Grass Valley PDR v.2.1 - Manual (Page 26)

Chapter 1 Introducing the Profile Family
10 Profile Family
Profile Logs
You can view Profile system logs with the graphical log viewer, WinTail. This
log viewer allows you to see the end of a log file. To learn more about how to
view Profile logs, see Chapter 5, “Using Profile Utilities.”
ProLink
ProLink monitors Profile Protocol calls over RS-422 communication lines,
allowing you to use a device such as the PRC100 Control Panel, attached to a
selected port, to communicate with a Profile system. (The PRC100 is a discrete
control panel that provides conventional VTR-type control of Profile systems.)
For more information on Profile Protocol, see the Profile Software
Development Kit.
PortSever
PortSever allows you to communicate to a Profile unit remotely using Ethernet
communications. For example, you can run PortServer on a remote Profile
system so that you can communicate over a LAN with it from another Profile.
PortServer is used in conjunction with Fibre Channel operations.
Fibre Channel Support
You can use Fibre Channel video networking capabilities to move clips from
one Profile unit to another. The
listnames and copymovie commands (described
in the PDR200 Installation Manual and the PDR100 Fibre Channel Manual)
use the Fibre Channel connection to transfer media files between machines.
Ethernet LAN is required for transferring commands and status information.