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Remote Workstation Interface
The Remote Workstation Interface is a software application that provides control of the server
from PC workstations located within a facility. A remote workstation can access one or more video
channels of the server to perform ingest, playback, trimming, playlisting, traffic operations or
monitoring of server activities.
Applications include—
• Control of a server located in a machine room
• Ingest station for loading commercials and other content from tape
• Edit station for trimming content
• Building, editing and running playlists
• Remote control of a server located at a transmitter site (“evergreen” backup)
• Access to file content and operations by engineering or management
• Control of more than one server from a single workstation
• On a wireless network, a server can be controlled by a secure
Wi-Fi enabled laptop computer
• Remote control in a conference room, or during auditorium presentations
• Servers may be securely controlled from a remote location, even across public Internet
connections, with inexpensive VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology.
A single server may be controlled from more than one different location on the network. See
Figure 41.
Similarly, a single computer can run multiple Remote Workstations to control multiple servers.
Remote Workstation software provides the same functionality as the local GUI with the
following exceptions: It cannot access the server’s network configuration screen, shutdown the
server, access the RAID status display, or display the server’s time-of-day clock.
As of this writing, the current version of Remote Workstation is 3.03.08, this is required to
work with server software version 1.03.515.
System Requirements
• PC with Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 installed. Other operating systems have not been
tested and may not be supported.
• 10 MB free space on the computer hard disk, plus 128 MB RAM.