Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 - Manual (Page 101)

December 16, 2004 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide 101
Archive stage
Verify archive preparations
A single Profile XP system provides a maximum of four streams for concurrent
transfers. Keep this mind when configuring the archive device for concurrent
transfers. If the archive is configured such that it can request more than four streams
simultaneously from any single Profile XP system, the additional transfers will error
out.
For the type of archive device you use, check the following to verify proper operation
with the NewsBrowse system.
Avalon archive preparations
Check the following on the machine which runs Avalon IDM Software (Archive):
1. Login to the machine and go to /avalon/aam/utils
2. Run stataam and verify all services running properly.
3. Make sure host tables are set correctly. Verify for the machine name/IP which IDM
will talk to.
4. Make sure the Fiber channel interfaces are configured so that Avalon IDM can talk
to the Profiles.
Consider the following when preparing to integrate Avalon archive with
NewsBrowse:
• Avalon archive has no fixed limit for concurrent transfers, so it can be configured
to consume as few or as many streams provided by the Profile XP systems on the
Open SAN.
FlashNet preparations
Check the following on the machine which runs the FlashNet software:
1. Login to the machine.
2. Verify that you can telnet to the Profile Ethernet IP address on port 8192 (telnet
keystone2_le0 8192 ).
3. Verify that you can FTP from the FlashNet server to the Profile on the Fibre
Channel address and login as user movie.
4. Make sure the “FlashNet Socket Listener” and “FlashNet Automation” services are
up and running.
5. Use the FlashNet “Jukebox” application to test that a drive can be successfully
accessed from FlashNet. Refer to “User Guide for FlashNet running on Windows
NT and Windows 2000 platforms”.
Consider the following when preparing to integrate FlashNet with NewsBrowse:
• The FlashNet MDI does not take any user specified name for the restore. The clips
are restored using the original clip name (from archive).
• FlashNet’s setting for concurrent transfers applies globally to all source/destination
pairs. There is no setting on a server-by-server (Profile-by-Profile) basis. To make
the setting for “maximum number of concurrent transfers”, you use a file named
C:\.dtool_env where you can specify “API_MAX_BACKUPS” and