Grass Valley Recommended Deployment and Monitoring Solutions

To maximize up-time, a maintenance strategy must provide the ability to easily identify the root cause of an unanticipated hardware or software failure and to quickly compile failure data. The ability to proactively predict failures and to quickly notify those who can rectify them makes the maintenance strategy even more powerful. Grass Valley has a long history of building the necessary functionality into critical broadcast products. Beginning with Grass Valley’s longstanding monitoring application NetCentral and progressing to the next generation tool GV GUARDIAN, remote monitoring and proactive predictive failure analysis are important contributors to Grass Valley system solutions. Both NetCentral and GV GUARDIAN run on commercial off-the-shelf server PCs, such as the K2 system control point PC. Grass Valley and 3rd party devices report status via Window Messaging, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), or syslog to the NetCentral or GV GUARDIAN application. Each application provides easy to use, fully autonomous remote monitoring to predict errors, provide proactive notifications, and centrally consolidate error logs and hardware failure information. Grass Valley recommends using a remote monitoring tool like NetCentral or GV GUARDIAN. With NetCentral, and even more so with GV GUARDIAN, you can maximize your up-time with less manpower, as compared to manual system monitoring. Watching for indicator lights, physically scanning logs, and other manual monitoring is far more time consuming, more error-prone, and much less accurate. If you have an existing NetCentral installation you install a NetCentral device provider on the NetCentral server PC for each type of device you are monitoring. Refer to NetCentral product documentation for installation and operating instructions. With GV GUARDIAN, only SNMP MIBs are required. Separate device providers are not necessary. Refer to the on-line GV GUARDIAN Topic Library for information.


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