Pinnacle Systems Unity MediaNetwork - 3.2 Management Guide
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Avid Unity MediaNetwork Management Guide • Part 0130-05491-01 • February 2003
Contents
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Who Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Related Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
If You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Avid Educational Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Management Tasks and Overall Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Directory and File Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Trilligent Clusters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
LANserver EX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
MediaNetwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Management Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Monitor Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Getting Help with the Monitor Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuring a Workgroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating a Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Creating an Allocation Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Creating New Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Creating User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Protecting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 2 Setup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setup Manager Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Getting Help with the Setup Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Starting the Setup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using Setup Manager in a Fail-Over Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Fail-Over Configuration Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Determining the Active File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Starting and Stopping the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Starting the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Stopping the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Logging Out and Stopping the File Manager Changes . . . . . . . . . . 40
Stopping the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Online Drive Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Enabling AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 3 Configuring General, Fail-Over, and Remote Error
Notification Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring File Manager Fail-Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Fail-Over Configuration Procedure Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Step 1: Setting Up the Fail-Over Connection on the
First File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Step 2: Setting Up the Fail-Over Connection on the
Second File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Step 3: Validating the Connections for File Manager
Fail-Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Step 4: Starting the First and Second File Managers . . . . . . . . 49
Setting Up E-mail Error Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring the E-mail Error Notification Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting Up E-mail Error Notification Contacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating a New Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Creating a Data Drive Set Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Creating a Data Drive Set Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Creating a Data Drive Set from Raw Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Creating Spare Data Drives from Raw Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Adding Storage to Your Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Adding Active Data Drives to a Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Hot Swapping MEDIArray II Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Adding Drives That Were Data Drives in Another
Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Adding Drives That Were Previously Used with Another
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Removing Drives from Your Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Removing Active Data Drives from a Data Drive Set. . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Physically Removing Storage from Your Environment . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting Drive Mode Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Deleting a Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Rebuilding a Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Bringing the Data Drive Set Online and Taking the
Data Drive Set Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Bringing the Data Drive Set Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Taking the Data Drive Set Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Chapter 5 Administration Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
User Interface Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Message Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
List Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Window Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
User Interface Window Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Getting Help with the Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Opening the Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Before Performing Administrative Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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Logging In to the Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Administration Tool Preferences Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Setting Administration Tool Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Preference Tabs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Undoing or Canceling Preference Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Saving Preference Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Exporting and Importing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Setting the Administration Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Setting User Account Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Setting Workspace Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Setting Workspace and Monitor Graph Bar Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Setting Warning Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Setting Logo Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reestablishing a Connection to the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Allocation Group Management Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Allocation Group Usage Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Creating Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Adding Drives to Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Removing Drives from Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Identifying Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Renaming Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Deleting Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Workspace Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Workspace List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Reading the Workspace List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Changing the Workspace List Graph Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Duplicating Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Adjusting Workspace Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Renaming Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Deleting Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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Protecting Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Workspace Protection Recommendations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Capacity of Odd Number of Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Enabling Protection of New Files Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Disabling Protection of New Files Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Synchronizing All Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Optimizing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Moving Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Collecting Workspace Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges. . . . . . . . . 113
The User Management Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Creating User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Number of Users Versus Licensed Client Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Configuring User Accounts and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Example 1 – Standalone Workgroup Using Local User
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Example 2 – Standalone Workgroup Using Local Groups. . . . . . . 118
Example 3 – Network Workgroup Using Domain User
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Example 4 – Network Workgroup Using Domain Groups . . . . . . . 121
Duplicating User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Modifying User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Deleting User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Disabling Guest Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Workspace Access Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Changing Workspace Access Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Chapter 9 Monitoring System Usage and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
The Connection Monitor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Changing the Monitor List Graph Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
The Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Viewing and Managing the Log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
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Appendix A Managing Drive Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Identifying Bad Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Replacing the Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
How Online Drive Recovery Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Recovering a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Damaged Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Verifying AutoRecovery for Failed Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Replacing Bad Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Appendix B Advanced Support Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
The Server Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
The Text Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
The NtStatDump Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
The RecoverDisks Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
The Avid Unity Profiler Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Appendix C Using the Text Console for Remote Administration. . . . . . . 145
Starting the Text Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Using the Text Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Command Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
The User Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Workspace Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The On/Offline Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
The Disk Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
The Stats Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Tables
Table 1 Trilligent File Manager Directories and Files . . . . . . . . . . .21
Table 2 LANserver EX Directories and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Table 3 MediaNetwork File Manager Directories and Files . . . . . .23
Table 4 File Manager Recommended IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . .46
Table 5 Preference Window Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Table 6 Preference File Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Table 7 Workspace Access Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Table 8 Command Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Table 9 User Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Table 10 Workspace Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Table 11 On/Offline Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Table 12 Stats Subcommand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
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Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork
workgroup, an Avid Unity LANshare, a Trilligent
LANserver. All of these products provide a high-performance distributed
file system that contains high-capacity shared media storage for
workgroups of connected Avid
media to an in-house network or the Internet.
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This document describes the features for all MediaNetwork environments.
Therefore, your system might not contain certain features that are covered
in the documentation.
Who Should Use This Guide
This management guide is intended for system administrators responsible
for the setup and day-to-day management of a MediaNetwork workgroup
or a Trilligent cluster. You should have a basic understanding of how to use
and manage Windows NT
and should be familiar with the basic MediaNetwork concepts described in
the Avid Unity MediaNetwork System Overview.
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Cluster, or a Trilligent
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editing workstations, or for streaming
, Windows® 2000, and Mac OS® X systems,
About This Guide
This guide provides task-oriented instructions for the configuration,
management, and basic troubleshooting of your environment.
Using This Guide
The Contents lists all topics included in the book, presented with the
following overall structure:
• Chapter 1 provides an overview of the MediaNetwork configuration
process.
• Chapters 2 to 4 introduce the Setup Manager and describe how you use
it to configure your environment parameters and to configure your
drives as a data drive set.
• Chapters 5 to 9 introduce the Administration Tool and describe how
you use it to perform initial workspace configuration and day-to-day
tasks.
• The Appendixes describe how to manage drive problems and the
advanced support tools available to you.
• A detailed Index helps you quickly locate specific topics.
Symbols and Conventions
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Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the
Windows 2000 or Windows NT and Mac OS X operating systems. When
the text applies to a specific operating system, it is marked as follows:
• (Windows) or (Windows only) means the information applies to the
Windows 2000 or Windows NT operating system.
• (Macintosh) or (Macintosh only) means the information applies to the
Mac OS X operating system.
Symbols and Conventions
Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:
Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action
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A note provides important related information,
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suggestions.
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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.
subcommands) in the 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.
Press and hold the Command key and another key to
perform a keyboard shortcut.
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button (Macintosh) twice rapidly.
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If You Need Help
If you are having trouble using your system, you should:
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 release notes supplied with your Avid application for the
latest information that might have become available after the hardcopy
documentation was printed.
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hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.
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For Broadcast On-Air Sites and Call Letter Stations, call
800-NEWS-DNG (800-639-7364).
Related Information
The following documents provide more information about configuring and
managing your work environment:
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Site Preparation Guide
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Upgrade Notes
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork System Overview
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Troubleshooting Guide
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Macintosh Fibre Channel Client Setup
Guide
• MediaNetwork Macintosh Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Windows Fibre Channel Client Setup Guide
• MediaNetwork Windows Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Macintosh Ethernet Client Setup Guide
Related Information
• MediaNetwork Macintosh Ethernet Client Quick Start Card
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Windows Ethernet Client Setup Guide
• MediaNetwork Windows Ethernet Client Quick Start Card
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Release Notes
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Media Server Setup Guide
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork PortServer Setup Guide
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork Supported Configurations
• Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Failover Installation Notes
• Avid Unity LANserver EX Setup Guide
• Avid Unity LANserver Upgrade Notes
• Avid Unity LANserver Release Notes
MediaNetwork also provides Help systems that include complete
information about using the Setup Manager, the Administration Tool, and
the Monitor Tool.
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Chapter 1
MediaNetwork Management Overview
MediaNetwork allows you to centrally manage very large amounts of
storage that multiple clients can access to share video, audio, and effects
media in an intuitive, collaborative environment.
This chapter provides an overview of the tasks you need to perform, the
configuration factors you need to consider, and the tools needed to manage
your workgroup.
This chapter discusses:
• Management Tasks and Overall Considerations
• Management Tools
• Configuring a Workgroup
Management Tasks and Overall Considerations
As an administrator, you are responsible for:
• Initial setup and configuration of the workgroup — You must
configure the data drive set, one or more allocation groups,
workspaces, and user accounts.
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• Day-to-day administration — You probably need to reconfigure
MediaNetwork to accommodate new users and evolving projects.
MediaNetwork also provides comprehensive monitoring functionality
that allows you to check total MediaNetwork activity as well as that of
each connected client.
• Troubleshooting — When problems occur with the storage hardware,
the File Manager, or a client, you need to diagnose the problem and, if
possible, fix it. MediaNetwork provides easy-to-understand error,
warning, and informational messages that inform you of problems as
well as tools that help you diagnose and fix problems.
How you answer the following strategic questions determines your
priorities when making configuration decisions and trade-offs (possibly
affecting several aspects of your configuration).
• What is your site type?
In-house and rental editing suites probably require very different
administration requirements, particularly in terms of workspace access
restrictions and how often you need to reconfigure workspaces and
users. For more information on managing workspaces, see Chapter 7.
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• Does your workgroup include dual-stream uncompressed clients?
If so, you will need to set up special hardware and allocation group
configurations. For more information on managing allocation groups,
see Chapter 6.
• How large is your data drive set and does it include more than one
drive type?
If your data drive set is very large or has different drive types, you
probably need to assign your data drives to more than one allocation
group. For more information on managing the drive hardware, see
Chapter 4.
• Will your client users be working on individual projects with their own
media or will they be collaborating on team projects that use the same
source media?
These factors affect how you should allocate workspaces and user
accounts. For more information on managing allocation groups, see
Chapter 6.
• Is security more important than ease of access at your site?
Individual password user accounts combined with tightly controlled
workspace access privileges provide the most security at the cost of
restricting user flexibility. For more information on managing user
accounts and access privileges, see Chapter 8.
Directory and File Limits
The following section provides directory and file limits for Trilligent
Clusters, LANshare LANserver EX and Trilligent LANserver EX, and
MediaNetwork environments.
Trilligent Clusters
For Trilligent Clusters, MediaNetwork Release 3.2 supports up to 250,000
files on a 1-GB File Manager or up to 1.9 million files on a 2-GB File
Manager. You can also increase the number of directories on the file
system to more than 10,000. Doing so, however, decreases the total
number of files you can store, by 32,000, each time you cross a
10,000-directory boundary. MediaNetwork warns you if you exceed either
the directory or the file limits.
Management Tasks and Overall Considerations
Tabl e 1 shows the dynamic relationship between the number of directories
you have and the number of files you can store on 1-GB and 2-GB File
Managers.
Table 1 Trilligent File Manager Directories and Files
1-GB File Manager
Maximum Number of
Directories
10,000 250,000 1,900,000
20,000 218,000 1,868,000
30,000 186,000 1,836,000
40,000 154,000 1,804,000
Files
2-GB File Manager
Maximum Number of
Files
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Table 1 Trilligent File Manager Directories and Files (Continued)
LANserver EX
1-GB File Manager
Maximum Number of
Directories
50,000 122,000 1,772,000
60,000 90,000 1,740,000
Files
2-GB File Manager
Maximum Number of
Files
On a LANserver EX, MediaNetwork Release 3.2 supports 10,000
directories and up to 250,000 files for LANshare or up to 300,000 files for
Trilligent streaming. You can also increase the number of directories on the
file system to more than 10,000. Doing so, however, decreases the total
number of files you can store, by 32,000, each time you cross a
10,000-directory boundary. MediaNetwork warns you if you exceed either
the directory or the file limits.
Tabl e 2 shows the dynamic relationship between the number of directories
you have and the number of files you can store on the 2-GB LANshare
LANserver EX and the 2-GB Trilligent LANserver EX.
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Table 2 LANserver EX Directories and Files
2-GB LANshare
LANserver EX
Maximum Number of
Directories
10,000 250,000 300,000
20,000 218,000 268,000
30,000 186,000 236,000
Files
2-GB Trilligent
LANserver EX
Maximum Number of
Files
MediaNetwork
Management Tasks and Overall Considerations
MediaNetwork Release 3.2 supports a 768-MB or 1-GB File Manager that
can have up to 250,000 files, or a 2-GB File Manager that can have up to
500,000 files. You can also increase the number of directories on the file
system to more than 10,000. Doing so, however, decreases the total
number of files you can store, by 32,000, each time you cross a
10,000-directory boundary. MediaNetwork warns you if you exceed either
the directory or the file limits.
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The metadata for 500,000 files can use as many as 15 data drives on
your drive set. If the metadata expands into a MEDIArray
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enclosure that is set up as a single-user allocation group for 1:1 video,
it could severely impact the performance of finishing clients.
Tabl e 3 shows the dynamic relationship between the number of directories
you have and the number of files you can store on 768-MB, 1-GB, and
2-GB File Managers.
Table 3 MediaNetwork File Manager Directories and Files
768-MB and 1-GB File
Managers Maximum
Directories
10,000 250,000 500,000
20,000 218,000 468,000
30,000 186,000 436,000
40,000 154,000 404,000
50,000 122,000 372,000
Number of Files
2-GB File Manager
Maximum Number of
Files
60,000 90,000 340,000
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Notes on Dynamic Directory and File Limits
Large numbers of directories and files on the File Manager can effect the
performance of the MediaNetwork workgroup management tools.
• As you reach the upper limits for the number of directories and files,
the tools used to manage the MediaNetwork workgroup (the Monitor
Tool, the Setup Manager, and the Administration Tool) run slowly.
They run at a lower system priority than the File Manager software and
require more time to manage metadata.
• While the dynamic directory and file limits are calculated correctly by
MediaNetwork Release 3.2, the dynamic limits are not shown
correctly in the Setup Manager or the Administration Tool. This has no
effect on performance; it strictly affects the display of limit
information.
Management Tools
Setup Manager
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MediaNetwork provides several tools that allow you to configure and
perform day-to-day management. For more information on using these
management tools, see the following sections:
• Setup Manager
• Administration Tool
• Monitor Tool
You use the Setup Manager to perform storage hardware management
tasks, including:
• Creating and managing a data drive set
• Specifying drives as data drives or spare drives
• Starting and stopping the File Manager service to perform system
maintenance
• Adding drives to and removing drives from the data drive set
Management Tools
• Performing drive maintenance and error recovery operations
The Setup Manager runs only from the File Manager. For a detailed
description of the Setup Manager, see Chapter 2.
Administration Tool
The Administration Tool is the primary tool for the initial setup and
administration of allocation groups, workspaces, users, and client
connection privileges. It also allows you to monitor storage activity. Use
the Administration Tool to:
• View, create, rename, and delete allocation groups.
• Add drives to allocation groups.
• View, create, rename, adjust the size of, protect, and delete
workspaces.
• View, create, edit, and delete user accounts (with optional passwords)
and assign user access privileges.
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• Monitor system usage, including total system bandwidth use, number
of active MediaNetwork clients or media servers, and bandwidth
consumption per client or server.
• View a list of error, warning, and informational messages.
• Open multiple windows at the same time.
Management
window buttons
Window buttons
List area
Message
area
Monitor Tool
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You can open the Administration Tool from the File Manager or from any
MediaNetwork client or media server, where it communicates with the File
Manager through the Fibre Channel network. For a detailed description of
the Administration Tool, see Chapter 5.
The Monitor Tool provides low-level, performance-monitoring functions.
Using the Monitor Tool, you can view:
• The current status of each drive, including name, number, available
storage, percentage of storage used, and the number of affected files, if
any
Management Tools
• A list of the workspaces
• The status of communications between the File Manager and the
MediaNetwork clients or media servers
• Information on the metadata maintained by the File Manager
• File Manager memory usage
• Counts and service times for MediaNetwork client or for Media Server
requests
You can also use the Monitor Tool to start and stop the File Manager
service and to set advanced MediaNetwork features, such as clearing the
administrator’s password.
When the Monitor Tool opens, File Manager status information appears.
Getting Help with the Monitor Tool
The Help system provides procedures and reference information for all
features of the Monitor Tool.
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Configuring a Workgroup
Your primary responsibility as an administrator is to ensure that
MediaNetwork is configured properly.
This section provides a quick look at the tasks you must perform to
establish a workgroup, and includes:
• Creating a Data Drive Set
• Creating an Allocation Group
• Creating New Workspaces
• Creating User Accounts
• Protecting Data
Creating a Data Drive Set
The data drive set defines the drives that the MediaNetwork software can
use to store data. Each MediaNetwork workgroup can have only one data
drive set.
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To create a data drive set:
1. From the File Manager desktop, click the Start button, point to
Programs, point to AvidUnity, and then select Setup Manager.
2. Click Raw Drives in the left section of the window.
You can create your data drive set with no spare drives or with two spare
drives. Having spare drives allows you to perform online drive repairs if a
drive fails. If you are not running the optional UnityRAID
software, you should consider having spare drives.
3. Select the drives you want in the data drive set in the right section of
the window.
4. Choose Create Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu.
5. Click OK.
The data drive set is created.
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protection
6. If you did not use all of the drives in the data drive set, select the
remaining drives in the right section of the window, and choose Make
Drive Spare from the Drives menu.
7. Click Data Drive Set in the left section of the window.
All of the drives should move from Raw Drives to Data Drive Set.
8. Quit the Setup Manager.
For more information about data drive sets, see Chapter 4.
Creating an Allocation Group
An allocation group defines how the drives in a data drive set are
partitioned to store data. If you have drives of different sizes, they must be
in separate allocation groups.
To create a new allocation group:
1. Open the Administration Tool from the File Manager console, from
any Windows client, or from a Macintosh client.
Configuring a Workgroup
2. Click the Allocation Group Management button.
3. Click the Create New Allocation Group button.
The New Allocation Group dialog box opens.
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4. Type a name for the allocation group.
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5. Select the appropriate GB (gigabyte) size from the Drive button.
6. Select all the drives you want to assign to the new allocation group
(four-drive minimum) by clicking them.
7. Click the Create button to create a new allocation group containing all
the selected drives.
A dialog box opens and prompts you to confirm that you want to create
a new allocation group.
The new allocation group appears in the allocation group list.
8. Leave the Administration Tool running.
For more information about allocation groups, see Chapter 6.
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