Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 38)

38 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide April 27, 2006
Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System
The software components that require logical names are as follows:
• MDIs — The NewsBrowse system uses a Managed Device Interface (MDI) to
manage a device that is not a platform for NewsBrowse software. Typically these
are the machines on which media resides, such as Media Servers, NAS devices, and
archive devices. Each type of device has its own MDI. The MDI software
component is usually hosted on the NewsBrowse server or an MDI server, rather
than being hosted on the same machine that it manages.
• Encoder services — The NewsBrowse system uses services to manage the media
processing that takes place on the NewsBrowse encoder machines. Typically these
are a type of “transfer” service, such as the Thomson SmartBin Proxy Transfer
service. This type of software component is hosted on the machine that it manages.
Also refer to “Ports and services mapping” on page 40 .
The following table demonstrates how logical names for software components are
mapped to the machines of your NewsBrowse system and provides a suggested
naming convention.
Machine type Service that manages
the machine MDI/Encoder logical
name(s) Comments
Advanced Encoder Thomson Proxy
Transfer ADV1, ADV2,
ADV3… One logical name is required for each
Advanced encoder.
Avalon Archive Thomson Avalon
Archive MDI ARCHIVE1 Most NewsBrowse systems have but one
archive MDI—of the appropriate type for the
archive product—that manages their entire
archive system.
DIVA Archive Thomson DIVA MDI
FlashNet Archive Thomson FlashNet MDI
Image Support
Server Thomson Proxy
Transfer ISS1, ISS2, ISS3… One logical name is required for each Image
Support Server.
K2 Thomson K2 MDI K2-STORAGE1 When this MDI accesses a K2 Storage
System, it manages one of the connected K2
Media Clients. The MDI should be named for
the K2 Storage System.
K2-1, K2-2, K2-3,… When this MDI manages a stand-alone K2
Media Client, there is one MDI for each K2
Media Client. One logical name is required
for each stand-alone K2 Media Client system
that integrates with the NewsBrowse system.
M-Series Thomson MSeries MDI M-SERIES1,
M-SERIES2,
M-SERIES3,… One logical name is required for each
M-Series iVDR that integrates with the
NewsBrowse system.
News Thomson News MDI NEWS1 There is but on News MDI in the system. It
manages the News Media storage system.
NTFS Thomson NTFS MDI NTFS1 There is but one NTFS MDI in the system. It
manages NTFS storage on one or more
machines—typically the server and the NAS
machines.