K2 anti-virus scan policy

The K2 system is based on the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is important to defend this system against virus or Spyware attacks. Grass Valley supports the scanning of the K2 system drives (the disk drives or drive partition used to house the operating system and installed application software) from a PC that is running the scanning program while the K2 system is being used to record or play video to air. The anti-virus package executing on the PC can be scheduled to scan the system drives of multiple K2 systems.

The following strategies are recommended for virus scanning:

Run the scanning software on a dedicated PC that connects to the K2 system via a network mount. Do not run scanning software locally on the K2 system.
Connect to the K2 system via 100BaseT network. This constrains the bandwidth and system resources consumed, so as to not interfere with media operations. Do not connect and scan via Gigabit Ethernet.
Grass Valley does not support the running of anti-virus programs on a K2 system. This includes K2 Media Server, K2 Media Client, K2 Summit Production Client, and K2 Solo Media Server.

With these recommended strategies, you can scan the K2 system without interrupting media access.