Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 126)

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Finding more information about FactoryTalk services
This manual contains information about developing FactoryTalk View SE applications,
including information about how FactoryTalk View uses FactoryTalk services.
For additional, detailed information about FactoryTalk systems, services, concepts, and
components, see the FactoryTalk Help.
To open the FactoryTalk Help
 Select Start > All Programs > Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk Tools >
FactoryTalk Help.
You can also open the FactoryTalk Help by clicking Help in dialog boxes used to set
up FactoryTalk components and services.
Key network distributed application concepts
This section presents some of the common terms and concepts that are used to describe
FactoryTalk View SE network distributed applications.
FactoryTalk Network Directory
The FactoryTalk Directory centralizes access to application resources components, such
as graphic displays and tags, for all FactoryTalk products participating in a control system.
For example, to access graphic displays in a network distributed application, HMI clients
use FactoryTalk Directory to find out which computers on the network are hosting the
HMI servers that provide the displays.
FactoryTalk Network Directory (also called the Network Directory) manages FactoryTalk
View SE network distributed applications. All of the computers participating in a
particular network distributed application must share a common Network Directory,
located on a network server.
For more information about FactoryTalk Network Directory, see Chapter 4, Setting up the
FactoryTalk Directory.
FactoryTalk Security
FactoryTalk View SE network distributed applications can use FactoryTalk Security
services to authenticate and authorize application users.
Do not run FactoryTalk Directory, or any other application software, on the same computer as a
Windows domain controller.