Grass Valley GV STRATUS Playout v.2.0 - Manual (Page 39)

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5 In the Create New Child Channel dialog box, type a name for the channel.
6 Click Create.
7 In the Channels list, click the name of the child channel you created.
8 In the Channel Details section, complete the basic information for the channel:
• In the Channel Location box, type a label which can be used to identify the
channel location or region, or any other useful label (optional).
• In the Channel Type list, select the channel type that you want to assign to the
channel. The channel type applies a set of defined settings to the channel. For
more information, see
Creating a new channel type , on page 25.
• For Maintenance Mode, click Enable if you want to prevent SSP-3801 alarm
notifications from appearing in GV STRATUS Playout and on-air failures from
appearing in the daily statistics. When the button is blue, Maintenance Mode is
enabled. The alerts are still visible in the card’s web interface.
• In the Auto Fill Schedule section, click Load to choose a schedule that will be
repeatedly appended to the playlist or click Clear to remove an existing schedule.
9 Click Update Channel.
10 Assign a device to the channel, as required. For more information, see Setting up
devices in GV STRATUS Playout , on page 43.
Implementing high availability for channels (channel failover)
To provide high availability for a channel, you can have two channels set up as a main and
backup pair. Each channel is assigned to a device to support failover between the devices in
case of a card failure or other failover condition on the on air channel.
The channels set up in a main and backup pair are identified by the following:
• The main and backup channels have the same name, but “-Backup” is appended to the
backup channel’s name.
• A small callout appears beside the channel’s name above the channel grid on the
Channel Control page to indicate if the channel is the main or the backup.
For more information on creating a main and backup pair, see Setting up backup channels
for failover , on page 40.
The channel on air is referred to as the active channel. The active channel, whether it is the
main or the backup, is identified on both the Channel Overview and the Channel Control
pages by a green indicator in the first column of the Channels list. If a failover was triggered,
the indicator moves from one to the other; for example, it moves from the main channel to
the backup to show that the backup channel is now the active channel and is on air.
The SSP-3801 cards associated to the devices should be connected to an HCO device, which
provides an automatic method for managing the failover between the devices, or other
system which handles the routing of the playout from the main to the backup. When the
SSP-3801 cards associated to the devices are connected to an HCO device and they are
configured in Auto Failover Mode, then the HCO device will automatically perform the
failover to the backup channel when a failover condition occurs on the active channel. You
can, however, override the HCO device by performing a manual failover. If the SSP-3801
cards associated to the devices are not connected to an HCO device, then the procedure for