Grass Valley GV STRATUS Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 171)

The K2Config application runs on a control point PC and accesses the devices of the K2 SAN via
the control network. You can configure the devices of the K2 SAN as follows:
• SAN-attached K2/Summit systems and K2 Media Server — These devices are configured directly
by the K2Config application.
• K2 RAID storage devices — The K2Config application launches a remote instance of Storage
Utility, which configures RAID storage devices. Storage Utility components run on the K2 Media
Server and the configuration actually takes place via the Fibre Channel connection between the
K2 Media Server and the RAID storage device.
• Ethernet switches — The K2Config application can launch a switch’s web-based configuration
application.
You can expand and select nodes in the tree view to view K2 SANs, individual devices, and
configuration settings. The configuration file is saved on the V: drive, along with the media files in
the shared storage system. The configuration file is updated and saved whenever you change a
configuration using the K2Config application. That is why you must always use the K2Config
application to change settings on the storage system, so the most recently changed configurations
will always be stored in the configuration file and displayed.
Grass Valley Recommended Deployment and Monitoring Solutions
To maximize up-time, a maintenance strategy must provide the ability to easily identify the root
cause of an unanticipated hardware or software failure and to quickly compile failure data. The
ability to proactively predict failures and to quickly notify those who can rectify them makes the
maintenance strategy even more powerful. Grass Valley has a long history of building the necessary
functionality into critical broadcast products. Beginning with Grass Valley’s longstanding monitoring
application NetCentral and progressing to the next generation tool GV GUARDIAN, remote
monitoring and proactive predictive failure analysis are important contributors to Grass Valley
system solutions. Both NetCentral and GV GUARDIAN run on commercial off-the-shelf server
PCs, such as the K2 system control point PC. Grass Valley and 3rd party devices report status via
Window Messaging, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), or syslog to the NetCentral
or GV GUARDIAN application. Each application provides easy to use, fully autonomous remote
monitoring to predict errors, provide proactive notifications, and centrally consolidate error logs
and hardware failure information. Grass Valley recommends using a remote monitoring tool like
NetCentral or GV GUARDIAN. With NetCentral, and even more so with GV GUARDIAN, you
can maximize your up-time with less manpower, as compared to manual system monitoring. Watching
for indicator lights, physically scanning logs, and other manual monitoring is far more time
consuming, more error-prone, and much less accurate. If you have an existing NetCentral installation
you install a NetCentral device provider on the NetCentral server PC for each type of device you
are monitoring. Refer to NetCentral product documentation for installation and operating instructions.
With GV GUARDIAN, only SNMP MIBs are required. Separate device providers are not necessary.
Refer to the on-line GV GUARDIAN Topic Library for information.
Windows Remote Desktop Connection
You can use the Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Connection application to make a remote
connection to a Grass Valley system that runs the Windows operating system.
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