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ION 7500 / ION 7600 User’s Guide ION Enterprise: ION Management Console
Chapter 4 - Using ION Software Page 89
ION Enterprise: ION Management Console
The ION 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 ION Enterprise software can
communicate with your devices. The network is created using servers, sites,
devices, and modems. These network components must be configured in the ION
Management Console before you can use the other ION Enterprise applications.
The following is a brief description of each network component. To learn how to
configure these components, refer to the “Configuring Communications” on
page 91.
Servers
A server is a computer in an ION Enterprise 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 ION systems components, and it creates links into the ION database, too.
Computers with primary and secondary ION Enterprise 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 ION devices via serial, Ethernet,
or modem links, but there can be only one primary server on a network. When you
install ION Enterprise, the Primary Server must be installed before any Secondary
server or Client computers.
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Setup Pane
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Network
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