Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.8.1 User Manual
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Contents
About Aurora Playout................................................................................................................................9
Terms You Should Know.........................................................................................................................10
Overview of Aurora Playout....................................................................................................................10
Using Aurora Playout..............................................................................................................................11
Linking to a Newsroom Computer System (NCS) ..............................................................................11
Creating playlists manually .................................................................................................................12
Overview of the Assignment List Manager.............................................................................................13
Overview of the Housekeeper.................................................................................................................14
Overview of the Simple Database (SDB) Server ...................................................................................15
Overview of the XMOS Server ...............................................................................................................16
Pre-installation planning checklist.......................................................................................................18
Hardware installation checklist............................................................................................................18
Network setup and implementation checklist......................................................................................19
Software update checklist...................................................................................................................20
Hardware installation checklist................................................................................................................21
Installing Aurora Playout Hardware.........................................................................................................21
Cabling the Aurora Playout computer ....................................................................................................21
Connecting the RDU 1510 Under Monitor Display ................................................................................22
Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller (optional)............................................................................23
Network setup and implementation checklist..........................................................................................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........................................................................29
Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on Aurora Playout devices..............................31
About SiteConfig support on Aurora Playout devices.............................................................................33
Discovering devices with SiteConfig.......................................................................................................33
Assigning discovered devices.................................................................................................................34
Modifying Aurora Playout device managed network interfaces...............................................................35
Making the host name the same as the device name.............................................................................40
Pinging devices from the PC that hosts SiteConfig................................................................................40
About hosts files and SiteConfig.............................................................................................................41
Generating host tables using SiteConfig.................................................................................................41
Software update checklist.......................................................................................................................43
Create record of software installed on devices.......................................................................................43
Adding a software role to a device..........................................................................................................45
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