Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 5)

07 April 2010 K2 System Guide 5
Contents
Finding Information ........................................................................................... 11
Grass Valley Product Support ................................................................................. 15
Web Technical Support ...................................................................................... 15
Telephone Support ............................................................................................. 15
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ......................................... 17
Chapter 1 Product Description
K2 Summit Production Client and K2 Solo Media Server features ......................... 20
Features of internal storage models ................................................................... 21
Features of external storage models .................................................................. 21
Product identification ............................................................................................... 22
Front panel indicators .............................................................................................. 23
Rear panel view....................................................................................................... 24
K2 Summit Production Client rear panel........................................................ 24
K2 Solo Media Server rear panel..................................................................... 25
ChannelFlex Suite rear panel connections ................................................... 26
Considerations for first startup out of box................................................................ 26
K2 Summit Production Client and K2 Solo Media Server system overview ............ 27
Application System ............................................................................................. 27
Real Time System .............................................................................................. 27
Media control and processing............................................................................. 27
Loop through, E to E, and feeds ......................................................................... 28
Ports used by K2 services .................................................................................. 30
RAID drive numbering ........................................................................................ 31
Chapter 2 Using K2 system tools
Configuration Manager ............................................................................................ 33
Accessing Configuration Manager...................................................................... 33
Saving and restoring Configuration Manager settings ....................................... 33
Restoring default Configuration Manager settings ............................................ 34
K2 System Configuration......................................................................................... 35
Storage Utility .......................................................................................................... 36
NetCentral ............................................................................................................... 37
Windows Remote Desktop Connection ................................................................... 37
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SiteConfig — a ProductFrame application .............................................................. 38
Chapter 3 System connections and configuration
About networks........................................................................................................ 42
Control network description ................................................................................ 42
Streaming/FTP network description ................................................................... 42
Media (iSCSI) network description ..................................................................... 42
Network connections ............................................................................................... 43
Cable requirements ............................................................................................ 43
About network ports............................................................................................ 43
Making network connections .............................................................................. 44
Network configuration.............................................................................................. 45
About network functionality................................................................................. 45
About modifying or restoring network settings.................................................... 46
Configure network settings for a stand-alone K2 systems ................................. 46
Streaming video between K2 systems ............................................................... 48
Using FTP for file transfer ....................................................................................... 52
About the K2 FTP interface ................................................................................ 53
Limitations with complex media types ................................................................ 53
Transferring between different types of systems ................................................ 53
Transfer mechanisms ......................................................................................... 53
FTP access and configuration ............................................................................ 54