Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 152)

152 K2 System Guide 07 April 2010
Chapter 6 Managing K2 system software
on K2 Summit Production Clients and K2 Media Clients with direct-connect
storage.
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:
Installing Control Point software
If you are using the Grass Valley Control Point PC, it comes from the factory with
software installed, so you should not need to install software.
Software Components installed Comments
K2 Client Core system software Provides the primary media functionality.
AppCenter user
interface Allows you to operate AppCenter on the local machine.
AppServer Provides AppCenter functionality. It is accessed by both the
remote AppCenter (on a Control Point PC) and the local
AppCenter user interface.
Storage Utility Configures the media storage on internal storage K2 clients
only. Do not run Storage Utility on shared storage K2 clients.
K2 System
Configuration 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.
Multi-Path I/O Installation files copied to K2 client but software not installed.
K2 Server Core system software Provides the primary media functionality.
Storage Utility Provides functionality for the remotely connected Storage
Utility that runs on the Control Point PC. You should not run
Storage Utility locally on the K2 Media Server.
K2 System
Configuration 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 Media Server.
Control
Point AppCenter user
interface Connects to K2 clients for control and configuration of
channels.
K2 System
Configuration user
interface Connects to K2 clients, K2 Media Servers, RAID storage, and
Gigabit switches for configuration of the K2 SAN.
Storage Utility Connects to the K2 Media Server, and through the K2 Media
Server to the RAID storage, for configuration of the media file
system, media database, and RAID storage.