Ask registration stage – Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 User Manual

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December 16, 2004

NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide

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ASK registration stage

Configure Media Frame Core ASK: Register components

The ASK settings page registers MDIs and services with the ASK software
component, which runs on the NewsBrowse server.

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MediaFrameCore

ASK

Open this configuration page locally on the NewsBrowse server machine.

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All Domain names in the NewsBrowse system must be identical.

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Port 9010 is required. See

“Ports and services convention” on page 31

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Saves changes. Changes are lost if you leave the configuration page without
updating.

For the following settings, use the table below and refer to

“Site-specific

configuration tables” on page 32

. Add each MDI and “Device Type” service in the

NewsBrowse system

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Click to add an MDI.

Lists currently added MDIs.

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Deletes the currently selected MDI.

Always click

Update…

buttons after making changes

To put changes into effect, start or restart the ASK service on the NewsBrowse
server.

When you add an MDI
for this type of
machine/device…

Select “Device
Type”…

Enter “MDI
Name”…

Enter “Host Name or IP”…

Enter “Port”… Comments

Open SAN Profile

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Enter only one Profile per Open SAN. As per convention, name the MDI for the Open SAN, rather than for the Profile.

Profile

As per
convention.
Refer to

“MDI

naming
convention” on
page 30

.

Host (table) name of the machine
hosting the Profile MDIs. Typically
the MDI server

9130 - 9139

These are process ports, as
explained in

“Ports and services

convention” on page 31

. Assign

numbers in an intentional
sequence, so they are easy to match
in

“Configure Profile MDIs” on

page 57

.

Stand-alone Profile

Profile

NTFS storage on
Windows machines

NTFS

NTFS1, as per

convention.

NewsBrowse server host (table)
name, as the server is the required
NTFS MDI host.

Leave field
blank. Correct
port number is
automatically
entered on
“Add MDI”.
Refer to

“Ports

and services
convention”
on page 31

to

verify.

Single-channel
encoder

Ingest

As per
convention.
Refer to

“Services
naming
convention” on
page 30

.

Single-channel encoder host (table)
name

Advanced encoder

Transfer

Advanced encoder host (table) name

Proxy

Proxy

PROXY1, as per
convention.

Host (table) name of the machine
hosting the Proxy MDI. Typically
the MDI server.

Archive device

… Archive

ARCHIVE1, as
per convention.

Host (table) name of the machine
hosting the archive MDI

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