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• Setup->Modems tab: Use a setting for all modems, Renumber COM ports, Reset one or all
modems.
You can also access additional scheduling features by selecting and holding either the Stop or Start
button (whichever button is not grayed out at the time) until a pop-up window appears. Scheduling is also
available from the File menu.
2.4 Profiles
“Profiles” are PhoneSweep’s basic unit of information storage. Each profile is a database containing a set
of phone numbers to scan, as well as the time periods during which to scan them and associated notes and
associated scan configuration options. Every profile also saves the scan results for each phone number as
they are scanned. This means you can stop and restart scans without losing data. You can even stop
scanning one profile, switch to another profile to scan, then later stop and switch back to the first profile
so you can resume scanning that one.
You can have as many profiles as you have memory to hold them. (MySQL can handle up to 5,000,000 (5
million) records).
Each profile you create includes:
• A list of telephone numbers, with associated time period and notes. You can have either a
range of phone numbers or several individual, non-consecutive phone numbers. Note: Time
periods and notes are configurable on the Phone Numbers tab. You can either add or import
telephone numbers and scan parameters from pre-made files or from other applications.
• A list of username/password pairs to use in brute-force password guessing attempts. These
are configurable in the bruteforce.txt file or by using brutecreate.exe; or you can import a new .txt
file. As of PhoneSweep 4.4 you can also view and edit them via the Effort tab.
• The results of each telephone call. These are viewable on either the Results tab by Call Result
type, or on the Phone Numbers tab by expanding each phone number.
• Configuration information associated with that profile.
2.4.1 Number of Phone Numbers per profile Limits
You can have as many profiles as you want in your PhoneSweep database; however, there are limits on
how many numbers you can have in each profile, and what Sandstorm will support:
• PhoneSweep Basic has a hard limit of 800 phone numbers allowed per profile.
• PhoneSweep Plus and Plus 8 each have a soft limit of 10,000 phone numbers per profile.
• PhoneSweep Plus 12 and Plus 16 each have a soft limit of 20,000 phone numbers per profile.
The hard limit for PhoneSweep Basic profiles means PhoneSweep will not allow you to have more than
800 numbers in any profile. The soft limit on other versions of PhoneSweep means that users can add up
to 10,000 or 20,000 numbers at a time; however, you can have more than 10,000 or 20,000 in each
profile.
Please remember that if you have more than the supported phone number of phone numbers in your
profiles that Sandstorm does not guarantee satisfactory results. At the very least, you will need to increase
both your CPU and RAM capacities.