Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 User Manual
Grass Valley Equipment
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Finding Information
- Product Description
- Using K2 system tools
- System connections and configuration
- About networks
- Network connections
- Network configuration
- Using FTP for file transfer
- Using the HotBin service
- Using the Pathfire capture service
- About the Pathfire capture service
- Prerequisites for using the Pathfire capture service
- Considerations for the Pathfire capture service
- Configuring the Pathfire capture service
- Testing the Pathfire capture service
- Pathfire capture service components
- Pathfire capture service procedures
- Installing Pathfire Transfer Service software
- Licensing Pathfire Transfer Service software
- Using the DG capture service
- Using the XML Import capture service
- Using the P2 Import capture service
- Licensing K2 capture service software
- Pinnacle support
- Compressed VBI import
- Quicktime and Final Cut Pro support
- About connecting to K2 storage with Final Cut Pro
- Install and configure Macintosh Final Cut Pro systems on K2 storage
- Final Cut Pro CIFS mount to K2 storage quick start installation checklist
- Enable Access Control Lists on the K2 system
- Configure Macintosh systems for control network
- Configure Macintosh systems for Active Directory Domain
- Connecting via SAMBA/CIFS
- Verify Access Control Lists
- Configure HotBin
- About QuickTime import delay
- Using Final Cut Pro on a K2 storage
- Connecting RS-422
- Connecting GPI
- Managing Stand-alone Storage
- About the internal storage system
- About the direct-connect storage system
- Using Storage Utility
- About Storage Utility
- Opening Storage Utility
- Overview of Storage Utility
- Checking storage subsystem status
- Checking controller microcode
- About identifying disks
- Identifying internal disks
- Get controller logs
- Check disk mode pages
- Disabling a disk
- Forcing a disk to rebuild
- Unbind LUN
- Bind Luns
- Changing RAID type for internal storage
- Making a new media file system on a K2 Summit/Solo
- Checking the media file system
- Cleaning unreferenced files and movies
- Downloading controller microcode
- Downloading disk drive firmware
- Placing the K2 system into online mode
- Managing stand-alone K2 systems with SiteConfig
- About managing stand-alone K2 clients with SiteConfig
- SiteConfig and stand-alone K2 clients checklist
- System requirements for SiteConfig control point PC
- About installing SiteConfig
- Installing/upgrading SiteConfig
- Creating a system description for stand-alone K2 clients
- Creating the control network for stand-alone K2 clients
- Creating the FTP/streaming network for stand-alone K2 clients (optional)
- Adding a group
- Adding stand-alone K2 clients to the system description
- Modifying stand-alone K2 client unassigned (unmanaged) interfaces
- Discovering devices with SiteConfig
- Assigning discovered devices
- Modifying stand-alone K2 client managed network interfaces
- Adding a control point PC placeholder device to the system description
- Assigning the control point PC
- Making the host name the same as the device name
- Pinging devices from the control point PC
- About hosts files and SiteConfig
- Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig
- Configuring deployment groups
- About deploying software for stand-alone K2 clients
- Managing K2 system software
- Administering and maintaining the K2 system
- About the write filter
- Enabling the write filter
- Disabling the write filter
- Committing a file to disk with write filter enabled
- Licensing
- Configuring K2 security
- Overview of K2 security features
- Example: Setting up user access to bins
- Example: Setting up user access to channels
- Security and user accounts
- Configuring media access security for K2 bins
- AppCenter operations and media access security
- FTP and media access security
- K2 SANs and media access security
- Protocol control of channels and media access security
- Configuring channel access security
- K2 and NetCentral security considerations
- Microsoft Windows updates
- Virus scanning policies
- Network and firewall policies
- Enabling and disabling the USB ports
- Configuring auto log on
- Regional and language settings
- Direct Connect Storage
- K2 Summit Transmission Server Package
- Remote control protocols
- Specifications
- AC power specification
- Environmental specifications
- Mechanical specifications
- Electrical specifications
- Operational specifications
- Video codec description K2 Summit/Solo
- Playout of multiple formats
- Active Format Description (AFD) specifications
- VBI/Ancillary/data track specifications
- Internationalization
- Naming specifications for assets and bins
- Video network performance
- Supported file input/output formats on K2 Summit/Solo/SAN
- MXF export behavior on K2 Summit/Solo
- Media file system performance on K2 systems
- Transition effects formats supported
- Protocols supported
- Transfer compatibility with K2 Summit/Solo
- Control Point PC system requirements
- MIB specifications
- Connector Pinouts
- Rack mounting
- Index