Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.6.0b Installation - Manual (Page 34)

34 Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide September 22, 2006
Chapter 3 Configuring the system
• MDIs — The system uses a Managed Device Interface (MDI) to manage a device
that is not a platform for MediaFrame software. Typically these are the machines
on which media resides, such as Media Servers, NAS devices, and archive devices.
Each type of device has its own MDI. The MDI software component is usually
hosted on the MediaFrame server or an MDI server, rather than being hosted on the
same machine that it manages.
• Encoder services — The system uses services to manage the media processing that
takes place on the Aurora Browse encoder machines. Typically these are a type of
“transfer” service, such as the Thomson SmartBin Proxy Transfer service. This
type of software component is hosted on the machine that it manages.
Also refer to “Ports and services mapping” on page 36 .
The following table demonstrates how logical names for software components are
mapped to the machines of your system and provides a suggested naming convention.
Machine type Service that manages
the machine MDI/Encoder logical
name(s) Comments
Advanced Encoder Thomson Proxy
Transfer ADV1, ADV2,
ADV3… One logical name is required for each
Advanced encoder.
Avalon Archive Thomson Avalon
Archive MDI ARCHIVE1 Most systems have but one archive MDI—of
the appropriate type for the archive product—
that manages the entire archive system.
DIVA Archive Thomson DIVA MDI
FlashNet Archive Thomson FlashNet MDI
K2 Thomson K2 MDI K2-STORAGE1 When this MDI accesses a K2 Storage
System, it manages one of the connected K2
Media Clients. The MDI should be named for
the K2 Storage System.
K2-1, K2-2, K2-3,… When this MDI manages a stand-alone K2
Media Client, there is one MDI for each K2
Media Client. One logical name is required
for each stand-alone K2 Media Client system
that integrates with the system.
M-Series Thomson MSeries MDI M-SERIES1,
M-SERIES2,
M-SERIES3,… One logical name is required for each
M-Series iVDR that integrates with the
system.
News Thomson News MDI NEWS1 There is but on News MDI in the system. It
manages the hi-res media storage system for
Aurora assets.
NTFS Thomson NTFS MDI NTFS1 There is but one NTFS MDI in the system. It
manages NTFS storage on one or more
machines—typically the server and the NAS
machines.