Option 3.1. Select Network Options

• Select Accept connections.

  The local computer can connect to all other projects in the enterprise. Other computers can connect to running projects on the local computer.

  Important: Accept connections is disabled when the license configuration for your current CIMPLICITY version is invalid. Check your license configuration to correct this; if you are upgrading this includes making sure that you added the upgrade license number to your configuration.

  If Accept connections is disabled, the Allow Compression check boxes do not save their information.

• Select Accept connections and Use secure sockets.

  The local computer can connect to only other secure projects in the enterprise. Only secure computers can connect to running projects on the local computer.

• Select Accept connections and clear Use secure sockets.

  If the local computer supports encryption, then it will first try to connect to other insecure projects in the enterprise, and if the connection fails, it will try to connect to other secure projects in the enterprise.

• Clear both Accept connections and Use secure sockets.

  The local computer will not connect to other projects in the enterprise. Other computers in cannot connect to projects running on the local computer.

• Select Allow compressed connections.

  Compressed connections reduce the bytes that travel from one server to another. This can help speed up communication for some types of networks.

  However, compression also increases CPU usage both for the sender and receiver. See the Compression value explanation below.

  
• Select Allow uncompressed connections.

  Communication occurs over the network according to its normal configuration.

• Select Allow uncompressed connections and Prefer compressed connections.

  Communication will attempt to form a compressed transmission before an uncompressed transmission.

If you are considering compression you can balance speed vs. CPU use by setting the Compression value.

The default is 6.