoring utilities, such as WATCH or those sold by Raxco and Network Dynamics. All of the products listed above modify the terminal UCB in the same manner as the Supervisor Series, but in an incompatible fashion. It is hoped that these restrictions will eventually be eliminated. Note that in many cases the Supervisor Series will detect such usage if the other package is started first, and will refuse to start so as to avoid causing a crash.