Test: encoder + server stage – Grass Valley Aurora Browse v.6.0b Installation User Manual
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Aurora Browse Installation and Configuration Guide
September 22, 2006
Appendix B Legacy systems
Set up Aurora Browse client for configuration stage tests
Temporarily set up a PC as a Aurora Browse client. You can use the MediaFrame
server, except if the server is the HAFT platform.
NOTE: It is no longer recommended to install Windows Media Player on the HAFT
platform because of compatibility problems, so you can not run the Aurora Browse
application locally on the HAFT platform.
Setting up a Aurora Browse client is explained in
“Set up client PCs” on page 103
you use the MediaFrame server as a Aurora Browse client, it is only for the purpose
of the staged configuration process. Once the entire system is operating, you should
no longer use the MediaFrame server as a Aurora Browse client.
Other configurations normally required for Aurora Browse clients, such as Aurora
Browse users and licenses, are not necessary when the Aurora Browse client runs on
the MediaFrame server, because you log into the server as Aurora Browse
administrator.
To use an external PC as a Aurora Browse client, refer to
for the complete instructions.
Test: Encoder + Server stage
The following test exercises system functionality exclusive to the basic
configurations for the Encoder + Server stage. A successful test verifies that the basic
configurations are correct.
Test description: Using the Aurora Browse user interface, one test clip is manually
recorded (crash record) and one test clip is schedule recorded. The system correctly
controls the creation of (at the right time) the high-res material on the Profile Media
Server and the low-res proxy assets on the NAS.
Run the test as follows:
1. Make sure that the system is not in use.
NOTE: Running these tests will tie up a channel and could collide with commands
from the Ingest Schedule page. Inform operators that they must not use the
channels under test.
2. From the MediaFrame server, open the Aurora Browse application.
3. Click the
ingest
tab at the top of the Aurora Browse window. The Ingest page
opens.
4. On the Ingest page, verify that you can see the single encoder with the correct
channel name at the top of the column.
5. Make sure you are on today's schedule, and enable auto-refresh.
6. If not already running, start Event Viewer by clicking
Start | Programs | Thomson |
Event Viewer
. You can view activity in Event Viewer as you run tests.
7. Do a crash record as follows:
a. On the Ingest page, click the red record button at the top of the channel column.