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Contents
Grass Valley Product Support..................................................................................................9
Chapter 1: Introducing Aurora Ingest......................................................................11
Introducing Aurora Ingest......................................................................................................12
About Aurora Ingest workstations..........................................................................................13
About Aurora Ingest applications...........................................................................................13
Integration with Aurora Suite and third-party products..........................................................14
Understanding Status Colors................................................................................................14
Chapter 2: Preparing for installation.......................................................................15
Installing Aurora Ingest .........................................................................................................16
About SiteConfig...................................................................................................................16
Aurora Ingest installation checklists......................................................................................17
Pre-installation planning checklist with SiteConfig.............................................................17
Hardware installation checklist...........................................................................................17
Network setup and implementation checklist.....................................................................18
Software update checklist..................................................................................................19
Contents
Chapter 3: Installing Aurora Ingest Hardware........................................................21
Installing RS-422 card for VTR Controller.............................................................................22
Installing video capture card (optional)..................................................................................22
Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller ..........................................................................23
Chapter 4: Configuring the network........................................................................25
About developing a system description.................................................................................26
About the corporate LAN.......................................................................................................26
Configuring the corporate LAN..............................................................................................27
Adding a group......................................................................................................................27
Adding a device to the system description............................................................................28
About device and host names...............................................................................................29
Modifying a device name.......................................................................................................29
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices.......................................................30
Placeholder device IP configuration...................................................................................30
Discovered device IP configuration....................................................................................30
Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on Aurora Ingest devices...............31
About SiteConfig support on Aurora Ingest devices..............................................................33
Discovering devices with SiteConfig......................................................................................33
Assigning discovered devices...............................................................................................34
Modifying Aurora Ingest device managed network interfaces...............................................35
Making the host name the same as the device name...........................................................40
Pinging devices from the control point PC.............................................................................40
About hosts files and SiteConfig...........................................................................................41
Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig...............................................................41
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Chapter 5: Managing Software.................................................................................43
Create record of software installed on devices......................................................................44
Adding a software role to a device........................................................................................45
Removing a software role from a device...............................................................................45
Configuring deployment groups.............................................................................................45
Distribute devices into deployment groups............................................................................47
Check all currently installed software on Aurora Ingest devices............................................47
Add software package to deployment group for Aurora Ingest devices.................................48
Install prerequisite files on the control point PC....................................................................50
About deploying software......................................................................................................50
Backing up Aurora Ingest Database......................................................................................50
Migrating Aurora Ingest - Server...........................................................................................52
Restoring Aurora Ingest Database........................................................................................53
Installing Ingest software manually........................................................................................56
Installing ScheduALL for Aurora Ingest integration...............................................................56
Chapter 6: Configuring Aurora Ingest.....................................................................59
Configuring Aurora Ingest......................................................................................................60
Aurora Ingest - Server overview............................................................................................60
Configuring Aurora Ingest Server..........................................................................................61
Configuring System...........................................................................................................62
Setting up the K2, K2 Summit or M-Series iVDR server....................................................64
Configuring Media Servers................................................................................................64
Configuring a Router..........................................................................................................67
Configuring Channels .......................................................................................................81
Configuring Channel Group...............................................................................................83
Configuring Feed...............................................................................................................85
Configuring VTR................................................................................................................86
Configuring Preview Channel............................................................................................87
Configuring Scheduler application.........................................................................................88
Customizing color for Scheduler........................................................................................90
Customizing X-keys for Scheduler.....................................................................................92
Using the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller ...........................................................................94
Customizing video viewer for Scheduler............................................................................95
Configuring VTR Controller Application.................................................................................97
Troubleshooting VTR Controller configuration.................................................................100
Configuring VTR Ingest application.....................................................................................100
Setting up K2 Summit for RMI import..................................................................................103
Configuring RMI application................................................................................................105
Configuring user administration...........................................................................................109
Creating a group..............................................................................................................110
Creating users.................................................................................................................111
Modifying user settings....................................................................................................112
Removing user.................................................................................................................113
Modifying group settings..................................................................................................113
Removing group...............................................................................................................113
Configuring Aurora Ingest for ScheduALL...........................................................................113
Configuring ScheduALL properties .................................................................................114
Configuring ScheduALL for Aurora Ingest...........................................................................118
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Creating the Aurora Ingest Room....................................................................................118
Creating the Aurora Resource Category.........................................................................119
Creating Source and Channel Category Types................................................................120
Creating Source Resources.............................................................................................120
Creating Channel Resources...........................................................................................120
Creating the Aurora Resource Group..............................................................................121
Creating the Aurora Ingest Order Service.......................................................................121
Setting User Preferences.................................................................................................122
Adding Controls and Browsers to Dialogs in ScheduALL................................................122
Configuring ScheduALL application ................................................................................124
Chapter 7: Using Aurora Ingest - Scheduler.........................................................127
Using Aurora Ingest - Scheduler.........................................................................................128
Using Scheduler toolbar......................................................................................................129
Overview of clock and timeline............................................................................................130
Overview of channel window...............................................................................................130
Overview of Schedule Viewer..............................................................................................132
Crash Recording ................................................................................................................133
Scheduling recording ..........................................................................................................134
Adding New Events..........................................................................................................134
Adding New Events from CompuSat...............................................................................140
Modifying Events..............................................................................................................144
Extending Events.............................................................................................................144
Deleting Events................................................................................................................145
Using ENPS to schedule events......................................................................................145
Scheduling events between Scheduler and ScheduALL ................................................153
Creating a template.............................................................................................................160
Using filters..........................................................................................................................164
Using Channel Reservation.................................................................................................165
Using MediaFrame in Scheduler.........................................................................................166
Searching Assets.............................................................................................................166
About searching with filters .............................................................................................169
MediaFrame Character limitations...................................................................................170
Viewing recordings..............................................................................................................170
Using Live Feed Viewer...................................................................................................171
Selecting the Asset Viewer..............................................................................................172
Chapter 8: Using Aurora Ingest - VTR Controller.................................................175
Using VTR Controller...........................................................................................................176
Overview of the VTR Controller Window ............................................................................176
Viewing VTR Properties......................................................................................................176
Accessing VTR Controller...................................................................................................177
Chapter 9: Using Aurora Ingest - VTR Ingest........................................................179
Using VTR Ingest................................................................................................................180
Overview of the VTR Ingest window ...................................................................................180
Overview of clip record area............................................................................................181
Overview of channel window ..........................................................................................181
Recording with VTR Ingest..................................................................................................183
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Adding Handles ..............................................................................................................183
Creating a segment list ...................................................................................................183
Deleting the Segment List ...............................................................................................185
Controlling the VTR with VTR Ingest...............................................................................186
Marking In and Out Points ..............................................................................................186
Recording clips to the media server ...............................................................................187
Scanning tape with broken timecodes.................................................................................188
Importing an EDL................................................................................................................189
Exporting an EDL ...............................................................................................................189
Chapter 10: Using Aurora Ingest - RMI..................................................................191
Overview of RMI..................................................................................................................192
Using Aurora Ingest - RMI...................................................................................................193
Adding clips to groups.....................................................................................................194
Previewing clips...............................................................................................................194
Previewing and trimming a clip........................................................................................195
Editing clip properties and metadata...............................................................................196
Linking clips to Aurora Playout placeholders...................................................................199
Caching proxy assets.......................................................................................................200
Chapter 11: Linking Clips To Aurora Playout Placeholders.................................203
Linking clips to Aurora Playout placeholders.......................................................................204
Linking Clips .......................................................................................................................204
Creating New Placeholders ................................................................................................204
Appendix A: Aurora Ingest Appendix....................................................................207
Aurora Ingest keyboard shortcuts........................................................................................208
Aurora Ingest error messages.............................................................................................209
Appendix B: Software Licenses.............................................................................211
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CSizingToolBar....................................................................................................................213
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MIT......................................................................................................................................214
mozilla.................................................................................................................................215
Paintlib.................................................................................................................................222
resizeable lib........................................................................................................................223
tconvert................................................................................................................................225
zlib.......................................................................................................................................225
Glossary.................................................................................................................................227
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Chapter 1
Introducing Aurora Ingest
This section contains the following topics:
• Introducing Aurora Ingest
• About Aurora Ingest workstations
• About Aurora Ingest applications
• Integration with Aurora Suite and third-party products
• Understanding Status Colors
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Introducing Aurora Ingest
Introducing Aurora Ingest
Aurora Ingest is an automated media digitization system, made up of several integrated
applications, that allows you to ingest footage from VTRs, feeds from a router, or files
from multiple Digital Media Cameras and Digital Media Recorders, all directly to a
media server in your operation.
The Aurora Ingest system supports the K2 Media Server and Media Client system,
K2 Summit Production Client system and M-Series iVDR (Intelligent Video Disk
Recorder). You can configure your system to record clips into two servers in parallel.
If one server fails or has inadequate storage, only the recording on that server will be
stopped. When the system continues to the next clip, the storage capacity on both
servers is checked again, allowing parallel recording to resume if storage is made
adequate.
Raw footage comes from a VTR connected directly to the Aurora Ingest workstation,
a CompuSat satellite dish control system, a router source or a removable media device.
While you connect the media servers to the Aurora Ingest workstation using AMP
Sockets, you need RS-422 connection from the VTR to the Aurora Ingest workstation
to have control of the VTR in the Aurora Ingest windows. For router sources, Aurora
Ingest supports the SMS 7000, Acappella, Encore control and Jupiter systems. For
removable media, Aurora Ingest supports devices such as Infinity, Panasonic P2, Sony
XDCAM and JVC.
The integration of MediaFrame with Aurora Ingest adds asset management feature
and metadata capabilities to the system. With MediaFrame asset management tools,
users can apply, add, edit and search metadata of assets created within the ingest
process. Users can also play low-resolution video versions of ingested assets. Aurora
Ingest Server monitors the connection to the MediaFrame server, displays the
connection status and attempts to reconnect when the connection is broken. MediaFrame
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components are also utilized in Aurora Ingest components such as Scheduler, VTR
Ingest and RMI.
About Aurora Ingest workstations
Aurora Ingest has a client/server architecture that allows for multiple simultaneous
users. It supports simultaneous event creation, event modification, event deletion,
event monitoring, and resource viewing from multiple workstations.
Each workstation can control up to eight VTRs for batch list creation and batch ingest.
You can work with either directly attached VTRs and dedicated server ports or through
a router.
You can trigger multiple channel records from disparate sources simultaneously and
schedule record events without reference to physical server port. Aurora Ingest
automatically allocates any available port as determined at the optimum time before
the record event is scheduled to begin. RS-422 router level control allows any
router-connected VTR to be controlled by any Aurora Ingest channel.
Introducing Aurora Ingest
About Aurora Ingest applications
Aurora Ingest consists of the following applications:
• Aurora Ingest Server lets you configure the other Aurora Ingest applications for
batch or feed events, as well as monitor the status of the media servers, database
server, MediaFrame server, routers, CompuSat satellite dish control system, and
channels. You can also access logs and manage user accounts for Aurora Ingest
clients.
• VTR Controller lets you monitor and manage the VTRs you use with VTR Ingest.
• VTR Ingest lets you ingest footage from VTRs and import or export Edit Decision
Lists (EDLs). Supporting up to eight channels, VTR Ingest can record footage with
configurable handle durations. It lets you set VTR mark points using either the PC
keyboard or the mouse. You can ingest a single item or build a batch list of items
to capture from multiple tapes. You can also create a batch list offline and then
import the list into VTR Ingest as a common EDL. Once you create a batch list,
you can optimize the list by timecode, which allows the material to be ingested in
the shortest time possible, or manually arrange the batch list items in order to
prioritize immediately needed clips.
• Scheduler lets you schedule ingest feed events from a media server, CompuSat
satellite dish control system, VizuAll Inc.'s ScheduALL application, router source
or VTR. You can also schedule events to record, up to three years in advance, on
each server channel, including recurring events. Schedule Viewer provides an
easily readable way to see all channels and more specifically the task assigned to
each channel.
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Introducing Aurora Ingest
• Removable Media Interface (RMI) lets you ingest files from multiple Infinity
Digital Media Cameras and Digital Media Recorders, as well as Sony XDCAM
and Panasonic P2 removable media devices.
If you use Aurora Playout as a playback system in your operation, you can ingest clips
directly to an Aurora Playout rundown by linking clips to an Aurora Playout placeholder
at the point of scheduling a record or importing a removable media.
Integration with Aurora Suite and third-party products
Aurora Ingest is integrated with other applications in the Aurora Suite and third-party
products.
In addition to serving as a metadata entry and transfer application for metadata created
in the newsroom computer system (NCS), it supports:
• Mark In/Out of incoming feed material, allowing direct assignment of field-edited
material to Aurora Playout placeholders.
• Add, apply, search, edit metadata of assets and play low-resolution video versions
of ingested assets via the MediaFrame plug-in, an asset management tool utilized
by all products within Aurora Suite.
• Scheduling integration with VizuAll, Inc.'s ScheduALL application, enabling events
scheduled on Aurora Ingest to appear on ScheduALL and vice versa.
Understanding Status Colors
Each event entry displays a certain color according to its status.
DescriptionRow Background Color
The entry is recording.Red
The entry is cued and is next to record.Gold
The entry has finished recording.Green
The Scheduler entry is ready to record.Blue
Black
Purple
Gray
Users can customize status color of events in Aurora Ingest - Scheduler by changing
the color configuration in the Scheduler application.
The channel is reserved for a specific recording at that
time.
The entry failed to record. See the Error Message field for
more information.
The entry time has elapsed, probably due to a conflict with
another recording.
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Chapter 2
Preparing for installation
This section contains the following topics:
• Installing Aurora Ingest
• About SiteConfig
• Aurora Ingest installation checklists
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Preparing for installation
Installing Aurora Ingest
Grass Valley supplies a CD containing Aurora Ingest software and documentation.
For some of the Aurora Ingest components, Grass Valley also supplies hardware.
The Aurora Ingest - Server can be supplied with all the necessary hardware and software
installed. The software for the other Aurora Ingest components can be installed on
any PC which meets the system requirement for that component. After installing
Aurora Ingest, the software license number needs to be obtained. Refer to Aurora
Ingest Release Notes for instructions on obtaining the software license number.
For initial install of Aurora Ingest within your operation, SiteConfig is the
recommended tool for network configuration and software deployment. For upgrading
Aurora Ingest from a previous version, you can either upgrade using SiteConfig or
upgrade manually using the Aurora Ingest CD. Refer to Aurora Ingest Release Notes
for detailed instructions on upgrading Aurora Ingest.
About SiteConfig
ProductFrame is an integrated platform of tools and product distribution processes for
system installation and configuration. SiteConfig is a ProductFrame application and
it is the recommended tool for network configuration and software deployment.
You can use SiteConfig as a stand-alone tool for planning and system design, even
before you have any devices installed or cabled. You can define networks, IP addresses,
hostnames, interfaces, and other network parameters. You can add devices, group
devices, and modify device roles in the system.
As you install and commission systems, SiteConfig runs on the control point PC. It
discovers devices, configures their network settings, and manages host files. SiteConfig
also manages software installations and upgrades and provides a unified software
package with verified compatible versions for deployment across multi-product systems.
You should use SiteConfig for network configuration and software deployment at
installation and throughout the life of the system in your facility. This enforces
consistent policy and allows SiteConfig to keep a record of changes, which makes the
system easier to maintain and aids in troubleshooting should a problem arise.
SiteConfig displays information from a system description file, which is an XML file.
SiteConfig operates in different modes that correspond to a system’ s life-cycle phases:
network configuration, software deployment, and software configuration. You can
expand nodes and select elements in the tree view and the list view to view and modify
networks, systems, individual devices, software deployment, and configuration settings.
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Aurora Ingest installation checklists
Use the following sequence of checklists to guide the overall task flow of installing
and commissioning an Aurora Ingest system.
Pre-installation planning checklist with SiteConfig
CommentTask
—Get the Aurora Ingest Software CD
Preparing for installation
Check hardware specification
requirements for Aurora Ingest
components
Install SiteConfig on a control point PC
within your network operation
Get Grass Valley software prerequisite
file
Get Aurora Ingest software installation
(*.cab) file
Get GVG_MLib (*.cab) file for Aurora
Ingest Server installation
Get GVG_MLib, Generic iSCSI and
Aurora Suite (*.cab) files for RMI
installation
Next: Hardware installation checklist
Hardware installation checklist
The minimum and recommended system
specification requirements are listed in
Aurora Ingest Release Notes
Before you install SiteConfig, you would
need to create a system description for
the system if there isn't one already
installed
Make the prerequisite file accessible to
the SiteConfig control point PC
Make the (*.cab) file accessible to the
SiteConfig control point PC
Make the (*.cab) file accessible to the
SiteConfig control point PC
Make those (*.cab) files accessible to the
SiteConfig control point PC
Use items in this checklist as appropriate for the optional equipment you are installing
for your Aurora Ingest.
CommentTask
Install RS-422 card for VTR Controller
Next: Network setup and installation checklist
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Alternately, a VTR can be attached to
the VTR Controller PC's COM1 port
using an RS-422 to RS-232 cable.
—Install video capture card
—Install X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller
Preparing for installation
Network setup and implementation checklist
CommentTask
Add corporate LAN to system
description
devices to the system description
description for each of your actual
Aurora Ingest devices
devices
Configure the network interfaces of the
placeholder devices
placeholder device
For each discovered and assigned device,
edit each network interface. Specify
network settings and apply them to the
device.
Create a new system description, if you
don't have one. If you have K2 SAN
within your operation, modify your K2
SAN system description.
—Add a group for your Aurora Ingest
—Add a placeholder device to the system
—Configure the names of the placeholder
Specify IP address ranges and other
network details
—Discover your Aurora Ingest devices
—Assign each discovered device to its
If a device connects to multiple networks,
set the control network interface IP
address first. Also set the hostname.
If not already set correctly, set the
hostname of discovered devices
network communication
Generate host table information and
distribute to hosts files on each device
and on the control point PC across all devices to ensure complete and
Next: Software update checklist
Make sure the device name is correct,
then make the hostname the same as the
device name.
—Ping each Aurora Ingest device to test
Make sure you have completed network
configuration of all network interfaces
valid host table information. You can use
SiteConfig to copy hosts files to devices,
or you can manage hosts files yourself.
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Software update checklist
Preparing for installation
CommentTask
Add/remove software roles
deployment group
Place software on control point PC
Check software on devices
Add software to deployment group
Set deployment options
Upgrade/install software to devices from
control point PC
Make sure software roles match the
software that should be installed on each
device, according to your system design.
—Create a deployment group
—Add Aurora Ingest devices to the
Procure the correct version of software
installation files and prerequisite files.
Refer to the release notes for your
product.
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Chapter 3
Installing Aurora Ingest Hardware
This section contains the following topics:
• Installing RS-422 card for VTR Controller
• Installing video capture card (optional)
• Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller
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Installing Aurora Ingest Hardware
Installing RS-422 card for VTR Controller
For VTR Controller, Grass Valley supplies a RocketPort Plus Universal PCI 422
SMPTE 8 Port RoHS RS-422 card that must be installed.
1. If you are connecting one or more VTRs to VTR Controller, install the RS-422
card in your computer, making sure the dip switches are set to the down position
as shown, and install the card’s driver.
NOTE: If only one VTR is to be connected to a VTR Controller PC, you can
use an alternative connection method with an RS-422 to RS-232 cable
connected to the onboard COM1 port.
2. Connect the VTR(s) to the VTR Controller machine via RS-422.
3. If you are using LTC for timecode, connect a timecode cable from the timecode
source (VTR for VTR Ingest, Timecode Generator for Aurora Ingest - Scheduler)
to the media server.
4. Without the LTC physical connection, timecodes could still be polled via RS-422.
Check the option to enable RS-422 timecode mode within Tools|Options of VTR
Controller application.
Installing video capture card (optional)
You can either install Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1150 Video Capture Card or Blackmagic
Design DeckLink Video Capture Card to view clips on Aurora Ingest clients. Check
for minimum system requirements needed before choosing and purchasing your video
capture card.
Both video capture cards are for SD (standard definition) video only. If you want to
view incoming HD video, first downconvert the media from HD to SD.
For Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1150 video capture card, you have to then convert from
digital to analog. The video capture card accepts composite analog video only (NTSC
or PAL).
For Blackmagic Design DeckLink video capture card, SDI input and output with
embedded audio are supported. For audio monitoring, you could also connect SPDIF
output to your audio peripheral.
1. Install the video capture card in your machine and install the card’s driver. Refer
to the manufacturer’s manual for installation instructions.
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2. For Hauppage WinTV-HVR-1150 video capture card, connect the device you're
using for a video source (VTR, router or switch box) to the Hauppage composite
video input connector.
3. For Blackmagic Design DeckLink video capture card, connect SDI Output from
your media server or router to SDI Input connector of the video capture card.
4. If you have a video capture card installed in your machine and a router configured
in your system, select the router destination from the dropdown list within
Tools|Options|Video Viewer of the Scheduler or VTR Ingest.
After the video capture card has been successfully configured, it could be selected
from the Capture Device dropdown list within Tools|Options|Video Viewer of the
Scheduler or VTR Ingest.
Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller
You can install the X-keys Jog/Shuttle controller if you want to use the device with
Aurora Ingest Scheduler.
Installing Aurora Ingest Hardware
Aurora Ingest has been designed to work with the X-keys Jog/Shuttle controller (model
XPS-08-USB) with MWII panels.
1. Plug the X-keys Jog/Shuttle controller into a USB connector on the Scheduler
machine.
2. On the Scheduler machine, insert the X-keys Macro Works installation CD and
follow the instructions. Do not check the box to put shortcuts on the desktop.
If AutoRun is not enabled on your CD-ROM drive, find the file "ainstall.exe"
on the installation CD and run it.
3. Reboot the computer when prompted.
4. When the installation has completed, the X-keys Macro Maker and Macro Manager
windows automatically pop up. Close these windows.
5. Start Aurora Ingest Server and Aurora Ingest Scheduler.
6. In the Scheduler Tools menu, select Options.
7. Select the X-keys tab.
8. Verify the “Enable X-keys” box is checked and click OK.
You can customize the X-keys to suit your needs.
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Chapter 4
Configuring the network
This section contains the following topics:
• About developing a system description
• About the corporate LAN
• Configuring the corporate LAN
• Adding a group
• Adding a device to the system description
• About device and host names
• Modifying a device name
• About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices
• Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on Aurora Ingest devices
• About SiteConfig support on Aurora Ingest devices
• Discovering devices with SiteConfig
• Assigning discovered devices
• Modifying Aurora Ingest device managed network interfaces
• Making the host name the same as the device name
• Pinging devices from the control point PC
• About hosts files and SiteConfig
• Generating host tables for devices with SiteConfig
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Configuring the network
About developing a system description
The topics in this manual assume that you are modifying an existing system description.
Your system description is typically developed using one of the following taskflows:
• For a system in which all devices are new from Grass Valley with one or more K2
• For a system in which all devices are new from Grass Valley with one or more
• For a system with existing devices running earlier software, you must first migrate
SANs, you first create a system description for your K2 SAN or SANs, then add
Browse/MediaFrame, Edit, Ingest, and Playout devices as appropriate. Refer to
the K2 SAN installation and Service Manual for instructions on creating the system
description.
stand-alone K2 systems, you first create a system description and add your
stand-alone K2 systems, than add other devices as appropriate. Refer to the K2
System Guide for instructions on creating the system description and adding your
stand-alone K2 systems.
the system to become a SiteConfig managed system. Refer to SiteConfig Migration
Instructions for instructions on migrating your devices to be SiteConfig managed
devices.
If you are using a different taskflow, use the topics in this manual as appropriate and
refer to the SiteConfig User Manual or SiteConfig Help Topics for additional
information.
Your devices must be in a SiteConfig system description in order to be managed by
SiteConfig. When you already have a system description in place, you should use
SiteConfig to modify this system description and add your devices. You can do this
in your planning phase, even before you have devices installed or cabled. Your goal
is to have the SiteConfig system description accurately represent all aspects of your
devices and networks before you begin actually implementing any networking or other
configuration tasks for those devices.
About the corporate LAN
Devices such as the Aurora Ingest Server, Scheduler, RMI, VTR Controller and VTR
Ingest workstations can be on the corporate LAN, which is considered an unmanaged
network in SiteConfig. You can configure your system description to include the
corporate LAN for the following purposes:
• If a device, such as the Aurora Ingest Server, is on the corporate LAN yet is a
SiteConfig managed device, then SiteConfig needs to know the connection for
each network interface on the device, including the corporate LAN connection.
Otherwise, SiteConfig displays error messages.
• If a device uses a DNS server on the corporate LAN for name resolution, SiteConfig
needs to reference that DNS server.
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• If a device has software that SiteConfig supports and the devices is on the corporate
LAN, such as Scheduler, RMI, VTR Controller and VTR Ingest workstations, you
can use SiteConfig to deploy software to the device via the corporate LAN.
If the device is on the corporate LAN and is not on a network that is managed by
SiteConfig, you cannot configure network settings on the device.
Configuring the corporate LAN
1. In the Network Configuration | Networks tree view, select a System node or a Site
node.
The networks under that node are displayed in the list view.
2. Proceed as follows:
• To add a network under the currently selected node, in the tree view right-click
the node and select Add Network.
Configuring the network
The Network Settings dialog box opens.
3. Configure the settings for the network as follows:
• Type – Select Ethernet
• Usage – Select Control
• Redundancy – Select None
• Name – Enter a name to identify the network in the system description
• Exclude from Host Files – Select the checkbox
• Unmanaged – Select this option, then select DNS and select the checkbox for
IP Address Allocation via DHCP.
• Base IP Address – Do not configure
• Number of IP Addresses – Do not configure
• Subnet Mask – Do not configure
• DNS Servers – Servers providing DNS for name resolution. These DNS server
can be for both managed and unmanaged networks.
• Default Interface Name Suffix – The suffix added to the end of host names to
identify interfaces on this network.
4. Click OK to save settings and close.
5. If you added a network, it appears in the Network Configuration | Networks tree
view at the bottom of the list.
Adding a group
1. In the Network Configuration | Networks tree view, right-click a site node and select
Add Group.
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Configuring the network
2. Right-click the group and select Rename.
3. Enter the desired name for the group.
Adding a device to the system description
Prerequisites for this task are as follows:
• The system description contains a group.
1. In the Network Configuration | Devices tree view, right-click a group and select Add
The group appears in the tree view.
Device.
The Add Device dialog box opens.
2. Configure settings for the device you are adding as follows:
• Family – Select Aurora.
• Type – Select Aurora Ingest Platform.
• Model – Select the appropriate Aurora Ingest components.
• Name – This is the device name, as displayed in the SiteConfig device tree view
and device list view. This name can be different than the host name (network
name). You can accept the default name or enter a name of your choice. Devices
in the tree view are sorted alphabetically.
• Amount – You can add multiple devices, as currently defined by your settings
in the Add Device dialog box. An enumerator is added to the name to create a
unique name for each device added.
• Control network – Select the control network.
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• Starting Address – Select from the list of available addresses on the selected
control network. If adding multiple devices, this is the starting address, with
addresses assigned sequentially to each device added.
3. Click OK to save settings and close.
4. Repeat these steps for each of your devices.
About device and host names
In SiteConfig, a device can have different names, as follows:
• Device name — This is a name for display in SiteConfig only. It is stored in the
SiteConfig system description, but not written to the actual device. It is displayed
in the device tree view and in the device list view. It can be a different name than
the device’s host name.
• Host name — This is the network name of the device. SiteConfig has a default
naming convention for host names which you can use or override with your own
host names.
Configuring the network
In most cases it is recommended that the Device name and Host name be the same.
This avoids confusion and aids troubleshooting.
The Device name can serve as a placeholder as a system is planned and implemented.
During the install/commission process, when you reconcile a device's current and
planned network interface settings, the Host name as configured in the system
description can be overwritten by the host name on the actual device. However, the
Device name configured in the system description is not affected. Therefore it is
recommended that in the early planned stages, you configure the Device name to be
the desired name for the device, but do not yet configure the Host name. Then, after
you have applied network interface settings, you can change the Host name to be the
same as the Device name. This changes the host name on the actual device so that
then all names are in sync.
SiteConfig does not allow duplicate device names or host names.
Items in the tree view are automatically sorted alphabetically, so if you change a name
the item might sort to a different position.
Modifying a device name
1. In the Network Configuration | Devices tree view, right-click a device and select
Rename.
2. Type in the new name.
Note that this does not change the hostname on the physical device. If you want
the hostname to match the device name, you must also modify the hostname.
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Configuring the network
About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices
You can perform IP configuration of network interfaces when working with a
placeholder device prior to discovery. When you add a device and choose a particular
model, the model defines the number, type and usage characteristics of network
interfaces to expect on such a device.
You can view and edit each network interface and set up IP configuration selecting
an appropriate IP from the network to which each interface connects. The process for
editing IP configuration varies, depending on the device's phase.
Placeholder device IP configuration
On a placeholder device, you edit network interfaces using the Unmanaged Network
Interfaces dialog box.
The Unmanaged Network Interfaces dialog box allows you only to save changes to
the system description.
Discovered device IP configuration
On a discovered device, you edit network interfaces using the Managed Network
Interfaces dialog box.
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