Grass Valley K2 Summit Storage Area Network Installation - Manual (Page 282)

Identifying primary/backup from NetCentral
While monitoring the K2 Media Server in NetCentral, do the following:
1. In the NetCentral tree view, select the K2 Media Server.
2. Click the Facility view control button
3. Open the Roles subsystem
4. Click the Media Database Server or Metadata Server link.
The Media Database Server dialog box opens and reports the Failover Mode as either Primary
or Backup.
Identifying primary/backup from the K2Config application
1. In the tree view, select the name of the K2 SAN, which is the top node of the storage system
tree.
2. Click the Server Control Panel button. The Server Control Panel opens.
3. Identify the primary K2 Media Server and the backup K2 Media Server.
If the K2 SAN does not have redundant servers, only one server (the left half of the Server Control
Panel) is displayed.
For Nearline K2 SANs, the Server Control Panel is not available from the K2Config application.
Identifying primary/backup from the local K2 Media Server
The following procedure assumes that you are at the local K2 Media Server and you need to check
its status in its role of media file system/metadata server, especially regarding redundancy. The
recommended mode for local operation of a K2 Media Server is to use a connected keyboard,
monitor, and mouse. You can also use Windows Remote Desktop Connection from a
network-connected PC to access the Windows desktop for “local” operation, but this is not
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Administering and maintaining the K2 SAN