Grass Valley Aurora Ingest v.7.0.0 - Manual (Page 5)

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Grass Valley Product Support..................................................................................................9
Chapter 1: Introducing Aurora Ingest......................................................................11
Introducing Aurora Ingest......................................................................................................12
About Aurora Ingest workstations..........................................................................................13
About Aurora Ingest applications...........................................................................................13
Integration with Aurora Suite and third-party products..........................................................14
Understanding Status Colors................................................................................................14
Chapter 2: Preparing for installation.......................................................................15
Installing Aurora Ingest .........................................................................................................16
About SiteConfig...................................................................................................................16
Aurora Ingest installation checklists......................................................................................17
Pre-installation planning checklist with SiteConfig.............................................................17
Hardware installation checklist...........................................................................................17
Network setup and implementation checklist.....................................................................18
Software update checklist..................................................................................................19
Chapter 3: Installing Aurora Ingest Hardware........................................................21
Installing RS-422 card for VTR Controller.............................................................................22
Installing video capture card (optional)..................................................................................22
Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller ..........................................................................23
Chapter 4: Configuring the network........................................................................25
About developing a system description.................................................................................26
About the corporate LAN.......................................................................................................26
Configuring the corporate LAN..............................................................................................27
Adding a group......................................................................................................................27
Adding a device to the system description............................................................................28
About device and host names...............................................................................................29
Modifying a device name.......................................................................................................29
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices.......................................................30
Placeholder device IP configuration...................................................................................30
Discovered device IP configuration....................................................................................30
Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on Aurora Ingest devices...............31
About SiteConfig support on Aurora Ingest devices..............................................................33
Discovering devices with SiteConfig......................................................................................33
Assigning discovered devices...............................................................................................34
Modifying Aurora Ingest device managed network interfaces...............................................35
Making the host name the same as the device name...........................................................40
Pinging devices from the control point PC.............................................................................40
About hosts files and SiteConfig...........................................................................................41
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig...............................................................41
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