Grass Valley iTX Delivery Manager v.2.6 - Manual (Page 7)

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About Delivery Manager
This chapter explains role of the Delivery Manager module as iTX’s media delivery and asset
registration tool, as well as outline its architecture, supported endpoints, operational
modes and failure resilience models.
Summary
What is Delivery Manager? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Delivery Manager’s Endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Delivery Manager’s Modes of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Delivery Manager and Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Delivery Manager’s Distribution and Resilience Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What is Delivery Manager?
Delivery Manager is an iTX service that retrieves and manages the processing of media and
assets that have been stored on, or delivered by, third-party content management systems.
Delivery Manager uses automated workflows to manage end to end schedule-driven
content delivery, which eliminates the need for a number of labor-intensive user tasks that
are normally required to prepare new media for playout.
Delivery Manager uses custom software plug-ins, called ‘endpoint drivers”, to interface
directly with third party media archives, content stores and network repositories. Each
plug-in is designed to interface with a specific type of content storage or archive system
and actively searches for and retrieves media from these endpoints as and when they are
required for playout.
Delivery Manager’s Endpoints
The supported endpoint types can perform a range of content management operations,
such as:
• Monitoring external network locations (i.e. drop folders)
• Acquiring assets when they are placed into the drop folder
• Working with content management software to retrieve media required for broadcast
and archiving media that is no longer required.
Once Delivery Manager has been configured to use specific endpoints, the retrieval and
archiving of media can be triggered manually by an operator or automatically by a
scheduling system, via iTX Missing Materials Manager or an iTX Workflow, as required.