Mediaframe stage – Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 User Manual

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April 27, 2006

NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

MediaFrame stage

MediaFrame components make up the core platform on which NewsBrowse runs.
The primary MediaFrame components that you need to configure are as follows:

• ASK — The ASK software component runs on the NewsBrowse server. It is the

central registry for all the software components of the NewsBrowse system. As
software components carry out tasks in a functioning system they regularly refer to
the ASK component to establish communication and exchange commands and
data. The configuration pages also refer to the ASK component to populate fields
and lists and to validate the values you enter as you configure the system.

• MDIs — Devices have Managed Device Interfaces (MDIs) which represents the

device’s assets in a way that is understandable by the other components of the
NewsBrowse system. This allows the NewsBrowse server to coordinate the
activity of the NewsBrowse system.

In this configuration stage you add a MDI server and then set up logical names for
software components that manage devices. This brings the machines of your
NewsBrowse system on-line as managed devices.

To do the basic configuration and testing of the MediaFrame software component, do
the following, as appropriate for the devices in your system:

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“Configure Media Frame ASK: Register components” on page 60

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“Prepare MDI server” on page 62

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“Configure ASK Location: MDI server” on page 63

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“Configure Proxy MDI” on page 64

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“Configure K2 MDIs” on page 65

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