Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.7.0 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Grass Valley Product Support................................................................................................11
Chapter 1: Introducing Aurora Playout....................................................................13
About Aurora Playout.............................................................................................................14
Terms You Should Know........................................................................................................14
Overview of Aurora Playout...................................................................................................15
Using Aurora Playout.............................................................................................................16
Linking to a Newsroom Computer System (NCS) .............................................................17
Creating playlists manually ...............................................................................................18
Overview of the Assignment List Plug-in...............................................................................19
Overview of the Assignment List Manager............................................................................19
Overview of the Housekeeper...............................................................................................21
Overview of the Simple Database (SDB) Server ..................................................................21
Overview of the XMOS Server .............................................................................................22
Chapter 2: Preparing for installation.......................................................................25
About Aurora Playout and SiteConfig....................................................................................26
About SiteConfig...................................................................................................................26
Aurora Playout installation checklists....................................................................................27
Pre-installation planning checklist......................................................................................27
Hardware installation checklist...........................................................................................27
Network setup and implementation checklist.....................................................................28
Software update checklist..................................................................................................29
Chapter 3: Installing Aurora Playout Hardware......................................................31
Hardware installation checklist..............................................................................................32
Installing Aurora Playout Hardware.......................................................................................32
Cabling the Aurora Playout computer ...................................................................................32
Connecting the RDU 1510 Under Monitor Display ...............................................................33
Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller (optional)...........................................................34
Chapter 4: Configuring the network........................................................................35
Network setup and implementation checklist........................................................................36
About developing a system description.................................................................................37
About the corporate LAN.......................................................................................................37
Configuring the corporate LAN..............................................................................................38
Adding a group......................................................................................................................38
Adding a device to the system description............................................................................39
About device and host names...............................................................................................40
Modifying a device name.......................................................................................................40
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices.......................................................41
Placeholder device IP configuration...................................................................................41
Discovered device IP configuration....................................................................................42
Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on Aurora Playout devices.............42
14 April 2010 Aurora Playout User Guide 5
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