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LinkScan™ is an industrial-strength link checking and website management tool. It saves time and money by automating the quality assurance testing of virtually any website or web-based application.
LinkScan is built around applicable open systems standards. Hence it integrates easily with many other content development, management and testing applications as well as general purpose computer tools. It operates on all Microsoft Windows and Unix/Linux platforms and is professionally supported.
LinkScan users include Fortune 1000 companies such as Hewlett Packard, government agencies like NASA, as well as many smaller businesses.
New users will find that LinkScan is extremely simple to install, configure and use. And the more experienced user will appreciate the vast array of customization features built into the system. Together, these attributes make LinkScan ideal for:
Small and medium sized websites
LinkScan can be configured to scan simple websites in a few seconds. Yet it rapidly analyses the site and accurately identifies 100 different types of problem. Affordable licenses are available from as little as $300.
Large and very large websites
LinkScan offers unparalleled performance and scalability. It can handle massive sites with 2,000,000 and more web pages. One of the many performance features includes the ability to navigate a website via direct file system access to static documents thereby avoiding the latency and other overheads associated with network access. The LinkScan database incorporates features that enable different content managers and workgroups to selectively view the results of their data. Even to send reports and alarms via e-mail.
Complex sites with dynamic content
LinkScan incorporates many features specifically designed for sites containing complex dynamic content. That includes sites and applications built with tools such as Active Server Pages (ASP), Cold Fusion pages (CFM), Java Server Pages (JSP) and other high-end publishing systems such as those from Broadvision and Vignette.
LinkScan is available in four different editions all based upon the same core technology:
LinkScan Workstation is a single-user implementation designed for individual content developers in large enterprises, and for organizations having smaller websites with up to 500 unique documents. It will check an unlimited number of external links.
LinkScan Server is a multi-user implementation and includes LinkScan/Dispatch. LinkScan Server will analyze a single website of up to 5,000 unique documents and an unlimited number of external links. Reports may be viewed with web browsers and/or distributed via e-mail.
LinkScan ServerPro is a multi-user implementation and includes LinkScan/Dispatch. LinkScan ServerPro will analyze a single website of up to 15,000 unique documents and an unlimited number of external links. Reports may be viewed with web browsers and/or distributed via e-mail.
LinkScan Enterprise is the full multi-team product and it will scan up to 50,000 unique documents and an unlimited number of external links on up to ten physical computers that are owned or leased by you at one Location. If you wish to scan more than 10 computers, you will have to purchase one or more additional LinkScan Enterprise Licenses. You may buy licenses to scan as many unique documents as you wish and to scan multiple locations as described below.
Document Blocks (DocBlocks) - If you wish to scan more than 50,000 unique documents with a copy of LinkScan Enterprise, you must purchase addtional Document Blocks (DocBlocks) each of which allows you to scan and addtional 50,000 unique documents.
Location Blocks (LocBlocks) - If you wish to scan computers at more than one location, you must purchase new LinkScan Enterprise licenses for those locations or if you want to scan more locations using one copy of LinkScan Enterprise, you may purchase additional Location Blocks (LocBlocks).
The above descriptions are not complete nor comprehensive. You must read the LinkScan License Agreement for a complete definition of the products and your other rights and obligations.
The steps involved in using LinkScan include:
Each of these steps is described in this Reference Manual. However, we recommend that new users get a fast start by jumping to one of the following pages:
LinkScan for Unix. Reference Manual. Section 1. Introduction to LinkScan
LinkScan Version 11.6
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