VSTK Graphical User Interface

VGUI is an HTML-based graphical user interface for all of the VSTK products, and it is supplied with its own web server called Miniweb. Since VGUI is delivered and executed in text source code, it is easy for an authorized user to modify. This means that implementations in the field can be modified to meet the customers specific needs by the authorized end user. This would never be possible with compiled binary programs. For example, if the user needs to combine VSTK/P functionality with another program, it is trivial and inexpensive to do so by modifying the HTML and CGI code.

The current web based VGUI allows access to VFind™, CIT, Avatar, and other functions via virtually any web browser homed to the Miniweb Server running on the target machine. The user can scan the system for viruses via VFind™, baseline the system via Avatar, and integrity check the system via CIT. The VGUI allows even a non-UNIX user access to the VSTK tools - most functions can be executed by one or two simple button clicks.

All of the VGUI underlying functions are supported by CGI scripts (no Perl) that are written in a portable shell. Perl has not been used, as it may not be available on all platforms.

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