Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 42)

42 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide April 27, 2006
Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System
Configure network - K2 Storage
Unless otherwise indicated, all information in this chapter refers to the two tier
network architecture which supports the NewsBrowse system on K2 storage. Also
refer to the system diagrams in
Chapter 1, System Overview .
Also refer to NAS Security Instruction Guide and SAN Security Instruction Guide.
Set up IP addresses and name resolution
The following instructions apply for systems that do not use the classic workgroup/
host table networking.
NewsBrowse systems may use Microsoft DNS for name resolution. The domain
controller should provide this service. If the NewsBrowse system does not have a
domain controller, another machine may be configured to provide this service.
Properly configuring all client network interfaces is extremely important to make
DNS name resolution work correctly.
The following applies to the control network on systems expanded to contain two
networks—control and media:
• The control network should be set to use dynamic host configuration protocol
(DHCP) to assign network IP addresses. All interfaces on this network should be
configured to register connections with DNS automatically.
The following applies to the media network on control/media network systems and to
the Production network overall on systems with a single, unified Production network:
• Network interfaces should be configured with static IP addresses. These interfaces
must also be configured not to automatically register their connections with DNS;
each interface on the media network should be manually added as a host entry with
“_he0” appended to the host name. These entries ensure that high-priority network
traffic is routed over this network.
NOTE: If you are exporting NewsBrowse EDLs to NewsEdit, the NewsEdit
workstation must be able to resolve the Profile MDI name (present in the EDL) to
the IP address of the Profile XP system to which the MDI connects. The
recommended solution is to map the MDI name to the Profile IP address in the
NewsEdit workstation’s host table.
When configuring networks for NewsBrowse, you should consider K2 Storage
System networking as well. For example, the K2 Storage System “media” network is
actually the iSCSI network. This is not the same as the NewsBrowse “media”
network. Also, if host tables and fixed IP addresses are required on parts of the K2
Storage System, make sure DHCP/DNS is configured to allow the fixed IP addresses.
Refer to “Host table files” on page 162 for an example of a host table.
Configure network settings on Production network machines
Use the instructions in this section to configure Production network machines, which
are all those of the following types:
• Advanced Encoder