Grass Valley Profile Fibre Channel Server Interface User Manual

Profile Fibre Channel Server Interface

Overview

The Profile Fibre Channel Server Interface allows an SGI Origin 200 or Origin 2000 server to appear to Media Manager or automation software as another Profile system by emulating selected features of a Profile system. When in operation, files stored on the Origin server can be accessed by the Profile system using Media Manager or automation software through API calls.

The Profile Fibre Channel Server Interface is designed for applications like News and Networked Video on Demand, where an Origin server is the central storage system, a set of Profile systems function as the intake and play-out system, and the two systems must inter-operate over Fibre Channel.

System Requirements

The following system requirements must be met for the interface software to perform correctly:

NOTE: The Genroco Fibre Channel controller should only be installed by qualified personnel.

• At least one Genroco Fibre Channel controller card with microcode version

1.7.6 must be installed in the SGI Origin server. Installation instructions from Genroco are provided with the card.

• Genroco Fibre Channel controller card driver, version 2.0, must be installed in the Origin server. To verify that the Genroco Fibre Channel controller is installed, enter netstat -i and check the results for a line that begins with grx (where

• TheOriginserverrequires operating system version 6.4 with the May 1998 roll up patch set.

• The Profile system must have the Fibre Channel option installed and must be running Profile System Software 2.4 or higher.

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Profile Fibre Channel Server Interface

Installing the Software on the Origin Server

Follow this procedure to set up the Origin server for installation and use of the software. The procedure is divided into the operations that are performed as “root” and those that are performed as user “profile.”

Operations Performed as “root”

1. Add the following line to the /etc/passwd file... profile:7XHZFbk3c0SZ6:888:88:GuestAccount:/usr/people/profile:/bin/csh

2. Create the directory /usr/people/profile and make sure it is owned by user “profile.”

3. Add the IP address for the Fibre Channel card to the /etc/hosts file... xxx.xxx.xxx.xx <hostname>_fc0 myFC

NOTE: The alias myFC is required, as is the convention “<hostname>_fc0,” where <hostname> is replaced with the name of the host machine.

Also add ethernet and fibre channel addresses for all Profile systems to which the Origin server will connect.

4. Run inst, the install utility, to install the software from the Profile Fibre Channel Server Interface CD-ROM. Enter the commands as shown in this example:

# inst Inst> from /CDROM/dist Inst> install * Inst> list (i) pdrStream

(i) pdrClean (i) pdrServer . .

. Inst> go #

Verify that you have the following command files installed in ~profile/bin

pdrcshrc mkset pdr pdrClean pdrServer pdrStream

and that profile_start is installed in /etc/init.d.

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Installing the Software on the Origin Server

5. Create a symbolic link to /etc/init.d/profile_start in /etc/rc2.d as shown here.

# cd /etc/rc2.d # ln -s ../init.d/profile_start S999profile

6. Establish a storage location for movies on the Origin server by creating a directory that will serve as the top of the movie directory structure. This directory is typically called /movies, and should be the mount point of a RAID file system.

7. Give user “profile” ownership of the directory that will contain movies.

# chown -R profile.guest /directory_name/

Operation Performed as User “profile”

Run mkset to create a directory that represents a PDR Dataset.

> mkset INT1 /directory_name

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