Grass Valley K2 ASI Media Client Installation - Manual (Page 26)

26 K2 ASI Media Client Installation and Service Manual August 14, 2008
Chapter 2 Installing the K2 ASI Media Client
Media Client.
If you have multiple K2 Appliance types, you should configure your highest
bandwidth K2 appliances first, as this ensures load balancing is correct. Refer to
the load balancing topic in the K2 Media Client System Guide.
9. For Storage Access, leave iSCSI selected.
10.For K2 Appliance Type, select K2 ASI .
11.Click Next . The Software Configuration page opens.
This page checks the K2 ASI Media Client appliance for the required software:
• SNFS
• .NET 1.1
• Grass Valley K2 Appliance Software
12.Identify software installed on the K2 ASI Media Client and proceed as follows.
• If any software with Yes in the Required column reports as Not Installed, you
must install it on the K2 ASI Media Client. After installing the software, click
Check Software.
• If all software with Yes in the Required column reports as Installed, click Check
Software.
13.When all required software reports as Installed , click Next . The Network
Configuration page opens.
This page configures both control and media (iSCSI) network connections. The top
port is the port over which the K2 System Configuration application is
communicating with the K2 ASI Media Client. If correctly configured, it is already
assigned the control network IP address, which is displayed in the window.
14.Select the media (iSCSI) port and click Modify . A network configuration dialog
box opens.
15.Enter the media network IP address and subnet mask and then click OK .
16.Click Next . The Database Client Configuration page opens.
This page connects the K2 ASI Media Client as a media database client to the K2
Media Server taking the role of media database server. If there are redundant K2
Media Servers, both are listed on this page as database servers.
17.Verify that the K2 ASI Media Client is connecting to the correct K2 Media Server
or servers as follows:
• For non redundant K2 Storage Systems, the client connects to the only server.
• For iSCSI redundant K2 Storage Systems, the client connects to server A as
database server 1 and server B as database server 2, so that if there is a problem
with one server, the other server is available.
18.Click Check .
19.When the wizard reports that the configuration check is successful, click Next . The
File System Configuration page opens.
This page connects the K2 ASI Media Client as a media file system client to the K2