9300 Series User’s Guide WinPM.Net: Management Console
Chapter 4 - Using ACCESS Software Page 71
WinPM.Net: Management Console
The Management Console is responsible for building your network. You build
your power-monitoring network to reflect the way your physical communications
network is wired so that WinPM.Net software can communicate with your
devices. The network is created using servers, sites, devices, and modems. These
network components must be configured in the Management Console before you
can use the other WinPM.Net applications.
The following is a brief description of each network component. To learn how to
configure these components, refer to the “Configuring Communications” section
of this chapter.
Servers
A server is a computer in an WinPM.Net system running administrative software
that controls access to the network and its resources, such as ION devices, and
provides resources to computers functioning as workstations on the network. A
server runs service components that create communication and software links
between ACCESS systems components, and it creates links into the ACCESS
database, too.
Computers with primary and secondary WinPM.Net installations are servers, as
they have the communication software (services) installed. A primary server
contains all software components and the database; a secondary server contains
software but references the primary server for program files and database
information. Both server types connect directly to ACCESS devices via serial,
Ethernet, or modem links, but there can be only one primary server on a network.
When you install WinPM.Net, the Primary Server must be installed before any
Secondary server or Client computers.
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