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Avid® iNEWS

Setup and Configuration Guide

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Avid iNEWS v5.4 Setup and Configuration Guide • 9329-65310-00 Rev C • Created 12/14/15 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

...With the Syntax of Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Overview of iNEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

System Administrator Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 2 The iNEWS Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Configuring PuTTY for iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Logging in as a System Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Entering Superuser Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Changing System Administration Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Exiting the Console Session(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using Server Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Selecting One or More Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using Command History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Logged Command History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter 3 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Starting the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Shutting Down the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Starting a System in Single-Server Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Chapter 4 Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Viewing User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Modifying User Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

User Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Changing a User’s Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Setting up Simplified Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Simplified User Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Creating New Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Adding a New User Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Enabing a New User to Receive Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Searching for User Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing User Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

The User Manager Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

The Database Manager Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Logging Out All Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Importing Users from an LDAP Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Chapter 5 The Database: Directories, Queues, and Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Overview of the iNEWS Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Restrictions to Directory or Queue Creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Creating a New Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Creating a New Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Outgoing Mail Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Dead Letter Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Search Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Viewing Search Queue Information from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Creating a New Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Using Script Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Renaming a Directory or Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Deleting a Directory or Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Recovering a Killed Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Viewing Database Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Viewing Information about Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Viewing Who Moved, Duplicated, or Killed a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Database Traits Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Changing Database Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Turning Off the Ordered Trait of a Sorted Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Database Purge Intervals and Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Identifying Locked Queues and Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Types of Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Removing Locks from a Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Unbusy Stories and Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

MOS Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter 6 Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Overview of Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Viewing Group Information from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Viewing Group Information from a Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Creating a New Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Step 1 - Choosing a Group Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Step 2 - Create New Group at Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Step 3 - Creating Group’s Membership Story and Specifying Members . . . . . 159

Group Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Group Checker Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Renaming a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Step 1 - Change Group Name in Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Step 2 - Change Group Name in SYSTEM.GROUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Deleting a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Creating or Modifying Multiple Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Adding Users as Members of a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Adding Groups as Members of Other Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Avoiding Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Adding Workstations as Members of a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Combined Permissions and Timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Group Access and Usage Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Group Traits for the Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Read Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Write Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Editorial Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Notification Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Restricted Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Restricting Both Reading and Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Transferring Group Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Hiding Queues and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Creating a Mail Alias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Mail Aliases for Other Machines or the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Chapter 7 Keyboards and Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Types of Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Creating a Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Creating Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the State Keys in Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Repeating Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Notes of Caution for Creating Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Keyboard Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Testing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Assigning a Default Keyboard to a User Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Chapter 8 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Form Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Creating Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Customizing Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Turning on Label Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

SYSTEM.COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

SYSTEM.LISTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Assigning a Form as a Queue or Story Form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Form Field Types and Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Standard iNEWS Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Chapter 9 Character Generator Title Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Overview of CG Title Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Title Entry Setup and Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

CG Template Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Edit Title Entry Template Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Creating a New Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Using Font PreSets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Title Entry Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Access to CG Template Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Access to CG Title Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Chapter 10 System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Making a Backup File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Viewing System Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Licensing iNEWS Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Editing the Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Testing the Site Configuration File After Alteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Incorporating Configuration Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Hosts File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

System Profile Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Changing the System Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Listing Parameter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

System Profile Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Viewing Information about Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

List C Message Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Adding Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Intersystem Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Sending Intersystem Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Receiving Intersystem Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Chapter 11 Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Local Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Local Printing Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Creating and Using Print Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Local Print Style Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Banner Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Example Style Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Chapter 12 Wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Adding a Wire – Avid Data Receiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Phase 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Phase 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

Adding a Wire Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Phase 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Phase 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Wire Profile Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

Wire Distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

The Wire Distribution Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Avoiding Hidden Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Purge Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Setting Up Wire Keyword Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Additional Information about Search Jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Keyword Search Rule Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Keyword Checker Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Chapter 13 Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Adding a Server Program to the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Job Lists: Queues, Stories, and Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Types of Tasks for Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Adding a Scan Line in a Job List Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Defining a Priority Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Defining an Every Entry Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

A Server’s Command Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Processing Deleted Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Ordered Queues and the Order Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Mailbox Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Types of Mailboxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Assigning a Mailbox to a Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Timed-Interval Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Example of Timed Interval Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Action Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Adding an Action Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Field Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Possible Uses of Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Using Field Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Validation Job List Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Rundown Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Polling Commands for Action Servers or Txnet Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Configuring Rundown Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Overlapping Job Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Polling Issues Related to Tx Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Distribution Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

Distribution Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Wildcards and the Destination Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Move and Dup Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Action Servers or Tx Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Instructions in the Wire Distribution Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Matching and Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Matching and Order. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Adding a Distribution Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Parallel Wire Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Adding a Parallel Wire Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Keyword Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Adding a Keyword Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

System Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Seek Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Adding a Seek Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

Fast Text Search Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Media | Index Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

Installing FTS Components on the Windows-based Server . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Setting up FTS Components on the iNEWS Servers (Linux) . . . . . . . . . . 370

Batch Indexing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Reindexing (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Mail Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

Monitor Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Checklist: Monitor Server Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Creating a Monitor Server for Each Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Creating Composite and Event List Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Set up Queue and Story Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Assigning Forms to Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Creating an Entry in the SYSTEM.MAP Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Updating the iNEWS System Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Creating Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

Using the Monitor Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Network iNEWS Systems Using RX/TX Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

Sending Story Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Setting Automatic Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406

Update Trait - Queue Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Changing Queue Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Adding Rxnet/Txnet Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Chapter 14 iNEWS Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Configuring iNEWS for Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Syntax of the ctraits Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Viewing Remote Systems or Community Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Local and Remote SYSTEM.MOS-MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Removing a System from Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Connection Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Large vs. Small Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Guidelines and Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426

Chapter 15 MOS Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Overview of MOS Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

MOS-MAP Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Configuring iNEWS for MOS Redirection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Chapter 16 Web Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

Web Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Setting up Txnet to Send HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

The HTML Export Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Sample HTML Export Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444

Publishing iNEWS Stories to the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

Chapter 17 iNEWS Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

Overview of Projects and Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

Setting up the iNEWS Database for Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Creating Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Date Variables for Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456

Creating Facets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Creating a New Story inside a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Associating Stories with Projects or Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Creating a Shortcut Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461

Chapter 18 Media | Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

Overview of Media | Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Setting Up iNEWS for Media | Index Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464

Manually Installing the log4cpp File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

Editing iNEWS Site Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465

(Optional) Enabling Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Assigning the Media | Index Attribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468

Activating the mediaindex Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Appendix A Command References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Programs Invoked by iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Commands Used by Avid Personnel Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Linux Commands Used in iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471

Console Server Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

configure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472

connect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

ctraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

dbclean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474

dbclose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

dbdev and dbsize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

dbdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476

dbfree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

dblines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

dboriginal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

dbpurge

(Superuser conditional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479

dbrestore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480

dbserver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

dbsort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

dbtraits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

dbvisit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

diskclear

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

diskcopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

doc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

enter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

force

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

grpcheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

gtraits

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489

help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

hogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

idiff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

list B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

list C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

list c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

list d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

list g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

list p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

list q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

list s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501

list sq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

list u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

logout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

makemontab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504

makeshift (Super user only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505

maketab

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

mapcheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

msgclean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507

offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

otod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510

reconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

rename

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

reorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512

restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

searchtape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

send . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

sendlong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514

sitedump

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

siterestore

(Superuser only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

stop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

su . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517

unbusy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

utraits

(Super user only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518

version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519

wholockedit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520

Job List Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

blockmode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

bpoll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

bscan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

charset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522

dup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

every . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

fast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

ignore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

ignore-del . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

local . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

mailto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

passive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

poll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

publish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

put . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

quiet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526

remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

replace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

send-del. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

sendform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

sendpassword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

validate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Dialog Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

delay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

diag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

expect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

heol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531

mapin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

mapout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

stop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

wait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534

Appendix B System Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

/etc/hosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

/site/config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

/site/system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548

SYSTEM.CLIENT.WINDOWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550

SYSTEM.COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551

SYSTEM.CONFIGURE.301-ACTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

SYSTEM.GROUPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

SYSTEM.LISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553

SYSTEM.MAP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554

SYSTEM.MOS-MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

SYSTEM.RESOURCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556

SYSTEM.WIRES.DISTRIBUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559

SYSTEM.WIRES.KEYWORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

SYSTEM.WIRES.KEYWORDS-AP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

SYSTEM.WIRES.KEYWORDS-AP2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562

Appendix C Standard Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Using Dictionaries to Define Messages and Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563

Customizing Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Changing Default Dictionary Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Restoring Dictionary Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Utility Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/messages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

DBServer Program Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Disconnect Program Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Category and Keyword Check Program Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Keyboard Check Program Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570

Keyboard Check Program Messages for Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571

Grpcheck Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Wire Program Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Mail Server Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Map Check Program Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Validation (Action) Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Seek Server Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Last Login Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Print Server Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

dbtraits Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Save Error (Workstation) Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Queues Dictionary (/site/dict/queues) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577

Words Dictionary (/site/dict/words). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

Keyboard Macros Dictionary (/site/dict/keymacros) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Case-shifting Dictionary (/site/dict/shift) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585

MCS Dictionary (/site/dict/mcs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Device Types Used by Monitor Servers and Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

Special Strings Recognized by the Monitor Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Error Messages for the Monitor Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588

Status Reported in Device Status Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Job List Command Dictionary (/site/dict/joblist) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

D Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/dmessages) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

S Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/smessages). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593

Appendix D Environment Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Registry Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Environment Variables (Registry Values) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

CCColor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

DestinationOrder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

MailLookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601

MsgMailAlert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602

PIColor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

RGB Hexadecimal Color Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

ShowTimingBar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

SyncToServer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

VT Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610

DisableCommandLine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612

Environmental Variables for Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

GBUFFERLIMIT Environment Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Appendix E Managing Traits at the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Viewing User Traits from the Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Modifying User Traits from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617

Changing a User’s Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619

Listing Users Who Do Not Have Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

User Traits Console Command Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Managing Database Traits from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Getting Basic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Getting Detailed Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

Changing Database Traits from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Changing a Parent Directory Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Database Traits Console Command Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630

Sortfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638

Changing a Queue’s Sort Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Starting the Queue Sort Function from the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Purge Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Mailbox Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

The dis Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

FTSindex Attribute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Managing Group Traits at the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

Read Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Write Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Editorial Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

Notify Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Restricting Access Using Read and Write Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Removing Directory or Queue Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Appendix F The Line Editor, ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Starting ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Specifying Lines to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

Searching the File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

Searching Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Editing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Saving Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Quitting ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

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Congratulations on your purchase of your Avid iNEWS system. It is a vital part of the Avid news system solution that integrates with other Avid systems and third-party equipment to provide an ideal nonlinear workflow and optimize the news production process.

This guide is part of a two-book set designed to keep pace with current advances in the Avid system’s news production capabilities. The set—made up of this book and the Avid iNEWS Administration Guide—is a comprehensive resource of all administrative information you will need to take advantage of the many options available to you.

This guide will lead you through even the most complex procedures with task-oriented instructions. The information provided here builds on basic news production procedures described in the help system and other user-based guides, while adding a complete explanation of all of the tools and techniques required to manage the newsroom computer system, including useful tips, shortcuts, and custom options.

The documentation describes the software features and hardware related to the iNEWS

newsroom computer system, which is extremely customizable. Your system might not contain certain features and/or hardware that are covered in the documentation.

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Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

(Windows), (Windows only), (Macintosh), or (Macintosh only)

Bold font Bold font is primarily used in task instructions to identify user interface

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system, either Windows or Macintosh OS X.

items and keyboard sequences.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the

| (pipe character) The pipe character is used in some Avid product names, such as

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using your Avid product:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

mouse action. For example, Command+Option+C or Ctrl+drag.

Interplay | Production. In this document, the pipe is used in product names when they are in headings or at their first use in text.

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published. You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available. To view these online versions, visit the Knowledge Base at

www.avid.com/support.

Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for

3. maintenance or hardware-related issues.

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/support. Online services are

vailable 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find

a answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.

...With the Syntax of Commands

If you are at the console and are unsure about the function of a command, use the help command.

To view instructions about using a command:

If You Need Help

t Use the following command:

For instance, type:

The following data appears:

dbvisit -<d or v or i> [-r or -c] [-s] [-l] [block# ...]

‘r’ for read only

‘s’ for “slow” to eliminate cache usage

‘c’ use checkpoint partition (forces “-s”)

‘i’ to just validate isam files

‘l’ to list link count distribution

Lengthy console displays might be edited to emphasize only the most important information

in this guide. An ellipsis (...) represents portions of the console display not shown in the text. Also, because of the margin limitations of this guide, command lines might appear wrapped to multiple lines. This does not necessarily indicate the need to press an Enter key. Unless otherwise indicated, commands should be typed on a single line, allowing the computer to wrap the text whenever the command line stretches beyond the screen margin.

help dbvisit

help

for an explanation of the dbvisit command.

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To learn about Avid's new online learning environment, Avid Learning Excellerator (ALEX), visit http://learn.avid.com.

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1 Introduction

The iNEWS newsroom computer system is an integrated digital news production system, which provides journalists, producers, directors, writers, and technical personnel with an array of tools to make their jobs easier.

This chapter contains the following main sections:

• Overview of iNEWS

• System Administ

- Basic Tasks

- User Tasks

- Database Tasks

- Security Tasks

- Customizing the System

- Storage Maintenance Tasks

- Device Tasks

- Reviewing Default Settings

- Troubleshooting

rator Tasks

Overview of iNEWS

An iNEWS newsroom computer system provides:

• News gathering from text sources

• News production, including:

- Story creation and script editing

- Association of machine control items to script

- Show planning and creation

- Show archiving

- Contact organization and scheduling

• News to air, including:

- On-air playback control

- File exporting

- Internet publishing

Some primary components of iNEWS include:

• Linux-based computers running the iNEWS Server software. In this guide, these host computers are referred to as the iNEWS Servers, or individually as server A, server B, and so forth.

• A Windows-based computer running the PuTTY Command Sender program (PuTTYCS). This computer is known as the console.

• Windows-based computers running the iNEWS client software. These computers are known as iNEWS Workstations.

• Windows-based computers running the iNEWS Data Receiver software, which is used to ingest wires and other text-based research material

• Other peripherals, such as printers and teleprompters.

Additionally, the iNEWS system is capable of interfacing with a wide variety of production devices. Avid iNEWS Command provides a central point of control for numerous video servers and graphics devices, or MOS protocol may be used to send playlists to MOS-compatible playout controllers.

System Administrator Tasks

The following sections describe common system administrator responsibilities and tasks.

Basic Tasks

Before you can customize or maintain the iNEWS newsroom computer system, you must learn several basic tasks, which include:

• Start up or shut down iNEWS Server software, which includes logging out users and taking the system offline.

• Back up a site file before making file modifications.

• Send system administrator commands from the console to one or more of your system’s computers.

• Become a console superuser, capable of performing actions that are only accessible to users with superuser permissions.

User Tasks

A user is anyone who can log in to the database and use iNEWS NRCS. Your responsibilities regarding users are:

System Administrator Tasks

• Monitor user information, such as users’ access privileges and which users are currently logged in.

• Customize the traits of users’ accounts to enable users to more effectively use the system.

• Provide a new employee access to the information stored in the iNEWS NRCS database by creating a new user account.

• Remove user accounts of former employees to prevent improper access to the iNEWS NRCS database.

Database Tasks

The iNEWS system database contains the information your organization needs to function. A system administrator’s tasks associated with the database include:

• Design forms (that is, story templates) to display important information about stories in a queue.

• Monitor changes to files and queues in the database.

• Unlock or delete any item in the database, and recover items that were accidentally deleted or corrupted.

• Create new folders or queues in the iNEWS system database to meet your organization’s expanding needs—including setting up rundowns.

System Administrator Tasks

• Remove a directory or queue from the database, if it is no longer used.

• Change the name or traits of an existing directory or queue.

• Assign the mailbox trait to queues for configuring automatic story distribution into and out of queues.

Security Tasks

There are many ways to ensure the security of your iNEWS system. Your responsibilities regarding system security include:

• Monitor and change passwords or force users to change them by setting up system checks and modifications.

• Monitor user login activity to guard against unauthorized use of the iNEWS system.

• Assign security to a directory or queue, limiting access to a specific group of users.

• Restrict database access by placing users into security groups based on job roles and need for information.

Customizing the System

Your responsibilities regarding customization include:

• Customize command names, message text, and other items by changing their entries in your system’s dictionary files.

• Create templates for the CG Title Entry tool.

• Design and assign custom keyboards for users with a unique set of keyboard macros.

Storage Maintenance Tasks

You will want to monitor the database regularly to ensure adequate storage. Storage maintenance tasks include:

• Monitor how much free space is available in the database and, if necessary, increase the amount to prevent the system from running out of space.

• Perform preventive database maintenance by periodically running certain utility programs that can find and fix minor problems before they become serious.

• Backup the entire database or portions of it, so if necessary, the information can be restored to the database later.

• Make a backup copy of files any time you make important changes.

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Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

...With the Syntax of Commands

Avid Training Services

1 Introduction

Overview of iNEWS

System Administrator Tasks