If you are in a typical medium to large organisation, your PCs may access the Internet through a proxy server. Proxy servers are separate computers that act as gateways and are used to improve security and efficiency.
At present, due to limitations in Java, Visokio applications cannot detect your proxy settings automatically in certain cases.
In order to access some Visokio services, including activation, automatic updates and sending bug reports, each Omniscope installation must be configured with the organisation's correct proxy settings. Your system administrator should be able to provide you with the settings. Regardless of your deployment/update strategy, if Visokio installations are to be activated by their users, proxy settings may need to be deployed.
Depending on the way proxy settings are configured in your organisation, Visokio functions might "just work" automatically. To test this, install on a trail machine and attempt to activate using a trial key (contact us to get one). If activation fails, you can enter the correct proxy settings manually, but it is recommended you automatically deploy these proxy settings when rolling out. At present, this is best done using a plain-text proxy settings property file, deployed into the \Visokio Omniscope (or FeatureFinder Web) program folder.
When activating Omniscope, if the necessary proxy settings are absent, Omniscope will ask you to enter these as part of the product activation dialog steps. When the Online activation failed dialog appears, click the Proxy settings button and enter the details, as described above.
If you are a system administrator and are deploying (rolling out) Omniscope to multiple PCs, you can simultaneously roll out proxy settings. This is useful because it allows your deployed installations to be activated by your users without any further configuration (apart from a valid license key/serial number).
#Resource properties file
#Wed Feb 15 13:37:09 GMT 2006
http.proxyPort=80
http.proxyHost=proxy.visokio.com