Grass Valley K2 Storage System Instruction Manual v.3.2 Aug.01 2007 - Manual (Page 194)

194 K2 Storage System Instruction Manual July 3, 2007
Chapter 5 Installing the Level 3R Storage System
• Install SNFS software and K2 software.
For more information, refer to the Aurora Edit Installation and Configuration Guide.
Additional steps that are required for K2 Media Clients include the following:
• If the K2 Media Client connects to the K2 Storage System with a redundant
Ethernet fabric, such as in Levels 2R and 3R, install Multi-path I/O software.
For more information refer to the K2 Media Client System Guide.
K2 configuration and NetCentral
Before you begin using the K2 System Configuration application to configure the
storage system, you should set up the NetCentral system according to the following
requirements:
• NetCentral installed — NetCentral server software must be installed on a
NetCentral server PC. This can be the K2 configuration Control Point PC or
another PC that has network communication with the K2 Storage System control
network.
• Device providers installed — A device provider must be installed on the NetCentral
server PC for each type of device in the K2 Storage System. For a Level 3R storage
system, the following device providers must be installed:
• Control point PC device provider — This is the Windows monitoring device
provider.
• K2 Media Server device provider
• HP Gigabit Switch device provider or Cisco Gigabit Switch device provider
• K2 Media Client device provider, if any K2 Media Clients are accessing the
Level 3R storage system.
• Device provider for iSCSI clients, if any iSCSI clients such as Aurora Edits are
accessing the Level 3R storage system.
• K2 Level 2/Level 3 RAID storage device provider. This device provider
supports both Level 2 and Level 3 RAID devices.
• Grass Valley PC Monitoring software installed — This software must be installed on
the K2 configuration Control Point PC. It includes Grass Valley SNMP agents and
other WMI based components to perform process monitoring. This provides the
information for some of the SNMP trap messages that must be sent to NetCentral.
• Control Point PC monitored by NetCentral — The K2 configuration Control Point
PC should be added to the NetCentral system and fully monitored by NetCentral.
This means that its SNMP trap destination is set to send SNMP traps to the
NetCentral server PC. Whether the Control Point PC and the NetCentral server PC
are the same PC or are different PCs, you should still add the Control Point PC to
NetCentral.
Refer to the NetCentral User Guide to set up the NetCentral system. After installing
a device provider, you can find additional documentation about monitoring that type
of device on the NetCentral Help menu.