Grass Valley NewsShare v.5.5 - Manual (Page 15)

K2 Systems
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K2 Systems
• Before creating a NewsShare environment, you first need to install and
configure a K2 Media Server (see the K2 Storage System Instruction
Manual ).
• Many K2 network components, particularly the StorNext File System
(SNFS), require all clients and servers to use fixed IP addresses. If your
network uses a DHCP server, you must create address reservations or a fixed
address subnet.
Complete IP connectivity must exist between all DSMs, K2 Media Servers, and
NewsShare workstations for a particular K2 network. You may find it
convenient to assign all machines on a K2 network to the same Workgroup.
• An Open SAN cluster is comprised of FSMs, Profile Media Servers, NewsEdit
workstations, and ContentShare Open SAN Servers that share a common
volume. You must use a common-prefix convention (e.g.,
prefix_machine) to
name each machine within a cluster; NewsEdit uses these prefixes to determine
if files can be accessed within the local cluster or whether a stream exchange to
another cluster is necessary.
For example, you could identify one Open SAN cluster as OSAN1; you would
then use that prefix to name all machines in that cluster — a Profile Media
Server could be OSAN1_PRO1 and a NewsEdit workstation could be
OSAN1_EDIT1. Machines in a different Open SAN cluster require a different
prefix (such as OSAN2).
• SDNP requires that all SQL Server instances in its products be updated to
Service Pack 3. These include the SQL Server Standard Edition found on
FSMs, DSMs, and NewsBrowse servers, as well as the SQL Server MSDE
found on NewsEdit, NewsQ, and FeedClip. DNP installer programs will
insist before proceeding that any downlevel version of SQL Server be
upgraded to SP3 or higher. If necessary, follow the
Revised SQL Server
Installation and Update Procedures document for SP3 upgrades. Note that
the Standard and MSDE editions are decidely different, and that each must
be upgraded only by its indicated service pack. DNP has been increasingly
able to embed the MSDE installation and upgrade in DNP’s main installers;
thus, explicit upgrades to SP3 starting with version 5.0 products are usually
unnecessary.