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Glossary
of
Terms
The following are common terms used with SMP2-D/R:
Administrator
– Person(s) responsible for resource assignment.
Allocation
– The process of specifying how many sources from a Pool should be available or allocated
to a Room.
Assign
– The process of adding Desks to Rooms and Sources to Pools
Desk
– Computer with two external video inputs (treated as destinations by the SMP), keyboard,
mouse, and an external keyboard switch to choose between the computer's HID and the remote
source's HID
.
Hot Keys
– Combination or sequence of keys that signal a function, such as Display the OSD or Switch
the keyboard/mouse. The Hot key does not interfere with the application running on the source.
Flex
Keys is a Thinklogical Tool that installs onto a Windows Computer and gives the administrator the
ability to create unique Hot Keys to enable actions that are not in Thinklogical’s Hot Key Code Defaults.
Pool
– A collection of sources. Typically, these sources are all running the same application. The
minimum number of sources in a pool may be zero. In this case, it is a place holder for allocating future
sources. A pool with zero sources shall be indicated in light text in the Pools Available list.
Pool Exclusivity
– A source can only belong to one Pool at a time, just as a Desk can belong to only
one Room at a time. Once a Source has been assigned to a Pool, it must be unassigned before it can
be reassigned to another Pool.
Request
– A command issued from User deskapp to request a source from a Pool.
Return
– A command issued from User deskapp to return a source to a Pool.
Room
– A collection of user Desks.
Source
– A Primary or Back-up computer.
User
– Authorized individual using a Desk.
