Pinnacle Systems Unity MediaManager - 2.0 Administrator’s Guide

Avid Unity™

MediaManager

Administrator’s Guide

Release 2.0

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Avid Unity MediaManager Administrator’s Guide • Part 0130-04600-01 Rev. A •

November 2000

Using This Guide

Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Related Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

How to Order Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 1 Getting Started

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Database Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Accessing and Logging In to MediaManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Opening MediaManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Logging In as Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

User Interface Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Administrative Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Logging Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 2 Managing User Accounts

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

MediaManager Privilege Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

The User List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Creating User Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Editing User Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Deleting User Accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 3 MediaManager Administrative Tasks

MediaManager Maintenance Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Database Maintenance Tasks and Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Performing Database Maintenance Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Managing Database Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Checking Available Drive Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Purging Media Objects from MediaManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Checking Consistency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

MediaManager Database Backup and Restore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Specifying the Location for MediaManager Backup Files . . . . 30

Backing Up the MediaManager Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Restoring the MediaManager Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Setting Session Timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Resyncing to the Avid Unity Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Recovering from a Server Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Restarting MediaManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

List of Terms Index

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of Avid Unity™ MediaManager, a powerful tool for managing media in an Avid Unity MediaNet shared storage environment.

Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is intended for MediaManager administrators responsible for the setup and day-to-day operation of MediaManager in a MediaNet environment.

About This Guide

The Contents lists all topics included in the book. They are presented with the following overall structure:

• Chapter 1, Getting Started, helps you get oriented with beginning

concepts and general workflow and provides valuable pointers as

you proceed.

• Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 follow the natural flow of your work,

with clear and comprehensive step-by-step procedures.

•An Index helps you quickly locate specific topics.

Symbols and Conventions

MediaManager documentation uses the following special symbols and conventions:

1. Numbered lists, when the order of the items is important.

a. Alphabetical lists, when the order of secondary items is

important.

• Bulleted lists, when the order of the items is unimportant.

- Indented dashed lists, when the order of secondary items is unimportant.

Look here in the margin for tips.

In the margin, you will find tips that help you perform tasks more easily and efficiently.

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.

If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using MediaManager, you should:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide.

2. Check the documentation that came with your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

3. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for information on accessing the Avid Web site and the Avid Knowledge Center.

4. For customer support, contact your local Avid Reseller, or contact Avid Customer Support directly:

• Broadcast customers — call 800-NEWS-DNG (639-7364).

• Postproduction customers — call 800-800-AVID (2843).

Related Information

The following documents provide more information about MediaManager and other workgroup documents:

• Avid Unity MediaManager User’s Guide

• Avid Unity MediaManager Release Notes

• Avid Unity TransferManager User’s Guide

• Avid Unity TransferManager Release Notes

• Avid Unity Workgroup Setup Guide

• Avid Products Collaboration Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for transferring project files, audio files, and graphics and effects files between various Avid products.

The most recent update of the Avid Products Collaboration Guide is provided online. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for information on accessing online documentation.

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Simply e-mail your documentation comments to Avid Technology at

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CHAPTER 1

Getting Started

MediaManager is a media management tool that allows MediaNet clients to search the large number of media objects (master clips, sequences, effects, and any other type of object that references digital media) in the MediaNet shared storage environment.

The MediaManager database resides on a dedicated Windows NT system, apart from the MediaNet server, so that database load can never impact critical file system operations.

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Overview

• Accessing and Logging In to MediaManager

• User Interface Overview

• Administrative Tasks

• Logging Out

Overview

MediaManager is based on Microsoft® SQL Server. It manages the database by adding, removing, and modifying objects and records in the database in response to client requests. MediaManager consists of two major components:

• Database services — The software applications that drive the

• Data — The information about media objects physically stored on

Database Services

MediaManager is implemented using a number of Windows NT services on the MediaManager server system. The main database service is listed in the Services control panel as MSSQLServer. Ancillary services also required for MediaManager operation are IIS Admin Service and World Wide Web Publishing Service.

database functions

drives (optionally mirrored for data security)

Data

The data is stored on one or more drives, depending on whether you have a server configuration that supports mirroring (duplication of the data on multiple drives in a redundant configuration). In a mirrored configuration, if one drive fails, the mirrored drive is automatically used instead.

For every media object, the database stores an associated record that contains specific information about the object. Information in each record is recorded as a predetermined set of attributes. Each attribute describes a feature of the object, for example, its name, creation date, or tape ID. When you initiate a search, MediaManager finds the records with the attributes you specify and then lists the associated

objects. For a complete list of attributes, see the Avid Unity

MediaManager User’s Guide.

Accessing and Logging In to MediaManager

The MediaManager user interface is implemented as a dynamic Web page. If you are using Windows Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. If you are using a Macintosh you can open MediaManager using Netscape Navigator (Netscape Navigator is part of Netscape Communicator 4.7 or later.)

For installation information, see the Avid Unity MediaManager Release Notes.

For an overview of how to use MediaManager for administrative purposes, see “User Interface Overview” on page 15. For more information about the user interface, see the Avid Unity MediaManager User’s Guide.

If you are using Internet Explorer, see the Avid Unity MediaManager User’s Guide to set up Internet Explorer to work with MediaManager.

This section describes how to open the MediaManager Web page and then log in.

Opening MediaManager

, you can open MediaManager with

system,

4.08 or later.

To open MediaManager, first obtain its Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from your site administrator. A typical example is:

http://

(Where ummserver in this example is the computer name of the MediaManager server.)

ummserver

/omm/

To open the page in Internet Explorer (Windows):

1. Start your Internet Explorer application.

2. Choose Open from the File menu (or press Ctrl+O).

3. Type the URL supplied to you by your administrator in the Open dialog box, and then click OK.

Alternatively, if the Address toolbar is open, you can simply type the URL there and press Enter.

To open the page in Netscape (Macintosh):

1. Start your Netscape application.

2. Choose Open Page from the File menu.

3. Type the URL supplied to you by your administrator in the Open Page dialog box, and then click Open.

Alternatively, if the Address toolbar is open, you can simply type the URL there and press Return.

After you open the MediaManager page for the first time by specifying its address manually, you might want to set it as your default home page or to bookmark it for easy access. For more information, see the Help provided with your Internet browser.

Logging In as Administrator

Each time you open MediaManager, a login screen appears, prompting you to enter a user name and password. To gain access to

MediaManager’s administrative functions, you must supply a user name with administrative privileges. Once you have logged in as administrator, you can access all the standard MediaManager functionality as well as its administrative functions.

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