Grass Valley Aurora Transfer v.6.0b - Manual (Page 3)

September 11, 2006 Aurora Transfer Instruction Manual 3
Contents
Preface .................................................................................................................. 5
Chapter 1 System Overview
Functional description ............................................................................................. 9
Product Features ..................................................................................................... 9
System diagram ...................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 2 Installing the Aurora Transfer system
Rack-mount the Transfer Server ............................................................................. 14
About the Transfer Server ....................................................................................... 14
Cable the Transfer Server ....................................................................................... 14
Install Aurora Transfer Server software................................................................... 15
Other software installation considerations .......................................................... 16
Chapter 3 Configuring the Aurora Transfer System
Establish conventions.............................................................................................. 18
MDI logical names convention............................................................................ 18
Ports and services mapping ............................................................................... 20
Configure network ................................................................................................... 21
Set up IP addresses and name resolution.......................................................... 21
Configure network settings ................................................................................. 21
Host table files .................................................................................................... 21
Prepare for core configuration stages ..................................................................... 23
Accessing services ............................................................................................. 23
Accessing system configuration pages .............................................................. 23
Configure MediaFrame components ....................................................................... 25
Configure Media Frame ASK: Register components.......................................... 26
Prepare MDI server ............................................................................................ 27
Configure ASK Location: MDI server.................................................................. 28
Configure Profile MDIs ....................................................................................... 29
Configure News MDIs......................................................................................... 30
Configure K2 MDIs ............................................................................................. 31
Configure M-Series MDIs ................................................................................... 32
Test: MediaFrame stage..................................................................................... 33
Configure Archive .................................................................................................... 35
Add archive MDI ................................................................................................. 36
Verify archive preparations ................................................................................. 37
Avalon archive preparations .......................................................................... 37
FlashNet preparations ................................................................................... 37
DIVA preparations ......................................................................................... 38
Network connectivity - all archive types ......................................................... 39
Configure ASK Location: Archive MDI host ........................................................ 40
Configure Media Frame Core ASK: Archive ....................................................... 40
Configure Avalon Archive MDI ........................................................................... 41
Configure FlashNet MDI ..................................................................................... 42
Configure DIVA MDI ........................................................................................... 43
Configure Archive Services. ............................................................................... 44
Add Aurora Transfer clients..................................................................................... 44
Chapter 4 Using the Transfer application
Opening the Transfer application ............................................................................ 48
Browse user restrictions .......................................................................................... 48
Connecting to ASK .................................................................................................. 49
About the MediaFrame network .............................................................................. 49
Browsing media assets ........................................................................................... 50