Grass Valley NV9000 User Manual

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User’s Guide

UG0074-02

25 Nov 2014

Belden, Belden Sending All The Right Signals, and the Belden logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Belden Inc. or its affiliated companies in the United States and other jurisdictions. Grass Valley, NVISION, NV9000, NV9000-SE Utilities, and NV9000 Web Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Grass Valley. Belden Inc., Grass Valley, and other parties may also have trademark rights in other terms used herein.

Terms and Conditions

Please read the following terms and conditions carefully. By using NV9000 Web Suite documentation, you agree to the following terms and conditions.

Grass Valley hereby grants permission and license to owners of NV9000 Web Suite routers to use their product manuals for their own internal business use. Manuals for Grass Valley products may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose unless specifically authorized in writing by Grass Valley.

A Grass Valley manual may have been revised to reflect changes made to the product during its manufacturing life. Thus, different versions of a manual may exist for any given product. Care should be taken to ensure that one obtains the proper manual version for a specific product serial number.

Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Grass Valley.

Warranty information is available in the support section of the Grass Valley web site (www.grassvalley.com).

Title NV9000 Web Suite User’s Guide

Part Number UG0074-02

Revision 1.2 (25 Nov 14)

Change History

Rev. Date ECO Description Approved

1.0 27 Jan 14 18826 Initial release. D.Cox

1.1 29 May 14 19241 New tieline release button. D.Cox

1.2 25 Nov 14 19357 Slightly modified format. D.Cox

Safety Compliance

FCC Statement

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

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Declaration of Conformance (CE)

All of the equipment described in this manual has been designed to conform with the required safety and emissions standards of the European Community. Products tested and verified to meet these standards are marked as required by law with the CE mark.

When shipped into member countries of the European Community, this equipment is accompanied by authentic copies of original Declarations of Conformance on file in the Grass Valley offices in Grass Valley, California USA.

Software License Agreement and Warranty Information

Contact Grass Valley for details on the software license agreement and product warranty.

Important Safeguards and Notices

This section provides important safety guidelines for operators and service personnel. Specific warnings and cautions appear throughout the manual where they apply. Please read and follow this important information, especially those instructions related to the risk of electric shock or injury to persons.

WAR NIN G

Any instructions in this manual that require opening the equipment cover or enclosure are for use by qualified service personnel only. To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not perform any service other than that contained in the operating instructions unless you are qualified to do so.

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Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHs)

Grass Valley is in compliance with EU Directive RoHS 2002/95/EC governing the restricted use of certain hazardous substances and materials in products and in our manufacturing processes.

Grass Valley has a substantial program in place for RoHS compliance that includes significant investment in our manufacturing process, and a migration of Grass Valley product electronic components and structural materials to RoHS compliance.

It is our objective at Miranda GVD to maintain compliance with all relevant environmental and product regulatory requirements. Detailed information on specific products or on the RoHS program at Grass Valley is available from Grass Valley Customer Support at

1-800-719-1900 (toll-free) or 1-530-265-1000 (outside the U.S.).

Symbols and Their Meanings

The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle alerts the user to the presence of dangerous voltages within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle alerts the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance/service instructions.

The Ground symbol represents a protective grounding terminal. Such a terminal must be connected to earth ground prior to making any other connections to the equipment.

The fuse symbol indicates that the fuse referenced in the text must be replaced with one having the ratings indicated.

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The presence of this symbol in or on Grass Valley equipment means that it has been designed, tested and certified as complying with applicable Underwriter’s Laboratory (USA) regulations and recommendations.

The presence of this symbol in or on Grass Valley equipment means that it has been designed, tested and certified as essentially complying with all applicable European Union (CE) regulations and recommendations.

General Warnings

A warning indicates a possible hazard to personnel which may cause injury or death. Observe the following general warnings when using or working on this equipment:

• Heed all warnings on the unit and in the operating instructions.

• Do not use this equipment in or near water.

• This equipment is grounded through the grounding conductor of the power cord. To avoid electrical shock, plug the power cord into a properly wired receptacle before connecting the equipment inputs or outputs.

• Route power cords and other cables so they are not likely to be damaged.

• Disconnect power before cleaning the equipment. Do not use liquid or aerosol cleaners; use only a damp cloth.

• Dangerous voltages may exist at several points in this equipment. To avoid injury, do not touch exposed connections and components while power is on.

• Do not wear rings or wristwatches when troubleshooting high current circuits such as the power supplies.

• To avoid fire hazard, use only the specified fuse(s) with the correct type number, voltage and current ratings as referenced in the appropriate locations in the service instructions or on the equipment. Always refer fuse replacements to qualified service personnel.

• To avoid explosion, do not operate this equipment in an explosive atmosphere.

• Have qualified service personnel perform safety checks after any service.

General Cautions

A caution indicates a possible hazard to equipment that could result in equipment damage. Observe the following cautions when operating or working on this equipment:

• When installing this equipment, do not attach the power cord to building surfaces.

• To prevent damage to equipment when replacing fuses, locate and correct the problem that caused the fuse to blow before re-applying power.

• Use only the specified replacement parts.

• Follow static precautions at all times when handling this equipment.

• This product should only be powered as described in the manual. To prevent equipment damage, select the proper line voltage on the power supply(ies) as described in the installation documentation.

• To prevent damage to the equipment, read the instructions in the equipment manual for proper input voltage range selection.

• Some products include a backup battery. There is a risk of explosion if the battery is replaced by a battery of an incorrect type. Dispose of batteries according to instructions.

• Products that have (1) no on/off switch and (2) use an external power supply must be installed in proximity to a main power outlet that is easily accessible.

• To reduce the risk of electrical shock, plug each power supply cord into a separate branch circuit having a separate service ground.

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Tabbed Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Managing the Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Changing the State of the Web Suite Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Accessing the NV9000 Web Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Using your PC’s Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Logging In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Choosing a System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Creating a Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Adding a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Changing a Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

User IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Saving the User List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Logging Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Help Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Logging Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Usage Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Creating Tabbed Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Display Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Locks and Protects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Long Dashes in Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2 Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Subtabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Three Kinds of Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

About. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Configuration Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Servers Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

NV9000 IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

DHP IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Instrumentation Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Save Configuration Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Restart Application Server Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Force Server Data Reload Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Run Server Benchmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Debug Dump Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Table of Contents

‘Pages’ Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Managing Configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Adding Tabbed Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Ordering Tabbed Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Deleting Tabbed Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Editing a DHP Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Editing a Tieline Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Editing a Multi-Level Crosspoint Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Editing a Primary Level Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Editing a Matrix View Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Users Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Adding a User to the List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Changing a User’s Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Admin Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

User IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Saving the User List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Removing a User from the List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Log Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Client Log Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Server Log Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Hide Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Reporting Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Data Store Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

3 DHP Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Configuration Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Disembedder Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Table Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Embedder Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Table Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Reentry Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Table Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Drawing Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Signal Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Sample NV9000 Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Non-Core Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Input. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

DHP Core Ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Re-embedders tied to Standard Inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Disembedders tied to Standard Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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4 Tielines Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Background Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Sample NV9000 Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Sample Tieline Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Tieline Uses Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Table Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Tieline Destinations Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Table Ordering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Tieline Drawing Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

5 Multi-Level Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Table Ordering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Locks and Protects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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6 Primary Level Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Locks and Protects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Table Ordering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

7 Matrix View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Level Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Performing Simple Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Performing Simple Locks and Protects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Breakaway and Level Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Breakaway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Level Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Performing Breakaway or Level-Mapped Takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Display of Breakaway and Level-Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Display Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Appendix A: Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

DHP Restriction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

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Summary

Introduction

Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the NV9000 Web Suite.

Topics

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The NV9000 Web Suite is a browser application that presents views of NV9000 control system data. The NV9000 Web Suite (or, the Web Suite, for short) has one or more tabbed pages that show:

• DHP data.

• Tieline data.

• Crosspoint data — arranged to show destinations’ primary levels.

• Crosspoint data — arranged to show multiple levels for each destination.

• Crosspoint data — arranged to show the crosspoint matrix, with breakaway and level map-

ping, and locks and protects. The page also allows users to perform takes (with breakaway and level mapping), and locks and protects.

An additional tab exists for customizing the Web Suite itself. This is the ‘Options’ tab.

A Web Suite user (who has administrative privilege) can create additional tabs for different views of NV9000 data. Additional tabs are (modified) instances of the basic 5 types shown above.

The Web Suite runs on your PC desktop. It can be accessed through browsers that support HTML

5.0.

 Do not install the Web Suite on an NV9000 family system controller. Customers should never

install additional software on any system controller.

We recommend Firefox and Chrome. Internet Explorer 10 (and later) supports HTML 5.0. The Web Suite is also designed to operate well on hand-held devices such as iPads, ViewSonic tablets, Motorola Zoom tablets and others. (If your browser does not support HTML 5, the Web Suite will tell you.)

 DHP — a service running in an NV9000 system controller — can communicate with only one

instance of the Web Suite at a time. See Appendix A

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Tab s

Subtabs

Expandable

Help Pane

Summary

The Web Suite is divided into tabbed sections. Each tabbed section has subtabs and pages that display when you click the subtabs:

 The Web Suite does not, and cannot, communicate with an NV9000 system controller that is

in stand-by mode.

 Although the Web Suite provides status for the entire NV9000 system, it can provide status

for only one router that uses DHP. The NV9000 system must have only one DHP service running.

Tabbed Sections

The upper row of tabs selects a topic within the Web Suite. Presently there are 6 section types in the upper row:

• DHP Management

For DHP, there are 4 subtabs:

DHP Disembedder DHP Embedder DHP Reentry DHP Drawing

There are no management functions in this topic. The DHP pages are simply status pages.

See Chapter 3, DHP Tab

• Tieline Management

For tielines, there are 3 subtabs:

Tieline Uses Tieline Destinations Tieline Drawing

There are no management functions in this topic. The tieline pages are simply status pages.

See Chapter 4, Tielines Tab

• Multi-Level View

The multi-level view displays NV9000 destinations in a table — one destination per row. The columns of the table are the virtual levels (in the NV9000) you have selected. If the destination has a source routed to it on that level, the name of the source appears in that column for that destination.

See Chapter 5, Multi-Level Tab

, on page 59, for details.

, on page 73, for details.

, on page 85, for details.

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• Primary Level View

The primary level view displays NV9000 destination/source pairs in a table. The source of the pair is the one providing the signal on the destination’s primary level.

(Users can specify the number of pairs to be displayed in each row.)

See Chapter 6, Primary Level Tab

, on page 89, for details.

• Matrix View

The matrix view shows the NV9000’s sources and destinations as a 2-dimensional matrix, where sources are columns of the matrix and destinations are rows in the matrix. Each matrix element appears as a button that you can press to perform a take.

The page also has a listing of virtual levels (at the top). The matrix shows “crosspoint” connections on the levels that are selected in this region of the page.

Users may view the matrix and may actually perform takes, locks, protects, breakaways, or level mapping using the controls present on the page.

See Chapter 7, Matrix View

, on page 93, for details.

• Options

The options tab allows you to configure the Web Suite itself and to see status regarding the Web Suite itself.

See Chapter 2, Options Tab

Users can usually add tabbed pages of these types except another ‘Options’ tab.

, on page 17, for details.

Getting Started

Installation

The NV9000 Web Suite can be installed on PCs (under Windows XP or Windows 7). Persons who Install the Web Suite should read the notice given in Appendix A

The installation procedure is brief. Follow these steps:

1 Obtain the Web Suite installer and place it on a USB device.

2Login to the PC

3 Insert the USB device in a USB slot on the PC.

4 Locate the web suite installer in the file structure of the USB device. Double-click it.

(The name of the installer is similar.)

on which you are going to install the Web Suite.

nv9000-web-suite-installer-3.0.1435.29 or something

1. Use a PC. The Web Suite should never be installed on an NV9000 family system controller.

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5 Windows presents a security warning:

Click ‘Run’ to proceed.

6 The installation process asks your permission to install the Web Suite:

Click ‘Yes’ to proceed.

7 The installation process displays a progress indication:

The installation takes only a few seconds.

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8 When the installation is complete, it tells you:

Managing the Service

The Web Suite is a service, not an application. As a service, it can be started, or stopped. By default, it starts automatically when the PC starts up.

After you install the Web Suite, make sure that its status is either stopped, started, or automatic, as appropriate for the PC:

• If the service is to provide DHP status among several PCs, the service for only one PC should

‘started’, For all other PCs that access the same system controller, the service should be stopped.

• If the system controller does not use DHP, the service can be started or automatic on any

number of PCs.

Multiple PC users who monitor DHP can share a single instance of the Web Suite service.

See Appendix A

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Changing the State of the Web Suite Service

 If the service is already in the proper state, leave it alone.

To change the state of the service, follow these steps:

1 Right click the ‘My Computer’ icon, on the desktop of your PC, or the ‘NVConfig’ icon, on the

system controller. Choose ‘Manage’ from the context menu that appears.

2 Choose ‘Services’ from the tree at the left. Then find ‘NV9000 Web Suite Server’ among the

services:

3 Right-click the highlighted line. A context menu appears:

Choose the appropriate command for the PC or system controller: start, stop, or properties. (Commands that have no effect are greyed out.)

The start command starts a stopped service. (A stopped service shows no text in the status column.)

The stop command stops a running service (which shows ‘Started’ in the status column).

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4 Ensure that the Web Suite’s ‘Startup Type’ is correct.

For PCs that reference system controllers that provide DHP, the ‘Startup Type’ should be ‘Manual’.

For system controllers, the ‘Startup Type’ column must show ‘Automatic’.

For PCs that do not reference system controllers that provide DHP, the ‘Startup Type’ should be ‘Automatic’ for the convenience of the PC user who might restart that PC.

a Right-click the service and choose ‘Properties’ from the context menu:

b Choose either ‘Automatic’ or ‘Manual’ from ‘Startup Type’ field, as required.

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Accessing the NV9000 Web Suite

The service functions in a browser on your PC.

Using your PC’s Service

Follow these steps:

1 Launch your browser (i.e., Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer 10).

2 Type “localhost” in the URL field of the browser:

You can also type the IP address of your PC or the IP address of another PC on which the Web Suite has been installed. The term “localhost” is a synonym for the IP address of your own PC. In any case, specify the IP address of the PC on which the Web Suite is running.

The service should execute and display the login page of the Web Suite.

After you log in, there is one more step before the system controller’s data become accessible. That will be to type the NV9000’s IP address into a configuration page. See Choosing a

System Controller on page 10.

Logging In

Initially, the Web Suite is empty — having no configurations and identifying no users — and the first task for administrators is to create a list of users and define at least one Web Suite configuration. (There is a default configuration.) After that task is done, the users you have named can use the Web Suite with relative ease.

1 Ensure that the PC on which the Web Suite is installed has access to the Ethernet network of

the router control system you want to monitor.

2 Launch your browser and either enter “localhost” as the URL . . .

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. . . or enter the IP address of a PC that is running the Web Suite service as the URL.

“Localhost” references your own PC. You could also enter your PC’s IP address, if you know it.

If you enter the IP address of someone else’s PC, you will be using the instance of the Web Suite running on that PC.

 Only one instance of the web suite may access DHP data at one time. See Appendix A.

3 In any case, given a valid IP address, the Web Suite presents a login dialog.

Username = Admin Password = nvision

“Admin” is a special user identity that exists only for the purpose of creating configurations and adding users to the Web Suite’s list of users. (This identity always has admin privileges, but cannot view any of the Web Suite’s status pages.)

4 First identify the system controller you want to monitor with the Web Suite.

See Choosing a System Controller

, following.

5 Create at least one Web Suite “configuration.”

See Creating a Configuration

, following.

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6 Add at least one user (to the initially empty list of users). Include yourself in this list and give

yourself admin privilege.

See Adding a User

7 After you create a configuration and add one or more users, log out and log in as one of the

users you added to the list of users.

You cannot view the Web Suite status pages while you are logged in as ‘Admin’. You can continue to create configurations and add or delete users when you are logged in as a user having admin privilege.

on page 12.

Choosing a System Controller

You must first identify the system controller you want to monitor with the Web Suite.

After you have logged in as ‘Admin’, click the ‘Configuration’ tab. Then click the word ‘Servers’:

Type the IP address of the system controller or the virtual IP address of a redundant pair of system controllers in the ‘NV9000 IP Address’ field. (Whether your system controller is an NV960 or an NV920, its IP address goes here.)

Next, if the system controller controls a router that uses DHP, type the same IP address in the DHP IP address field. Otherwise, type “null” in that field.

Last, click ‘Save Configuration’. Saving the configuration can take several minutes. If the save takes more than a few minutes, restart your browser and reacquire the Web Suite.

Creating a Configuration

1 Choose the ‘Configuration’ tab and select ‘Pages’

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2 Click the ‘New . . .’ button. A ‘New Configuration’ dialog appears:

3 Enter a configuration name. Click ‘OK’.

4 At this point, there is a new configuration. The configuration is empty. It defines no tabbed

pages.

5 You can add tabbed pages, of 5 types, to this configuration and you can add as many of each

type as you want. To add a tabbed page, click ‘Add New Tab . . .’ in the middle of the page:

A dialog appears in which you can select a tab type:

Choose a tab type and click ‘OK’.

The new tab and any others you create appear in a list in the order you create them. (If you make a mistake, click on the tab’s list entry and then click the ‘Delete Tab’ button.

6 You could edit the configuration you created, but it is not essential to do so at this time. If

you wish to do so, refer to Configuration Pages

on page 19 for more information.

7 Finally, click the ‘Save’button.

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Adding a User

1 Choose the ‘Configuration’ tab and select ‘Users’:

The large white area is empty at first. As you add users, it is filled with rows of data for the users you have defined.

2 Click the ‘Add New User.’ button. A new row appears in the table:

The ‘Username’ field is filled with red and a message appears at the top right: “Username is empty.” This message is a prompt for you to click in the ‘Username’ field and enter a user name. When you do (and follow the entry by pressing ‹enter› or ‹tab›) the field turns green and the prompt disappears:

The ‘Configuration’ field for this user is set to the default and the field is therefore yellow. You should choose a configuration other than the default, but you are not required to do so. This field can be changed at any time.

if you do change the configuration field, the field turns green as the ‘Username’ field did:

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3 Finally, click ‘Save Users’. After a confirmation dialog, the new user data are accepted, and the

display refreshes:

When multiple users are identified, the rows are ordered by user name.

4 You can also designate whether users have admin privilege in check boxes of the ‘Admin’

column.

Changing a Password

By default, when you add new users, they will require no password to log in.

If you want to require a password from a user, click the ‘Change Password’ button for that user. A dialog appears:

Enter the password, repeat it, then click OK. Click cancel if you do not want to enter a password.

 You cannot recover this password if you forget it. But you can always enter a new password

(if you can log in with admin privilege).

User IDs

NV9000-SE Utilities allows persons configuring the router control system to define user IDs. User IDs are normally associated with control panels.

In NV9000-SE Utilities, user IDs are alphanumeric strings that usually form readable names.

The Web Suite allows you to associate any user name defined in the NV9000 router control system with a user in the list. There are drop-down lists in the NVUSER column from which you can choose a user name. The NV9000 user name and its database ID are subsequently used to indicate which user has issued a lock or a protect on destinations in the router control system.

 It is advisable to have all NV9000 user names defined (in NV9000-SE Utilities) and assigned

(in the Web Suite) at the earliest opportunity. Users who perform locks and protects under one NV9000 user name cannot release those locks and protects if they change to a different NV9000 user name.

Saving the User List

If you made a mistake before you save, you can discard the mistake by clicking your browser’s refresh button. Doing so reloads the saved user list from the NV9000 database. (The Web Suite will warn you about losing the changes you made.)

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Blue

bar

Help Pane

Logging Out

Log out (as Admin) and log in using your own user name and password.

Use the expandable help pane (described next) to log out.

At the left side of the Web Suite window is a blue bar with a large question mark at the top and an arrow in the middle:

Click on this blue bar to expand the collapsed “sidebar” pane:

The blue bar slides to the right (when you open the pane).

If you click the bar again, it slides to the left to close the pane.

The pane presents some information about the Web Suite, principally, the user name and configuration you are currently using.

The pane also offers some help regarding the particular page in which you are working.

The pane also allows you to set certain preferences for the page in which you are working. The preferences differ according to the page. This document describes the preferences in the sections that describe that pages.

Logging Out

Click the ‘Logout’ button to log out. After you log out, the Web Suite immediately displays the login dialog (shown on page 9).

Usage Notes

Creating Tabbed Pages

Users with admin privilege can create new tabbed pages and modify the display options of existing pages. Refer to the ‘Pages’ Page found under the ‘Options > Configuration’ subtab.

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Display Lists

In the multi-level configuration page, the primary level configuration page, and some of the other configuration pages, you can select a set of levels and a set of destinations and sources for display. You can use standard click, shift-click, and control-click methods to select levels or destinations in the configuration pages.

In addition, you can place the levels and destinations in lists in any arbitrary order by using the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons in those configuration pages. The move buttons affect whatever list entries you have selected.

(See Editing a Multi-Level Crosspoint Tab page 41.)

Similarly, you can define a list of tielines for which to display status in a tielines page. See Editing

a Tieline Tab on page 33.

Similarly, you can define a list of disembedders and a list of embedders for which to display status in a DHP page. See Editing a DHP Tab

Ordering

In the configuration pages, it is possible to specify the ordering of entries in a displayed table. The fields for the specification of displayed lists have ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons that you can use to reposition selected items within a list.

Further, users can click the header of a column in a displayed table to cause the reordering of the table according to the entries in that column. Users may click the header once to get ascending order; they may click the column again to get descending order.

on page 36 and Editing a Primary Level Tab on

on page 28.

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Navigation

You can lose recently entered configuration data if you switch pages (without saving). The Web Suite will warn you if you leave a page without saving data. However, if you use the ‘back’ and

‘forward’ buttons of your browser, you can jump from page to page without losing data.

 (In most browsers) pressing backspace on you keyboard has the same effect as switching

pages. Be careful not to press backspace accidentally!

Takes

When a control panel operator performs a take, and the destination affected by the take is displayed in your Web Suite window, the background of the table row or table cells for the destination turns green momentarily and then fades back to white over a period of a few seconds.

Note that this phenomenon occurs only in the multi-level and primary level views.

Locks and Protects

In the multi-level’ and primary level pages, the table entries for destinations that are locked are colored red. The table entries for destinations that are protected are colored yellow.

In the matrix view, the matrix buttons (round-corner squares) are colored red for locked destinations and are colored yellow for protected destinations.

Long Dashes in Tables

For systems with routers that are offline, many table entries that would normally appear with source names (or other data) are void of data and have a long dash in the field.

Multi-level pages also show long dashes for levels that do not apply to the destinations listed on the page.

There is no way to distinguish a source that does not apply from a source that exists in a router that is offline. The best way to interpret the long dash is that it means “there is no applicable source name.”

The same can be said about the string “--------” (8 dashes) in source name fields. This also means “there is no applicable source name.” (The 8-dash string is generated by the system controller.)

Subtabs

Options Tab

Chapter 2 provides information and instructions regarding the Web Suite’s ‘Options’ tab.

Topics

Subtabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Configuration Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Log Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

The ‘Options’ tab has 4 subtabs.

These are the subtabs and their pages:

• Welcome • Logs

• Configuration • About

Welcome

The ‘Welcome’ page offers brief setup instructions and brief descriptions of the various Web Suite pages.

Configuration

The ‘Configuration’ page allows you to create new views of NV9000 data and to customize existing views. You can create and save different Web Suite configurations.

(You must be logged in as a user with “admin” privilege to modify the Web Suite. Alternatively, you can log in as ‘Admin’.)

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Subtabs

Three Kinds of Configuration

There are 3 kinds of configuration in the ‘Configuration’ tab:

• Configuration of the NV9000 Web Suite (i.e., the “server”).

Changes made to your Web Suite configuration are made in the Servers Page uration’ subtab.

Saving changes to this type of configuration causes the NV9000 Web Suite (the “server”) to restart. The restart can take several minutes.

The “server” that is running in your browser is the one you selected in your browser. That is, it is either the service running on your PC or it is the service running on someone else’s PC. (See Accessing the NV9000 Web Suite

on page 8.)

• Adding and removing users.

These configurations are created and modified in the Users Page tab.

Changes to these configurations do not cause the Web Suite service to restart.

of the ‘Configuration’ sub-

• Configuration of the Web Suite pages.

These configurations are created and modified in the ‘Pages’ Page tab. These configurations affect the display of DHP data, tieline data, and crosspoint data. You can create many (tabbed) pages in which to view NV9000 data and there are configuration parameters for each page you create. Changes to these configurations do not cause the Web Suite service to restart.

Every user is assigned one configuration, even if it is only the default configuration, in the

Users Page

own Web Suite configuration and modify the configuration as needed.)

Changes to the data page configurations affect the display of data pages for the user in whose name you are logged in. (Generally, the page configurations are your own, but it is possible for you to be working on someone else’s behalf.)

of the ‘Configuration’ subtab. (A user with admin privilege can choose his or her

of the ‘Configuration’ sub-

of the ‘Config-

Logs

The ‘Logs’ subtab has 4 pages. The last page — ‘Data Store’ — are available only when the Web Suite is in instrumentation mode:

• Server Log

The ‘Server Log’ page presents event history for the Web Suite server.

See Server Log Page

• Client Log

The ‘Client Log’ page presents event history for the NV9000 Web Suite client.

See Client Log Page

• System Status

The ‘System Status’ page presents statistics about the Web Suite.

See System Status

• Data Store

The ‘Data Store’ page shows the values for data within the Web Suite.

See Data Store Page

on page 56.

on page 55.

on page 58.

About

The ‘About’ page presents contact information, Miranda’s website address, legal notices, and the current revision number of the Web Suite.

The data presented reference the service you have selected in your browser, that is the service running on your PC.

Configuration Pages

The ‘Configuration’ subtab is the most important subtab of the ‘Options’ tab.

If you have “admin” privilege, you can add and delete Web Suite configurations, add and delete user IDs, and create new and alternate views (i.e., new tabs) of NV9000 data.

The ‘Configuration’ subtab has 3 pages:

• Servers

Use this page to set up the Web Suite service you are using.

• Pages

Use this page to create new configurations, create new tabs, and to modify the views of new and existing tabs.

• Users

Use this page to add and delete user IDs, or to change users’ passwords, and to assign configurations to users.

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Servers Page

The ‘Servers’ page lets you modify the configuration of the Web Suite service you have selected:

Use caution if you modify any of the entries in this page.

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Modifications to any of these fields do not take effect until you click the ‘Save Configuration’ button and the Web Suite service subsequently restarts.

If you make a modification to any field, it turns green or has a green outline until you have saved the Web Suite configuration.

Note: saving the server’s (i.e., the Web Suite’s) state causes the server to restart. That might take several minutes.

Descriptions of the fields, buttons, and other items in this page follow.

 If you click the large blue bar at the left of the page (not shown here), the help pane expands

to reveal short help messages regarding the options in this page.

NV9000 IP Address

This is the IP address of the system controller (NV960 or NV920) to which you are connected or the virtual IP address of a redundant pair of system controllers.

DHP IP Address

If your system controller supports a router that uses DHP, place the system controller’s IP address in this field too. If your system controller does not support DHP, enter “null” in this field.

 Reminder: DHP allows only one Web Suite connection to be started at any time.

Instrumentation Mode

Place a check mark in this check box if you wish to place the Web Suite in “instrumentation” mode.

When the Web Suite is in instrumentation mode, all 4 of the pages of the ‘Logs’ subtab under the ‘Options’ tab are enabled. When instrumentation mode is off, only 3 logging pages are available. Instrumentation mode also enables more detailed logging.

Save Configuration Button

Click this button to save the Web Suite setup to your PC.

When you save, the Web Suite restarts and your browser refreshes. A restart can take several minutes.

Restart Application Server Button

Click this button to restart the Web Suite service you have selected. A restart can take several minutes.

The service being restarted will be unavailable to you (or to others) during this time.

Force Server Data Reload Button

The data affected by this button are what the Web Suite displays. This button tells the server to reload all the data it collects from all sources.

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Run Server Benchmark

Click this button to get a report about the performance of your Web Suite server. The report has this format:

Debug Dump Files

At the bottom of the servers page are 2 options:

• Debug dump file

• Heap dump file

Click either option to save a dump file. The debug dump file has the extension .nvdat. The heap dump file is a .zip file.

Save these file only if you in a debug situation and in communication with a Miranda technician. You will be asked to send these files to Miranda. The data in these files are not readable. We recommend that you do not attempt to open these files after you have saved them.

The method for saving dump files varies according to the browser you are using.

Firefox Behavior

If you are using Firefox, this is the dialog that appears when you click ‘Debug Dump File’ or ‘Heap Dump File’:

To save the debug information to a file, choose ‘Save File’. Then, in the navigation dialog that follows, select a location and a name for the file.

 Do not choose ‘Open with’.

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Chrome Behavior

When you click ‘Debug Dump File’ or ‘Heap Dump File’, Chrome saves the file in a specific folder. Under Windows, the default folder is the default folder is

‹diskname›/‹username›/downloads.

C:\users\‹username›\downloads. Under the Mac OS,

The indication that Chrome has saved the file is that it displays the file name in the lower left corner of its window:

Safari Behavior

When you click ‘Debug Dump File’ or ‘Heap Dump File’, Safari saves the file in a specific folder. The default folder is

The indication that Safari has saved the file is that it briefly displays an animation that targets its download button. If you click the download button, you will see a list of downloaded files, the dump file being among the most recent. Right-click the dump file to get a context menu:

‹diskname›/‹username›/downloads.

Click ‘Show in Finder’ in the context menu to locate the file. The OS will display a window giving the file’s location.

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‘Pages’ Page

The ‘Pages’ page allows you (1) to create new configurations and (2) to create or modify different tabbed pages in a selected configuration. The tabbed pages show differing views of NV9000 data. (You need admin privilege to create configurations or additional tabbed pages.)

The page for the default Web Suite configuration has 5 tabs defined.

The 5 bold headings identify the 5 different page configurations in the default configuration. When you click one of the headings, the configuration options for tab that appear in the page.

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The page for new configurations, however, is empty (i.e, it defines no tabbed pages):

The ‘Add Tab . . .’ button creates tabbed pages. The ‘Delete Tab’ button removes tabbed pages that you have created.

Managing Configurations

These are the 5 configurations buttons at the top of the ‘Pages’ configuration page:

• New

Click this button to create a new Web Suite configuration. A dialog appears in which to specify the configuration name:

Enter a name and click ‘OK’.

The new configuration cannot be used until you save it. After saving it, you can load it for editing or assign it to users. You can edit the configuration at any time and you can delete the configuration at any time.

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• Load . . .

Click this button to load an existing Web Suite configuration. A dialog appears in which to specify the configuration name:

• Save

Click this button to save the Web Suite configuration you have been editing. A dialog appears in which you must confirm that you wish to save the configuration:

• Save as . . .

Click this button to save an existing Web Suite configuration as another configuration. You can also use this button to save a new configuration. A dialog appears in which to specify the new configuration name:

Click ‘OK’. Then respond affirmatively to the confirmation message.

• Delete

Click this button to delete the configuration that you have loaded. Then respond affirmatively to this confirmation message:

(If the configuration is presently assigned to a user, you will not be allowed to delete it. The message is “Error: configuration is assigned to a user

— cannot delete.”)

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Configuration Pages

Adding Tabbed Pages

You can create additional tabbed pages and delete any that you have created.

Click ‘Add Tab . . .’ to create a tabbed page. A dialog appears in which you can name the page:

Choose one of the 5 tab types in the drop-down menu. These are

• DHP Management

• Tieline Management

• Multi-Level Crosspoint View

• Primary Level Crosspoint View

• Matrix View

When you choose a tab type, the new tab appears at the bottom of the page list. Added (or modified) tabs are highlighted in green. Selected tabs are highlighted in blue. Click the new tab to change its name and edit its parameters:

You can click the ‘Save’ button, at the top of the screen, at any time to save the changes you have made. (Respond affirmatively to the confirmation message that appears when you save.)

(You could also click ‘Save as . . .’)

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After you save, the newly added tab appears in the list of tabs normally, with its new name:

Ordering Tabbed Pages

You can cause the tabs to appear in your Web Suite window in any order you like.

To position a tabbed page in the ordering, click the name of the page in the list of pages. Then click the ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move Down’ button one or more times so that it is in the desired place (or near to the desired place).

 These are the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons directly below the tabbed page list. There

are other ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons elsewhere on the page. Those are for reordering the lists you have defined for a page.

Repeat this process for other pages until all the pages in the list are in the desired order.

The ordering takes effect the next time you click ‘Save’ (or ‘Save As . . .).

Deleting Tabbed Pages

Select the tab you want to delete in the list of tabs at the left.

Click the ‘Delete Tab’ button.

The tab and its parameter fields become highlighted in gray:

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Configuration Pages

Click the ‘Save’ button to complete the deletion. The configuration is redisplayed, now without the tabs that were deleted. If you change your mind about deleting a tab, there is no direct way to unselect tabs marked for deletion. To cause the tab(s) to become unselected, switch momentarily to another page of the Web Suite and return to the ‘Page’ page. The tabs will appear normally

— unselected.

Editing a DHP Tab

You can control the appearance and content of a DHP tab by editing its parameters in the ‘Pages’ configuration page.

A DHP tab has up to 4 sub tabs:

Disembedder Embedder Reentry Drawing

You can also control the appearance of any of these subtabs by indicating your preferences on the sidebar of a particular DHP subtab when the subtab is displayed. (Click the blue bar at the left of the Web Suite window to reveal the sidebar.)

Click on a DHP tab in the list of tabs at the left of the ‘Pages’ configuration page. The DHP tab entry becomes highlighted and the DHP tab configuration fields of the page appear:

Use the check boxes at the right to enable or disable the display of any of the four DHP subtabs.

Specify the names (or titles) of the subtabs in the fields just to the left of the check boxes. You can specify the title of the DHP tab as well.

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Check the ‘Show Port Numbers’ check box if you want the DHP subtabs to display port numbers in addition to port names.

 You can click the ‘Save’ button at any time to retain your changes.

Disembedders to Show

Below the fields for the names of the DHP subtabs is a region in which you can specify for which of DHP’s disembedders the Web Suite displays status. In this section are two radio buttons:

• Use All

• Use Selection

The default choice is ‘Use All’ as shown in the preceding illustration. In this case, the Web Suite provides status for all disembedders and embedders that are defined in the NV9000 system at the time the page is displayed.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Disembedders to Show’ region if you want to specify which disembedders the DHP subtabs are to report. The ‘Disembedders to Show’ region expands to allow you to form the disembedder selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Disembedders

following.

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the disembedders that do not appear in the

DHP subtabs.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the disembedders that do appear in the DHP

subtabs.

To move disembedders from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button or click ‘Append All >>’.

To move disembedders from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

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Click ‘Append Blank Entry’ if you want to create a blank line that functions as a separator in your ‘Include’ list. The separator can help you organize the list. The separator also creates a blank row in the table that is displayed in the page (or pages) of the tab you are editing.

Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the disembedders. Select one or more disembedders in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

Filter Options for Disembedders

Click the triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the filter options:

There is one option: a ‘Search’ field. If you specify some text in the ‘Search’ field, the filter use a substring matching method: if the substring you enter as the filter appears in the disembedder name or its ID, the disembedder can be in the lists.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank.

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Embedders to Show

Below the fields for the names of the DHP subtabs is a region in which you can specify for which of DHP’s embedders the Web Suite displays status. In this section are two radio buttons:

• Use All

• Use Selection

The default choice is ‘Use All’ as shown in the illustration above. In this case, the Web Suite provides status for all embedders that are defined in the NV9000 system at the time of the status report.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Embedders to Show’ region if you want to specify which embedders the DHP subtabs are to report. The ‘Embedders to Show’ region expands to allow you to form the embedder selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Embedders

The items on the left DHP subtabs. The items on the right

— under “Don’t Include”— are the embedders that do not appear in the

— under “Include”— are the embedders that do appear in

, following.

the DHP subtabs.

To move embedders from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button or click ‘Append All >>’.

To move embedders from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the embedders. Select one or more embedders in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

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Filter Options for Embedders

Click the triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the options:

There is one option: a ‘Search’ field. If you specify some text in the ‘Search’ field, the filter use a substring matching method: if the substring you enter as the filter appears in the embedder name or its ID, the embedder can be in the lists.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank.

Copy and Paste Buttons

The ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ buttons allow you to transfer page configuration data from one tab to another tab.

It is not possible to copy the lists from the Web Suite to another application such as Notepad or Excel.

 Data for the configuration of DHP pages are not applicable in any other Web Suite page.

Although you can “copy” DHP data, the ‘Paste’ button remains disabled in all other pages.

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Editing a Tieline Tab

You can control the appearance and content of a tieline tab by editing its parameters in the ‘Pages’ configuration page.

A tieline tab has up to 3 sub tabs:

Tieline Uses Tieline Destinations Tieline Drawings

You can also control the appearance of any of these subtabs by indicating your preferences on the sidebar of a particular tieline subtab when the subtab is selected. (Click the blue bar at the left of the Web Suite window to reveal the sidebar.)

Click on a tieline tab in the list of tabs at the left of the ‘Pages’ configuration page. The tieline tab entry becomes highlighted and the tieline tab configuration fields of the page appear:

Use the check boxes to enable or disable the display of any of the three tieline subtabs.

Specify the names (or titles) of the subtabs in the fields just to the left of the check boxes. You can specify the name of the tieline tab as well.

Check the ‘Show Port Numbers and Level/Tieline IDs’ check box if you want the subtabs to display port numbers in addition to port names and level IDs and tieline IDs.

 You can click the ‘Save’ button at any time to retain your changes.

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Tielines to Show

Below the fields for the names of the tieline subtabs is a region in which you can specify for which tielines the NV9000 Web Suite displays status. In this section are two radio buttons:

• Use All

• Use Selection

The default choice is ‘Use All’ as shown in the illustration above. In this case, the Web Suite provides status for all tielines that are defined in the NV9000 system at the time the page is displayed.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Tielines to Show’ region if you want to specify which tielines the tielines tab is to report. The ‘Tielines to Show’ region expands to allow you to form the tieline selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Tielines

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the tielines that do not appear in the tielines

, following.

tab.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the tielines that do appear in the tielines tab.

To move tielines from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button or click ‘Append All >>’.

To move tielines from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the tielines. Select one or more tielines in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

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Filter Options for Tielines

Click the triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the options:

The filter has 2 parts: a tieline is included in the lists if it meets both criteria.

If you specify some text in the ‘Search’ field, the filter use a substring matching method: if the substring you enter as the filter appears in the tieline name or its ID, the tieline can be in the lists.

If you choose a tieline group in the ‘Tieline Group’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those tielines that belong to the specified group.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank. It ignores the group criterion if you choose ‘Display All’.

 Note that your system might not have tieline groups. In that case, ‘Display All’ is the only

option in the drop-down list.

Copy and Paste Buttons

The ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ buttons allow you to transfer page configuration data from one tab to another tab.

It is not possible to copy the lists from the Web Suite to another application such as Notepad or Excel.

 Data for the configuration of tieline pages are not applicable in any other Web Suite page.

Although you can “copy” tieline data, the ‘Paste’ button remains disabled in all other pages.

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Editing a Multi-Level Crosspoint Tab

You can control the appearance and content of a multi-level crosspoint tab by editing its parameters in the ‘Pages’ configuration page.

A multi-level crosspoint tab has no subtabs.

You can also control the appearance of the tab by indicating your preferences on the sidebar of when the tab is selected. (Click the blue bar at the left of the Web Suite window to reveal the sidebar.)

To edit a multi-level crosspoint tab, click on a multi-level crosspoint tab in the list of tabs at the left of the ‘Pages’ configuration page. The multi-level crosspoint tab entry becomes highlighted and the multi-level configuration fields of the page appear:

You can specify the name (or title) of the multi-level crosspoint tab.

There are several editing options. There are two check boxes that control how sources are displayed. There are 4 radio buttons in two regions.

The first region is for the levels that this particular multi-level page displays. The multi-level page can display data either for all levels or for selected levels. (There is a table column for each level displayed.) If you choose ‘Use Selection’, the region expands to allow you to form the level selection. See Level Selection

The second region is for the destinations to be displayed. The page can display data for all destinations or for selected destinations. (There is a table row for each destination displayed.) If you choose ‘Use Selection’ in this region, the region expands to allow you to form the destination selection. See Destination Selection

 You can click the ‘Save’ button at any time to retain your changes.

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Source Options

There are two check boxes that control how sources are displayed:

• Show Virtual Level of the Source.

• Show Device IDs.

These options are unchecked by default.

The rows of the table in a multi-level display represent destinations. The columns of the table represent the destinations’ virtual levels.

The ‘Show Virtual Level of the Source’ check box causes the name of the virtual level of the source to appear in (non-null) table entries. This is useful for breakaway situations.

The ‘Show Device IDs’ check box causes the NV9000 device ID to appear in the (non-null) table entries. Device IDs are useful if the NV9000 configuration has duplicate source names. Device IDs cannot ever be duplicated.

Level Selection

Choose ‘Use All’ in the ‘Levels’ region if you want the multi-level display to report sources for all NV9000 virtual levels, regardless of what those levels are. The NV9000 configuration could change, adding or deleting virtual levels, and your multi-level page will adjust.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Levels’ region if you want to specify which levels the table is to report. The ‘Levels’ region expands to allow you to form the level selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Levels

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the virtual levels that do not appear in the

multi-level page.

, following.

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The items on the right — under “Include”— are the virtual levels that do appear in the multi-level page.

To move levels from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button or click ‘Append All >>’.

To move levels from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the virtual levels (i.e., the table columns). Select one or more levels in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

Filter Options for Levels

Click the triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the options:

The filter has 2 parts: a level is included in the lists if it meets both criteria.

If you specify some text in the ‘Search’ field, the filter use a substring matching method: if the substring you enter as the filter appears in the level name or its ID, the level can be in the lists.

If you choose a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those levels that belong to the level set.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank. It ignores the level set criterion if you choose ‘Display All’.

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Destination Selection

Choose ‘Use All’ in the ‘Destinations’ region if you want the multi-level display to report all NV9000 destinations, regardless of what those destinations are. The NV9000 configuration could change, adding or deleting destinations, and your multi-level page will adjust.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Destinations’ region if you want to specify which destinations the table is to report. The ‘Destinations’ region expands to allow you to form the destination selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Destinations

, following.

The items on the left — under “Don’t Include”— are the destinations that do not appear in the multi-level page.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the destinations that do appear in the multi-level

page.

To move destinations from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button or click ‘Append All >>’.

To move destinations from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the destinations (i.e., the table rows). Select one or more destinations in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

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Filter Options for Destinations

Click the triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the options:

The filter has 3 parts: a destination is included in the lists if it meets all 3 criteria.

If you specify some text in the ‘Search’ field, the filter use a substring matching method: if the substring you enter as the filter appears in the destination name or its ID, the destination can be in the lists.

If you choose a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those destination devices that are associated with the level set.

If you choose a virtual level in the ‘Virtual Level’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those destination devices that include the virtual level in their level set.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank. It ignores the level set criterion if you choose ‘Display All’. It ignores the virtual level criterion if you choose ‘Display All’ for that.

Copy and Paste Buttons

The ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ buttons allow you to transfer page configuration data from one tab to another tab.

When you click ‘Copy’, all configuration data for that page lists, all ‘Include’ lists

— are captured in a private buffer ready for pasting elsewhere.

When you click ‘Paste’, presumably in another page, all applicable data are transferred from the private buffer to the fields of the page. Data in the buffer that do not apply to the page are not transferred.

Data that were present in the fields that are affected by the ‘Paste’ operation are overwritten. Fields not applicable to the ‘Paste’ are not affected.

It is not possible to copy the lists from the Web Suite to another application such as Notepad or Excel.

 Data for the configuration of multi-level pages are not applicable in DHP or tieline pages.

Although you use the ‘Copy’ button, the ‘Paste’ button remains disabled in those pages. Portions of the data from multi-level pages are applicable to primary level pages and matrix views. These data can be copied.

— all option flags, all ‘Don’t Include’

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Editing a Primary Level Tab

You can control the appearance and content of a primary level crosspoint tab by editing its parameters in the ‘Pages’ configuration page.

A primary level crosspoint tab has no subtabs.

To edit a primary level crosspoint tab, click on a primary level tab in the list of tabs at the left of the ‘Pages’ configuration page. The primary level tab entry becomes highlighted and the primary level tab configuration fields of the page appear:

You can specify the name (or title) of the primary level tab.

 The primary level page displays destination/source pairs. The source paired with the destina-

tion is the source routed to the destination on the destination’s primary level.

 The number of destination/source pairs displayed in the primary level tab can be specified in

the preferences for that tab.

There are several editing options.

Checking the ‘Show Device IDs’ check box causes the NV9000 device ID to appear in the (nonnull) table entries. Device IDs are useful if the NV9000 configuration has duplicate source names. Device IDs are never duplicated.

The ‘Destinations’ region is for the destinations to be displayed. The page can display data for all destinations or for selected destinations. If you choose ‘Use Selection’, the region expands to allow you to form the destination selection. See Destination Selection

 You can click the ‘Save’ button at any time to retain your changes.

, following.

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Destination Selection

Choose ‘Use All’ in the ‘Destinations’ region if you want the primary level display to report all NV9000 destinations, regardless of what those destinations are. The NV9000 configuration could change, adding or deleting destinations, and your primary level page will adjust.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Destinations’ region if you want specify which destinations the table is to report. The ‘Destinations’ region expands to allow you to form the destination selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Destinations

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the destinations that do not appear in the

, following.

multi-level page.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the destinations that do appear in the multi-level

page.

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Filter Options for Destinations

Click the triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the options:

The filter has 3 parts: a destination is included in the lists if it meets all 3 criteria.

If you choose a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those destination devices that are associated with the level set.

If you choose a virtual level in the ‘Virtual Level’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those destination devices that include the virtual level in their level set.

Copy and Paste Buttons

The ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ buttons allow you to transfer page configuration data from one tab to another tab.

When you click ‘Copy’, all configuration data for that page lists, all ‘Include’ lists

— are captured in a private buffer ready for pasting elsewhere.

— all option flags, all ‘Don’t Include’

Data that were present in the fields that are affected by the ‘Paste’ operation are overwritten. Fields not applicable to the ‘Paste’ are not affected.

It is not possible to copy the lists from the Web Suite to another application such as Notepad or Excel.

 Data for the configuration of primary level pages are not applicable in DHP or tieline pages.

Although you use the ‘Copy’ button, the ‘Paste’ button remains disabled in those pages. Portions of the data from primary level pages are applicable to multi-level pages and matrix views. These data can be copied.

Editing a Matrix View Tab

You can control the appearance and content of a matrix view tab by editing its parameters in the ‘Pages’ configuration page.

The matrix view presents a two-dimensional grid. The horizontal axis represents sources in the router control system. The vertical axis represents destinations. If your router control system has M sources and N destinations, then the view shows an M × N grid.

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The square button at each point in the grid represents a crosspoint in a conceptual matrix. Clicking a square button performs a take at that crosspoint on the levels you have selected.

 The matrix is not the physical crosspoint matrix of any particular router.

 A third axis of the grid represents levels. Although you can’t see the third axis, the buttons

show the effect of the third axis. The buttons at each point in the grid show the logical OR of takes on the levels you have selected for viewing. That is, a button is highlighted if there is a take on any of the levels at that (cross)point.

A matrix view has no subtabs. But unlike other tabbed pages, it is interactive: you can perform takes, locks, and protects, set up breakaway and level mapping for takes, and release locks and protects.

You can also control the appearance of the tab by indicating your preferences in the sidebar when the tab is selected. (Click the blue bar at the left of the Web Suite window to reveal the sidebar.)

To edit a matrix view, click on a matrix view tab in the list of tabs at the left of the ‘Pages’ configuration page. The matrix view tab entry becomes highlighted and the matrix view tab configuration fields of the page appear:

You can specify the name (or title) of the matrix view.

There are several editing options. There are two check boxes that control how sources and destinations are displayed. There are 6 radio buttons in 3 regions.

The first region is for the destinations to be displayed in the matrix. The page can display information either for all destinations or for selected destinations. (The matrix view provides a table

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row for each destination of the matrix.) If you choose ‘Use Selection’ in this region, the region expands to allow you to form the destination selection. See Destination Selection

, following.

The second region is for the sources to be displayed in the matrix. The page can display information for all sources or for selected sources. (The matrix view provides a table column for each source of the matrix.) If you choose ‘Use Selection’ in this region, the region expands to allow you to form the source selection. See Source Selection

, following.

The third region is for the levels that this matrix view can display. The matrix view can display information for all levels or for selected levels. If you choose ‘Use Selection’ in this region, the region expands to allow you to form the level selection. See Level Selection

, following.

(Level buttons appear in a section at the top of the matrix view page that the user can enable or disable. When the section is enabled, the buttons in that section select or deselect levels. The configuration page lets you determine the levels that the user is allowed to select.)

 You can click the ‘Save’ button at any time to retain your changes.

Options

There are two check boxes that control how sources and destinations are displayed:

• Show Destination Device IDs.

• Show Source Device IDs.

These options are unchecked by default.

If you place a check in the ‘Show Destination Device IDs’ check box, destination device IDs are displayed where destination names are displayed. Otherwise only the names are displayed.

If you place a check in the ‘Show Source Device IDs’ check box, source device IDs are displayed where source names are displayed. Otherwise only the names are displayed.

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Destination Selection

Choose ‘Use All’ in the ‘Destinations’ region if you want the matrix view to use all NV9000 destinations, regardless of what those destinations are. The NV9000 configuration could change from time to time, adding or removing destinations, and your matrix view will adjust.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Destinations’ region if you want to specify which destinations the are used in the matrix. The ‘Destinations’ region expands to allow you to form the destination selection:

The ‘Use Selection’ fields include filtering options. See Filter Options for Destinations

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the destinations that are not used in the

, following.

matrix view.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the destinations that are used in the matrix view.

The filter options control what destinations you can see (or select) in either list of destinations. The filters do not affect which destinations are actually present in the lists. If you do not use the filters, all destinations in the list are displayed. See Filter Options for Destinations

, following.

To move destinations from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button. (Or click ‘Append All >>’.)

To move destinations from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button. (Or click ‘<< Remove All’.)

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Filter Options for Destinations

Click the dark triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the filter options:

The filter has 3 parts: a destination is included in the lists if it meets all 3 criteria.

If you choose a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those destinations that belong to the specified level set.

If you choose a level in the ‘Virtual Level’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those destinations that include the level specified.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank. It ignores the level set criterion if you choose ‘Display All’. It ignores the level criterion if you choose ‘Display All’ for that.

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Source Selection

Choose ‘Use All’ in the ‘Sources’ region if you want the matrix view to use all NV9000 sources, regardless of what those sources are. The NV9000 configuration could change from time to time, adding or removing sources, and your matrix view will adjust.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Sources’ region if you want to specify which sources the are used in the matrix. The ‘Sources’ region expands to allow you to form the source selection:

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the sources that are not used in the matrix

view.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the sources that are used in the matrix view.

The filter options control what sources you can see (or select) in either list of sources. The filters do not affect which sources are actually present in the lists. If you do not use the filters, all sources in the list are displayed. See Filter Options for Sources

, following.

To move sources from the “Don’t Include” list to the “Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Don’t Include” list and click the ‘Append >‘ button or click ‘Append All >>’.

To move sources from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the sources (i.e., the table columns). Select one or more sources in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

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Filter Options for Sources

Click the dark triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the filter options:

The filter has 3 parts: a source is included in the lists if it meets all 3 criteria.

If you specify some text in the ‘Search’ field, the filter use a substring matching method: if the substring you enter as the filter appears in the source name or its ID, the source can be in the lists.

If you choose a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those sources that belong to the specified level set.

If you choose a level in the ‘Virtual Level’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those sources that include the level specified.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank. It ignores the level set criterion if you choose ‘Display All’. It ignores the level criterion if you choose ‘Display All’ for that.

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Level Selection

Choose ‘Use All’ in the ‘Levels’ region if you want the matrix view to allow the use of all NV9000 levels.

 The long list of levels that is normally available is the “universal set” of all “virtual” levels ever

used by NVISION series routers and includes levels that are probably not defined in your router control system. This list is defined in the virtual levels table of NV9000-SE Utilities. You can trim the list in NV9000-SE Utilities if you find it cumbersome.

Choose ‘Use Selection’ in the ‘Levels’ region if you want to specify which levels are available to the user. The ‘Levels’ region expands to allow you to form the level selection:

The items on the left

— under “Don’t Include”— are the levels that are not available in the matrix

view.

The items on the right

— under “Include”— are the levels that are available in the matrix view.

The filter options control what levels you can see (or select) in either list of levels. The filters do not affect which levels are actually present in the lists. If you do not use the filters, all levels in the list are displayed. See Filter Options for Levels

, following.

To move levels from the “Include” list to the “Don’t Include” list, select one or more entries in the “Include” list and click the ‘< Remove‘ button or click ‘<< Remove All’.

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Use the ‘Move Up’ and ‘Move Down’ buttons under the “Include” list to reorder the levels. Select one or more levels in the “Include” list and click ‘Move Up’ or ‘Move ‘Down’ as appropriate to create the ordering you want.

Filter Options for Levels

Click the dark triangle for the ‘Filter Options’ to expose the filter options:

The filter has 2 parts: a level is included in the lists if it meets both criteria.

If you choose a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down list, the list is restricted to those levels that belong to the specified level set.

The filter ignores the search field if it is blank. It ignores the level set criterion if you choose ‘Display All’.

Copy and Paste Buttons

The ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ buttons allow you to transfer page configuration data from one tab to another tab.

When you click ‘Copy’, all configuration data for that page lists, all ‘Include’ lists

— are captured in a private buffer ready for pasting elsewhere.

— all option flags, all ‘Don’t Include’

Data that were present in the fields that are affected by the ‘Paste’ operation are overwritten. Fields not applicable to the ‘Paste’ are not affected.

It is not possible to copy the lists from the Web Suite to another application such as Notepad or Excel.

 Data for the configuration of matrix view pages are not applicable in DHP or tieline pages.

Although you use the ‘Copy’ button, the ‘Paste’ button remains disabled in those pages. Portions of the data from matrix view pages are applicable to multi-level pages and primary level pages. These data can be copied.

Users Page

The ‘Users’ page lists all the users authorized to use the Web Suite. (Note that if you are using the Web Suite, you are logged in as a user.)

Associated with each user is a password (which is optional), a flag indicating whether the user has admin privilege, a Web Suite configuration, and an NV9000 user name (from the NV9000 system).

The page does not actually list passwords. If you want to change a password, you can click the ‘Change Password’ button for a user. A dialog appears in which you can enter the password.

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After you close the dialog, you must remember the password you entered. It is not recoverable if you forget it.

If a user has the “default” configuration, the configuration entry is colored yellow.

Adding a User to the List

Click the ‘Add New User’ button. A new row appears in the table:

The ‘Username’ field is filled with red and a message appears at the top right: “Username is empty.”

This message is a prompt for you to click in the ‘Username’ field and enter a user name. When you do (and follow the entry by pressing ‹enter› or ‹tab›) the field turns green and the prompt disappears:

The new user has been assigned the default configuration, which is highlighted in yellow. You can assign a different configuration to the user by selecting a configuration name from the drop-down list in the user’s ‘Configuration’ field.

You can also assign the user an NV9000 user name in the ‘NVuser’ field.

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The chosen configuration is highlighted in green:

Click ‘Save Users’ to accept any new users you have added. The list refreshes and displays the users in alphabetical order:

Changing a User’s Password

By default, new users are added with no password required. If you want to assign a password to a user, click the ‘Change Password’ button for that user. A dialog appears in which you can enter the new password:

Enter a password, confirm it, and click ‘OK’.

Make a note of the password, or remember it, because you cannot recover the password if you forget it. (You can always assign a new password however.)

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Admin Privilege

Check the ‘Admin’ check box for a user to give that user administrative privilege.

Administrative privilege means that the user can add and remove users, change passwords, and create and modify Web Suite configurations.

Users without administrative privilege can use the status pages of the configuration they have been assigned. They cannot redefine their configurations.

User IDs

NV9000-SE Utilities allows persons configuring the router control system to define user IDs. User IDs are normally associated with control panels.

In NV9000-SE Utilities, user IDs are alphanumeric strings that usually form readable names.

 It is advisable to have all NV9000 user names defined (in NV9000-SE Utilities) and assigned

(in the Web Suite) at the earliest opportunity. Users who perform locks and protects under one NV9000 user name cannot release those locks and protects if they change to a different NV9000 user name.

Saving the User List

Click ‘Save Users’ to save the list and click ‘Yes’ in the confirmation dialog that appears.

If you made a data entry mistake before you save, you can discard the mistake(s) by using your browser’s refresh button to refresh the ‘Users’ page. Doing so reloads the saved user list from the NV9000 database. (You will be warned if you about to lose unsaved data.)

Removing a User from the List

 You cannot remove a new user from the list until you have saved the user list. New users and

new data are characterized by green-highlighted fields in the list.

To remove a user or users from the list, place a check mark in the ‘Delete’ check box for the user(s). The row(s) for those users(s) are greyed out:

Then click ‘Save Users’ and click ‘Yes’ in the confirmation dialog that appears. The Web Suite displays the updated user list

Log Pages

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The Logs subtab provides 3 or 4 status pages — 4 when instrumentation mode is enabled:

Disabled Enabled

Server Log Server Log Client Log Client Log System Status System Status

Data Store

The ‘Data Store’ are for Miranda engineers and technicians only.

 Instrumentation mode is a checkbox option under the ‘Servers’ page under the ‘Configura-

tion’ subtab.

System Status

The ‘System Status’ page presents statistics and data about the Web Suite:

These are the statistics:

• Heap memory used by the NV9000 Web Suite, in mebibytes. (A mebibyte is 2

• Current active thread count.

• Total page load time (in milliseconds).

• Total network latency (in milliseconds).

bytes.)

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Log Pages

Client Log Page

This is the ‘Client Log’ page:

This page usually contains a great amount of event history regarding the Web Suite client.

Green text is used for debugging or informative messages.

Red text is used for warnings or error messages.

Server Log Page

This is the ‘Server Log’ page:

This page usually contains a great amount of event history regarding the NV9000 Web Suite server.

You might have to use this information to diagnose a system failure or a network problem.

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Hide Menu

You can hide the menu by clicking the text ‘Hide Menu’. This is the page without the menu:

(The text changes to ‘Show Menu’.)

Place a check mark in the ‘Auto Refresh’ check box if you want the page to refresh its display at every reported event. If the check box is not checked, the NV9000 Web Suite refreshes the page every time you switch to the page (or click your browser’s refresh icon).

Reporting Level

You can choose the level of reporting in this log. (Other users can choose a different reporting level.) To choose a reporting level, select a level from the drop-down list:

The levels are listed in order of severity.

You can also choose one of the 5 display filters directly:

DEBUG-4 DEBUG INFO WARN ERROR

in the text below the level drop-down menu.

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Log Pages

Data Store Page

Do not use this page. It is for Web Suite developers.

Summary

DHP Tab

Chapter 3 provides information and instructions regarding the Web Suite’s DHP tab.

Topics

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Disembedder Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Embedder Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Reentry Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Drawing Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

When you click on the DHP tab, the DHP subtabs and their pages appear. By default, there are 4 pages:

Disembedder Embedder Reentry Drawing

However, you can configure the DHP tab to have a subset of these pages. Use the ‘Options’ tab and its ‘Configuration > Pages’ page to do so.

The four DHP pages show information about the current state of the DHP core of a single NV8500 series router (NV8140, NV8144, NV8280, NV8576, or NV8576-Plus).

 DHP is any option that applies only to an NV8500 series router. Your system might not have

DHP.

Three of its pages present tables of DHP core data. The fourth page presents the data as a drawing. The table data present all the signal detail of the DHP core. The drawing page is a diagrammatic view of the current core.

The following sections describe the pages.

The examples shown in this section refer to a demonstration NV9000 system. The configuration data for that system are listed in the Sample NV9000 Configuration

 Caution: the DHP pages are status pages. You cannot control the DHP service, or stop it, or

restart it, from the NV9000 Web Suite.

 Because of the way DHP is defined, it can communicate with only one DHP client. The client

can be a PC running the NV9000 Web Suite or it can be an instance of DHP-D.

If DHP-D is running, no PC client will obtain correct DHP information and any PC applications attempting to do so might display incorrect data. Further, PC clients are services that run in the background on your PCs whether the user has a web browser open or not. Only one such service may be started at a given time and DHP-D cannot also be running. Otherwise, the DHP tab of the Web Suite will not function correctly or will not function at all.

on page 70.

1. DHP-D is Miranda diagnostic software.

DHP Tab

Std Out for Disembedder 29

INA 045

Disembedder 29

Embedder 19

Legend

Internal Route

Core Cable for Disembedder

Audio Channels

INA 410

Std Out for Disembedder 28

Disembedder 28

OUTA 455

Std In for

Embedder 19

Core Cable for Embedder

Summary

Configuration Options

The 4 DHP pages can be individually enabled or disabled. The 4 DHP pages can be configured:

• To show all or selected disembedders. For selected disembedders, a name/ID filter can apply.

• To show all or selected embedders. For selected embedders, a name/ID filter can apply.

• To show port numbers next to port names.

For information about configuring DHP pages, see Editing a DHP Tab

on page 28.

Example

Figure 3-1 shows an DHP routing example for the 4 tabbed pages described in the following sections:

Fig. 3-1: Sample DHP Route

Standard source INA 410 is taken to standard destination OUTA 455 on all levels but two. The remaining two levels (levels 3 and 4) are take from standard source INA 045. Except for the breakaway involved, DHP would not be required. Because a breakaway occurred, the DHP software routed INA 410 through DHP disembedder port 28 and INA 045 through DHP disembedder port 29. The audio from these two ports are recombined in DHP embedder port 19 and forwarded, with the original video from INA 410 to standard output OUTA 455.

Disembedder Page

The ‘Disembedder’ page shows details of the DHP core’s disembedders:

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Fig. 3-2: Disembedder Page

The page displays a table of all the disembedder ports in the DHP core, one row for each port. The disembedder ports are identified in column 1. If a disembedder is not in use, its table row is empty (except for the label in column 1 and port number in column 3).

Fields for unused disembedders are greyed out.

Entries in the column labeled ‘SDI’ show the name of the standard input port connected to the disembedder port. It represents the video signal. If there is no name or the name cannot be determined the entry shows “********”.

An entry in the column labeled ‘Disembedder Port’ identifies the standard output that is connected to (i.e., feeds) the disembedder. That output port is part of the DHP core.

The entries in the columns labeled ‘Feeding 1’, ‘Feeding 2’, and so on, show either embedders or output ports that are fed by the disembedder port. The table can have from 0 to 10 “Feeding” columns.

Table Ordering

By clicking the header of any table column you can cause the table to be reordered according the entries in that column. Click the header once and the table is put in ascending order for that column. Click the header again to put the table in descending order of that column. An arrow (up or down) appears in the column header to indicate that the table is ordered according to that column.

To revert to the default table ordering, click the page refresh icon of your browser.

DHP Tab

Disembedder Page

Preferences

The ‘Disembedder’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a search filter on the ‘Disembedder’ page:

You can place text in this field to limit the number of rows that are displayed. Only those rows in which the search text appears

— in any column — are displayed.

• Automatically move unused disembedders to bottom

It might be more convenient for you to display all the disembedders that are in use in the upper rows of the table. That way, you can minimize scrolling and confusion as you navigate to view different disembedders that are in use.

• Display columns

These 4 items let you select exactly what is displayed for each disembedder. The 3 check boxes refer to the first 3 columns of the table.

The number of destination columns (i.e., ‘Feeding’ columns) defaults to 8 but you can increase or decrease the number of these columns. It makes sense to decrease the number of the ‘Feeding’ columns because they often contain no information.

Embedder Page

The ‘Embedder’ page shows details of the DHP core’s embedders. The page displays a table of all the embedder ports in the DHP core, one row for each port. The embedder ports are identified in column 1. If an embedder is not in use, its table row is empty (except for column 1).

This view shows the left side of the page:

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Fig. 3-3: Embedder Page, Left Por tion

Unused embedders are greyed out. Here, only one embedder is in use.

Entries in the column labeled ‘SDI’ show the name of the standard input port connected to the disembedder port that feeds the video to the embedder port.

The entries in the columns labeled ‘Audio 1’, ‘Audio 2’, and so on, show the audio channels that are fed to the embedder port. The audio signals can come from any disembedder in the DHP core, from a MADI card, or from any hybrid card not in the DHP core.

The audio channels are identified by their associated video port names. Bold purple text indicates that the audio channel is either a breakaway channel or the result of level mapping.

Table Ordering

To revert to the default table ordering, click the page refresh icon of your browser.

DHP Tab

Embedder Page

Preferences

The ‘Embedder’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a search filter on the ‘Embedder’ page:

You can place text in this field to limit the number of rows that are displayed. Only those rows in which the search text appears

— in any column — are displayed.

• Automatically move unused embedders to bottom

It might be more convenient for you to display all the embedders that are in use in the upper rows of the table. That way, you can minimize scrolling and confusion as you navigate to view different embedders that are in use.

• Display columns

Reentry Page

The ‘Reentry’ page shows which standard video input and standard video outputs are connected to each embedder port:

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These 18 items let you select exactly what is displayed for each embedder. The check boxes refer to the columns of the table.

The default shows all 16 embedded audio channels. Some systems might have fewer embedded channels. Disabling the display of unused channels can make it easier to use the embedder page.

Fig. 3-4: DHP Reentry Page

The page displays a table of all the embedder ports in the DHP core, one row for each port. The embedder ports are identified in column 1. If an embedder is not in use, its table row is empty (except for column 1 and column 3).

The ‘Reentry’ column of this page identifies the standard input port that is connected to the embedder output port. That input port is part of the DHP core.

The ‘Dest’ columns identify the standard outputs fed by the embedder input port.

The ‘SDI SRC’ column identifies the video-level input to the embedder.

Unused embedders are greyed out. In the illustration, only one embedder is in use.

— through the standard

Table Ordering

To revert to the default table ordering, click the page refresh icon of your browser.

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Reentry Page

Preferences

The ‘Reentry’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a search filter on the ‘Reentry’ page:

You can place text in this field to limit the number of rows that are displayed. Only those rows in which the search text appears

— in any column — are displayed.

• Automatically move unused embedders to bottom

• Display columns

These 4 items let you select exactly what is displayed for each embedder. The 3 check boxes refer to the first 3 columns of the table.

The number of destination columns defaults to 8 but you can increase or decrease the number of these columns. It makes sense to reduce the number of the ‘Dest’ columns because they often contain no information.

Drawing Page

The ‘DHP Drawing’ page gives you a graphic or “schematic” view of the DHP core. This is a sample:

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Fig. 3-5: Drawing Page

This sample shows the DHP route of the example used throughout this chapter. To reiterate:

Central to the page is a rectangle representing the router connected to the system controller’s DHP service.

The top half of the rectangle represents standard input and output ports, some of which are part of the DHP core. (The ports belonging to the core are labeled with their associated disembedder or embedder port. See the Sample NV9000 Configuration

on page 70.

DHP Tab

Drawing Page

The bottom half of the rectangle represents hybrid inputs and outputs, some of which might not be part of the DHP core. Hybrid I/O includes disembedder ports, embedder ports, and MADI input or output connections.

Signal Paths

Dashed lines represent standard inputs and outputs connected to the core. For instance, in the illustration, INA 045 is a standard input and OUTA 455 is a standard output. See the Sample

NV9000 Configuration on page 70.

Solid lines represent paths within the DHP core. Single black lines represent video with or without embedded audio. Blue 3-line groups represent audio disembedding and re-embedding. The 3-line groups represent any number of audio channels (from 1 to 16), not just 3.

Short red lines represent connections to the disembedders and embedders of the core.

Usage

At the left side of the page are two regions:

• Radio buttons.

The 4 radio buttons allow you to select what appears in the check boxes in the second region. For instance, if you select the ‘Embedders’ radio button, a list of the embedders appears in the second region.

• Check boxes.

When you check a box in this region, the drawing shows all DHP elements that relate to what you have checked. For example, Figure 3-5, on page 67, has embedder 19 checked. The drawing shows the disembedders, standard inputs, and standard outputs that connect to embedder 19.

Depending on which radio button you chose, the check box list will include special check boxes: ‘All unused disembedders’, ‘All unused embedders’, or ‘All other DHP resources’. Checking one of these boxes will result in the display of the named items.

Also at the left side of the page are two buttons:

• Select All.

This is a shortcut that checks all the check boxes in the list and causes the drawing to show all the items corresponding to all the check boxes.

• Clear Selection.

This shortcut clears all the check boxes in the list. The result is that the drawing shows nothing (except the rectangle representing the router).

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When you select many or all items in the check box list, the drawing shows many connections:

This kind of view obscures individual connection details. We recommend that you view one or two core connections at a time.

Preferences

The ‘Drawing’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

DHP Tab

Sample NV9000 Configuration

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a search filter on the ‘Drawing’ page:

You can place text in this field to limit the number of items that are displayed. Only those items in which the search text appears are displayed.

• Hide check boxes for unused resources.

It might be more convenient for you if your drawing page does not have check boxes to show unused disembedders, embedders, and so on.

Sample NV9000 Configuration

These are the data of the NV9000 configuration from which the DHP example was taken.

Non-Core Ports

These are the ports — not in the DHP core — that are used in the examples. These were configured in NV9000-SE Utilities.

Input

These are all standard inputs, each having video and 16 audio channels.

Device HD Port Audio Por ts

INA 37 37 577–592 through INA 576 576 9201–9216

There are also MADI ports 1–64 from input card 1.

Output

These are all standard outputs, each having video and 16 audio channels\.

Device HD Port Audio Por ts

OUTA 37 37 577–592 through OUTA 576 576 9201–9216

There are also MADI ports 1–64 on output card 1.

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DHP Core Ports

These are the ports of the DHP core, as configured in the HybridPorts_xxxx file (one of the two DHP configuration files).

Re-embedders tied to Standard Inputs

Embedder Port Standard Input Port

19 1 20 2 21 3 22 4 23 5 24 6 25 7 26 8 28 10 29 11 30 12 31 13 32 14 33 15 34 16 35 17

(These embedder outputs are all on output card 2. Note that the ports that would be numbered 27 and 36 do not exist.)

Disembedders tied to Standard Outputs

Disembedder Port Standard Output Port

28 1 29 2 30 3 31 4 32 5 33 6 34 7

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Sample NV9000 Configuration

Summary

Tielines Tab

Chapter 4 provides information and instructions regarding the Web Suite’s ‘Tielines’ tab.

Topics

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Background Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Tieline Uses Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Tieline Destinations Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Tieline Drawing Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

When you click on the tielines tab, the tieline subtabs and their pages appear. By default, there are 3 pages:

Tieline Uses Tieline Destinations Tieline Drawing

However, you can configure the tieline tab to have a subset of these pages. Use the ‘Options’ tab and its ‘Configuration > Pages’ page to do so.

The three tieline pages show information about the current state of tielines in the entire NV9000 system controlled by the system controller you are monitoring with the Web Suite. The system can include several routers.

Two tieline pages present tables of tieline data. The third page presents the data as a drawing. The drawing page is a “schematic” view of the routers and tielines.

The following sections describe the pages.

The examples shown in this section refer to a demonstration NV9000 system. The configuration data for that system are listed in Sample NV9000 Data

on page 75.

 Note: tielines are a purchase option of NV9000 systems. Your system might not actually

support tielines. If it does not, the Web Suite will not show any tieline data.

Tielines Tab

Output

Router 1 Router 2

Input

Tieline

Output

Router 1 Router 2

Input

  

Router n

Input

Output

Router 1

Router 2

Input

Router 4

Input

Output

Router 3

Input

Output

Input

Background Information

A tieline (or a “simple” tieline) is defined as a connection from an output of an upstream router to the input of a downstream router:

Sources and destinations that are connected using tielines and that comprise multiple levels (perhaps on different routers) must have a tieline connection on each of the applicable levels.

A multi-hop tieline is a set of simple tielines between multiple routers, perhaps at remote geographical locations.

A tieline route is one taken from a source on an upstream router to a destination on a downstream router.

The NV9000 system uses tielines as a pool of resources. When the NV9000 needs to use a tieline to perform a route, it determines all the tielines necessary to make the route. If the pool of tielines is depleted, of course, it cannot make the route.

Fig. 4-1: Pooled Tielines

In Figure 4-1, there are no tieline paths from router 2 to router 3. If the NV9000 system cannot find a tieline path for a route, it cannot make the route.

The tieline pages of the Web Suite show (1) the routes used by the tielines in your system and (2) the tielines that remain unused. (The latter are shown greyed out.)

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RTR A RTR B RTR C

141 141 141

142 142 142 142

143 143 143 143

AIN

[116 ]

COUT [116 ]

144 144 144 144

(HD) (SD) (HD)

AB1

AB2

AB3

AB4

BC1

BC2

BC3

BC4

BOUT [116 ]

CIN

[116 ]

AOUT [116 ]

BIN

[116 ]

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(Down Conversion)

Tielines

(Up Conversion)

COUT1

COUT3

BOUT2

BC1

AIN1

AIN2

BIN3

AB1

BC2

AB2

RTR A RTR B RTR C

User’s Guide

The demonstration system used in the examples in this chapter has a small set of tielines that allow multi-hop routes.

Sample NV9000 Data

The (simple) demonstration setup for tielines has 3 routers, A, B, and C.

The routers are identical in size, each having 16 general inputs and outputs, except that router B routes SD, not HD. Tielines that perform up- and down-conversion are required between A and B and between B and C.

Thus, between A and B, there are 4 tielines, AB1 through AB4. Between B and C, there are 4 tielines, BC1 through BC4.

A route from router A to router C (through router B) is a 2-hop route.

The tielines form pool of resources from which the router control system can draw when it wants to perform routers from A to B, from B to C, or from A to C.

(Routes from C to A, B to A, and C to B are not defined in this demonstration system.)

Sample Tieline Routes

Using the sample system, three tieline routes were made, one from A to C, one from A to B, and one from B to C:

Fig. 4-2: Sample Tieline Routes

The route from AIN1 to COUT1 is considered “multi-hop.”

These routes are depicted in the following sections.

Tielines Tab

COUT1

AIN1

BC2

AB2

RTR A RTR B RTR C

Tieline Uses Page

The ‘Tieline Uses’ page shows simple tielines that are used for routes:

Fig. 4-3: Tieline Uses Page

Tielines that are not in use are greyed out.

The page shown in Figure 4-3 illustrates the three tielines of Figure 4-2.

Table Ordering

To revert to the default table ordering, click the page refresh icon of your browser.

Interpretation

The first two rows of the table represent the multi-hop tieline from AIN1 to COUT1:

Each row is one hop.

In a multi-hop tieline, some of the sources and destinations are tieline ports, indicated by the names of the tielines. In the first row, for example, the source for the second hop is the tieline port AB2.

The third row represents a simple tieline route from AIN2 to BOUT2:

BOUT2

AIN2

AB1

RTR A RTR B

COUT3

BC1

BIN3

RTR B RTR C

The fourth row represents a simple tieline route from BIN3 to COUT3:

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The other rows in the table represent tielines that are not used.

(The tieline drawing illustrated in Figure 4-5 also shows these routes.)

Preferences

The ‘Uses’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

Tielines Tab

Clicked this row

Tieline Uses Page

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a name filter and a group filter on the ‘Uses’ page:

You can place text in the ‘Search’ field to limit the number of rows that are displayed. Only those rows in which the search text appears

— in any column — are displayed.

You can select a tieline group in the ‘Group’ drop-down menu to restrict the tielines displayed only to those belonging to that group.

• Automatically move unused tielines to bottom

It might be more convenient for you to display all the tielines that are in use in the upper rows of the table. That way, you can minimize scrolling and confusion as you navigate to view different tielines that are in use.

• Highlighting enabled

Checking this option allows you to highlight table rows belonging to a tieline (in green, yellow, purple, or blue):

This is particularly useful to show the rows of a multi-hop tieline, which might be difficult to locate without this aid.

(In a multi-hop tieline, the row you click is the one that is highlighted green. Tieline hops upstream of that one are highlighted in yellow and tieline hops that are downstream of that one are highlighted in purple. Here is the same (multi-hop) tieline highlighted in yellow and green:

If a tieline goes to multiple destinations, the additional destinations are highlighted in blue. (It is a blue-violet color and distinguishable from the blue tones of the Web Suite page.)

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• Display use information

Checking this option causes the page to display the number of tielines that are in use and the number that are available:

• Releasing tielines enabled

Checking this option causes the page to display a ‘Release Tieline’ button:

When the ‘Release Tielines’ button is enabled, you can release tielines. To do so, select a tieline path in the uses table and click the button. the software displays a warning:

Click ‘Yes’ to proceed or ‘No’ to cancel the release.

• Display columns

These 11 check boxes let you select exactly what is displayed for each tieline row (or hop). Each check box corresponds to a column in the ‘Tieline Uses’ table. (Figure 4-3 shows just a few of these columns.)

These are the meanings of the optional columns of the table:

• ‘Dst’ — the destination of this simple tieline.

• ‘Dst Level’ — the physical level on which the tieline route is made, in the downstream

router.

• ‘Source’ — the source of this simple tieline.

• ‘Src Level’ — the physical level on which the tieline route is made, in the upstream router.

• ‘Tieline’ — the name of the tieline.

• ‘Description’ — a description of the tieline that was defined at the time the tieline was

defined in NV9000-SE Utilities.

• ‘User’ — the user name assigned to the control panel at which the route was made.

Tielines Tab

Tieline Destinations Page

• ‘Duration’ — how long the tieline has been in effect, in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

• ‘Start Time’— the start time and date of the route that used the tielines.

• ‘Group’— the tieline group to which the tieline belongs. (Your system might not have

tieline groups, in which case you might leave this option unchecked.)

• ‘IP’ — either 0.0.0.0 or the loopback address of the system controller.

Numbers in parentheses in the source and destination fields are input or output port numbers. (The presence of these numbers is a page configuration option.)

The numbers in parentheses in the tieline and physical level fields are the NV9000 database IDs for the entries in those fields. (The presence of these numbers is a page configuration option.)

Tieline Destinations Page

The ‘Tieline Destinations’ page shows tielines that are used for routes:

Fig. 4-4: Tieline Destinations Page

Tielines that are not in use are greyed out.

The page shown in Figure 4-4 illustrates one 2-hop tieline (from AIN1 to COUT1) and two singlehop tielines (from AIN2 to BIN2 and from BIN3 to CIN3).

The ‘Tieline Destinations’ page shows the same tielines as the ‘Tieline Uses’ page.

Here, however, the page shows multiple destinations (if there are any) for each of the tielines. The tieline service in the NV9000 can connect one tieline source to multiple tieline destinations. This page shows those destinations.

If the tieline has more destinations than the number of ‘Dest’ columns in the table, then the additional destinations wrap around in the same row as the first set of destinations. (The height of the row increases.)

The page shows the originating source in the ‘Source’ column. In Figure 4-4, the rows for the “C” tielines show multi-hop routes. The page, in general, shows a mix of simple tieline routes and multi-hop routes.

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Table Ordering

To revert to the default table ordering, click the page refresh icon of your browser.

Interpretation

Figure 4-4 shows the tieline example of Figure 4-2.

The first two rows belong to the multi-hop tieline from AIN1 to COUT1.

The third row shows the single-hop tieline from AIN2 to BOUT2.

The fourth row shows the single-hop tieline from BIN3 to COUT3.

The rows identify the most upstream source and the most downstream destination of the tieline route. Each row gives the name of a tieline “hop” for the route.

Preferences

The ‘Destinations’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a name filter and a group filter on the ‘Uses’ page:

You can place text in the ‘Search’ field to limit the number of rows that are displayed. Only those rows in which the search text appears

— in any column — are displayed.

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Tieline Destinations Page

• Automatically move unused tielines to bottom

• Display use information

• Releasing tielines enabled

You can select a tieline group in the ‘Group’ drop-down menu to restrict the tielines displayed only to those belonging to that group.

Checking this option causes the page to display the number of tielines that are in use and the number that are available:

Checking this option causes the page to display a ‘Release Tieline’ button:

When the ‘Release Tielines’ button is enabled, you can release tielines. To do so, select a tieline path in the uses table and click the button. the software displays a warning:

Click ‘Yes’ to proceed or ‘No’ to cancel the release.

• Display columns

These 3 items let you select exactly what is displayed for each tieline. The 2 check boxes refer to the first 2 columns of the table.

Numbers in parentheses in the source and destination fields are input or output port numbers. (The presence of these numbers is a page configuration option.)

The numbers in parentheses in the tieline field are the NV9000 database IDs for the entries in those fields. (The presence of these numbers is a page configuration option.)

Tieline Drawing Page

The ‘Tieline Drawing’ page presents a graphical view of tielines used for routes:

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Fig. 4-5: Tieline Drawing Page

At the left side of the page are controls (radio buttons and check boxes) that let you select for display only the items you want to see.

The radio buttons select the category of items that you can choose in the section of check boxes below the radio buttons. If you click the ‘Destinations’ radio button, the check boxes correspond to destinations related to the tielines.

By checking and unchecking the items (such as destinations) in the check box list, you can control which tielines are shown in the drawing.

In Figure 4-5 above, the ‘Tielines’ radio button was chosen. Therefore, the names of tielines appear in the checkbox list. In this case, all check boxes are selected. The drawing includes unused tielines. (To include or exclude unused tielines is a a tieline preference that you can set. See Preferences

There are two buttons below the check box list: ‘Select All’ and ‘Clear Selection’. These are shortcuts that allow you to select all check boxes in the list or unselect all check boxes in the list.

, following)

Interpretation

Figure 4-5 shows a drawing representing the tieline example of Figure 4-2.

Each rectangle represents a physical level of a router. The rectangles are labeled with the level name (which is defined in NV9000-SE Utilities). In many cases, a router has a single physical level, so in those cases, the rectangle represents the router as well.

Tielines Tab

Tieline Drawing Page

Dark lines that connect sources (at the left side of the rectangles) to destinations (at the right side of the rectangles) are tieline routes. Black lines are connections within the router; dark blue lines are connections between routers. The dark blue lines are the actual tielines.

Light gray lines represent unused tielines.

In Figure 4-5, you can see the tielines of the example: one 2-hop tieline running from AIN1 to COUT1 and two single-hop tielines (AIN2 to BOUT2 and BIN3 to COUT3).

If the tieline configuration page enables it, the drawings page will show port numbers next to the port names in the drawing. See Editing a Tieline Tab

on page 33.

Preferences

The ‘Drawings’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a name filter on the ‘Drawing’ page:

You can place text in the ‘Search’ field to limit the number of items that are displayed. Only those items in which the search text appears are displayed.

• Hide check boxes for unused tielines

If you wish to disregard unused tielines, checking this option will prevent their being displayed in the check box list or in the drawing.

• Display use information

Checking this option causes the page to display the number of tielines that are in use and the number that are available:

Summary

Multi-Level Tab

Chapter 5 provides information and instructions regarding the NV9000 Web Suite’s ‘Multi-Level’ tab.

Topics

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Locks and Protects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

The ‘Multi-Level’ tab presents a list of destinations and for each destination, the sources that feed the destinations on one or more (virtual) levels.

Thus, each field to the right of the destination column is a source on the level indicated by the column header. If there is no source on a particular level, the field displays a dash.

 Sources from a tieline are displayed in italics.

By default, the ‘Multi-Level’ page displays all destinations and all virtual levels defined in the system controller’s configuration. The Web Suite’s configuration page, however, lets you specify exactly which destinations and exactly which virtual levels are displayed in the list.

Multi-Level Tab

Table Ordering

You can create more than one ‘Multi-Level’ tab. Several ‘Multi-Level’ tabs can display different views of different data.

See Editing a Multi-Level Crosspoint Tab pages and specifying the levels that appear in the page.

Table Ordering

To revert to the default table ordering, click the page refresh icon of your browser.

Preferences

The ‘Multi-Level’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

on page 36 for information about creating new tabbed

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a name filter, a level set filter, and a virtual level filter on the page:

You can place text in the ‘Search’ field to limit the number of rows that are displayed. Only those rows in which the search text appears

You can select a level set in the ‘Level Set’ drop-down menu to restrict the destinations displayed to only those belonging to that level set. ( The sources displayed will correspondingly be limited to the same level set.)

You can select a level in the ‘Virtual Level’ drop-down menu to restrict the destinations displayed to only those having that level.

— in any column — are displayed.

• Lock and Protect NV9000 User Display

There are two radio button options for the display of locks and protects in the ‘Multi-Level’ page:

‘Auto Display’ causes a locked or protected field to show the NV9000 user name (and its database ID) of the user who locked or protected the destination automatically. (The NV9000 user name is defined in NV9000-SE Utilities and assigned in the Web Suite.)

‘Click to Display’ causes a locked or protected field to show the NV9000 user name (and its database ID) of the user who locked or protected the destination only when you click the field. The field reverts to its normal content when you click the field again.

Locked fields are always highlighted in red. Protected fields are always highlighted in yellow.

 It is the destination that is locked or protected, on particular levels. The highlighting in

the source fields in the page’s table indicate on which levels.

 Whether sources are locked or protected is not indicated on the ‘Multi-Level’ page.

Display Options

The multi-level page you are viewing might have been configured so that its table entries prefix a number (with a colon) to the source name. These numbers are device IDs for the destinations and sources.

The page also might have been configured so that its table entries show the source level name, in parentheses, for each source. (Note that the column names of the table are level names that apply to the destinations.)

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Locks and Protects

Destinations that are locked are indicated by a red field in the columns representing the levels on which they are locked. Destinations that are protected are indicated by a yellow field in the column representing the levels on which they are protected:

If a level is not displayed on the page, no lock or protection can be indicated for that level.

There is a page preference (available in the sidebar) that lets you specify whether the NV9000 user name (and its database ID) of the user who performed the lock or protect is displayed automatically or just when you click a particular field in the table. See Preferences

The number in parentheses is the database ID of the NV9000 user name.

on page 86.

Multi-Level Tab

Locks and Protects

Summary

Primary Level Tab

Chapter 6 provides information and instructions regarding the NV9000 Web Suite’s ‘Primary Level’ tab.

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The ‘Primary Level’ tab presents a list of destinations and for each destination, the source that feeds the destination on the destination’s primary level:

This is a more compact view of the destinations than presented by the ‘Multi-Level’ page because (1) each line shows more than one destination and (2) less information is displayed for each destination.

The primary level for any destination is the first level defined for the device uration. In typical cases, that level is a video level.

1. More accurately, the primary level is the first level defined for the level set to which the device belongs.

in the NV9000 config-

Primary Level Tab

Preferences

By default, the ‘Primary Level’ page displays all destinations defined in the system controller’s configuration. The Web Suite’s configuration page, however, lets you specify exactly which destinations are displayed in the list.

You can also specify the number of destination/source pairs to be displayed in each line (in the page preferences).

You can create more than one ‘Primary Level’ tab. Several ‘Primary Level’ tabs can display different views of different data.

 Sources from tielines are displayed in italics.

 Destinations with a breakaway or a level mapping are displayed with the primary source in

See Editing a Primary Level Tab

Preferences

The ‘Primary Level’ page has several user-selectable preferences, available in the sidebar:

underlined text.

on page 41 for information about creating new tabbed pages.

These are the preferences:

• Filtering enabled

Checking this option places a name filter on the page:

You can place text in the ‘Search’ field to limit the number of destination/source pairs that are displayed. Only those pairs in which the search text appears or the source

— are displayed.

— in either the destination

• Highlighting enabled

This option allows you to highlight any particular destination/source pair by clicking a field. The fields are highlighted in a shade of purple.

• Number of column groups

This option lets you specify the number of column pairs in the page. You can set this value to a number between 1 and 10 or you can specify ‘Auto’ to let the software determine the num-

Grass Valley NV9000 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Table of Contents

Summary

Introduction

Tabbed Sections

Getting Started

Installation

Managing the Service

Accessing the NV9000 Web Suite

Logging In

Choosing a System Controller

Creating a Configuration

Adding a User

Help Pane

Logging Out

Logging Out

Usage Notes

Creating Tabbed Pages

Display Lists

Navigation

Takes

Locks and Protects

Long Dashes in Tables

Subtabs

Options Tab

Welcome

Configuration

Logs

About

Configuration Pages

Servers Page

‘Pages’ Page

Users Page

Log Pages

System Status

Client Log Page

Server Log Page

Data Store Page

Summary

DHP Tab

Configuration Options

Example

Disembedder Page

Table Ordering

Preferences

Embedder Page

Table Ordering

Preferences

Reentry Page

Table Ordering

Preferences

Drawing Page

Signal Paths

Usage

Preferences

Sample NV9000 Configuration

Non-Core Ports

DHP Core Ports

Summary

Tielines Tab

Background Information

Sample NV9000 Data

Sample Tieline Routes

Tieline Uses Page

Table Ordering

Interpretation

Preferences

Tieline Destinations Page

Table Ordering

Interpretation

Preferences

Tieline Drawing Page

Interpretation

Preferences

Summary

Multi-Level Tab

Table Ordering