1.5 Prerequisites/Preconditions

  1. The client system is able to create error reports.

  2. An implementation-specific file compression algorithm is required to organize the error reporting information into one file.

  3. The Corporate Error Reporting Version 1.0 Protocol assumes that the client is configured with the file path of the CER file share on the server.

  4. The Corporate Error Reporting Version 1.0 Protocol assumes that the client has permission to copy files to the CER file share.

  5. It is assumed that corporate administrators have the ability to interpret the files that the Corporate Error Reporting Version 1.0 Protocol copies to the CER file share on the SMB Protocol server [MS-SMB].

  6. The CER file share can have the following file: <fileshare>\policy.txt.

  7. An external process, either manual or automated, can generate status.txt files at the appropriate paths described in section 2.2.3.