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Managing k2 system software, About k2 system software, Chapter 6 – Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 User Manual

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07 April 2010

K2 System Guide

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Chapter

6

Managing K2 system software

This chapter contaK2 Edge Transmission Serverins the following topics:

“About K2 system software”

“Installing Control Point software”

“Installing K2 software”

“Backup and recovery strategies”

About K2 system software

Check K2 Release Notes for the latest information about software.

At the time of this writing, the primary software installations for the K2 Summit
Production Client and K2 products are as follows:

In addition, the following software is installed in special cases:

• Multi-Path I/O software — You must install this software on K2 Summit

Production Clients and K2 Media Clients that are part of a redundant K2 SAN and

This
software…

Is distributed
on…

With the installation file located at…

Which is
installed on…

And is described as
follows:

K2 Client

The K2 System
Software CD
and via
download

..\K2Client\setup.exe

K2 Summit
Production
Clients and K2
Media Clients

Provides core functionality
for all K2 clients models.

K2 Server

The K2 System
Software CD
and via
download

..\K2Server\setup.exe

K2 Media
Servers

Provides core functionality
for all K2 Media Servers in
all roles.

Control
Point

The K2 System
Software CD
and via
download

..\ControlPoint\setup.exe

Control Point
PCs

Provides remote control
and configuration of K2
clients (both internal and
external storage) as well as
the K2 SAN.

Media File
System
(SNFS)

The K2 System
Software CD
and via
download

..\snfs\gvSnfsxxSetupK2.bat

K2 Media
Servers,
stand-alone K2
clients, and
shared storage
(SAN) K2
clients

Provides a dedicated file
system for access to media
data. Install only as
instructed by release notes.

NetCentral

The NetCentral
Manager CD

..\ServerSetup.exe

The NetCentral
server PC (this
can be a
Control Point
PC)

Provides remote
monitoring of all K2
products.

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