GE v6 Remove All Button, Remove Individual Button, Replication and Synchronization Conflicts

Remove All Button

Alarm Monitor Form Toolbar

Click this icon on the toolbar to remove all alarms on the Alarm Monitor regardless of whether the alarms are acknowledged or unacknowledged. An operator must have an ALL permission for the Alarm Monitor in order to have access to this icon.

Remove Individual Button

Alarm Monitor Form Toolbar

Click this icon on the toolbar to remove one or more alarms without waiting for them to reset. The alarm(s) can be unacknowledged and cleared as long as it was not defined on the Alarm Form as requiring an acknowledgment. Select a series of alarms in sequence or individual alarms not in sequence.

Replication and Synchronization Conflicts

Conflicts with Secure Perfect replication are rare but can occur. A conflict occurs whenever two users in different regions simultaneously update a field on an individual record; or update a record at a Global Database Server computer and a Regional Database Server computer during synchronization.

For example:

Region 1 revises an address from 4444 SW 8th St to 5544 SW 8th St. Region 2 revises an address from 4444 SW 8th St to 6544 SW 8th St.

There are now two different values in the same field of the same records in two different regions. Each region’s scheduled SQL Server Merge Agent will activate the merge process and the changes will be sent to the Global Server.

•If both updates arrive at the Global Server during the same synchronization process, the SQL Server will detect which update arrived first and that update will be successful.

•If the update at Region Two arrived before the update at Region One during the same synchronization process, then Region Two’s update will be successful. The address will be updated to 6544 SW 8th Street on both Region One and Region Two. Keep in mind that conflicts can only occur during the same synchronization process.

•When the Global Server and Regional Server are connected and synchronization occurs, the SQL Server Merge Agent detects conflicts and then determines which data will be accepted and propagated to other sites based on the first record to successfully reach the Global Server.

1.The synchronization processing time is dependent on how much data needs to be synchronized and the performance of your system.

2.Using Windows, we recommend that you synchronize time settings on the computers within your Secure Perfect Global Edition system.

3.When re-assigning devices such as micros or DVRs across regions, you must stop and restart services, first on the original owner of the devices and then on the computer to which the devices are newly assigned. You must allow sufficient time for data replication to complete across all affected regions before restarting services on the newly assigned computer. Verify that devices are online and operable following the re-assignment.

Secure Perfect 6.1.1 User Manual 232