Current application

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Target application in 

Linux

Citrix ICA Client

1

Citrix for Linux

Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_04

1

Exists for Linux

Macromedia Shockwave Player

1

Exists for Linux

Microsoft .NET Framework (English)

1

Mono

Microsoft Office 2000 Standard

1

OpenOffice

Nero 6 Ultra Edition

1

xcdroast 

NeroVision Express 2

1

xcdroast 

Netscape 6 (6.2.3)

1

Mozilla

Norton Speed Disk 7.0 for Windows NT

1

defrag

WinZip 8.0

1

Zip

Yahoo! Messenger

1

Exists for Linux

4.1.5  Assessing the infrastructure

Survey considerations in this area include:

What is the network infrastructure your clients are connecting to?

What is the topology of the network infrastructure? This includes a 

architectural overview of all local and remote connections including 

bandwidth and protocol conversion.

What type of network protocols are installed and configured on the client in 

order to access any type of infrastructure components?

What servers do exist and which services are provided from them? This will 

give a list of servers (physical or logical instances) and the services provided 

to the client. Such services include file, print, DHCP, Web content, dynamic 

content, applications, and others.

What databases are required to be accessed and how is this access 

implemented? From this all connections to databases can be derived as well 

as the type of implementation, such as native client (that is, UDB client), API 

connection (that is, named pipes), message queueing (that is, MQ Series), 

and application access (that is, SAP client).

What access to mainframes is used by workstations and how is it 

implemented? Accessing mainframes of different kinds can be done through 

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