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Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 User Manual

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December 16, 2004

NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

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Contents

Preface

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Grass Valley Product Support ................................................................................. 8

Chapter 1

System Overview

Functional description ............................................................................................. 9
Two tier system diagram ......................................................................................... 10
NetTime system ...................................................................................................... 11
Legacy systems....................................................................................................... 11

Chapter 2

Installing NewsBrowse

Rack-mount hardware components ........................................................................ 13
Cable hardware components .................................................................................. 13

NewsBrowse server instructions: Dell or Axiom platform ................................... 14
NewsBrowse server instructions: HAFT platform ............................................... 15
Network Attached Storage (NAS) instructions - Fastora .................................... 17
NAS instructions: Serial ATA network platform .................................................. 18
Single-channel encoder instructions................................................................... 19

RS-422 Cable Pinouts ................................................................................... 20

MDI Server instructions ...................................................................................... 21
Advanced Encoder instructions .......................................................................... 22
Live monitor encoder instructions....................................................................... 23
Router Gateway instructions .............................................................................. 24

Install NewsBrowse software .................................................................................. 25

Chapter 3

Configuring the NewsBrowse System

Configuration overview ............................................................................................ 28
Establish conventions.............................................................................................. 29

Machine naming convention............................................................................... 29
Channel naming convention ............................................................................... 29
MDI naming convention...................................................................................... 30
Services naming convention............................................................................... 30
Ports and services convention............................................................................ 31
Site-specific configuration tables ........................................................................ 32

Configure network: Two tier .................................................................................... 34

Distribute host tables .......................................................................................... 34
Configure network settings on Production network machines............................ 35
Configure HAFT platform.................................................................................... 36
Configure network settings on Client network machines.................................... 36
Test: Verify two tier network settings .................................................................. 37

Prepare for core configuration stages ..................................................................... 38

Prepare NetTime ................................................................................................ 38

Prepare NetTime servers............................................................................... 38
Prepare NetTime clients ................................................................................ 39

Prepare Profile Media Servers ........................................................................... 40
Prepare NAS - Windows Fastora ....................................................................... 40
Prepare NAS - Serial ATA network platform ...................................................... 44
Verify NAS access.............................................................................................. 45
About Windows Domains and the nbadmin account .......................................... 46
Accessing NewsBrowse services ....................................................................... 46
Accessing NewsBrowse system configuration pages ........................................ 47

Stop NewsBrowse services ..................................................................................... 49
ASK registration stage............................................................................................. 50

Configure Media Frame Core ASK: Register components ................................. 51
Test: ASK registration stage............................................................................... 52
Checklist: ASK registration stage ....................................................................... 52