Grass Valley iTX System v.2.6 - Manual (Page 101)

Configuring a Media Watcher
Managing file stores
Check the Media Watcher can access a file store
1. Do the following to check that the Media Watcher can access any particular file store.
• Select a file store in the File Stores list.
• Click Recheck Access. An "Accessible" entry in the right column indicates the Media
Watcher can access the folder.
Note: It may take up to 30 seconds for the Media Watcher to establish a connection to a
location. Because of this, you should wait for that amount of time, after adding a file store
to the list, before you click Recheck Access.
Set up automatic access checking for file stores
The Media Watcher, TXPlay and the Encode Server can check their access to file stores at
regular intervals.
1.
Do one of the following to set up or cancel automatic access checking.
• If you want the Media Watcher, TXPlay and the Encode Server to check access to file
stores, select Check Access.
• If you do not want these services to do this, ensure Check Access is not selected.
Note:
• Check Access should be selected for most iTX systems.
• This setting affects all Media Watchers in your iTX system – changing the setting for
any Media Watcher changes it for all.
• When Check Access is not selected, the Media Watcher, TXPlay and the Encode Server
perform an access check when you run the diagnostics. If you re-enable access
checking, you must run the diagnostics for these services.
• The first time you cancel access checking, you must restart the Media Watcher, TXPlay
and the Encode Server.
Set up the Media Watcher to recheck external file stores when searching for
media files
When an event requires a media file that is not registered in the iTX system, the Media
Watcher may search for the file on an archive or any other type of external file store. You can
set it up to keep checking the external file stores at regular intervals.
1.
Select Recheck Archive if you want the Media Watcher to keep checking external file
stores when it cannot find a required unregistered media file.
2. Enter a value in the Archive Request Rate for the length of the interval (in minutes)
between each check.
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