Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.0 - Manual (Page 19)

25 May 2004 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide 19
Chapter
2
Installing NewsBrowse Machines
This chapter provides instructions for installing the hardware platforms that support
the NewsBrowse system. When you are done installing the hardware platforms,
continue with
Chapter 3, Configuring the NewsBrowse System and Chapter 4,
Recovery Planning to complete the installation of your NewsBrowse system.
Rack-mount hardware components
Follow the instructions for your specific rack to install each component of the
NewsBrowse system. One rack-unit spacing is recommended between components
for ventilation.
Cable hardware components
Refer to the system design for your particular NewsBrowse system and either the
“Two tier system diagram” on page 16 or the “Three tier system diagram” on page 17
to identify the hardware components and cabling requirements for your NewsBrowse
system. Then turn to the instructions in this section for the hardware components
included in your system and connect cables as required.
Be aware of the following as you cable your system:
• When connecting the network, use 100Tx cabling and switches (or Gigabit uplink
in the case of the NAS). Zoning is not required on the switch if five or less clients
are active. If more than five clients are using the system, it is strongly
recommended that you use an isolated switch or a shared, zoned switch to isolate
the client-side LAN. Network traffic from the NewsBrowse internal LAN is
minimized.
• You may want to postpone cabling to external networks until after configuring
respective IP addresses.
• NewsBrowse requires analog video and audio feeds. Digital to Analog conversion
of signals may be required.
• Single-channel encoders, sequential encoders and live monitor encoders all require
audio/video connections. Both single-channel and sequential encoders require
timecode feeds (house-time or from Profile respectively).
• For all NewsBrowse machines, connect the keyboard/mouse cable harness as
follows:
• Plug the Y-cable into the keyboard/mouse port on the back of the machine and
into one end of the keyboard and mouse ports on the cable harness.
• Plug the VGA cable on the harness to the back of the machine.
• Plug the other end of the harness into a PC connection on the KVM Keyboard/
Monitor Drawer unit. (If you are not using the KVM component, plug the cables
into a PC keyboard, mouse, and VGA port.)