Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 - Manual (Page 60)

60 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide December 16, 2004
Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System
9. Click Subscribe Events . This subscribes to notifications from the asset system.
With this enabled you should see a message when an asset is created or deleted.
10.Configure as follows to view assets on a Profile managed device:
• Enable the Traverse All Containers check box.
• Location: Leave this field blank. With Traverse All Container enabled, when the
Get Asset List button is clicked it will get all of the assets for the MDI. If you
enter a path to a specific clip, you must use forward slashes in the path.
• Registered Type: container/*
11.Click Get Asset List . Verify that a list of media assets appears.
12.Select an asset and click Properties. Verify that properties for the asset appears.
13.Repeat step 9 through step 12 for each Profile managed device, as listed on the
Profile MDI Settings configuration page in the Existing Profile MDIs box.
14.Configure as follows to check the Proxy MDI connection:
• Host: localhost
• Port: 9110
15.Click Connect . Verify that the Get Asset List button and other buttons become
enabled, which means the connection is successful.
16.Configure as follows to view assets at a Proxy location:
• Enable the Traverse All Containers check box.
• Location: Leave this field blank.
• Registered Type: container/*
17.Click Get Asset List . Verify that a list of media assets appears, for example, the
low-res assets created in “Test: Encoder stand-alone stage” on page 65 .
18.Select an asset and click Properties . Verify that properties for the asset appears.
19.On the NewsBrowse server, start the Asset System Client and click Subscribe
Events as in step 9 above. When testing the notifications with the Asset System
Client, it should run on the server – the same machine on which the Rules Wizard
runs. This helps validate the networking configuration between the two machines.
Checklist: MDI stage
Use the following check list to verify that the basic configuration and testing of the
MDI stage is complete.
" The machine designated as the MDI server has the Proxy MDI service and the
Profile MDI service installed and running.
" Each Profile Media Server added as a managed device has a Profile Managed
Device Process running on the MDI server machine.
" From the Asset System Client application on the MDI server, assets and their
properties are visible from each Profile Media Server or Open SAN and from each
machine configured as a Proxy location.