Grass Valley iControl V.4.43 - Manual (Page 14)

Introduction to iControl
End-to-end facility monitoring
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End-to-end facility monitoring
• iControl provides end-to-end facility monitoring by performing signal quality and device
health monitoring across all essential formats: audio, video and ancillary data in RF,
baseband, analog, SD, HD, ASI and IP.
• All the diverse elements involved in playout can be controlled from a single, integrated
GUI and just one keyboard and mouse.
• The highly graphical views, with full motion and high quality streaming video, allow
operators to quickly identify and respond to alarm conditions, and thereby reduce the
Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
• iControl helps correlate alarms and data from multiple sources and devices by dynamically
displaying only the elements associated to a particular service or location, whether
upstream or downstream. This can greatly help operators in assessing fault conditions and
their consequences.
Extensive third-party device control and monitoring by SNMP and embedded
applications
• A high level of device control and monitoring for a wide range of devices and
manufacturers is available with iControl, covering all essential television distribution and
broadcast applications
• Interfacing to third-party devices is achieved by combining industry standard SNMP
control protocols with feedback from full motion and high quality streaming video.
• iControl can also control third party devices using embedded control applications, and
these can be automatically presented to the operator by device alarms to speed response
times.
Operational Overview
The diagram below shows the relationship between the elements of an iControl system, and
how they work together to provide real time monitoring of a signal path.