Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.6.5 Installation - Manual (Page 33)

November 1, 2008 Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide 33
Establish conventions
Establish conventions
The following conventions are recommended to make your system easier to work on
and understand. Refer to these sections as necessary as you configure your system.
Machine naming convention
Choose a root name (based on the site, etc.) and use the following convention for
naming machines. Illegal MDI names are a forward slash (/) and an asterisk (*).
If you use a UIM in your system, make sure you follow the UIM naming convention.
On Aurora Share systems, the client prefix name is used to identify the system as
shared. The prefix separator can be an underscore or a hyphen. For example,
WXYZ-Edit and WXYZ_Edit are valid names.
MDI and Encoder logical names convention
As you configure your system you must create and enter logical names for the various
software components (services) that provide functionality. These logical names
provide a mapping of the functionality of the standard Aurora Browse services to the
specific machines in your particular system. For this reason you should take care to
create logical names that are easy to identify and interpret as they appear in the various
configuration pages.
It is especially important that you distinguish between the logical name of a software
component and the hostname of the machine to which the software component relates.
In the conventions suggested in this manual, machine names are lower case and
logical names are upper case to make this distinction.
The software components that require logical names are as follows:
Machine type Name
MediaFrame machines
MediaFrame server root-nb-svr
Managed Device Interface (MDI) Server root-nb-mdi
Proxy machines
Aurora Proxy Encoder root-nb-adv-1…n
SmartBin Encoder root-nb-sbe-1…n
Network Attached Storage (NAS) a
a.
Some NAS devices have restricted characters for naming. For example, the Fastora NAS can’t
have underscores, while the Ciprico NAS can’t have dashes.
root-nb-nas-1…n
Ingest machines
K2 system k2-1…n
Stand-alone Profile Media Server pvs-1…n
M-Series iVDR ivdr-1...n
Legacy machines
Live monitor encoder root-nb-live-1…n