Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.7.0 Installation - Manual (Page 6)

6 Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide April 6, 2010
Contents
Adding a group ........................................................................................................ 44
Adding a device to the system description .............................................................. 44
About device and host names ................................................................................. 45
Establish conventions ............................................................................................. 46
Machine naming convention............................................................................... 46
MDI and Encoder logical names convention ...................................................... 46
Ports and services mapping ............................................................................... 47
Modifying a device name ........................................................................................ 48
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices ........................................ 48
Placeholder device IP configuration ................................................................... 48
Discovered device IP configuration .................................................................... 49
Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on MediaFrame devices.. 49
About SiteConfig support on MediaFrame devices ................................................. 51
Discovering devices with SiteConfig ....................................................................... 52
Assigning discovered devices ................................................................................. 53
Modifying MediaFrame device managed network interfaces .................................. 54
Making the host name the same as the device name ............................................. 57
Pinging devices from the control point PC .............................................................. 58
About hosts files and SiteConfig ............................................................................. 58
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig................................................. 59
Create record of software installed on devices ....................................................... 60
Where to install Browse/MediaFrame software roles ......................................... 60
Removing a software role from a device ................................................................. 62
Adding a software role to a device .......................................................................... 62
Distribute devices into deployment groups ............................................................. 62
Setting deployment options ..................................................................................... 63
Configuring deployment groups .............................................................................. 66
Install prerequisite files on the control point PC ...................................................... 67
About deploying software ........................................................................................ 67
Add software package to.........................................................................................
deployment group for Aurora Browse devices ................................................... 68
Installing software on Aurora Browse devices ........................................................ 69
Chapter 5 Configuring the system
Configuration overview - K2 storage ....................................................................... 72
Prepare for core configuration stages ..................................................................... 73
Prepare MediaFrame Server for News systems................................................. 73
Prepare encoders ............................................................................................... 73
Add encoders to the K2 Storage System ........................................................... 73
Configuring encoders with the K2 System Configuration application ............ 74
Calculating encoder bandwidth ..................................................................... 78
Prepare NAS - Condor ....................................................................................... 79
About the administrator account......................................................................... 80
Accessing services ............................................................................................. 80
Accessing system configuration settings............................................................ 81
MediaFrame stage .................................................................................................. 82
Configure MediaFrame ASK: Register components .......................................... 84
Configuring transfer targets ................................................................................ 87
Configuring round robin transfers ....................................................................... 88
Configure ASK Location: MDI server ................................................................. 89
Configure Generic FTP MDI ............................................................................... 90
Configure K2 MDI ............................................................................................... 92
Configure K2 Summit MDI.................................................................................. 94
Configure M-Series MDI ..................................................................................... 97
Configure News MDIs ........................................................................................ 99
Configure Profile MDI ......................................................................................... 101
Configure Proxy MDI .......................................................................................... 103