[AG-TECH] networkless AG sessions?

[Anja Le Blanc <anja.leblanc@manchester.ac.uk>]

We are planing to have a demonstration in a place (possibly) without a 
network. So we want to record a meeting before and play it back during 
the demonstration. For this I thought I could have a Venue Server 
running on the same machine and be contacted over localhost.

As long as a network is connected that works fine, but without any 
network connection I already getting error messages starting up the 
Service Manager (AddServicePackage exception, Exception: Error starting 
service, <Fault SOAP-ENV:Server: Method Failed: 
ServiceManager:AddServicePackage>, ...).

I am running a Windows XP SP2 machine with AG2.4 installed. The 
NodeManagement.log give a 'GSITCPSocketException: the name 2 could not 
be resolved' exception. Where does it get the IP 2 from? In all config 
files (as far as I can see) the URL is 
'https://localhost:11000/ServiceManager' and in the hosts file the 
lookup for localhost is 127.0.0.1.

Is there a way to run the AG software without a network?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Anja