Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.9.0 - Manual (Page 168)

About K2 system software
Check K2 Release Notes for the latest information about software.
K2 system software components are as follows:
• K2 Client: Installed on K2 Summit/Solo system. Provides core functionality for all K2
Summit/Solo system models.
• K2 Server: Installed on K2 Media Servers. Provides core functionality for all K2 Media Servers
in all roles.
• Control Point: Installed on Control Point PCs. Provides remote control and configuration of K2
Summit/Solo systems (both internal and external storage) as well as the K2 SAN.
• Media File System (SNFS): Installed on K2 Media Servers, stand-alone K2 Summit/Solo systems,
and shared storage (SAN) K2 Summit/Solo system. Provides a dedicated file system for access
to media data. Install only as instructed by release notes.
In addition, the following software is installed in special cases:
• Multi-Path I/O software — You must install this software on K2 Summit systems that are part
of a redundant K2 SAN and on K2 Summit systems with direct-connect storage.
On a K2 SAN system, Grass Valley requires that you use SiteConfig to install K2 system software.
On a standalone K2 Summit/Solo system Grass Valley recommends SiteConfig but allows manual
installation as well. You can access software on your K2 Summit/Solo system's USB Recovery
Flash Drive and via download from the Grass Valley website. On the USB Recovery Flash Drive,
find SiteConfig
*.cab
files in the
ProductFrame
directory and find manual installation files in the
release directory.
Software components installed
Each of the K2 installation packages installs software components that provide the functionality for
various applications and system tools. The components installed are as follows:
Comments Components installed Software
Provides the primary media functionality. Core system software K2 Client
Allows you to operate AppCenter on the local machine. AppCenter user
interface
Provides AppCenter functionality. It is accessed by both the
remote AppCenter (on a Control Point PC) and the local
AppCenter user interface. AppServer
Configures the media storage on internal storage K2 clients
only. Do not run Storage Utility on shared storage K2 clients. Storage Utility
Installed only on shared storage models. Provides to the
remotely connected K2 System Configuration application
the ability to configure the local machine. You cannot run
the K2 System Configuration user interface on the local K2
client. K2 System
Configuration
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Managing K2 system software