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Networking with AXWare for Windows
A
Network enabled version of AXWare For
Windows (PRO)
provides the capability to Network up
to 5 computers
together to manipulate and share event
data. The following modes are provided.
- Timing
Control Server: This
is the computer with the timing
hardware connected to it and is
considered to be Timing Control.
It
contains and controls the registration and timing data,
and all timing activity for an
event.
The two clients connect to this
computer and share its data. This
is the only computer that can save the
data for any event. The
Clients have a read-only view of the data.
- Registration
Client: Provides
remote registration capabilities to the
Timing Control Server. All
registration updates are exchanged
between the Timing Control Server and
this client. Timing
control and features within the Staging Grid
are
disabled (for example: the timer or
display cannot be activated - these are
strictly Timing Control Server
functions).
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Announcer Client
and Account Client II:
Provides a remote Announcer Display
Client that displays a 'read-only' copy
of all the data, including real-time
standings, staging grid data, and all
status logging information. The
Announcer client retains all the
functionality of the base product minus
any function that can modify the data
and control any timing functions.
As such, you can view, display, print or
sort the data without any affect on the
data at the Timing Control Server.
Both the Registration and Staging Grid
are kept up-to-date providing real-time
information. Essentially, all
activity that is carried out at the
Timing Control Server with respect to
the event data is displayed on this
Client.
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Admin Client:
This client provides administration
capabilities over the entire event, and
all data pertaining to it. It can
modify event settings, registration
data, staging, most anything. Most
significant use is as an Audit Client,
that can be used to edit registration
entries as well as staging data,
penalties etc.
To activate the
Networking support, the same event is
loaded on all the machines and the
appropriate Network mode activated.
Since the same data is loaded from a
Data Directory, the configuration
settings, Class Definition file (which
includes heats) and all other associated
resources are automatically shared
between
all the Networked machines.
Special commands are exchanged between
the networked computers to synchronized
the information, as appropriate. This
includes Class Definitions
and heat assignments.
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