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Prepare mdi server – Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 User Manual

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NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

December 16, 2004

Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System

Prepare MDI server

The machine that hosts the MDI services acts as the MDI server. Identify the machine
that is the MDI server as follows:

Dedicated MDI server

— For medium to large NewsBrowse systems, the MDI services

are on a stand-alone MDI server machine, to ensure system performance. If your
system has a dedicated MDI server, it comes from the factory with Profile and Proxy
MDI services installed, so you do not need to do any further installation. The MDI
server requires only network communication in preparation for its use in the
NewsBrowse system.

NewsBrowse server as MDI server

— For small NewsBrowse systems, the MDI

services can reside on the NewsBrowse server. The NewsBrowse server comes from
the factory with Profile and Proxy MDI service installed, to support these smaller
systems, so you do not need to do any further installation. The NewsBrowse server
also has the NTFS MDI service installed, as it is required to run on the server,
regardless of the size of the system.

For the remaining configuration steps in this stage, open configuration pages locally
(http://localhost:280) on the machine running the MDI services.