Grass Valley iTX System v.2.6 - Manual (Page 128)

Modifying layouts
In general, since the installed layouts already contain the required components, you do not
need to use the Toolbox. There are possible exceptions:
•
If there are not enough Channel Monitors on the Engineering layout, you may add
some.
• If your system includes a standby Output Server, you may need to add an Auto Failover
Control to a suitable engineering layout.
2. If the Toolbox obscures an area of the layout where you want to work, click any part of its
border and drag the Toolbox away.
Configuring service-monitoring components
Two types of component give information about the operational status, or “health”, of all
system services running under a particular Server Controller:
• A Server Monitor displays information about the services running on the Database
Server machine.
• A Channel Monitor displays information about the services running on an Output
Server machine.
The standard Engineering layout has two Server Monitors, for displaying the health of the
services running on two Database Servers (these may be main and back-up machines):
It also has four groups of transmission-chain components. Each contains features that relate to
key parts of the system for a playout channel. These include two Channel Monitors, for
displaying the health of main and back-up playout channels:
Each group also has router control features for channel failover:
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