Grass Valley NV9000-SE v.5.0 - Manual (Page 399)

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NV9000-SE Utilities
User’s Guide
Name
Enter the name for the external interface definition in this field. The name of the external inter-
face definition helps distinguish one external interface definition from another within NV9000-
SE Utilities. External interface names do not mean very much otherwise.
Host
The ‘Host’ drop-down list provides a list of the hosts defined in your configuration.
An external interface’s host is the system controller in which the external interface runs. (There
are potentially many controllers in the system.)
Choose the host you prefer from the drop-down menu. The default, and most frequently
encountered, host is NVCONFIG.
To define hosts, use the ‘Hosts’ table of the ‘Views’ pane. See Hosts Table on page 499.
Protocol
The ‘Protocol’ drop-down list provides a list of the external interface protocols from which you
can choose. A protocol is the medium or “language” in which the system controller (the host)
interacts with the other system.
There are 8 protocols included in the list:
ESbus PhysLevel interface Jupiter Bridge interface
Marshall IMD interface NV Ethernet interface
NV Serial PhysLevel interface NV9000 Panel server
NV9000 Tieline server Probel PhysLevel interface
Some of the these entries are not useful. There are also external interfaces (e.g. the SMS7000
interface which is implemented as a service) that are not in the list.
Choose the protocol, from the drop-down list, that applies to the third-party system. The
protocol you choose might require some level of support from Grass Valley technical personnel.
 The NV9000 Panel server and the NV Tieline server are services and are not external interface
protocols. It is harmless, but not useful, to select one of these as a protocol.
The default interface protocol is ‘NV Ethernet’.
Control Point
A control point is a coded description of the connection between the system controller (the
host) and the router. There are two types of connections and therefore two types of control
points: Ethernet and serial.
The interface type depends on the protocol you selected.
There is one control point field — a drop-down list — in the page. The drop-down list might
include a small list of control point values, either serial or Ethernet.
The default choice in the drop-down list is ‘-New-’. This particular choice means that you intend
to define the control point in the external interface details page, which is the next page in the
external interface definition sequence. Sometimes ‘-New-’ is the only choice in the list.