Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.0 - Manual (Page 46)

46 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide 25 May 2004
Chapter 3 Configuring the NewsBrowse System
Stop NewsBrowse services
Before beginning your initial core configuration stages, you must stop all
NewsBrowse services. This prevents the creation of corrupt database records and
other errors that result from a partially configured system.
Go to each NewsBrowse machine and turn off all “Thomson…” services, as described
in
“Accessing NewsBrowse services” on page 43 . Then, when you configure each
stage, you start the appropriate services to put the settings into effect. This brings the
system on-line in an orderly fashion that allows you to verify system interactions and
identify configuration problems.
NOTE: It is especially important that the Rules Wizard is not running during
configuration stage tests that create assets. When a test asset is created, the Rules
Wizard can trigger the creation of various types of proxy media assets. This causes
problems because the partially configured system is unable to handle the assets
correctly.
ASK registration stage
The ASK software component runs on the NewsBrowse server. It is the central
registry for all the software components of the NewsBrowse system. As software
components carry out tasks in a functioning system they regularly refer to the ASK
component to establish communication and exchange commands and data.
The NewsBrowse system configuration pages also refer to the ASK component to
populate fields and lists and to validate the values you enter as you configure the
system. For this reason you should configure the ASK component first.
To do the basic configuration and testing of the ASK software component, do the
following:
1. “Configure Media Frame Core ASK: Register components” on page 47
2. “Test: ASK registration stage” on page 48
3. “Checklist: ASK registration stage” on page 48