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Welcome to Secure Perfect!

Secure Perfect Editions is a multi-edition offering of Integrated Secure Management Software designed on Microsoft Windows technology. Secure Perfect Editions provide full security management functions including access control, intrusion zone control, alarm monitoring, reporting, photo ID badging, and CCTV interfaces as standard features. Secure Perfect Editions also offers integrated system options that include digital video surveillance and Web-based reporting.

Throughout this Help system, reference to Secure Perfect is represented as "SP" in text content to avoid repetition where the product name and/or version may have already been established.

SP Global Edition: SQL Server 2000 Replication services are used to distribute the data from a Global Server to Regional Servers. Secure Perfect installation creates the necessary components for a replicated system, configuring publications and subscriptions at each level. The Global Database Server is the ‘main’ Secure Perfect database server. The term ‘main’ as used in this context means that the Global Database Server acts as a hub for all replication activity. This Global Server hosts a Distributor whose role is to store history and miscellaneous information about merge replication. When the Distributor is created on a database, it generates its own database to store information. Once publishing is enabled on the Global Server, it is able to control and monitor publications and subscriptions as well as the starting and stopping of replication agents. Regional Database Servers act as ‘client’ database servers. They have the ability to subscribe to publications located on the Global Server. These Regional Servers operate independent of the Global Server for a period of time as necessary. Subscriptions are ‘pushed’ to each Regional Server by the Global Server. This means that the Regional Servers are not required to request updated data from the Global Server, because updates are periodically supplied to Regional Servers according to a set schedule. Replication intervals are configurable through SQL Server Enterprise Manager user interface. Data is continually synchronized by implementing this customized replication configuration. Refer to the Secure Perfect Installation Guide for a terminology list and complete description of this feature. Also refer to Global Edition Regional Configuration Rules and Replication and Synchronization Conflicts in this Help file.

SP Enterprise Edition is licensed for Windows 2000/2003 Standard Edition Server as the operating system and SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition as the database. SP Enterprise Edition is designed for mid to large-sized systems with capacity requirements of up to 25 client workstations, 256 micros, and 4,096 readers.

Cluster technology selections in this Enterprise-level installation provide new architecting options.

SP Professional Edition is licensed for Windows 2000 Professional Server or XP Professional Server as the operating system and SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) as the database. SP Professional Edition is designed for small to mid-sized systems with capacity requirements of up to 5 client workstations, 32 micros, and 256 readers.

eZ Edition is licensed for Windows 2000 Professional Server or XP Professional Server as the operating system and SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) as the database. eZ Edition is designed for small systems with capacity requirements of 5 client workstations, 32 micros (PX-2000 Series ONLY), and 128 readers.

This Help system provides information for system administrators to configure and operate the SP Editions software.

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