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Table 2-1. Application Manager Component Terminology (Continued)
Application Manager Component Other Terms Used Description
Connector Web interface
n
None The browser-based interface you use to
configure and manage the Connector
after using the Connector virtual
appliance to make the initial Connector
configurations.
ThinApp Repository
n
Windows applications network
share
A shared folder that you create to store
Windows applications captured as
ThinApp packages. You then provide
users access to these applications.
Horizon Agent
n
Agent A ThinApp-specific component
installed on user's Windows systems
that allows users to access Windows
applications captured as ThinApp
packages.
Flow of Applications Through the Various Application Manager
Catalogs
Applications move through a hierarchy of Application Manager catalogs before appearing in a user’s User
Portal, where the user can launch them.
1 The Application Manager Appliance ships with a set of default applications available in the Operator
application catalog. Operators then customize the Operator application catalog by adding and deleting
applications. They can make specific applications available to each organization, which places the
application in organizations’ Administrator source application catalog. Operators can make applications
public (available to all organizations) or private (available to only specified organizations).
2 When organization administrators initially access their organization’s catalog, they access the
Administrator source application catalog, which was prepopulated by the operator. Administrators can
add applications not provided by operators. Next, administrators move the applications from the
Administrator source application catalog to the Administrator active application catalog. By adding group
and individual user entitlements, administrators entitle specific applications to specific users.
Administrators can entitle applications as automatic or self-activated.
3 When users access the Application Manager User Web interface, their Workspace, they see the User Portal
and an Application Catalog link. The application catalog lists all applications to which users are entitled.
Unless the administrator made an application automatically available, users must activate each
application in the User application catalog that they want to use. Activating an application moves it to the
User Portal where the user can launch it.
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