Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.0 - Manual (Page 40)

40 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide 25 May 2004
Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System
Prepare for core configuration stages
Do the following tasks in preparation for the configuration of core system
functionality.
Prepare NetTime
NetTime keeps the system clocks on NewsBrowse machines in sync. It is used to keep
the Ingest Scheduler and Clients synchronized to house time. The Profile Media
Servers and NewsBrowse encoders use the house timecode feeds.
One of your NewsBrowse machines functions as a NetTime server. The other
NewsBrowse machines are NetTime clients. NetTime keeps the clients in sync with
the server.
Set up NetTime with the following procedures:
• “Prepare NetTime servers” on page 40
• “Prepare NetTime clients” on page 40
Prepare NetTime servers
You use one single-channel encoder as the primary NetTime server, and another
single-channel encoder as the secondary (redundant) NetTime server. A LTC
connection to house timecode is required for single-channel encoders functioning as
NetTime servers.
To prepare a single-channel encoder as a NetTime server, do the following:
1. On the single-channel encoder, open the following folder:
C:\Net Time Components\TC Timesync
2. Open AecPciPoll.exe. This verifies that the Adrienne card is properly installed and
the house timecode is valid.
3. Open a DOS window and navigate to C:\Net Time Components\TC Timesync
4. Run Load Service.bat and in Task Manager, verify that NtPciClk.exe is running.
5. Restart the encoder and verify that NtPCiClk.exe restarted automatically.
6. Open the folder C:\Net Time Components\Server.
7. Open ATCS10.exe and click Yes to install.
8. Restart the encoder and verify that the Absolute Time Server icon appears in the
system tray.
9. The encoder is now functioning as the primary NetTime server. Repeat this
procedure on a second single-channel encoder, to make it the secondary NetTime
server.
Prepare NetTime clients
Before you use a PC to run the NewsBrowse client application, it must be prepared as
a NetTime client. If you are following the basic configuration path, you must at a
minimum prepare the NewsBrowse server as a NetTime client, as it is temporarily
used as a NewsBrowse client in
“Set up NewsBrowse client for configuration stage