Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 - Manual (Page 113)

December 16, 2004 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide 113
Add NewsBrowse Clients
5. In Event Viewer, verify that scavenge activities occur for each channel, and that all
advanced encoders are encoding MPEG simultaneously.
6. With the NewsBrowse application, validate MPEG assets.
Purge test
1. Select an asset from the results list to load details. Take note of the components
associated with this asset. This can be done by looking at the Related tab in the
details page. By using the mouse to hover over the entries in the related tab you can
derive where the asset components exist in the system.
2. From the general tab on the details page edit the expiration date and select a date
in the past.
3. The purge process polls at configured intervals. The default interval is 24 hours. To
expedite testing go to the windows services panel and restart the rules wizard
process. This will cause the cycle to be reset and assets meeting expiration criteria
will be processed immediately
4. Refresh the search results list by pressing the go button with no criteria specified.
5. Verify that asset components noted earlier no longer exist in the system. You will
have to look at the NAS for the specific paths to proxy asset components. The asset
on the Profile should also be removed.
Add NewsBrowse Clients
Do the following tasks to enable PCs to act as a NewsBrowse clients and run the
NewsBrowse application.
• “Connect server and NAS to customer LAN” on page 113
• “Set up client PCs” on page 114
• “Configure NewsBrowse Licenses” on page 114
• “Testing NewsBrowse client operations” on page 121
If you are upgrading from NewsBrowse system version 1.5 to version 2.0 or higher,
refer to NewsBrowse Release Notes for upgrade instructions regarding NewsBrowse
clients.
Connect server and NAS to customer LAN
The NewsBrowse server and NAS machines must have network access to the external
LAN of the NewsBrowse client PCs. Work with the IT personnel at the customer site
to configure Domain, DNS suffix, or any other settings required by the site’s LAN.
Refer to
“Two tier system diagram” on page 10 .
Also, make sure that permissions are correct for access to the NewsBrowse server
website, which serves the NewsBrowse application. The website uses Integrated
Windows Authentication.
Continue with the next procedure “Set up client PCs” .