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Software Installation and Configuration Guide

Interplay v1.2.3

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Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide • 0130-07635-02 Rev D • April 2008 • Created 4/17/08 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Viewing Documentation on the Interplay Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Interplay Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Chapter 1 Installation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Upgrading Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Installation Check List and Installation Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Workspace Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Avid Unity MediaNetwork Setup and Configuration Documentation . . . . . . . . . 22

Avid Unity ISIS Setup and Configuration Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Network Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Time Synchronization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers . . . . . . 25

Creating the Server Execution User Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Accounts for Accessing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Manually Setting a Target Workspace For Voice-Over Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Accounts for Using Deletion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Accounts for Using AirSpeed Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Accounts for Using Interplay Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Accounts for Avid Editing Applications, Assist, and Instinct. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Required Application Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Interplay Framework Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Software Installed on Interplay Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Software Installed on Interplay Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Different Types of Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Shutting Down a Media Indexer System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Using the Interplay Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chapter 2 Installing Software on Interplay Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Starting the Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Installing the Avid Interplay Engine Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Installing Avid Interplay Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing Avid Interplay Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing Software on the Interplay Transfer Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Installing Software on the Media Services Server and Media Services

Provider Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Installing Software on an Avid Interplay Media Indexer Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Before Installing Media Indexer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using UNC Drive Mapping on Interplay ISIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Installing the Media Indexer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Turning off Interplay Framework Services to Conserve System Memory . . . . . 63

Configuring a Media Indexer to Monitor Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Tips for Adding a Shared Storage Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Installing Software on the CaptureManager Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low Res Encoder Software . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Additional Information for Installing the Root Disk and Bootset. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Chapter 3 Installing Software on Interplay Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Installing Software on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist Systems . . . . . . . . . . 72

Assist and Instinct Installers Require Manual Install of Transfer Client. . . . . . . 74

Installing Software on an Interplay Access System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Macintosh Installer for Interplay Access Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Configuring an Avid Editing System in the Interplay Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the

Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using the Processes Tab to Configure Media Indexers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Configuring the Local Media Indexer to Index Local Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Panasonic DVCPRO P2 and Ikegami NLTEK Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Installing Software on a CaptureManager Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Establishing the First Connection Between Pro Tools and Interplay . . . . . . . . . 92

Chapter 4 Installing Optional Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Performing a Custom Install of the Interplay Framework Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Verifying that the Interplay Framework Services Are Running. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Disabling Framework Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Installing Avid Interplay Access or Avid Interplay Media Services and

Transfer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Browsing the Interplay Installer DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 5 Installing and Configuring an Archive Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Installing the Archive Engine Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Installing the Interplay Access Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Installing the FlashNet Client Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Installing the Interplay Archive Provider Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Setting Up a Failover System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Updating the Archive Engine Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Chapter 6 Additional Configuration Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using Time Synchronization in an Avid Interplay Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Configuring the Time Sync Master. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Setting the Automatic Restart Feature in the Avid Interplay Framework . . . . . . . . 111

Installing the Lookup Service on a Separate Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Configuring Lookup Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Configuring Lookup Servers on Avid Unity ISIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Configuring a Multicast Repeater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Understanding Multicast Repeaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Example of Configuring Multicast Repeaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Determining If You Need to Configure a Multicast Repeater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Checking Whether the System is Recognized by the Interplay

Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Determining if a System is on a Different Subnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Configuring a Multicast Repeater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Configuring Avid AirSpeed in Avid Interplay Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Interplay Adapter and AirSpeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Configuring Interplay Adapter, CaptureManager, and AirSpeed. . . . . . . . . . . 128

Updating Software on an AirSpeed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Appendix A SR2400 and SR2500 Slot Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

SR2400 and SR2500 Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

SR2400 Slot Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

SR2500 Slot Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Appendix B Interplay Server System Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Appendix C Interplay Maintenance Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Interplay Daily Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Interplay Weekly Maintenance Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Interplay Monthly Maintenance Check List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Avid Unity ISIS Recommended Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Avid Unity ISIS Daily Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Avid Unity ISIS Weekly Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Avid Unity ISIS Monthly Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Available Avid Unity ISIS Administration Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Client Manager Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Status Indicators and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Complete Server Room Shutdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Appendix D Avid Interplay Port Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of Avid® Interplay®, a powerful system for managing media in a shared storage environment. This guide contains overview installation instructions and configuration information for the Interplay components on the Avid Interplay Installer DVD.

This guide is intended for all Avid Interplay administrators who are responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining an Avid Engine (database, server, and all related client connections and user rights) in an Interplay workgroup.

The documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your

system might not contain certain features and hardware that are covered in the documentation.

Date Revised Changes Made

4/17/08 Added info on Windows Server 2003 SP2 for server configs. See “Interplay Server

System Configurations” on page 139.

03/26/08 Clarified Multicast Repeater info. You don’t need to use a Multicast Repeater if you are

using Unicast Discovery across subnets. Added info on installing Transfer client for Interplay v1.2.3. See “Assist and Instinct Installers Require Manual Install of Transfer

Client” on page 74.

Interplay Engine or Avid Interplay Archive

02/01/08 Updated info on configuring a Lookup Service. See “Installing the Lookup Service on a

Separate Server” on page 113. Also added info about installing Pro Tools Client software

from the Interplay Installer DVD. See “Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay

Client” on page 91.

12//17/07 Added section on updating Intel drivers. See “Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster

Systems” on page 18. Updated info on workspace names. See “Workspace Names” on page 22. Updated the Interplay shutdown procedure. See “Complete Server Room Shutdown” on page 153.

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

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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

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.

2. Check the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was published:

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

Viewing Documentation on the Interplay Portal

- If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as printed release notes, they ship with your application and are also available online.

If the latest information for your Avid product is provided as a ReadMe file, it is supplied on your Avid installation CD or DVD as a PDF document (README_product.pdf) and is also available online.

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, select ReadMe from the Help menu, or visit

the Knowledge Base at

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates, and to read or join online message-board discussions.

www.avid.com/readme.

Viewing Documentation on the Interplay Portal

You can quickly access PDF versions of the Interplay user guides from any system in the Interplay environment.

To open the Interplay Portal web page:

1. Type the following line in your web browser:

http://Interplay_Engine_name

For Interplay_Engine_name substitute the name of the computer running the Interplay Engine software. For example, the following line opens the portal web page on a system named docwg:

http://docwg

2. Click the “Avid Interplay Documentation” link to access the User Information

page.

Center

Interplay Documentation

The following documents describe how to use Avid Interplay:

• Avid Interplay Best Practices — provides an overview of the major Interplay components, shows sample configuration diagrams, and describes several of the key features, such as setting up a user database and using the Avid Interplay Archive Engine.

• Avid Interplay Software Installation and Configuration Guide — describes how to use the Avid Interplay Installer DVD to install and configure software on the various systems that make up a Interplay environment.

• Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide — describes how to set up a cluster configuration for the Avid Interplay Engine and the Avid Interplay Archive engine.

• Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide — describes how to administer your Avid Interplay Engine or Avid Interplay Archive Engine and Avid Interplay database.

• Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Access to browse, search, and work with assets in the Avid Interplay database.

• Avid Interplay Assist User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Assist for logging, archiving, and sending to Playback material in an Interplay environment.

• Avid Interplay Framework User’s Guide — describes how to use the logging, monitoring, and management features of the Avid Interplay Framework applications.

• Avid CaptureManager User’s Guide — describes how to use CaptureManager™ in a newsroom environment to coordinate video feeds, schedule feed captures at both high and low resolutions, and record late breaking events instantly.

• Avid CaptureManager Installation and Configuration Guide — describes how to set up and configure CaptureManager.

• Avid Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration — describes how to set up and configure an Avid Low Res Encode system. Includes information on updating the bootset, root disk image, and configuring a Low Res Encode system to work with CaptureManager.

• Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide — describes how to use Interplay Transfer to transfer media to and from another workgroup, send finished sequences to a configured playback device, ingest media from a configured ingest device, and perform standalone transfers between workstations.

• Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide — Avid Interplay Media Services lets you control and automate Transcode, Archive, and ProEncode services.

• Avid iNEWS Instinct User’s Guide — describes how to use the Avid iNEWS Instinct application to write iNEWS stories and put together simple audio and video sequences.

All documents are available in PDF form on the Avid Interplay Online Library DVD and also on the Avid Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport.

Accessing the Online Library

The Avid Interplay Online Library DVD contains all the Avid Interplay product documentation in PDF format.

You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the PDF documentation online. You can download

the latest version from the Adobe web site.

To access the online library from the Online Library DVD:

1. Insert the Online Library DVD into the drive.

2. Double-click the Mainmenu file.

The Interplay Online Library contains several multimedia feature presentations. This multimedia content is an excellent first resource for learning how to use an application or for understanding a particular feature or workflow.

Accessing the Online Library

How to Order Documentation

To order additional copies of this documentation from within the United States, call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843). If you are placing an order from outside the United States, contact your local Avid representative.

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To learn about Avid's new online learning environment, Avid Learning Excellerator™ (ALEX), visit

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and books, please visit (800-949-2843).

http://learn.avid.com.

www.avid.com/training or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID

1 Installation Overview

This document describes how to use the Avid Interplay Installer DVD to install the various Interplay components. This includes the order in which to install items and any special considerations when you are combining services and applications on the same system.

See the installation check list for a list of the various steps required to install the Interplay products.

This chapter describes the following topics:

• Upgrading Your System

• Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems

• Installation Check List and Installation Steps

• Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System

• Network Considerations

• User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

• Required Application Keys

• Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

• Using the Interplay Installer

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Upgrading Your System

Before you begin, see the Avid Interplay ReadMe for specific instructions on upgrading for a particular release.

The following items apply to upgrading the components on your Interplay system:

• Back up your Interplay database and any other user data before you upgrade. For information on backing up your database, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive Engine Administration Guide.

• Use the Interplay Installer DVD software to uninstall the previous versions of software components. You do not have to use the Control Panel to uninstall.

• Do not uninstall the Avid Interplay Engine or Interplay Archive Engine software unless instructed by Avid support. Uninstalling the software could require additional steps to reactivate your database. When upgrading, the installation software takes care of removing the previous version of the software.

Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems

Do not install or update Intel NIC drivers on cluster systems after the cluster setup is complete. Due to the technical aspects of changing resources and devices on a cluster, this can lead to problems with the cluster software and possible data loss.

Older versions of the ISIS v1.4 Readme recommend that you update the Intel Pro MT/PT drivers on ISIS clients. This statement does not apply to Interplay Engine cluster systems. The Intel drivers on cluster systems do not require updating for this release. Doing so could compromise the integrity of the cluster. In general, do not update the hardware drivers on a cluster system unless instructed to do so by the Interplay Readme or Customer Support.

Installation Check List and Installation Steps

You use the Interplay Installer DVD to install Interplay software components on the various servers and clients. This document describes how to use the Interplay Installer DVD and also points to appropriate documents for additional configuration information.

Use the individual installer DVDs for the various Avid editing applications and use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the software required to make the Avid editing application a client of the Interplay environment.

The application software for Avid Interplay Assist and Avid iNEWS® Instinct® is on the Avid

Interplay Installer DVD.

Installation Check List and Installation Steps

To install and configure the software:

1. Determine how you will set up your Interplay environment. There are sample

configurations in the Avid Best Practices guide and you should discuss the setup with your Avid representative. In particular, do the following:

- Determine your Media Indexer server configuration. See the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide and “Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers” on page 35.

- Determine where the Avid Lookup Service will run. The Lookup service is part of the Interplay Framework. See “Interplay Framework Components” on page 31. Also see “Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems” on page 30, “Installing the

Lookup Service on a Separate Server” on page 113, and “Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup Service” on page 116.

- If you use AirSpeed

systems to capture media, determine where you will install

the Interplay Adapter. See “Interplay Adapter and AirSpeed” on page 127.

- If you are using Interplay Transcode or an Interplay Archive Engine, determine where your Interplay Media Services server will reside and where your Transcode, ProEncode™, and Archive providers will reside. One Transcode and one ProEncode provider can reside on the same system as the Interplay Media Services but an Archive Provider might require its own server.

2. Check your Network as described in “Network Considerations” on page 23.

3. Set up the physical hardware that will be used in your Interplay environment. See the

following for additional information:

- “SR2400 and SR2500 Slot Locations” on page 133

- “Interplay Server System Configurations” on page 139

- “Avid Interplay Port Usage” on page 155

4. If you will be setting up a cluster (failover) configuration of the Avid Interplay Engine

or Avid Interplay Archive Engine, see the Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide on the Avid Knowledge Base.

5. Set up and configure your Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISI S™ system.

“Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System” on page 22 and “User Names and

See

Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers” on page 25.

6. Create a Server Execution User account on the Avid Unity system and, if applicable, on the domain. See

“Creating the Server Execution User Account” on page 26.

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7. On the Interplay Engine server, use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the

following: a. Interplay Engine software.

When you install the Interplay Engine for the first time, you must use the Custom Install option so that you can specify the Server Execution User required by the Interplay Engine. See

The user who installs the Interplay Engine must have an Administrator login and a password on the Interplay Engine system. That same user name and password must exist on the Avid Unity system. For more information about user accounts, see

Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers” on page 25.

b. Interplay Access software Follow this installation order, installing Interplay Access last. See “Installing Software

on the Interplay Engine Server” on page 43.

Make sure that you obtain and load the Interplay Engine license key promptly. The license key must match the dongle for the Interplay Engine server. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive Engine Administration Guide.

8. Configure the Interplay Engine software to create the Interplay Engine database and

create users. See the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive Engine Administration Guide. For information on setting up a user database, see Avid Interplay Best Practices.

9. Perform the following procedures on the systems that will run the Avid Interplay Media Indexers that monitor shared storage:

a. Use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the appropriate Interplay Framework

software. Do not install all components on a Media Indexer server. For more information, see “Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers” on page 35.

“Creating the Server Execution User Account” on page 26.

“User Names and

When you install the Interplay Framework software, you must name your workgroup. The

name is case sensitive and should not contain spaces. You can either choose a useful name or use the default, AvidWorkgroup. The only time you are required to supply a unique name is when you have more than one Interplay workgroup on the same network. For example, this could happen at a large customer site.

On Avid Unity ISIS you must set the “Use UNC (Letterless) Drive Mapping” option on the Media Indexers that monitor shared storage. In the Client Manager window, select Preferences, and select the letterless option.

b. Verify that the Interplay Framework is running. See “Verifying that the Interplay

Framework Services Are Running” on page 99.

Installation Check List and Installation Steps

c. Install the Media Indexer software. See “Installing Software on an Avid Interplay

Media Indexer Server” on page 61.

d. Before you configure the Media Indexer software, make sure there is an

Avid MediaFiles directory on each workspace that the Media Indexer will monitor. You can use an Avid editing system to capture or import media to the workspace. You can also create the directory manually but, if you do, carefully check the spelling and case of the text in the folder name.

e. Configure the Media Indexer in the High Availability Group to monitor your shared

storage. See “Configuring a Media Indexer to Monitor Shared Storage” on page 63. You must use UNC paths to identify the shared storage folders. If you are configuring Media Indexer delegates, see Interplay Best Practices.

f. For redundancy you can configure Media Indexer standby delegates. See Interplay

Best Practices.

If you have a workspace that contains a lot of files that are not Avid media files, do not

connect the Media Indexer to the top level workspace. Connect to the Avid MediaFiles folder or another sub folder.

10. Set the Automatic Restart feature in the Avid Interplay Framework to ensure that Media Indexer will automatically restart. See

Avid Interplay Framework” on page 111.

“Setting the Automatic Restart Feature in the

11. At this point you can install and configure the following applications in any order:

- Install the Interplay software components for the Avid editing applications. See

“Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems” on page 76. See “Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage” on page 80.

- Install the Interplay software components and application software for Avi d

iNEWS Instinct

Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist Systems” on page 72.

- Install the Interplay software components on any systems that will run the

Interplay Access software. See “Installing Software on an Interplay Access

System” on page 74.

- Install and configure Interplay Transfer. See “Installing Software on the Interplay

Transfer Server” on page 57.

- Install and configure Avid Interplay Media Services. See “Installing Software on

the Media Services Server and Media Services Provider Servers” on page 58.

- Install and configure CaptureManager

CaptureManager Server” on page 68. See the Avid CaptureManager Installation

and Configuration Guide. Also set up and configure any Avid Low Res Encode systems. See Avid Interplay Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration.

and Avid Interplay Assist. See “Installing Software on Avid

™

. See “Installing Software on the

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New features were added to CaptureManager v4.0.4. These changes are not in the

CaptureManager manuals. See the CaptureManager ReadMe for a description of the features.

- Install and configure an Archive Engine. This is similar to installing and

configuring an Interplay Engine as described earlier in this section. For more information, see “Installing and Configuring an Archive Engine” on page 103.

Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System

Before you install Interplay software, install and configure your Avid Unity system for shared storage. See the Interplay ReadMe for the supported versions of Avid Unity ISIS and Avid Unity MediaNetwork.

Depending on whether you have Avid Unity MediaNetwork or Avid Unity ISIS, install the Connection Manager (MediaNetwork) or Client Manager (ISIS) on the client systems.

Workspace Names

Use the following guidelines when creating workspace names in an Interplay environment:

• Do not use special characters or spaces in your workspace names. Workspace names should only contain ASCII characters.

• Keep workspace name length as short as is reasonable to allow recognition of the workspace. Longer workspace names add to the path length and can affect performance in a large Interplay environment.

Avid Unity MediaNetwork Setup and Configuration Documentation

The main setup guide for Avid Unity MediaNetwork is the Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide. Depending on your configuration you might also need one of the

following manuals.

For Avid Unity MediaNetwork v4.x:

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork PortServer Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork LANServer EX Setup Guide

For Avid Unity MediaNetwork v5.x:

• Avid Unity Media Engine and Avid MEDIArray XT v5.0 ReadMe

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Administration Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Client Guide

Network Considerations

• Avid Unity Media Engine and Avid MEDIArray XT Setup Guide

• Avid Unity Media Engine and Avid MEDIArray XT Site Preparation Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Performance Guide

Avid Unity ISIS Setup and Configuration Documentation

See the following ISIS documentation:

• Avid Unity ISIS System Setup Guide

• Avid Unity ISIS Administration Guide

• Avid Unity ISIS ReadMe

The Avid Unity ISIS System Setup Guide contains a section on upgrading to ISIS v1.4. For

additional information, see

“Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems” on page 18.

Network Considerations

This section contains topics related to setting up your Interplay network environment.

Computer Names

A hostname must comply with RFC 952 standards. For example, you cannot use an underscore in a hostname. For more information, see “Naming Conventions in Active Directory for Computers, Domains, Sites, and OUs” on the Microsoft Base See also,

Verify Entries on the DNS Server

Interplay Framework can become sluggish and unstable if there are incorrect entries in the DNS server for any of the computers in the Interplay environment. Symptoms include excessive CPU usage by the Interplay Framework Lookup service and Interplay Diagnostics. The tree view in the Interplay Service Configuration or Health Monitor might also fail to populate if there are incorrect DNS entries.

Make sure that you correct any errors in DNS entries for name to IP resolution.

Configure The DNS Server to Support Reverse Lookup

If DNS is not configured for Reverse Lookup, Interplay Framework can not resolve IP addresses to host names. Symptoms include tree views failing to populate in the Interplay Service Configuration, Interplay Diagnostics, and Health Monitor.

Make sure the DNS server is configured to support Reverse Lookups.

“Workspace Names” on page 22.

Support Knowledge

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Non-DNS Environments

In an non-DNS environment, you must configure a host file on all systems, including Avid Low Res Encode systems. This is necessary so the Interplay Framework can list the systems in its client applications, such as the Interplay Service Configuration or Health Monitor.

Computers with Multiple Network Interfaces

Computers that have multiple network interfaces in use must be entered in DNS so that all IP addresses have the exact same hostname.

If you have multiple network interfaces on a computer and one is not used, use the Device Manager to disable the interface. If not, the computer might have problems communicating with the rest of the Interplay workgroup.

Configuring an Avid Unity ISIS System

On an Avid Unity ISIS system, if your network extends outside of ISIS Zone 1, you must configure a router to communicate between the two VLAN

Know Where Your Subnets Are on the Network

Create a system diagram that identifies the subnets on your Avid Interplay environment. You have the following choices for allowing Interplay clients to communicate across subnets:

• Use Unicast Discovery. See “Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup Service” on

page 116.

• Install and configure the Multicast Repeater software on each subnet. See “Configuring

a Multicast Repeater” on page 117.

Diagnosing Interplay Framework Problems

Use the System Check tab of the Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties tool to detect and diagnose problems in your Interplay environment.

Time Synchronization

If you already have a system in place to maintain Time Sync on your network, you can continue to use that system, or you can use the Interplay Framework Time Synchronization service to perform the same task.

The Avid Time Synchronization Service enables time synchronization between different machines in a workgroup. The Time Synchronization Service can operate in either Master mode or Slave mode. In Master mode, the service retrieves a reference time from a configured time source and redistributes it to the Slave services within the workgroup. The time source can be the local PC clock, an NTP server, or an Adrienne™ timecode card

systems.

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

installed in a server, such as the CaptureManager server. In Slave mode, the Time Synchronization Service listens for time notifications from the workgroup and (optionally) sets the local PC clock to match.

It is important to use only one time synchronism mechanism to set the local PC clocks in the Interplay environment. If a Time Synchronization Slave service is configured to set the local PC clock and it detects that some other mechanism (such as Windows changes the local clock, then the Time Sync Slave service disables itself to avoid the local clock from jumping back and forth. The Time Sync slave also posts a Warning in the Health Monitor.

For more information on Time Sync, see “Using Time Synchronization in an Avid Interplay

Environment” on page 108 and the Interplay Framework ReadMe at the top level of the

Interplay Installer DVD or on the Knowledge Base.

Using AirSpeed and Low Res Encode

When using Avid AirSpeed and Avid Low Res Encode to perform a dual ingest, it is important that you lock your video signal to your timecode source. For example, you can connect a video feed and a Time of Day timecode device into a sync device to lock the incoming video and audio with timecode.

32 Time Services)

It is also important that the two capture devices are in sync. If the captured high-res video and low-res video are off by a few frames, you should delay the video signal going to one of the capture devices in order to ensure that the two video signals match. For more information, see Avid Interplay Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration.This document is on the Avid Interplay installer DVD. See

Res Encoder Software” on page 69.

“Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

Some Avid products require user accounts on the Avid Unity system. The user names and passwords on the Avid Unity system must match the user names and passwords on the product server. If you are using a PortServer for Avid Unity MediaNetwork, these user accounts must also have the same accounts and passwords on the PortServer system.

Passwords are case sensitive; the passwords must match exactly.

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Creating the Server Execution User Account

The Server Execution User is a Windows operating system user account that is used only to run the Interplay Engine processes. You need to specify the user name and password of the Server Execution User account the first time that you install the Interplay Engine software. This account must fill the following requirements:

• The account must have local administration rights on the operating system for the Interplay Engine Server. The Interplay Engine installation software asks you for a user name and password and automatically creates the account. Usually this is a domain account that has already been created.

Ideally this should be an account that human users do not use to log onto the system. If there is ever a problem with the account, for example if someone changes the password by mistake, users might not be able to access the Interplay database.

• An account with an identical user name and password must have read/write access to the Avid Unity workspaces that contain media. You use the Avid Unity ISIS or Avid Unity MediaNetwork Administration tool to create this account.

For security reasons, do not use the Interplay Engine server operating system Administrator account. Create a unique account that you use only as the Server Execution User. For example, you can create an administrative account called “IPEngine.” Avoiding the word Administrator can help indicate that this account is not used for normal administrative tasks.

The Server Execution User account is different from the Interplay Administrator account.

The Server Execution User account is used to run the Interplay Engine processes.The Interplay Administrator account is used to manage users and the database.

You need to create an account with the identical user name and password in two or three places, depending on your configuration:

• If your Interplay system is part of a domain, create a domain user (for example, “IPEngine”). In an Interplay Engine cluster configuration, the Server Execution User must be a domain user. If you want to run the Avid Interplay Engine within your domain and also want to automatically make use of domain user management, such as Windows Domain or LDAP, you must specify a domain user as the Server Execution User.

• On the Avid Unity system, create an account with read/write access to the Avid Unity workspaces that contain media. Use the Avid Administration tool to create the account.

• On the Interplay Engine server, create an account during the installation process. A Windows account with administrative rights is created automatically. Usually this is a domain account that has already been created.

Unity ISIS or Avid Unity MediaNetwork

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

When you install the Interplay Engine or the Interplay Archive Engine, do not select the default Server Execution User. Create a custom user instead.

Recreating the Server Execution User

If you have already installed the Interplay Engine and need to change the user name and password of the Server Execution User account, run the NXNServerUser.exe tool. For information on using the tool, see “Troubleshooting the Server Execution User Account” in the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administrator’s Guide. The tool is located in the following directory on the Interplay Installer DVD:

Installers\AssetMgr\Tools\NXNServerUser

For information on upgrading a cluster system on which you changed the Server Execution User, see the Avid Interplay ReadMe.

Accounts for Accessing Workspaces

To allow the Interplay Engine to access the Avid Unity workspaces, you need to set up user accounts on both the Interplay Engine and the Avid Unity system. The user name and password for these user accounts must match exactly on both the Interplay Engine and Avid Unity system. If the user names or passwords are different, the workspaces are not available in Interplay Administrator settings, such as the Editor Database settings - Voice Over Target workspace.

The workspaces available from the Interplay Administrator settings depends on the user account used to log in to the Interplay Administrator. For example, when you log in to the Interplay Administrator server using the Administrator account, you can access all the Avid Unity workspaces, provided the users are set up correctly on both the Interplay Engine and Avid Unity system.

To access all workspaces:

1. Make sure the Administrator account on both the Interplay Engine and Avid Unity system have exactly the same password. Passwords are case sensitive.

2. Log in to the Interplay Administrator server using the Administrator account.

To access a limited list of workspaces:

1. Make sure a user account with administrator privileges is created on the Interplay Engine and the same user name and password are used to create a user account on the Avid Unity system. These user accounts must have exactly the same user name and password.

2. Log in to the Interplay Administrator server using this user account.

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The Avid Unity user’s workspace access privileges setting determine which workspaces are available.

Manually Setting a Target Workspace For Voice-Over Assets

If the Interplay Administrator - Editor Database settings - Voice Over Target Workspace menu displays “No Items to Show,” and the user and password are correctly set, you can manually set the voice-over target workspace.

To manually set an audio voice-over target workspace:

1. Log into Interplay Access as an Administrator.

2. In the Assets browser, right-click the database node (for example, AvidWG) and select Advanced > Get/Set Property.

The Get/Set Property dialog box opens.

3. On the Get/Set Property tab, in the Name text box, type:

com.avid.worgroup.settings.VoiceOver.TargetWorkspace

Make sure you type the Property name exactly, because Property names are case sensitive.

4. In the Value text box, type the name of the workspace you want to use as the target workspace for audio voice-over assets.

5. Click Apply.

6. Click OK.

Accounts for Using Deletion

To allow deletion in an Interplay environment, you must set up the following user accounts. You can use any user name and password for these accounts, but the user name and passwords must match exactly on all servers.

• Avid Unity system

- Avid Unity user with administrator privileges for Interplay Engine. This user must

not be the Administrator account.

• Interplay Engine server

- Microsoft Windows user with administrator privileges

- Interplay Engine Server Execution user

When installing the Interplay Engine on the Interplay Engine server, select the Custom User Account option to create the Avid Interplay Engine Execution User. The Server Execution User is the Microsoft Windows user that runs the Avid

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

Interplay Engine (the Avid Interplay Engine Execution User). This user needs to have administrative access to the file server. The installer makes this user a local administrator on the Avid Interplay Engine server. For more information, see

“Creating the Server Execution User Account” on page 26.

Accounts for Using AirSpeed Server

When you are adding an Avid AirSpeed server in an Interplay workgroup, the Interplay Engine server needs a Windows user account (with Admin rights) with the user name

airspeed

additional information, see

and password

avid.

You must use these exact user and password names. For

“Configuring Avid AirSpeed in Avid Interplay Adapter” on page

126.

Accounts for Using Interplay Transfer

When you are adding Interplay Transfer into an Interplay workgroup, the Interplay Engine server requires a user for the Interplay Transfer. Create the following user on the Interplay Engine server:

• User name: transfermanager

• Password: avid

Accounts for Avid Editing Applications, Assist, and Instinct

The following limitations exist for Interplay v1.2.3:

• Avid editing applications such as NewsCutter®, Media Composer®, and Symphony™

• Interplay Assist and Instinct have similar limitations: When you install the application,

• In Avid Unity MediaNetwork, do not use the same login to log into Windows and to log

Check the Interplay ReadMe for any changes to the Windows login permissions.

that are part of an Interplay environment can use a regular Windows User login.

Nitris However, when you install the application, you must first log in as an Administrator, install the application, and initially launch the application as an Administrator. See the Avid editing application ReadMe for details.

you must first log in as an Administrator, install the application, and initially launch the application as an Administrator. You can then subsequently run the application as a regular User.

into the Connection Manager for Avid Unity. For more information, see the Interplay ReadMe.

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Required Application Keys

The following systems require a hardware application key (also known as a dongle):

• Interplay Engine server - also requires a software application key. For more information, see “Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server” on page 43.

• Interplay Media Services

• Interplay Transfer

• Interplay Transcode provider system (for any Transcode provider that is not run on the Interplay Media Services system)

• Interplay Archive provider (for any Archive provider that is not run on the Interplay Media Services system)

• Avid editing applications

Do not lose the USB application key. Your software does not function without it. If you lose your application key, you must purchase another key from Avid at the full market cost of your software.

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

The topics in this section list the software components installed on the Avid Interplay clients and servers. The Avid Interplay Installer combines components together to make the installation straightforward for an individual system. Depending on the size of your configuration, you need to make decisions regarding the software you will install on the Interplay Engine and the Media Indexer server.

Graphic Editor

In the client software table, the term Graphic Editor refers to a system used for graphics or other work that does not involve Avid assets. Examples of these file assets are Adobe Photoshop environment. They can be checked into the Avid Interplay database and made available to other users. Graphic Editor systems use Avid Interplay Access. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide.

files, Microsoft Office files, and other file assets that are useful in an Interplay

Interplay Framework Components

There are two important steps when you install the Interplay Framework software:

• Provide the correct workgroup name when prompted.

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

The Workgroup name is case sensitive. You can use the Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties tool to change the workgroup name after the install if necessary.

• Select the correct services to install on the system.

When you install software on the client systems, the installation program automatically selects the components that you need for a client system. The following are the basic services:

• Core Components

• Configuration Utility

• Diagnostic Log Viewer

• Health Viewer

• Machine Monitor

• Time Synchronization (see “Using Time Synchronization in an Avid Interplay

Environment” on page 108)

The following services are critical to the Interplay environment and must be installed on at least one system (usually on the same system).

• Avid Lookup Service - See “Installing the Lookup Service on a Separate Server” on

page 113.

• System Configuration (one per Lookup Service)

If you have more than 10 clients in your Avid Interplay Framework environment, Avid

recommends that you put the Interplay Framework Lookup Service on a separate server such as a General Purpose Server.

The following services are optional depending on whether you use them in your Interplay environment:

• Multicast Repeater Optional when Interplay clients are on a different subnet from the shared storage Media

Indexer. See

Directly to the Lookup Service” on page 116.

•SNMP Gateway

“Configuring a Multicast Repeater” on page 117 and “Connecting Systems

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The Avid SNMP Gateway service can capture a snapshot of a workgroup by mirroring all of the health information in a simple network management protocol (SNMP) management information base (MIB). It uses an SNMP daemon to send traps to an SNMP trap receiver whenever a warning or critical system condition occurs. It captures a snapshot of the workgroup, reflects it in an SNMP MIB, and makes that information available to SNMP manager applications, such as HP SNMP agent that responds to requests.

• Email Alerter The Email Alerter is an e-mail daemon, which sends e-mail notifications to a

configurable list of recipients when any of the health parameters—on systems in the workgroup—are at warning or critical health level. The Avid Lookup service gathers the health level information from systems within the workgroup.

The Avid Email Alerter is configured using the Avid Interplay Service Configuration application.

OpenView, by acting as an

The SNMP Gateway and Email Alerter are resource-intensive applications. If you plan to use those services, don’t install them on the Media Indexer or Interplay Engine servers. If necessary, use the Interplay Workgroup Properties tool to disable

services.

the

Software Installed on Interplay Clients

The following table shows the software that is installed on the Interplay client systems.

In the following tables, X indicates a required component and O indicates an optional

component.

Software Installed on Interplay Clients

Interplay

Software Instinct

Interplay Assist application

Avid Unity client X X O X O

Instinct application X

Editing application X

Assist

XX (O)

Interplay Access

Avid Editor

Graphic Editor

CaptureManager Client

CaptureManager application

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Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

Software Instinct

Interplay Assist

Interplay Access

Avid Editor

Graphic Editor

Interplay Access X X X X

Media Indexer X

Interplay Transfer client X

Interplay Framework

X (O) X (O)

Core Components X X X (O) X X

Avid Lookup service

Configuration Utility X (O)

X (O) X (O) X X

Diagnostic Log Viewer X (O) X (O) X (O) X X

Health Viewer X (O) X (O) X (O) X X

Machine Monitor X (O) X (O) X (O) X X

System Configuration

Time Synchronization X X X (O) X X

Interplay Media Services

ProEncode Client X(O)

CaptureManager Client

a. Do not run Assist and an Avid editing application at the same time on the same computer. b. Installed automatically on Avid Assist and Instinct as part of the software application install. c. For additional information, see “Interplay Framework Components” on page 31. d. On a large system, you might want to disable optional Framework services on Instinct and Assist clients.

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Software Installed on Interplay Servers

Software Installed on Interplay Servers (excluding Media Indexers)

Software

Interplay Engine

Interplay Archive Engine

Media Services

Interplay Transfer Engine

Interplay Engine X

Interplay Access X X X X X

Interplay Adapter X

Interplay Archive

Engine

CaptureManager server

Interplay Transfer X

Interplay Transfer client

Media Indexer X (O)

Interplay Framework

Core Components X (O)

Avid Lookup

X (O)

XX X X X (O)

Service

Configuration

X (O)

XX X X X (O)

Utility

Diagnostic Log

X (O)

XX X X X (O)

Viewer

Health Viewer X (O)

Machine Monitor X (O)

System

X (O)

XX X X X (O)

Configuration

Time

X (O)

XX X X X (O)

Synchronization

Multicast Repeater X (O)

Media Services Provider

Capture Manager Server

General Purpose Server

X (O)

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

Software Installed on Interplay Servers (excluding Media Indexers) (Continued)

Software

Interplay Media

Interplay Engine

Interplay Archive Engine

Media Services

Interplay Transfer Engine

Media Services Provider

Capture Manager Server

Services

ProEncode Provider X (O)

Transcode Provider X (O)

Archive Provider X (O)

a. On a non-cluster system with 10 or fewer Interplay clients. Do not install on a cluster system. b. See “Interplay Adapter and AirSpeed” on page 127. c. Starting at CaptureManager v4.0.4, The Interplay Transfer client is not required on a CaptureManager server. d. Do not install Interplay Framework software on a cluster or on a single engine system with more than 10 clients. e. Install only one System Configuration service per Lookup server. Additional services can affect performance.

Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers

The following table lists the software installed on different servers depending on the Media Indexer’s use in the Interplay environment.

Software Installed on Avid Media Indexer Servers

General Purpose Server

Software

On Same System as Interplay Engine

Member of a High

Availability Group

Delegate Media Indexer

Interplay Engine X

Interplay Access X

Interplay Adapter X

Media Indexer X X X

Interplay Framework

Framework Core X X X

Lookup service X

Configuration Utility X X X

Diagnostic Log Viewer X X X

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Software Installed on Avid Media Indexer Servers (Continued)

Software

On Same System as Interplay Engine

Member of a High

Availability Group

Delegate Media Indexer

Health Viewer X X X

Machine Monitor X X X

System Configuration X

c d

Time Synchronization X X X

Multicast Repeater

SNMP Gateway

X(O) X(O)

Email Alerter

a. This configuration is intended for systems with fewer than 10 clients. For larger systems, do not install the Media

Indexer on the Interplay Engine. b. Only on a system with 10 or fewer clients. Do not install on an Interplay Engine cluster system. c. Only on a system with 10 or fewer clients. Do not install on an Interplay Engine cluster system. d. Install one per Lookup service and install on the same system as the Lookup service. e. An option when you have multiple subnets. You can alternatively use Unicast Discovery. f. SNMP Gateway and Email Alerter are resource intensive applications. Do not install the services on a Media Indexer,

Avid Interplay Engine, or Interplay Archive Engine.

Different Types of Media Indexers

There are four basic ways to configure a Media Indexer:

• The leader of a High Availability Group. The leader (also known as the President) can index shared storage and it can also monitor other Media Indexers. On a small configuration, the Media Indexer software might be installed on the Avid Interplay Engine. In this case, configure a High Availability Group with one member configured on the Interplay Engine.

You always need a High Availability Group to monitor shared storage, even if it is a group of

one.

• Additional members of a High Availability Group. Members that you add to a High Availability group provide load balancing for the leader and allow you to add additional clients. For example, if you have more than 50 clients in your Interplay environment, then you should have two Media Indexers in the High Availability Group: one configured as the leader and a second added for load balancing.

• Delegates.If you have a large number of files, you might want to assign different Media Indexers to monitor specific portions of shared storage. In this case the group leader monitors the delegates. For more information on configuring delegates, see Avid

Interplay Best Practices.

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

• The Media Indexer on each Avid editing application system. These local Media Indexers connect to the High Availability Group.

Avid Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct do not require a local Media Indexer. They

automatically connect to the High Availability Group in the Interplay environment. You use the Server Hostname Settings view in the Interplay Administrator tool to identify the Workgroup name. The system automatically connects to the High Availability Group for the workgroup. The workgroup name is case sensitive and must match the workgroup name identified in the Interplay Workgroup Properties tool.

For information on the maximum number of files that a Media Indexer can monitor, see Avid Interplay Best Practices and the Avid Interplay ReadMe.

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The following illustration shows two Media Indexers in a High Availability Group and three Media Indexers configured as delegates to the High Availability Group.

Local Media Indexer connects to High Availability Group

HIgh Availability Group

Avid editing application

Media Indexer 2 is a member of the group and provides load balancing and redundancy for the leader.

Monitor three Media Indexer Delegates

Media Indexer 1 (leader)

Delegate Media Indexers monitor shared storage

Media Indexer 3 (delegate)

Media Indexer 4 (delegate)

Media Indexer 5 (delegate)

Media Indexer 2

Maximum number of files

Storage A

Maximum number of files

Storage B

Maximum number of files

Storage C

Non-indexed files such as files created by Graphic artists.

Storage D

Shutting Down a Media Indexer System

Using the Interplay Installer

Do not shut down the Media Indexer while it is scanning files. If you do, the Media Indexer might have to rebuild its cache when it starts up again. This can take a long time on a large system. You can use the Health Monitor to determine whether the Media Indexer is scanning files.

In a small configuration (10 or fewer users), you can have the Media Indexer that monitors shared storage on the same system as the Avid Interplay Engine. If the Media Indexer needs to rebuild its cache on this type of configuration, the Interplay Engine might become unresponsive during the operation. Note that this does not happen when the Media Indexer is scanning drives, only when it needs to completely rebuild its cache.

To determine whether a Media Indexer is scanning files:

1. Launch the Health Monitor and navigate to the system that is running the Media Indexer that you want to shut down.

2. Click Avid Interplay Media Indexer

3. Open the Avid Interplay Media Indexer pane.

4. Check the value of the “Pending Files (scan)” field. If the Media Indexer is not scanning files, then it is safe to shut it down.

5. To shut down the service, use the Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties tool.

Using the Interplay Installer

The Interplay Installer lets you do the following:

• Install the software for the following Interplay servers:

- Interplay Engine

- Archive Engine

- Interplay Media Services

- Interplay Transfer

-Media Indexer

-CaptureManager

• Install the software required to support the following Interplay clients:

- Interplay Access

- Avid Instinct

- Avid Interplay Assist

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- Avid editing applications such as Avid NewsCutter Adrenaline, NewsCutter XP, Media

- Avid Interplay Adapter

- CaptureManager Client

- Pro Tools Interplay Option

• Perform custom installations of the following software:

- Interplay Framework Services

- Interplay Access

- Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status

You can also browse the DVD and select individual installers.

The Interplay Installer allows you to navigate to a window that shows exactly which components must be installed on an individual server or client. You run each installer separately from the installation window.

Additional Installers on the Interplay Installer DVD

The following installers are also on the DVD although not accessible through the Installer user interface:

Composer, and Avid Symphony Nitris.

• Avid Low Res Encode software: see “Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low

Res Encoder Software” on page 69.

• The installer for Mac

OS® X is located on the Avid Interplay Installer DVD in the

following folder: Installers\JXDK\Mac_Installer For more information, see “Macintosh Installer for Interplay Access Client” on page 75.

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The following topics describe the installations of the Interplay software on the servers:

• Starting the Installation

• Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server

• Installing Software on the Interplay Transfer Server

• Installing Software on the Media Services Server and Media Services Provider Servers

• Installing Software on an Avid Interplay Media Indexer Server

• Installing Software on the CaptureManager Server

• Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low Res Encoder Software

For information on the order of installation and configuration, see “Installation Check List

and Installation Steps” on page 18.

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Starting the Installation

To start the Interplay Installer:

1. Insert the Interplay Installer DVD and double-click Launch.exe. The Main Menu window opens.

The Main Menu window allows you to select the installers required by a particular Interplay component. The list is divided into Interplay clients, servers, and individual optional installers.

Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server

These instructions are for a system with a single Interplay Engine or Interplay Archive Engine. If you are installing software on machine with cluster services, see the Avid Interplay Engine Failover Guide.

To install the Interplay Engine software:

1. Insert the Interplay Installer DVD into the DVD drive on the Interplay Engine system. The Main Menu window opens.

2. Click Servers. The Install Servers window opens.

Items with three dots open a new window. Items without three dots start an installer.

3. Click Avid Interplay Engine.

If you are upgrading an Interplay Engine, see the Interplay ReadMe before proceeding. The Readme contains any specific instructions for upgrade the Interplay Engine for a particular release.

The Install Avid Interplay Engine window opens.

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The Interplay Engine requires the following software:

- Avid Interplay Engine — The full Interplay Engine software. See “Installing the

Avid Interplay Engine Software” on page 45.

- Avid Interplay Access — Required to communicate with the Interplay Engine database. Installing Interplay Access also installs the Interplay Administrator. See

“Installing Avid Interplay Access” on page 55.

- (Option) Avid Interplay Adapter — Required for capturing with AirSpeed. Only install on an Interplay Engine if there are fewer than 10 clients in your Interplay environment and you are not using a cluster for the Interplay Engine. See “Installing

Avid Interplay Adapter” on page 55.

It is important to determine where to install the Interplay Adapter. See “Interplay Adapter

and AirSpeed” on page 127. Do not install the Interplay Adapter on an Interplay Engine

cluster system or on an non-cluster Engine that has more than 10 Interplay clients.

- (Option) Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer — Required for Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer. For more information, See the Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

4. Perform the installation in the order shown in the above list. You have to reboot the server after the Interplay Engine installation.

Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server

Installing the Avid Interplay Engine Software

The first time you install the Avid Interplay Engine software, you must select Custom installation. Selecting Custom installation lets you specify the Server Execution User and other configuration information correctly.

If you are upgrading, you can select Typical installation, which uses the existing settings.

If you installing or upgrading a cluster system, see the Interplay ReadMe and the Avid

Interplay Engine Failover Guide.

To install the Avid Interplay Engine software:

1. Before you begin, do the following: t Make sure that the Interplay Engine application key is installed on the server

system. For more information, see “Required Application Keys” on page 30. The Interplay Engine also requires a software license. Install this license after

installing the Interplay Engine software, as described at the end of this procedure.

t Make sure you have created matching accounts on the Interplay Engine system and

the Avid Unity system. You need to type the user name and password during installation to create the Server Execution User. See “Creating the Server Execution

User Account” on page 26.

t Close all Windows programs.

2. Insert the Interplay Installer DVD into the DVD drive on the Interplay Engine system. The Main Menu window opens.

3. Click Servers. The Install Servers window opens.

4. Click Avid Interplay Engine. The Install Avid Interplay Engine window opens.

5. Double-click Avid Interplay Engine.

6. In the Welcome dialog box, read the information about the installation of the Apache server. Click Next.

7. Read the license agreement information and then accept the license agreement by selecting “I accept the agreement.” Click Next.

The Specify Installation Type dialog box opens.

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8. Select one of the following and click Next: t If this is a new installation, select Custom. This ensures that you identify the Server

Execution User required by the Interplay Engine.

t If this is an upgrade, select Typical and proceed to step 18. (Both the Typical and

Custom installation use the existing settings.)

The Specify Destination Location dialog box opens.

9. Specify the destination folder and click Next.

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The Destination Location is the folder in which the Avid Interplay Engine program files are installed. In most cases, keep the default, which installs the files in an Avid Interplay Engine subfolder in the Program Files folder.

The Specify Default Database Folder dialog box opens.

10. Accept the default folder and click Next. The database folder is the folder in which the database is created and stored. This

location must be local, that is, the database folder must be installed on the Interplay Engine server. No other configuration is supported. By default the database folder is created at the root of the D: drive as D:\Workgroup_Databases. All access rights are set automatically.

If you previously installed the Interplay Engine software, this field displays the share name that appears in the next dialog box.

Avid recommends that you store source files for file assets on a shared storage workspace

rather than a local drive. To do this, you must perform extra steps after the installation. See “Recommendations for Database Storage” in the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay

Archive Engine Administrator’s Guide.

The Specify Share Name dialog box opens.

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11. Accept the default share name and click Next. By default, the share name is “WG_Database$.” The “$” at the end makes the share

invisible if you browse through the network using Windows Explorer. For security reasons, Avid recommends keeping the default setting and using a “$” at the end of the share name. With this default setting, the folder “D:\Workgroup_Databases” on the Avid Interplay Engine computer is shared under the name “WG_Database$.”

The Specify Configuration Server dialog box opens.

12. Select the Interplay Engine you want to use as the Central Configuration Server and click Next.

Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server

The Central Configuration Server (CCS) is an Interplay Engine with a special module that is useful if you are working in an environment that includes more than one Interplay Engine (including an Interplay Archive Engine). However, even if you are working in an environment with one Interplay Engine, you need to specify a CCS.

Select one of the following: t This Avid Interplay Engine: Specifies that the Interplay Engine that you are

installing should be the CCS. Click Next.

t Another Avid Interplay Engine: Specifies that a previously installed Interplay

Engine should be the CSS. An additional dialog box opens. Type the name of the Interplay Engine to be used as the CCS and click Next.

If you want to specify another Interplay Engine, you must specify an Interplay Engine that is already installed. If you have not yet installed the desired Interplay Engine, specify the current Interplay Engine, install the desired Interplay Engine, and then change the CCS through the Interplay Administrator. See “Using a Central Configuration Server” in the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine

Administration

Guide.

If you specify an Interplay Engine that is not yet installed, you might not be able to log onto the system. See “Troubleshooting Log-in Problems” in the Avid Interplay Engine

and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration

The Server Execution User dialog box opens.

13. Select Custom user account and click Next.

Guide.

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The Server Execution User is a Windows account that has administrative access to the Avid Interplay Engine. This account also needs to have administrative access to the shared storage workgroup. Avid requires that you create a custom user account. For more information, see

The Specify Server User dialog box opens.

“Creating the Server Execution User Account” on page 26.

a. Type a local user, for example, “IPEngine,” or type a domain user, such as

“MYDOMAIN\IPEngine.” Make sure this user name exactly matches the user name of an Avid Unity account with administrator privileges.

b. Type the password. The installer cannot check the password you type in this dialog

box. Make sure that the password exactly matches the password for the Avid Unity user with administrator privileges. If the user name and password do not match those of the Avid Unity user, the Avid Interplay Engine will not run properly. Confirm the password.

You can change the Server Execution User after installation. See “Troubleshooting the

Server Execution User Account” in the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide.

c. Click Next.

The Specify Server Name dialog box opens.

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14. Specify the server name as it appears on the network and click Next. By default, the computer’s name is specified as the server name. Interplay clients use

this name to identify the server. If there are clients in your network that are unable to resolve hostnames to IP addresses, you have to specify the server’s IP address here. In this case, the server needs a static IP address; be sure to configure your DHCP server accordingly.

A hostname must comply with RFC 952 standards. For example, you cannot use an

underscore in a hostname. For more information, see “Naming Conventions in Active Directory for Computers, Domains, Sites, and OUs” on the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base.

The server name entered should not be more than 15 characters. Server names longer than 15 characters will be truncated and might cause problems with client connections if there is more than one machine in the network with the same truncated name.

The Specify Preview Server Cache dialog box opens.

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15. Accept the default location and click Next. Interplay Access lets you view a thumbnail image or other representation of a file asset.

This feature requires a special cache folder. The default folder for the preview server cache is named PreviewServer and is installed in the default database folder.

The Enable E-mail Notification dialog box opens.

16. Enable email notification and click Next.

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The email notification feature sends emails to your administrator when special events, such as “Disk Full” and “Out Of Memory,” occur. See “Configuring the Server Event Manager” in the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Interplay Archive Engine Administration Guide for details on configuring the email notification.

The E-mail Notification Details dialog box opens.

17. Supply the following information: a. Type the administrator’s email address and the email address of the server that is the

sender. If an event such as “Disk Full” occurs on the server, the administrator receives an email from the sender’s email account explaining the problem, so that the administrator can respond to the problem.

b. Type the static IP address of your SMTP server. The notification feature needs the

SMTP server in order to send emails. If you do not know this IP address, ask your administrator.

c. (Option) If you also want to inform Avid Support automatically through email if

problems arise, select the option “Send critical notifications also to Avid Support.” d. Click Next. The installer modifies the file Config.xml in the

Interplay Engine\Data\Server\Config directory with your settings. The Ready to

Avid Install dialog box opens.

18. If you are ready to complete the installation, click Next.

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All necessary components are installed. It might be necessary for the installation program to install additional components, such as Adobe Reader.

If any system libraries on your machine need to be upgraded to complete the installation process, the installation program asks you to reboot your machine. Save all your open documents, close all applications, and then click the OK button to reboot.

The installation finishes and the Installation Completed dialog box displays the success or failure of each installation.

19. Click Finish.

A dialog box requesting a reboot opens. A message with instructions on how to fix any installation problems also appears.

20. Click OK to reboot the machine.

21. Enable a permanent license key. See “Managing Licenses” in the Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive Engine Administration Guide for instructions. Make sure that you obtain and load the Interplay Engine license file promptly. The license key must match the application key (dongle) for the Interplay Engine server.

Installing Avid Interplay Access

You must install Avid Interplay Access on the Interplay Engine. Avid recommends that you accept the defaults. If users at your site will be checking in Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop assets (file assets), you can optionally select these options as part of the install set. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Integration Guide for Adobe Photoshop

and Microsoft Office.

Installing Avid Interplay Access also installs the Avid Interplay Administrator.

To install Interplay Access:

1. In the Install Avid Interplay Engine window, double-click Avid Interplay Access.

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After the installer starts, the Introduction dialog box opens.

2. Close down all other programs, then click Next.

3. Complete the installation by accepting the defaults. If you want to install the Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, accept the default paths.

4. When you finish the installation, the installation program might require you to reboot the system.

Installing Avid Interplay Adapter

When you install Interplay Adapter (also known as the MMAdapter) on the Avid Interplay Engine system, it automatically connects to the Interplay Engine on that system.

If you use CaptureManager, Avid recommends that you install the Interplay Adapter on the CaptureManager server to improve performance on the Avid Interplay Engine system. For additional information on where to install the Interplay Adapter, see

AirSpeed” on page 127.

Do not install Interplay Adapter on an Avid Interplay Engine cluster system.

If you install Interplay Adapter on a system other than the Interplay Engine, you must manually edit a file to identify the Interplay Engine system.

“Interplay Adapter and

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To configure Interplay Adapter to recognize Interplay Engine on a different system:

1. Use an application such as Notepad to edit the following file: C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay Adapter\jakarta-tomcat\omm\RAM\mmserver.ini

2. Edit the following line, by replacing the text “localhost” with the computer name of the system running the Avid Interplay Engine:

env.ABServer=localhost For additional information on configuring an Interplay Adapter with AirSpeed and

CaptureManager, see

“Configuring Avid AirSpeed in Avid Interplay Adapter” on page

126.

Installing Software on the Interplay Transfer Server

To install the Interplay Transfer server and related software:

1. Click Servers in the Main Menu window and then click Avid Interplay Transfer Server. The Install Interplay Transfer Engine window opens.

2. Install the following components on the Interplay Transfer Server:

- Avid Interplay Framework for Server — The installer automatically installs the

components required for an Interplay Transfer application.

- Avid Interplay Access — Allows for easy access to the Interplay Engine. This also

installs the Interplay Administrator.

- Avid Interplay Transfer server.

- Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status — Allows you to monitor

Interplay Transfer jobs as well as Interplay Media Services jobs.

- (Option) Avid Interplay Transfer Cache — Allows you to install only the Interplay

Transfer Cache.

For information on configuring the Interplay Transfer server and the Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status application, see the Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.

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Installing Software on the Media Services Server and Media Services Provider Servers

This section provides an overview of installing the Media Services and Media Services Provider servers.

If this is the first time you are installing the Media Services Engine, you need to install

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express before you install the Media Services Engine. For installation procedures, see the Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

To install the Interplay Media Services and related software:

1. Click Servers in the Main Menu window.

2. Click Avid Interplay Media Services in the Install Servers window. The Install Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

3. Click Avid Interplay Media Services. The second Install Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

Installing Software on the Media Services Server and Media Services Provider Servers

4. Install the following components on the Interplay Media Services system:

- Avid Interplay Framework for Client — The installer automatically installs the components required for Interplay Media Services. When the system asks for a workgroup name, type the name of the workgroup you set up on the Interplay Engine.

- Avid Interplay Access — Required to configure the Interplay Media Services with the Interplay Engine. This also installs the Interplay Administrator.

- Avid Interplay Media Services — This installation requires a restart of the system; you might want to install it last.

If you are performing an upgrade, you do not have to reregister existing services such as the

Transcode service or Archive service.

You might have to re-create some profiles after upgrading your software. See the Avid Interplay Media Services ReadMe.

5. After you restart the system, return to the Install Servers window and click Avid Interplay Media Services.

The Avid Interplay Media Services window opens.

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6. You can install the following software on the Interplay Media Services system or on another system to improve performance:

- Avid Interplay Transcode - The Transcode Provider.

- Avid Interplay Archive - The Archive Provider. Typically installed on its own

server.

- Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status — Allows you to monitor

Interplay Transfer and Interplay Media Services jobs.

- Avid Interplay ProEncode Provider

- (Option) Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer —

Required for Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer.

- (Optional) Avid Interplay Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer —

Installs the Avid Interplay Auto Media Services. The Avid Interplay Auto Archive installation includes the Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer services. Required for Auto Archive, Auto Transcode, and Auto Transfer.

For information on configuring Interplay Media Services, see the Avid Interplay Media Services Setup and User’s Guide.

Installing Software on an Avid Interplay Media Indexer Server

For information on the different types of Media Indexer systems, see “Different Types of

Media Indexers” on page 37.

Before Installing Media Indexer Software

The following are important for a successful Media Indexer configuration:

• Before you configure Media Indexer, install the Interplay Framework software and verify that it’s running. For additional information, see “Verifying that the Interplay

Framework Services Are Running” on page 99.

• Before you configure Media Indexer to monitor your Avid Unity workspaces, the workspaces must have an Avid MediaFiles folder. To create the folder, you can either use an Avid editing application to capture or import media to the workspace or you can manually create an Avid MediaFiles folder.

• Do not use spaces or special characters in your workspace names.

Using UNC Drive Mapping on Interplay ISIS

On Avid Unity ISIS, you must select the “Use UNC (Letterless) Drive Mapping” option on the Media Indexers that monitor shared storage.

To set UNC Drive Mapping:

t In the ISIS Client Manager window, select Preferences and select the letterless option.

For more information, see “Installation Check List and Installation Steps” on page 18.

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Installing the Media Indexer Software

To install the Media Indexer software:

1. Click Servers in the Main Menu window and then click Avid Interplay Media Indexer. The Install Avid Interplay Media Indexer window opens.

2. Install the following components on the Media Indexer server:

- Interplay Framework for Server — Perform the installation on primary and

secondary shared storage Media Indexers. For more information, see “Turning off

Interplay Framework Services to Conserve System Memory” on page 63. You have

the opportunity to name your workgroup when the system asks for a workgroup name. Write down the name you type and use it for other Interplay Framework installations.

The installer automatically selects the Framework components used by an Interplay Server.

- Interplay Access — Allows for easy access to the Interplay Engine. This also

installs the Interplay Administrator.

- Avid Interplay Media Indexer

If you use the installer to uninstall Media Indexer, the installer exits after the uninstall is

complete. Restart the installer to perform the installation.

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Turning off Interplay Framework Services to Conserve System Memory

The Interplay Framework for Server installer installs all components execpt for the Email Alerter and SNMP Gateway service. Those are resource-intensive services that you should not install unless you specifically require them. You can turn off services to conserve system memory depending on the type of Media Indexer you are going to set up on this system. For more information, see

For information on which services should be installed (and running) on various systems, see

“Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems” on page 30.

“Disabling Framework Services” on page 100.

Configuring a Media Indexer to Monitor Shared Storage

This procedure describes how to configure a Media Indexer be the leader of a High Availability Group and how to monitor shared storage. This is the basic configuration for a small system with only one Media Indexer. The basic procedure is as follows:

1. Identify the Media Indexer as the leader of a High Availability group.

2. Identify the shared storage locations for that Media Indexer to monitor. For more information on using Media Indexer, see the Avid Interplay Framework User’s

Guide and Avid Interplay Best Practices.

Before you configure the Media Indexer, verify that the Interplay Framework services are running on the Media Indexer system. For more information, see

Indexer Software” on page 61.

To configure the Media Indexer to monitor shared storage:

1. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework >

Interplay Service Configuration.

Avid

2. If more than one workgroup appears in the list, click the triangular opener next to your Workgroup name to open the Workgroup list.

3. On the Hosts tab, select the system that contains the Media Indexer you want to use to monitor shared storage, and select Avid Media Indexer.

4. Click OK when the system prompts you for the Interplay Framework administrator password. By default, there is no password.

A message box opens asking if you want to allow the service to run with unrestricted security.

5. Click Yes.

“Before Installing Media

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The system displays the Media Indexer information in the Avid Interplay Service Configuration dialog box.

6. Click Join High Availability Group and type a name for the group. Perform this step even if there is only one Media Indexer for shared storage. The Media

Indexer that monitors shared storage must be part of a High Availability group even if there is only one Media Indexer in the group.

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7. Click the Apply button.

8. Click the Configure button. The system opens the Configure Storage dialog box. The following illustration shows a

Media Indexer that is already configured to monitor folders on two workspaces.

9. Click the Add button. The Add Storage dialog box opens.

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10. Select the Media Files Location option and click OK. The Media Files Location dialog box opens.

11. Type the UNC path to a folder within the workspace. For example, \\computer_name\workspace_name\folder_name.

The following illustration shows the UNC path for the Avid MediaFiles folder on workspace3. The system name in this example is avid-6c85183baf.

In general, don’t connect directly to the high level workspace name. Connect to the Avid

MediaFiles folder or another folder in the workspace that you know contains valid Avid media files. This way you will avoid attempting to index non-Avid files.

12. Click Apply and click OK. The system displays the UNC path to the folder in the Configure Storages dialog box.

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The message “Normal” indicates that the drive has been scanned and is currently indexed. The message “Normal - Scanning” indicates the Media Indexer is now scanning the storage area.

On shared storage, the Media Indexer does not recognize drive letters mapped by the user

because it runs as a background service.

13. (Option) Click Add and repeat the process to add any additional folders.

14. Click Apply and click OK to close the Configure Storages dialog box.

The first time that you configure a storage folder, the Media Indexer automatically indexes the media in the folder. This might take a while depending on the amount of media in the folder.

For information on configuring the Media Indexer on an Avid editing application system to communicate with this shared storage Media Indexer, see

an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage” on page 80.

For more information, see “Different Types of Media Indexers” on page 37.

Tips for Adding a Shared Storage Workspace

“Connecting the Media Indexer on

If the Media Indexer Configure Storages dialog box shows Storage Not Found in the pathname you type, verify that you are using the UNC pathname to a folder containing Avid media files.

To check the name to use in the UNC path:

1. Open My Computer on the Media Indexer system.

2. Check the name of the computer and workspace in the display. The following illustration shows the name for the computer and workspace names used

in this example.

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Workspace and computer name for workspace1

This example requires the following UNC path for the Avid MediaFiles folder on Workspace1:

\\avid-6c85183baf\Workspace1\Avid MediaFiles

Installing Software on the CaptureManager Server

If this is the first time you are installing the CaptureManager software, you need to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard before you install the CaptureManager software. For installation procedures, see the Avid CaptureManager Installation and Configuration Guide and the Avid CaptureManager ReadMe.

To install software on the CaptureManager server:

1. Click Servers on the Main Menu window, and then click CaptureManager Server. The system launches the CaptureManager Server installation software.

2. Install CaptureManager software. For information on installing and configuring CaptureManager, see the Avid

CaptureManager Installation and Configuration Guide.

3. (Option) Install the Interplay Transfer client software.

Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low Res Encoder Software

The software for updating the Avid Low Res Encoder is on the Interplay Installer DVD. The following are in the Avid_Low_Res_Encoder folder at the top level of the DVD:

• Files for updating the root disk image in the Avid_Low_Res_Encoder\rootdiscupdate folder

• One file for updating the bootset that begins with the characters avid.ipv.mxf.

To access the files:

1. Navigate to the DVD drive in the Windows Explorer.

2. Right-click the DVD name, and select Explore. For information on updating the software on the Avid Low Res Encode system, see the

Avid Interplay Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration Guide. on the Avid Knowledge Base.

Additional Information for Installing the Root Disk and Bootset

The Avid Interplay Low Res Encode Setup and Configuration Guide describes how to install the root disk and bootset. Older versions of the document do not specify how to obtain the files from the Avid Interplay Installer DVD.

The files are located in the Avid_Low_Res_Encode folder on the DVD. The following limitations apply:

• When updating the bootset, you can either browse to the Avid_Low_Res_Encoder folder on the DVD or copy the file to a folder before you click the Browse button.

• When updating the root disk image, you must copy the rootdiscupdate files to the local path you create in the section “Setting Up the FTP Server” in the setup and configuration guide. You can’t perform the root disk image update directly from the DVD.

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3 Installing Software on Interplay Clients

The following topics describe the Interplay software installation on Interplay clients:

• Installing Software on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist Systems

• Installing Software on an Interplay Access System

• Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

• Panasonic DVCPRO P2 and Ikegami NLTEK Media

• Installing Software on a CaptureManager Client

• Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay Client

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Installing Software on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist Systems

Avid Instinct and the Avid Interplay Assist application require the same Interplay components. You install the Avid Instinct and the Avid the application DVDs. This section describes how to install the additional components required by the Interplay environment.

Interplay Assist applications from

For Interplay v1.2.3, the Assist and Instinct installers do not automatically install the Interplay Transfer Client components. You must install the components from the Interplay Installer DVD. See

Transfer Client” on page 74.

To install software on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist systems:

1. Click Clients in the Main Menu window. The Install Client Support window opens.

“Assist and Instinct Installers Require Manual Install of

Items with three dots open a new window. Items without three dots start an installer.

2. Click either Avid Instinct Client or Avid Interplay Assist. The corresponding client support window opens. The following illustration shows the

Install Avid

Interplay Assist window.

Installing Software on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist Systems

3. Install the following components on the client.

- Avid Interplay Framework for Client — The installer automatically installs the components required for the application. When the system asks for a workgroup name, type the name of the workgroup you set up on the Interplay Engine. The name is case sensitive.

- Avid Interplay Access — Installs the Interplay Access and Interplay Administrator applications.

- Avid Interplay Assist — Installs the Assist application software. You use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the Instinct and Assist applications.

Avid Instinct and the Interplay Assist application must have either an Avid Unity MediaNetwork Connection Manager or an Avid Unity ISIS Client Manager installed and configured to connect to shared storage.

The Avid Instinct user must have a login to an iNEWS server.

For information on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist, see the Avid Instinct User’s Guide and the Avid

Interplay Assist User’s Guide.

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Assist and Instinct Installers Require Manual Install of Transfer Client

For Interplay v1.2.3, the Assist and Instinct installers do not automatically install the Interplay Transfer Client components. You must install the components from the Interplay Installer DVD as follows.

1. On the installer main page, click Clients. The Install Client Support page opens.

2. Click Avid Editor Support. The Install Avid Editor Support page opens.

3. Click Avid Interplay Transfer Client and follow the prompts.

Installing Software on an Interplay Access System

You can install Interplay Access on any system that you want to use to work with the

Interplay Engine. Besides installing Avid Interplay Access, this installation also

Avid installs the Avid

To install software on an Interplay Access system:

1. Click Clients in the Main Menu window and then click Avid Interplay Access. The Install Avid Interplay Access window opens.

Interplay Administrator.

2. Install the following components on the client.

Installing Software on an Interplay Access System

- Avid Interplay Framework for Client — the installer automatically installs the components required for the application. When the system asks for a workgroup name, type the name of the workgroup you set up on the Interplay Engine.

The Interplay Framework is optional for an Interplay Access system.

- Avid Interplay Access — this installs the Interplay Access and Interplay Administrator applications.

For information on using the Avid Interplay Access and the Avid Interplay Administrator, see the following manuals:

• Avid Interplay Access User’s Guide

• Avid Interplay Engine and Avid Archive Engine Administration Guide

Macintosh Installer for Interplay Access Client

Interplay Access is supported on Mac OS X. On the OS X platform, support is limited to operations relating to file assets (not Avid sequences, clips, and so on). For more information about using Access with Mac OS X, see the Avid

The installer for Mac OS X is located on the Avid Interplay Installer DVD in the following folder:

Interplay Access User’s Guide.

Installers\JXDK\Mac_Installer

To run the Macintosh® installer for Interplay Access:

1. Open the DVD on a Windows system.

2. Copy the installer.zip file to your Macintosh system.

3. Unzip the file and run the installer. The installation software installs Interplay Access in the following folder: Applications\Avid\Avid Interplay Access

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Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

Use the Avid Editor window to install Interplay components on the following systems:

• Avid NewsCutter Adrenaline and Avid NewsCutter XP

• Avid Media Composer

• Avid Symphony Nitris

Each of these Avid editing applications has its own installation DVD for the Avid editing application software. This section describes how to install the components that are required by the Interplay environment.

To install Interplay components on an Avid editing system:

1. Click Clients in the Main Menu window and click Avid Editor Support. The Install Avid Editor Support window opens.

2. Install the following components:

- Avid Interplay Framework for Client — the installer automatically installs the

components required for the application. When the system asks for a workgroup name, type the name of the workgroup you set up on the Interplay Engine.

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

If the editing system is on a different subnet from the system running the Interplay Framework Lookup service, you must use Unicast Discovery to allow the editor to locate the Lookup Server or install a MultiCast Repeater on at least one system on that subnet. For more information, see

Service” on page 116 and “Configuring a Multicast Repeater” on page 117.

- Avid Interplay Access — installs the Interplay Access and Interplay Administrator applications.

- Avid Interplay Media Indexer — you configure this Media Indexer to communicate with the Media Indexer monitoring shared storage. For more information, see

“Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage” on page 80. You can also configure the Media Indexer

to index your local drives. For more information, see “Configuring the Local Media

Indexer to Index Local Drives” on page 84.

- (Option) Avid Interplay Transfer Client — install this software to take advantage of Interplay Transfer features such as Send to Playback and workgroup to workgroup transfers. For information on configuring the Interplay Transfer client, see the Help for your Avid editing application or the Avid Interplay Transfer Setup and User’s Guide.

- (Option) Avid Interplay ProEncode Client— install this software if you are using ProEncode services with your Interplay Media Services server.

“Connecting Systems Directly to the Lookup

The Avid editing applications must have either an Avid Unity MediaNetwork Connection

Manager or Avid Unity ISIS Client Manager installed and configured to connect to shared storage.

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Configuring an Avid Editing System in the Interplay Framework

After you complete the installation on each Avid editing system, verify that the Interplay Framework services are running on that system.

To verify that the Interplay Framework services are running:

1. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework > Interplay Workgroup Properties.

Avid The Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties window opens.

Check mark

2. If your Workgroup name doesn’t appear in the Workgroup field, click the Edit button

and type the name of the Workgroup.

The Workgroup name can be different than the name of the computer that the Workgroup

database is running on. This depends on how your Workgroup was originally configured. In this example, the Workgroup name is the same as the machine name.

If there is a green check mark next to the “Status” field, all services are running.

3. If the check mark is not green, click the Advanced button.

The Avid Interplay Services dialog box opens.

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

This dialog box allows you to view all services that are monitored by the Avid Interplay Framework.

4. If necessary, select a service and click Start.

To verify that your system is listed in the Interplay Framework:

1. On any system that has the Avid Interplay Service Configuration tool installed, click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework >

Interplay Service Configuration.

Avid The Avid Interplay Service Configuration window opens.

2. See if the system you want to verify is listed.

3. If the system is in the list, then it is part of the Interplay Framework. You can optionally click the triangular opener next to the name and check which services are running on the system.

4. If the system you want to verify is not listed, it might be on a different subnet than the system running the Interplay Framework Lookup service. In that case, you need to use Unicast Discovery to allow the editor to locate the Lookup Server or install a MultiCast Repeater on at least one system on the other subnet. See

“Connecting Systems Directly

to the Lookup Service” on page 116 and “Configuring a Multicast Repeater” on page

117.

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Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage

An administrator can configure the Media Indexers for the Avid editing applications on any system running the Interplay Service Configuration component of the Interplay Framework software.

To configure the Media Indexer for an Avid editing application:

1. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework > Interplay Service Configuration.

Avid

2. If more than one workgroup appears in the list, click the triangular opener next to your

Workgroup name to open the Workgroup list.

3. Locate the Avid editing system in the list and select the Avid Interplay Media Indexer

service. The following illustration shows an Avid editing system named techpub8200n.

The system prompts you for the Interplay Framework administrator password. By default, there is no password.

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

4. Click Yes, when the system displays a message asking if you want to allow the service to run with unrestricted security.

5. Click Configure. The Configure Storages dialog box opens.

6. Click Add. The Add Storage dialog box opens.

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7. Select Avid Interplay Media Indexer and click OK. The Avid Interplay Media Indexer dialog box opens.

8. Do the following: a. Select Connect to a High Availability Media Indexer Group. b. Select your group from the Group Name menu.

Ask the Interplay system administrator for the name of the High Availability Group.

c. Select Load Balanced from the Mode menu.

d. Click Apply, and then click OK. The system displays the high availability group in the Configure Storages dialog box.

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If you click the triangular opener, the system displays the storage locations associated with

the Media Indexer on shared storage.

9. Click Apply, and then click OK to close the Configure Storages dialog box.

Using the Processes Tab to Configure Media Indexers

Rather than selecting systems individually on the Hosts tab, you can also select the Processes tab on the Interplay Service Configuration window and configure the Media Indexers for all the systems on the Interplay environment from that tab.

To use the Processes to configure the Media Indexers:

1. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework > Interplay Service Configuration.

Avid

2. Click the Processes tab and select the Avid Interplay Media Indexer service.

3. Select the Avid editing system.

4. Click Configure and connect the system to the High Availability Group as described in

“Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage” on page 80.

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The following illustration shows the Processes tab with the Media Indexer for shared storage selected.

For more information on the Media Indexer, see Avid Interplay Framework User’s Guide and the Avid

Interplay Best Practices.

Configuring the Local Media Indexer to Index Local Drives

To configure the local Media Indexer to index your local drives:

1. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework > Interplay Service Configuration.

Avid

2. If more than one workgroup appears in the list, click the triangular opener next to your

Workgroup name to open the Workgroup list.

3. Locate the Avid editing system in the list and select the Avid Interplay Media Indexer

service.

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

The following illustration shows an Avid editing system named techpub8200n.

4. Click OK when the system prompts you for the Interplay Framework administrator password. By default, there is no password.

5. Click Yes, in the a message box asking if you want to allow the service to run with unrestricted security.

6. Click Configure. The Configure Storages dialog box opens. In the following illustration you can see that

this Media Indexer is already connected to the shared storage Media Indexer.

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7. Select the Media Table icon and click Add. The Add Storage dialog box opens.

8. Select Media Files Location and click OK. The Media Files Location dialog box opens

Browse button.

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9. Click the Browse button.

You can use the Browse button when you configure local storage but you must type a UNC

path when you configure shared storage drives.

The Open dialog box opens.

10. Navigate to the location of your Avid MediaFiles folder. The following illustration shows the Avid MediaFiles folder on a MediaDock storage

device.

11. Click Open. The Media Files Location dialog box opens and displays the new location.

12. Click Apply and then click OK. The Configure Storages dialog box opens and displays the new location.

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Local storage

13. (Option) Click the Add button to add any additional storages.

14. Click Apply and then click OK to close the Configure Storages dialog box.

15. Click Apply in the Interplay Service Configuration window, and then close the window.

To instruct Media Indexer to automatically recognize local drives:

1. Start the Avid editing application.

2. Select Tools > Media Creation. The Media Creation window opens.

Panasonic DVCPRO P2 and Ikegami NLTEK Media

3. On the Drive Filtering and Indexing tab, click the “Auto-index local drives as they come online” button.

The local Media Indexer automatically configures Avid media files on your local drives.

If you don’t want the Media indexer to automatically scan your local drives, deselect the

Auto-index option.

4. (Option) Click Manual Storage Scan to start a scan.

5. (Option) Select one of the warning options. The warning occurs if the Media indexer has problems scanning files on the local drive.

Panasonic DVCPRO P2 and Ikegami NLTEK Media

Interplay supports Panasonic® DVCPRO® P2 equipment and Ikegami® NLTEK equipment. For information on using the equipment in an Interplay environment, see the latest version of the Interplay ReadMe on the Knowledge Base.

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Installing Software on a CaptureManager Client

To install software on the CaptureManager client:

1. Click Clients in the Main Menu window. The Install Client Support window opens.

2. Click CaptureManager Client. The system begins the installation.

For information on using the CaptureManager client, see the Avid CaptureManager User’s Guide and

“Configuring Avid AirSpeed in Avid Interplay Adapter” on page 126.

Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay Client

The Pro Tools Interplay Client installers allows you to install Interplay Access and the

Tools Interplay Option on a Pro Tools system (Windows only). The Pro Tools Interplay

Pro Option allows you to use Interplay to pass audio files back and forth between Avid video editing systems and Pro

Pro Tools Interplay Option requires Pro Tools v7.3 or greater.

To install software on the Pro Tools client:

1. Click Clients in the Main Menu window. The Install Client Support window opens.

Tools® editing systems.

2. Click Pro Tools Interplay Client. The Install Avid Interplay Access window opens.

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3. Install the following components on the Pro Tools system (Windows only).

- Avid Interplay Access — This installs the Interplay Access and Interplay Administrator applications.

- Pro Tools Interplay Option— This installs the following components into the Interplay Administrator application: “Editor Export Settings for Pro Tools” and “Pro Tools Import Settings.”

The next time you launch Pro Tools, the following menu options are available:

• File > Import > Sequence from Avid Interplay

• File > Export > Selected Tracks to Sequence in Avid Interplay

For information on using the Pro Tools Interplay Option, see Avid Interplay Best Practices.

You can also install this option on another system in order to make it more convenient for the

Interplay administrator to configure the Import and Export settings.

Establishing the First Connection Between Pro Tools and Interplay

After you use the Interplay Installer DVD to install the Pro Tools Interplay Option and Interplay Access on your Pro Tools system, you must use Interplay Access to establish a connection to the Interplay database that you will be using. This is a one-time requirement

Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay Client

that establishes the connection between your Pro Tools system and Interplay. Simply logging on to the Interplay Engine database from Access will establish the connection. Then you can exit Access and start using Pro Tools with Interplay.

In order to create this initial connection between Access and Interplay, there must be an

available license on the Interplay Engine. For example, if you have 10 Access licenses and all 10 are being used, one person must log out of Access while you establish this initial connection.

For information on licenses and for information on using Pro Tools in an Interplay environment, see the Avid Interplay Best Practices guide.

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4 Installing Optional Software

You can run individual optional installers as described in the following sections:

• Performing a Custom Install of the Interplay Framework Software

• Installing Avid Interplay Access or Avid Interplay Media Services and Transfer Status

• Browsing the Interplay Installer DVD

Performing a Custom Install of the Interplay Framework Software

The Interplay Framework is used to monitor and configure the Media Indexer and the optional Interplay Auto Archive service. It also lets you monitor the health of other components that have the Interplay Framework installed and to view logs on the systems. For more information, see the Avid Interplay Framework User’s Guide.

You install different components of the Interplay Framework software on different systems in the Avid Interplay environment. The individual installation windows automatically install all the components needed for the clients and servers. This installer lets you select and install specific components.

For a list of the Framework components that should be installed on different systems, see

“Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems” on page 30.

To install the Interplay Framework software:

1. Click Individual Optional Installers in the Main Menu window. The Install Optional window opens.

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2. Click Avid Interplay Framework Custom. The Introduction window opens.

3. Click Next. The Choose Install Folder window opens.

4. Accept the default values and click Next. The Join a Workgroup window opens.

Performing a Custom Install of the Interplay Framework Software

5. Type the name of your Workgroup and click Next.

Use the same Workgroup name on all Interplay clients. You can either use the default value or type a name for your Workgroup. The name is case sensitive.

If you are updating the Interplay Framework software, the installer remembers the last installed value. If the workgroup name was changed after the install, the installer will not be aware of the change.

The Options window opens.

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6. Select the type of Framework installation you wish to make. For more information, see

“Interplay Framework Components” on page 31.

7. Click Next. The Custom Setup dialog box opens. This dialog box displays the components that will

be installed. The following illustration shows the default components for a Framework Client install.

Performing a Custom Install of the Interplay Framework Software

If this is not the correct set of components, do one of the following:

t Click the Back button and select a different group. t Select or deselect components from the list in the Custom Setup dialog box.

Don’t add components that you don’t need. This can affect system performance.

8. Click Next and follow the installation instructions to complete the installation. The installer might require that you restart your system to complete the installation.

Verifying that the Interplay Framework Services Are Running

You must perform these steps on each system running the Interplay Framework Services.

To verify that the Interplay Framework Services are running:

1. Click the Start button, and then select All Programs > Avid > Interplay Framework >

Interplay Workgroup Properties.

Avid The Avid Interplay Workgroup Properties window opens.

4 Installing Optional Software

If there is a green check mark next to the “Status” field, all services are running.

2. To view the services, click the Advanced button. The Avid Interplay Services dialog box opens.

This dialog box lets you view all services that are monitored by the Interplay Framework.

3. If necessary, select a service and click Start.

Disabling Framework Services

Depending on the system you install the Interplay Framework Services on, you might need to disable some services. You might also want to disable some services to conserve memory usage. For more information, see

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Pinnacle Systems Interplay - 1.2.3 Installation Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

Viewing Documentation on the Interplay Portal

Interplay Documentation

Accessing the Online Library

How to Order Documentation

Avid Training Services

1 Installation Overview

Upgrading Your System

Updating Intel Drivers on Cluster Systems

Installation Check List and Installation Steps

Set Up and Configure Your Avid Unity System

Workspace Names

Avid Unity MediaNetwork Setup and Configuration Documentation

Network Considerations

Avid Unity ISIS Setup and Configuration Documentation

Time Synchronization

User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Unity and Product Servers

Creating the Server Execution User Account

Accounts for Accessing Workspaces

Manually Setting a Target Workspace For Voice-Over Assets

Accounts for Using Deletion

Accounts for Using AirSpeed Server

Accounts for Using Interplay Transfer

Accounts for Avid Editing Applications, Assist, and Instinct

Required Application Keys

Software Installed on Avid Interplay Systems

Interplay Framework Components

Software Installed on Interplay Clients

Software Installed on Interplay Servers

Software Installed on Media Indexer Servers

Different Types of Media Indexers

Shutting Down a Media Indexer System

Using the Interplay Installer

2 Installing Software on Interplay Servers

Starting the Installation

Installing Software on the Interplay Engine Server

Installing the Avid Interplay Engine Software

Installing Avid Interplay Access

Installing Avid Interplay Adapter

Installing Software on the Interplay Transfer Server

Installing Software on the Media Services Server and Media Services Provider Servers

Installing Software on an Avid Interplay Media Indexer Server

Before Installing Media Indexer Software

Using UNC Drive Mapping on Interplay ISIS

Installing the Media Indexer Software

Turning off Interplay Framework Services to Conserve System Memory

Configuring a Media Indexer to Monitor Shared Storage

Tips for Adding a Shared Storage Workspace

Installing Software on the CaptureManager Server

Installing and Configuring Avid Interplay Low Res Encoder Software

Additional Information for Installing the Root Disk and Bootset

3 Installing Software on Interplay Clients

Installing Software on Avid Instinct and Avid Interplay Assist Systems

Assist and Instinct Installers Require Manual Install of Transfer Client

Installing Software on an Interplay Access System

Macintosh Installer for Interplay Access Client

Installing Software on Avid Editing Systems

Configuring an Avid Editing System in the Interplay Framework

Connecting the Media Indexer on an Avid Editing System to the Media Indexer Monitoring Shared Storage

Using the Processes Tab to Configure Media Indexers

Configuring the Local Media Indexer to Index Local Drives

Panasonic DVCPRO P2 and Ikegami NLTEK Media

Installing Software on a CaptureManager Client

Installing Software on a Pro Tools Interplay Client

Establishing the First Connection Between Pro Tools and Interplay

4 Installing Optional Software

Performing a Custom Install of the Interplay Framework Software

Verifying that the Interplay Framework Services Are Running

Disabling Framework Services