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Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of Interplay
®
| Production, a powerful system for managing
media in a shared storage environment. This guide describes how to use
Interplay | Administrator, an Interplay client application that provides tools to configure the
Interplay | Engine and to manage the database on the server.
This guide is intended for all Interplay administrators who are responsible for installing,
configuring and maintaining an Interplay Engine or Interplay Archive Engine (database, server,
and all related client connections and user rights) in an Interplay workgroup. This guide includes
a detailed description of each of the Interplay Administrator task groups and how you can use
them to administer your server and databases. Some of the settings that you are able to change
affect the server itself, while others only affect the database stored on the server.
The Interplay Administrator is supported on both the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
and the Mac OS
®
X
platforms. When necessary, the guide describes platform-specific differences.
n
The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your system
might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.
n
Limited number of client applications per user per machine: A user can run only one Interplay
Access session and one Interplay Administrator session on one machine. This software does not
support terminal/server sessions.
Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
n
A note provides important related information, reminders,
recommendations, and strong suggestions.
c
A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to
your computer or cause you to lose data.
w
A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm.
Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when
handling electrical equipment.