ViewPoint Manual

Functional Description
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Event Distributors
The ViewPoint application defines one primary-events distributor in an NCN (assuming
only one instance of ViewPoint is running). The alternate-event distributor, however,
belongs to the operator, and there can be one associated with each alternate-events
display. The operator can configure the alternate-event distributor to read from a
specific log file in any selected node.
The following three paragraphs describe each of the three cases shown in Figure 5-18.
1. The primary-events distributor has the single purpose of distributing current events
for primary-events displays for the network operators logged on at this node. Its
filter is not modifiable by individual operators; the filter is installed in the initial
configuration setup.
2. If you specify current-events mode for your alternate-event display (by not giving a
date and time), your alternate-event distributor reads current events from the current
Figure 5-18. Reading of Log Files by Event Distributors
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