Grass Valley iControl V.6.02 - Manual (Page 211)

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Densité Manager
Densité Manager is a service that allows you to manage multiple Densité frames (using
Densité Communicators).
For Densité Manager to discover cards and begin controlling services, you need to specify
the IP address(es) of the Densité frame(s) that it will manage. Each frame may contain up to
20 devices. If you do not add any addresses, or if you add an incorrect address, the Densité
Manager will not discover any frames.
Densité Upgrade Manager
Densité Upgrade Manager is an iControl utility allowing you to manage the firmware and
software versions of individual cards without having to put entire Densité frames into
operational Standby mode. Application Servers can hold several versions of Densité card
firmware and software in memory and Densité Upgrade Manager allows you to effectively
toggle among these versions. From time to time, new versions become available, and Densité
Upgrade Manager allows you to upload these files to the Application Server.
Firmware and software is bundled into single upgrade packages. That is, a package contains
one version of firmware for a given Densité card and one version of software. By upgrading a
card with a given package, you are changing both the installed firmware and software to
those versions of each within the upgrade package.
IMPORTANT: System behavior
The Densité Upgrade Manager included with any version of iControl (starting
with version 5.00), supports all Densité card types, including those that do not
yet exist.
For example, if a brand new Densité card, ABC-1234, is installed in a Densité frame
visible to a version of iControl that is, at the time, three years-old (but still
version 5.00 or greater), the ABC-1234 card would be visible within Densité
Upgrade Manager.
IMPORTANT: The version numbering of packages represents a system of incrementation
belonging ONLY to the package and not to the respective version numbering of
firmware and software.
Note: Densité Upgrade Manager does not allow you to upgrade, downgrade, or
roll back firmware separately from software. Changing an installed package
necessarily implies changing the component firmware AND software to those
versions of each embedded within the introduced package.
See also
For more information about:
• Upgrading, downgrading, and rolling back firmware and software of Densité cards,
see "Working with Densité Upgrade Manager" , on page 242.