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The following dialogue box appears:
Figure 9 The ‘System Configuration’ dialogue box.
The dialogue box contains a scrollable list of all units
connected to the system. Each unit is represented by
a number and a description of the type of unit. The
different types of units are:
• Delegate Unit
• Delegate Unit with LCD
• Chairman Unit
• DDI Dual Delegate Unit
• DDI Single Delegate Unit
• DDI Chairman Unit
• Ambient Microphone
• Entrance Unit
• Exit Unit
• Interpreter desk
• Voting unit
• Data Distribution Board
• Audio Expander
• Digital Audio Expander
• Cobranet Interface
• Transmitter 4 channels
• Transmitter 8 channels
• Transmitter 16 channels
• Transmitter 32 channels
If any of these units are not present in the system
they will not be included in the list.
3.1.5 Multi PC Settings
The software can run on a single PC or in a multi-PC
environment, where the PCs are interconnected by a
local area network (LAN). For such a system to work
properly, there must be a server PC that controls and
distributes information and prevents data being
modified from more than one PC simultaneously.
The other PCs in the system are called client PCs.
i Note
An Ethernet card and software must be present
before software can run in a multi-PC
environment.
i Note
The maximum number of PCs that can be
present is 10. However, with this number of
PCs present, only a few applications can be
used. A maximum of four PCs can be used with
all applications running. CCU and optical units
software can only be downloaded from the
server PC.
In a multi-PC system, it is necessary to determine for
each PC what its functionality will be for each
software module. There are three possible levels of
functionality:
• Master - the software module has full
functionality on the PC designated ‘Master’. If
the master PC is closed down, any slave
applications present will be iconized and the text
‘offline’ will appear under the icon.
• Slave - the software module has limited
functionality on ‘Slave’ PCs. The software can be
started, but does not run (and cannot be restored
from an icon) until it is started on the PC where
it has master functionality. It can then be used to
view settings and to monitor the congress, but it
cannot be used to alter settings.
• None - the application has no functionality (for
example, there is no license for an application).
i Note
Every application should be ‘Master’ on at least
one PC.
The following restrictions apply:
• Startup and System Installation can only have
master functionality on the server PC. With other
applications, any PC can be used.
• There can only be one instance of an application
with master functionality, except in the case of
Message Distribution and Video Display, where
master functionality can exist on any number of
PCs in the system.
• System Installation, Delegate Database, Intercom,
Message Distribution and Video Display cannot
have slave functionality.
• Microphone Management, Synoptic Microphone
Control, Simultaneous Interpretation,
Parliamentary Voting, Multi Voting, Attendance
Registration and Text/Status Display can have
slave functionality on any PC (up to a total of
nine).
• Startup can have slave functionality on all PCs
except the server.
