Document Outline

• Xmedia Server Configuration Guide
• 1 Introduction
  • About the Xmedia Server
  • Xmedia Server’s standard and option features
    • Work Order Management Option
    • Xplorer - Media Asset Management application
• 2 XMS hardware overview
  • Front panel components, LEDs and buttons
  • Back panel components and connectors
  • Mounting the Xmedia Server chassis in a rack
• 3 XMS network integration and service applications
  • Xmedia Server virus protection guidelines
    • Network Setup and Configuration
    • Standard Anti-Virus Protection
    • Institution of Policies
  • Xmedia Server network ports
  • VertigoXmedia Data Server service
    • Setting the Data Server’s connection parameters
    • Logging Data Server events
    • Controlling the Data Server service
  • File Ingest Server and Transcode Server
  • Xmedia Server Control Panel - XmediaServer Properties Window
    • Xmedia Server Control Panel’s settings pages
• 4 The XMS’s general configuration settings
  • Viewing the Xmedia Server’s product information
  • Configuring the XMS’s network connection and directories
  • Configuring the Authorization Manager
• 5 Verifying the XMS’s database settings
  • Verifying the SQL Server database settings
  • Making a backup of the SQL Server database
  • Monitoring the XMS Search’s Solr connectivity and indexing
• 6 Replication of the XMS Server’s database
  • Conditions that trigger a failover
  • MOS Enabled Replication
  • Replication settings on the Xmedia Server Control Panel
  • Setting up and enabling Xmedia Server replication
    • Server replication requirements
    • Specifying the Replication settings on the primary server
    • Specifying the Replication settings on the secondary server
    • Make a backup of the primary server’s database
    • Setting the Control Data Server option
    • Specifying the server settings on client applications
    • Verifying proper functioning of the servers and replication
• 7 MOS Server configuration and monitoring
  • Configuring the Xmedia Server’s MOS settings
    • Instructions for configuring the Xmedia Server as a MOS server
    • Editing the Newsroom Control System’s properties
    • Deleting the Newsroom Control System
  • Logging MOS Server activities
    • Specifying MOS logging options
    • Viewing the MOS log file
  • Monitoring inbound/outbound MOS messages
  • Mapping MOS channels
    • Adding a MOS Channel Association
    • Editing a MOS Channel Association
    • Deleting a MOS Channel Association
  • Private Page settings
  • Using MOS Redirection to transfer media between Xmedia Servers
    • Prerequisites for using MOS Redirection
    • Overview of the MOS Redirection workflow
    • Limitations when using MOS Redirection with Xmedia Servers
    • Logging MOS Redirection events
• 8 License management
  • An overview of Vertigo Suite licenses
    • Vertigo Suite application and device licenses
    • Types of Vertigo Suite licenses
    • The vxls.bin license file
    • Xmedia Server Control Panel Licensing page versus License Manager
    • Licensing in a server replication environment
  • Orientation to Xmedia Server Control Panel’s Licensing page
    • Licences view - License Summary tab
    • Licenses view - License Detail tab
    • Soft Keys view
  • Viewing the existing device and application licenses
  • Viewing the details of a particular license
  • Resolving license errors and adding licenses to the Xmedia Server
    • Verifying the application’s or device’s server settings
    • Verifying the License Summary and License Details
    • Acquiring and adding licenses to the Xmedia Server
  • Deallocating a fixed license
• 9 Logging Xmedia Server events
• 10 Work Order workflow configuration
  • Xmedia Server Control Panel’s Workflow options
  • Workflow models
  • Workflow option: States
    • Adding a new state to the workflow
    • Editing a state’s properties
    • Removing a state from the workflow
  • Workflow option: Permissions
    • Adding a new permission to the workflow
    • Editing a permission’s properties
    • Removing a permission from the workflow
  • Workflow option: Transitions
    • Transition properties and permissions
    • Adding a new transition to the workflow
    • Editing a transition’s properties and permissions
    • Deleting a transition from the workflow
  • Workflow option: Priorities
    • Adding a new priority to the workflow
    • Deleting an existing priority from the workflow
  • Workflow option: Roles
    • Adding a new role to the workflow
    • Editing an existing role’s properties and permissions
    • Deleting a role from the workflow
  • Workflow option: Users
    • Add a new user to the workflow
    • Edit a user’s workflow properties and/or roles
    • Deleting a user from the workflow
  • Setting up E-Notifications
    • Creating the email template files for E-Notifications
    • Setting the Notification Parameters
    • Creating an E-List for each state change notification
    • Editing a state change notification’s E-List
• 11 Setting the XMS system parameters
  • Setting the Ingest Parameters
  • Setting the Expiration Parameters
  • Setting the System field rate
• 12 OxSox connection settings
• 13 The XMS automation parameters for scheduled-based publishing
• 14 XFTP settings
• 15 Enabling AP Graphics Bank integration
  • Configuring and enabling AP Graphics Bank integration
  • Disabling AP Graphics Bank integration
• 16 Controlling the XMS service
  • Verifying the XMS service’s status
  • Stopping and starting the XMS Service
    • Manually starting and stopping the XMS Service
    • Automatically starting the XMS Service
  • Controlling the DataServer
  • Enabling the Xmedia Server REST Interface
  • Launching the Services Management Console
• 17 Displaying XMS runtime statistics
• 18 Propagating assets to other Xmedia Servers
  • Configuring Xmedia Servers for asset propagation
  • Using automatic propagation
    • Setting up propagable categories and recipient associations
  • Using manual propagation
  • Resolving Propagation Exceptions
    • Information Propagation Exceptions
    • Category Propagation Exceptions
    • Categorisation Propagation Exceptions
  • Removing propagated assets from a recipient server
  • Propagation and distributed work orders
    • Distributed work order concepts and behaviors
    • Setting up a hub and spoke server for distributed work orders
    • Using distributed work orders
• 19 Setting and monitoring the XMS publishing activities
  • Setting the Central XMS IP Override
  • The Insta-publish device setting on the Xmedia Server Control Panel
    • Insta-publishing from the EXMS to a Localhost device
  • Monitoring and managing publish requests in the queue
• 20 User rights management
  • Target audience and prerequisites for setting up URM
  • Overview of the Authorization Manager
    • Vertigo Suite Operations
  • Configuring the Policy Store in Active Directory
    • Open the Authorization Manager
    • Creating a new organizational unit and assigning a Policy Store
    • Granting the domain user administrative rights to the Organizational Unit
    • Stopping the XMS Service
    • Adding the domain user to the Xmedia Server’s security credentials
    • Granting the domain user administrative rights to the Policy Store
    • Setting the Authorization Manager Configuration settings
    • Starting the XMS Service to populate the VertigoXmedia application
  • Configuring the Policy Store in an XML file
    • Opening the Authorization Manager
    • Configuring the Authorization Manager to use an XML file stored on a network share
    • Creating the VertigoXmedia Policy Store in the Authorization Manager
    • Obtaining a Windows user with full control of the shared directory
    • Stopping the XMS Service
    • Adding the new user to the Xmedia Server’s security credentials
    • Changing the security credentials of the Policy Store
    • Setting the Authorization Manager Configuration settings
    • Starting the XMS Service to populate the VertigoXmedia application
  • Setting up your user rights management system
    • Establish your user rights management security criteria
    • Creating a new task definition
    • Creating and populating a new role definition
    • Creating a new role assignment
    • Associating Windows users and groups with a role assignment
  • Maintaining the Authorization Manager’s elements
    • Editing role definitions
    • Editing task definitions
    • Adding and removing users from a role assignment
  • Restricting access to asset categories
    • Setting access permissions for an asset category
    • Granting additional users access to a restricted category
    • Removing users from a category’s security
    • Removing all access restrictions from a category
• 21 Ingesting media files using the File Ingest Server
  • Installing the File Ingest Server and creating an ingest watch folder
  • Running the File Ingest Server and Transcode Server
  • Configuring an ingest server instance
    • Ingester Settings properties
    • Editing an instance’s properties
    • Deleting an instance
    • Reloading the instances in the File Ingest Server Control Panel
  • Ingesting files and monitoring the ingest’s progress
  • File Ingest Server’s logging