Specifications

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Advantages of a Server Based System
Protege GX was designed to be easy to operate, simple to integrate, and effortless to extend. It is a server
based system, and as such, is not designed to be run on a technician's laptop. The following outlines the
reasons why...
Simplicity
To keep the system simple and manageable for the end user, much of the hardware is hidden. When making
configuration changes, you are making changes to the system rather than to a specific Controller. The system
then manages which controllers need updating, and does this all behind the scenes.
Security
Any access control system contains valuable and often sensitive information.
This information belongs to the end user, not to the technician that happens to be maintaining or installing their
system. It is dangerous, irresponsible, and in most cases completely unacceptable for a company's private data
to be sitting on a technician's laptop, floating around in the back of a station wagon.
Synchronization
Setups that allow multiple copies of the system configuration are open to synchronization problems.
If one technician makes changes using his laptop on one day, then another technician attends on another day
and forgets to upload all of the controllers first, changes the first technician made are overwritten.
A server based system avoids this problem, as the changes are made immediately.