This topic describes the general prerequisites to be able to perform the tasks described in this tutorial.

•You need to have an access to a fully-functional GN4 test system. It is the best that it is a test system, and not the production system, as in some tasks you will temporary change some settings - on a production system, it might confuse users.

•You need to have a login to the previously mentioned system, e.g. an user name and the password.

•You need to know the URL of your GN4 system, e.g.

oIn version 2.5 or newer: http://localhost/gn4

oIn version 2.4 or older: http://localhost/gn4/adminsrv.asmx

If you don't know about those names, contact your Systems Administrator. If you are the Systems Administrator, then run any GN4 application, click Help and then click Connection Manager, and then copy the content of the URL field.

•You need to have appropriate permissions on the GN4 system, e.g. to access to the repository of your custom configurations, to access to the GN4 BIN folder, and to run the CMD4 command processor in Administrator mode.

•You need to have access to the files of your custom configurations, i.e. not only to know the full path where they are, but also to have Windows permissions to edit content in those folders.

•You need to know the root folder where your GN4 system is installed, e.g. C:\TERA\GN4 or similar.

•You need to have the appropriate version of the Visual Studio installed on your local computer. See Visual Studio Community or Express Edition.

•You need to have at least a minimal familiarity with editing files in XML format, i.e. remembering that all statements are case sensitive, that a bad editing may make a XML file unusable and so on. If you are not familiar with XML, take special care to enter all examples EXACTLY HOW SPECIFIED IN TUTORIAL.

•For some tasks, there are additional prerequisites, specified in the topic itself.