Akamai Section Interface (document en anglais)

**** Akamai NetSession Interface ****

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Overview

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This file describes the Akamai NetSession Interface.

The Akamai NetSession Interface is a download manager application. It was

installed on your computer when you downloaded content that uses the service

to provide secure, high integrity downloads of large files.

The NetSession Interface supports downloading from a central source and between

peers. When peer-downloading is enabled, your computer can serve as an upload

source for other computers -- without adverse impacts to your computing.

Peer-to-peer downloading can provide faster, more effective downloads.

The NetSession Interface contains no adware or spyware, is safe and secure,

uses minimal resources, and provides you the ability to manage and control its

actions, including the ability to uninstall it if you do not want it on your

computer.

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How It Works

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The NetSession Interface does not have a noticeable desktop presence during

downloads, since its work is integrated into the sites or applications that use

the service.

However, there are two interfaces you can use to manage downloads and the

interface itself: admintool and a Control Panel extension.

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Windows Control Panel / Mac OS X System Preferences Extension

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The Control Panel / System Preferences extension provides you an easy way to

manage NetSession functions, such as starting or stopping the service. The

extension also provides you with a Troubleshooting test you can run to tell you

whether your NetSession Interface is installed correctly and can download

properly.

When installed, the extensions are available:

On the Windows Control Panel:

Akamai NetSession Interface Control Panel.

On the Mac, on the System Preferences pane:

under Other --> Akamai

Note that with Windows Vista 64-bit, additional steps may be required to view

the NetSession Control Panel in the Windows Control Panel directory.

Open the Control Panel, select Additional Options and enable the option

to View 32- bit control panel items.

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admintool and the NetSession Installation Folder

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admintool is a command-line utility used to get information about the current

NetSession download activities, to stop or start download sessions, clear the

download cache of all downloads, and uninstall the NetSession Interface.

To see all the commands available to you with admintool:

1) Go to the command line of your computer. You can do this as follows:

On Windows, select Command Prompt from the Start menu, OR...

Run on the Start menu, type "cmd" into the Open text box, then click OK.

On Mac OS X, in the Application -> Utilities folder, double-left click

Terminal.

2) Go to the Akamai NetSession Interface installation folder.

The installation folder location depends on your configuration. Normally, it

is found in the following locations, where you would replace

<user name> with your user name:

On Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Akamai

On Windows Vista and Windows 7:

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Akamai

On Macintosh OS X:

/Users/<user name>/Applications/Akamai

3) Type the command

admintool help

4) Press the Enter (Return) key

All admintool commands are run in the same way as admintool help in steps 3)

and 4).

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Uninstalling

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Before you uninstall, please note: If you uninstall the service, you will

delete files downloaded to the cache folders under the installation folders. If

you don't want to delete those files, copy or move them to a different folder.

If you do not

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