Grass Valley GV STRATUS Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 493)

Folder
A physical or logical container. It can be a physical directory on a computer's file system or a database
record managed by a Grass Valley system database.
FT server
The fault tolerant server that provides a platform for Grass Valley system devices, such as the GV
STRATUS Core server.
Gang
Two or more channels that can be controlled as a single unit. A channel in a gang is referred to as
a ganged channel. A channel that is not in a gang is referred to as a single channel.
Grass Valley system
The applications with their database(s) and supporting infrastructure that manage assets for one or
more Grass Valley products.
House Number
The panel that populates the house number list and links assets to house numbers from the traffic
system.
Ingest Database
The database for the Scheduler tool.
Inspector
The panel that displays details of the asset currently loaded.
K2Config
Grass Valley's application for configuring the K2 Storage Area Network (SAN).
K2 Media Server
The K2 Media Server product, which is a K2 SAN device. It can have the role of file system manager
and other roles.
K2 Nearline SAN
A large pool of offline K2 storage to which files can be saved. Suitable for media file transfer. Does
not support record or play.
K2 SAN
The K2 Storage Area Network, including K2 Media Server, K2 RAID, and K2 SAN-attached
systems. This term applies to an online or production SAN except if it is specified as a nearline
SAN.
K2 Solo system
The K2 Solo Media Server product.
K2 Summit SAN-attached system
A K2 Summit system with media storage on a K2 SAN. Applies to K2 Summit (3G) Production
Client and K2 Summit Transmission Client products.
K2 Summit standalone system
A K2 Summit system with internal or direct-connect media storage. Applies to K2 Summit (3G)
Production Client and K2 Summit Transmission Server products.
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