These
Grass Valley Media Server MDI
settings for SAN and/or
Grass Valley Media Server MDI
settings for standalone are required on all
GV STRATUS
systems.
This type of MDI manages K2 Summit Production Client systems. This
topic describes settings for a K2 Summit SAN system.
To locate these settings, click Core | MDI Configuration | Add | Grass Valley Media Server
Designate
SAN-attached K2 Summit systems to be the primary and secondary device for
the entire K2 SAN storage system. Configure a Grass Valley Media Server MDI
for those K2 Summit systems on the K2 SAN.
If you have
multiple standalone K2 Summit or GV I/O systems, multiple K2 SAN systems, a
combination of standalone and K2 SAN systems, a K2 Central system, or a SMB
storage system, each system must have its own Grass Valley Media Server MDI.
When you have multiple Grass Valley Media Server MDIs, they
must each have their own process port number. For this purpose, numbers 9160 -
9169 increment in the Port
field.
| Setting or button
|
Description
|
| MDI Type
|
The Managed Device
Interface (MDI) type to which these settings apply.
|
| MDI Name
|
A name for this
instance of the MDI type.
Do not use spaces in the MDI
name.
The MDI name
could be renamed later, if desired.
Note: After renaming the MDI, you must restart the Render Engine server and its services.
Then, reconfigure other settings on the GV STRATUS Control Panel
(such as Send Destinations, Rules, K2 Central
storage, etc.) to use the new Grass Valley Media
Server MDI name.
|
| Hostname of device
running the MDI
|
The name of the
GV STRATUS server that hosts this
MDI.
|
| Port number
|
The process
port for this instance of the MDI type. Each instance must have its own process
port. Port numbers must be in range 9160-9169.
|
| Type of
device
|
Specifies either SAN-attached Grass Valley system ,
Standalone Grass Valley system, K2 Central system, or
Third Party Storage system.
|
| SAN Name |
The name of the K2 SAN, as named in K2Config.
You can also enter the name of K2 Central system or third
party storage device, if you have them in your operation. |
| Primary Device
|
The K2
Summit/GVI/O client or server designated to be the
primary managed device for the entire K2 SAN, K2 Central
or Third Party Storage system.
For optimum system performance it is recommended that if
there are K2 Summit Clients, use them for the primary
and secondary device.
If there is only one client,
use the client as the primary device and the FSM/Storage
Manager as the secondary device.
If it is a shared
storage with no attached K2 Summit clients, configure
the primary FSM or Storage Manager as the primary device
and the secondary FSM (if exists) or FTP Server as the
secondary device.
|
| Secondary
Device |
The K2 Summit/GVI/O client or
server designated to the secondary managed device for
the entire K2 SAN, K2 Central or Third Party Storage
system. |
| UNC Path |
The UNC path for a connection to the K2 Central and SMB Storage. The field for UNC
path is only available for K2 Central
and Third Party Storage
settings. |
| User Name
|
The
user name that this MDI uses to access the Grass Valley
system. This is the internal system account, which by default is GVAdmin.
|
| Domain
|
If on
a domain, it must be a fully qualified domain that this
MDI uses to access the designated managed device. This
field should only be set for fully qualified domain of
third party storage system in your operation.
|
| Update
Password
|
The
password that this MDI uses to access the Grass Valley
system. Note: Do not enter a domain or
otherwise modify account settings except under the supervision of qualified
Grass Valley Support personnel. Extensive system configuration is required to
achieve a working GV STRATUS system.
|
| FTP Server Name
|
The FTP
server name for the remote K2 Summit system. The
drop-down list consists of all FTP servers belonging to
the Summit SAN. For the typical system where there
is a separate FTP network, this is the name of the K2 SAN's
FTP server with the _he0
suffix added. The _he0
suffix specifies the FTP network. |
| Maximum
concurrent transfers
|
The maximum number of concurrent
transfers allowed. The maximum is set in K2Config. You
may select the maximum or a lesser number as designed
for your system. The number of concurrent transfers as
well as the device status can be checked once the system
is configured in Resource Monitor of the GV STRATUS Control Panel. |
| FTP User Account
|
The FTP user name for the Grass Valley system this MDI
accesses. Typically this is movie.
|
| Update FTP Password
|
The FTP password for the Grass Valley system this MDI
accesses. When this field is blank the system
automatically uses the default password.
|
If you changed a standalone MDI
setting, you must restart the GV STRATUS Core server system and the K2 Summit or GV I/O system. If
SAN MDI settings, you must restart the entire K2 SAN system, including K2
Media Servers, attached K2 Summit systems, and other SAN clients. If you are changing multiple Grass
Valley Media Server MDI settings, you can make all those settings first
before restarting these systems. Restarting the systems once is sufficient
for multiple Grass Valley Media Server MDI settings changes.
When adding back a
previously deleted MDI, you can re-sync the MDI with all data retained in the
GV STRATUS database by doing the
following:
- Reuse the same MDI name that was previously deleted
- Reuse the same port number that was used with the deleted MDI
