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Proxy troubleshooting tools – Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 User Manual

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NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

April 27, 2006

Chapter 5 Troubleshooting the NewsBrowse system

- Administrator — With this option, all operations are available in the Transfer

application.

- Browse User Only — With this option the Delete, Rename, Create (bin), and

Cut/Paste options are not available in the Transfer application:

5. Click

Next

and

Finish

to complete the installation wizard.

6. To open Transfer 1.0, double-click the desktop shortcut.

7. Browse each managed device and verify that files are visible. This confirms that

the MediaFrame core level is functioning.

Proxy troubleshooting tools

Timecode Check

— This is a utility provided on single-channel encoders that will

display the timecode being fed into the Adrienne timecode board. This is valuable for
checking that house time is being read when setting up a single-channel encoder. No
NewsBrowse services should be running when using this utility.

Ingest Client

— This encoder utility exercises a single-channel encoder to test the

ability to encode mpeg and initiate record on the high-res video server. Refer to

“Test:

Router Gateway stand-alone stage” on page 178

.

Transfer Client

— This encoder utility is used to test scavenge and transcode

operations. Refer to

“Test: Advanced encoder stand-alone stage - high-res source” on

page 80

.

Router Gateway Client

— This utility allows you to test the connection between the

Router Gateway and the router control system. Refer to

“Test: Router Gateway

stand-alone stage” on page 178

.

Smart Bin Encoder Status

— On the NewsBrowse launch page, this page displays the

status of all Smart Bin Encoders in the system. This page displays the list of all jobs
attempted by the Smart Bin Encoders. For each job, the following are provided:

• encoder name

• the source and destination file names

• the time the job was run

• job status (with error information if the job was unsuccessful)

• job completion percentage (if job is currently running)

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