Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 30)

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The FactoryTalk View SE Server has no user interface. Once installed, it runs as a set of
‘headless’ Windows services that supply information to clients as they request it.
FactoryTalk Alarms and Events installs behind the scenes during FactoryTalk
View SE installation, and provides system-wide alarm monitoring and control centralized
at the FactoryTalk Directory.
For run-time clients to receive FactoryTalk device-based and tag-based alarm
information, you need to set up application servers to support FactoryTalk Alarms and
Events services. For details, see Chapter 12, Setting up FactoryTalk alarms.
FactoryTalk Activation provides a secure, software-based system for activating
Rockwell Software products and managing software activation files.
For information about activating FactoryTalk View SE software, see the FactoryTalk View
Site Edition Installation Guide.
FactoryTalk tools and utilities that support the operation of your FactoryTalk View SE
software. For an overview, see Chapter 1 of the FactoryTalk View Site Edition Installation
Guide.
FactoryTalk View SE features
FactoryTalk View SE provides the flexibility and features you need to create powerful
automation systems for your plant or process. For example, you can:
 Create local station applications for parts of the plant or process that are self-
contained, and are not related to other parts of the process.
 Create complex applications that mirror the layout of a plant or process.
A FactoryTalk View SE network distributed application can contain several servers
running on multiple computers, connected over a network. Multiple client users can
connect simultaneously to a network distributed application.
 Open and modify network applications remotely using FactoryTalk View Studio.
 Use the health monitoring and redundancy features built into FactoryTalk and
FactoryTalk View SE to support system availability at run time.
 Use FactoryTalk Security services to centralize the authentication and authorization of
system users at the FactoryTalk Directory.
 Create multi-language applications that support switching between up to 40 different
languages at run time. In a network distributed application, multiple clients can run in
different languages simultaneously.
 Modify HMI tag and alarm properties at run time, and have changes take effect at
connected clients, without restarting the clients.