Grass Valley K2 System Guide v.7.2 - Manual (Page 7)

07 April 2010 K2 System Guide 7
K2 Summit Production Client internal storage system ....................................... 107
K2 Solo Media Server internal storage system .................................................. 107
About the direct-connect storage system ................................................................ 108
Using Storage Utility ................................................................................................ 109
About Storage Utility ........................................................................................... 110
Opening Storage Utility....................................................................................... 110
Overview of Storage Utility ................................................................................. 112
Checking storage subsystem status ................................................................... 113
Checking controller microcode ........................................................................... 113
About identifying disks ........................................................................................ 114
Identifying internal disks ..................................................................................... 114
Get controller logs .............................................................................................. 115
Check disk mode pages ..................................................................................... 115
Disabling a disk .................................................................................................. 115
Forcing a disk to rebuild ..................................................................................... 116
Unbind LUN ........................................................................................................ 116
Bind Luns............................................................................................................ 117
Changing RAID type for internal storage ............................................................ 119
Making a new media file system on a K2 Summit/Solo ...................................... 120
Checking the media file system .......................................................................... 120
Cleaning unreferenced files and movies ............................................................ 121
Downloading controller microcode ..................................................................... 121
Downloading disk drive firmware ........................................................................ 122
Placing the K2 system into online mode............................................................. 123
Chapter 5 Managing stand-alone K2 systems with SiteConfig
About managing stand-alone K2 clients with SiteConfig ......................................... 126
SiteConfig and stand-alone K2 clients checklist...................................................... 126
System requirements for SiteConfig control point PC ............................................. 127
About installing SiteConfig ...................................................................................... 128
Installing/upgrading SiteConfig................................................................................ 128
Creating a system description for stand-alone K2 clients ....................................... 130
Creating the control network for stand-alone K2 clients .......................................... 131
Creating the FTP/streaming network for stand-alone K2 clients (optional) ............. 133
Adding a group ........................................................................................................ 134
Adding stand-alone K2 clients to the system description ........................................ 134
Modifying stand-alone K2 client unassigned (unmanaged) interfaces .................... 135
Discovering devices with SiteConfig ....................................................................... 137
Assigning discovered devices ................................................................................. 138
Modifying stand-alone K2 client managed network interfaces ................................ 139
Adding a control point PC placeholder device to the system description ................ 144
Assigning the control point PC ................................................................................ 145
Making the host name the same as the device name ............................................. 146
Pinging devices from the control point PC .............................................................. 146
About hosts files and SiteConfig ............................................................................. 146
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig ................................................. 147
Configuring deployment groups .............................................................................. 148
About deploying software for stand-alone K2 clients .............................................. 149
Chapter 6 Managing K2 system software
About K2 system software....................................................................................... 151
Software components installed........................................................................... 152
Installing Control Point software .............................................................................. 152
Installing K2 software .............................................................................................. 154
Pre-installed software .............................................................................................. 154
Backup and recovery strategies .............................................................................. 154