User Manual

5 Configuring Hotel Solution
5.1 Overview
The Hotel Solution Configuration Utility makes it easy to configure a Hotel Solution
system after installation.
After the setup program has copied the software to the computer hard disk, you then
need to specify which parts of the Hotel Solution system are to be run on this computer.
5.2 General information and definition of terms
The configuration data for the hotel components is stored in the Registry. To simplify
the configuration process for the user, the Siemens Hotel Solution Configuration Utility
takes care of the most important entries. Details of all entries will be found in the
manuals of the relevant components.
Most components (database server, DGU driver, KeyClient, Fidehot etc.) are operated
as services. These are programs started automatically by the operating system without
a user having to log in. A Service Control Manager is responsible for starting and
managing the services. For all Hotel Solution services, the role of the Service Control
Manager is performed by the Hotel Solution Configuration Utility.
In large hotel systems, several DGU drivers and several KeyClients are normally
required. In such cases, we refer to several instances of the same program. These are
distinguished only by their names. In the case of the DGU driver, the name of a given
instance of the driver is always DGUn or, for KeyClient, always KEYn, where n is the
instance number.
The number of the KeyClient corresponds to the number of the card-encoding device in
the user interface or Front Office System (FOS).
Each instance may exist once only on all the computers of a Hotel Solution system.
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