Grass-valley NewsShare v.5.5 User Manual

Preface 8 Digital News Production Authorized Support Representative A local authorized support representative may be available in your country. To

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities98 Digital News ProductionBacking Up the DatabaseTemplatenewsBackUpDb <backup file name> Example C:\Prog

Digital News Production 99Restoring the Database from a Backup>>> Caution: This will overwrite the current News database. TemplatenewsRestore

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities100 Digital News ProductionProcessed 432 pages for database 'news', file 'news_dat' on fil

Digital News Production 101Removing a Database>>> Caution: This will delete the current News database. If the Microsoft SQL Server program is

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities102 Digital News ProductionPurging and Recreating an Empty DatabaseFirst run newsDropDb, as shown above, on th

Digital News Production 103Shrinking a DatabaseSince the database automatically shrinks its transaction log, this operation would be necessary only un

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities104 Digital News ProductionScheduling Automatic Database Backups>>> Caution: This utility should be u

Digital News Production 105• The newsInitAutoBack command does not check for overlapping backup events. Be sure to run it only once and inspect its ta

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities106 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 107Appendix BTransplanting the News DatabaseThis appendix describes how to transplant the News Database from a File System Man

Digital News Production 9 Chapter 1 Introducing NewsShare NewsShare provides the DNP system with the ability to share a common news database and com

Appendix Transplanting the News Database108 Digital News ProductionEstablishing the DSM Note that as a SQL Server host per se, the DSM does not requi

Digital News Production 109Creating a Backup from the Working FSM 1. Proceeding requires that the FSMs be taken out of service. Close all DNP applicat

Appendix Transplanting the News Database110 Digital News ProductionPerforming Interim Testing and Updating Client Machines1. Follow standard procedur

Digital News Production 1115. Repeat either Step 2a or 2b for each DNP machine on the shared volume that runs FeedClip, NewsEdit, NewsQ, or the SmartB

Appendix Transplanting the News Database112 Digital News Production

Chapter 1 Introducing NewsShare 10 Digital News Production NewsShare Components A DNP NewsShare system includes these components:• DNP workstations,

Before you Begin Digital News Production 11 Before you Begin Please read the following notes before beginning the upgrade process. Open SAN Systems O

Chapter 1 Introducing NewsShare 12 Digital News Production recommend to retain their factory names. If you do rename an FSM, you must also rename the

K2 Systems Digital News Production 13 K2 Systems • Before creating a NewsShare environment, you first need to install and configure a K2 Media Server

Chapter 1 Introducing NewsShare 14 Digital News Production Open SAN System What to do... How to do it... Hardware If necessary, replace the single-po

Open SAN System Digital News Production 15 For eachNewsShareWorkstation, cont...Install ContentShare Explorer See “Installing ContentShare Explorer”

Chapter 1 Introducing NewsShare 16 Digital News Production NAS System What to do... How to do it... Hardware Add a Gigabit Ethernet board and install

K2 System Digital News Production 17 K2 System What to do... How to do it... Hardware To each NewsEdit computer, add a dual-Gigabit Ethernet board an

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Chapter 1 Introducing NewsShare 18 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 19 Chapter 2 Installing the Open SAN Hardware If you are creating an Open SAN NewsShare system using some existing equipment

Chapter 2 Installing the Open SAN Hardware 20 Digital News Production Setting Up a Failover Open SAN System In a failover-configured Open SAN system

Installing the Dual-Port Fibre Channel Card Digital News Production 21 Installing the Dual-Port Fibre Channel Card You need to install a dual-port Fi

Chapter 2 Installing the Open SAN Hardware22 Digital News Production10. Select the device with the SCSI driver from the list and click Next.The Digita

Modifying the Registry for Correct Use of the SCSI Fibre Channel FabricDigital News Production 23Modifying the Registry for Correct Use of the SCSI Fi

Chapter 2 Installing the Open SAN Hardware24 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 25Chapter 3Setting Up the File System Manager on the Open SAN SystemTo accommodate NewsShare on your Open SAN, for each FSM yo

Chapter 3 Setting Up the File System Manager on the Open SAN System26 Digital News ProductionCreating a CVFS license.dat FileEach File System Manager

Verifying SQL Server LicensingDigital News Production 27Verifying SQL Server LicensingFor each File System Manager in your Open SAN, verify the follow

NewsShareDigital News ProductionTechnical Reference GuideSOFTWARE VERSION 5.5071837101NOVEMBER 2005

Chapter 3 Setting Up the File System Manager on the Open SAN System28 Digital News ProductionTypically, these components are factory installed, or, if

Digital News Production 29Chapter 4Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN SystemFor each NewsShare workstation on your Open SAN system, assuming a New

Chapter 4 Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN System30 Digital News ProductionUninstalling the NewsRoomSuite SoftwareUse the Windows Add/Remove Pro

Installing the CentraVision File System (CVFS)Digital News Production 316. When prompted to view the Help Folder, click No.7. When the Choose Options

Chapter 4 Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN System32 Digital News ProductionConfiguring CVFSConfigure the DNP machine’s CVFS parameters to exactl

Configuring CVFSDigital News Production 335. Click the Mount Options tab and configure it as described in the table below:Leave the rest of the settin

Chapter 4 Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN System34 Digital News Production6. Click the Cache Parameters tab and configure it as described in th

Modifying the Registry for the CVFS Voting WorkaroundDigital News Production 35Modifying the Registry for the CVFS Voting WorkaroundA voting protocol

Chapter 4 Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN System36 Digital News ProductionC:\MediaAreaNetwork\config\fsroutes and add for each of the FSMs on t

Installing the PC Open SAN SoftwareDigital News Production 37Installing the PC Open SAN SoftwareYou use the Profile XP installation software to instal

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Chapter 4 Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN System38 Digital News ProductionInstalling ContentShare ExplorerYou need to install ContentShare Expl

Installing the NewsRoomSuite 5.5 softwareDigital News Production 39Installing the NewsRoomSuite 5.5 softwareThe next step of the upgrade process is to

Chapter 4 Setting Up Workstations on an Open SAN System40 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 41Chapter 5Testing Your Open SAN SystemOnce you’ve installed and configured all of the components, you should test the NewsSha

Chapter 5 Testing Your Open SAN System42 Digital News ProductionTesting NewsEditTo verify that the NewsShare Open SAN system is working properly:1. Re

Testing FeedClipDigital News Production 43Testing FeedClip To ensure that the NewsShare Open SAN system is working properly:1. Start FeedClip and star

Chapter 5 Testing Your Open SAN System44 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 45Chapter 6Setting Up the Database System Manager on a NAS SystemTo accommodate NewsShare on your NAS system, for each DSM you

Chapter 6 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a NAS System46 Digital News ProductionInstalling Windows 2000 Server SoftwareInstall the Windows 2

Installing SQL ServerDigital News Production 47Services AccountsSelect Use the same account for each service.In Service Settings, select Use the Local

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Chapter 6 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a NAS System48 Digital News Production3. Restart the machine. 4. After restart, open the SQL syste

Upgrading an Existing SQL Server to SP3Digital News Production 49Upgrading an Existing SQL Server to SP3To upgrade a SQL Server to SP3:1. Make sure yo

Chapter 6 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a NAS System50 Digital News ProductionConfiguring SQL ServerTo set up SQL server properties:1. Sel

Installing the NewsShare ServerDigital News Production 51Installing the NewsShare ServerThe SetupNewsShareServer installer must be run on each DSM in

Chapter 6 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a NAS System52 Digital News ProductionStarting with version 5.0 of the NewsroomSuite software, the

Digital News Production 53Chapter 7Setting Up the NAS SystemBefore using the NAS system, you need to set the appropriate IP addresses for the NAS serv

Chapter 7 Setting Up the NAS System54 Digital News ProductionSetting IP AddressesTo set the IP address for the NAS Servers:1. On any PC on your networ

Setting IP AddressesDigital News Production 556. Using Internet Explorer, logon to the NewsShare NAS application.The default address is 192.168.50.20:

Chapter 7 Setting Up the NAS System56 Digital News ProductionSetting the Date and TimeYou should set the date and time that NewsShare NAS uses, in ord

Using Network Time ProtocolDigital News Production 57Using Network Time ProtocolNetwork Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol that synchronizes the real-t

Contents 4 Digital News Production Chapter 6 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a NAS System Installing Windows 2000 Server Software . . . . .

Chapter 7 Setting Up the NAS System58 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 59Chapter 8Setting Up NewsShare WorkstationsFor each NewsShare workstation on your NAS system, assuming a NewsroomSuite upgrad

Chapter 8 Setting Up NewsShare Workstations60 Digital News ProductionUninstalling the NewsRoomSuite SoftwareUse the Windows Add/Remove Programs applic

Mounting a NAS VolumeDigital News Production 61Mounting a NAS VolumeFor each client machine and the XRE Server running the SmartBin Service, if applic

Chapter 8 Setting Up NewsShare Workstations62 Digital News ProductionInstalling the NewsRoomSuite 5.5 softwareThe next step of the upgrade process is

Digital News Production 63Chapter 9Testing Your NAS SystemOnce you’ve installed and configured all of the components, you should test the NewsShare NA

Chapter 9 Testing Your NAS System64 Digital News ProductionTesting NewsEditTo verify that the NewsShare NAS system is working properly:1. Record a sho

Testing FeedClipDigital News Production 65Testing FeedClip To ensure that the NewsShare NAS system is working properly:1. Start FeedClip and start a r

Chapter 9 Testing Your NAS System66 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 67Chapter 10Setting Up the Database System Manager on a K2 SystemTo accommodate NewsShare on your K2 system, for each DSM you

Contents Digital News Production 5Chapter 13 Installing NewsroomSuite Software Uninstalling the NewsroomSuite Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 10 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a K2 System68 Digital News ProductionInstalling Windows 2003 Server SoftwareInstall the Windows 2

Installing SQL ServerDigital News Production 69Services AccountsSelect Use the same account for each service.In Service Settings, select Use the Local

Chapter 10 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a K2 System70 Digital News Production3. Restart the machine. 4. After restart, open the SQL syste

Upgrading an Existing SQL Server to SP3Digital News Production 71Upgrading an Existing SQL Server to SP3To upgrade a SQL Server to SP3:1. Make sure yo

Chapter 10 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a K2 System72 Digital News ProductionConfiguring SQL ServerTo set up SQL server properties:1. Sel

Installing the NewsShare ServerDigital News Production 73Installing the NewsShare ServerThe SetupNewsShareServer installer must be run on each DSM in

Chapter 10 Setting Up the Database System Manager on a K2 System74 Digital News ProductionStarting with version 5.0 of the NewsroomSuite software, the

Digital News Production 75Chapter 11Setting Up NewsShare Workstations on a K2 NetworkFor each NewsShare workstation on your K2 system you need to inst

Chapter 11 Setting Up NewsShare Workstations on a K2 Network76 Digital News ProductionInstalling the StorNext File SystemThe StorNext File System soft

Installing the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2.0Digital News Production 774. Reboot the computer when prompted.Installing the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator 2.

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Chapter 11 Setting Up NewsShare Workstations on a K2 Network78 Digital News ProductionInstalling the Generic iSCSI Client SoftwareThe Generic iSCSI Cl

Digital News Production 79Chapter 12Setting up a NewsEdit client on a K2 iSCSI NetworkOnce you’ve installed the required software (see Chapter 11, “Se

Chapter 12 Setting up a NewsEdit client on a K2 iSCSI Network80 Digital News ProductionSetting Up the K2 NetworkFollowing the instructions in the K2 S

Configuring NewsShare Workstations with the K2 Configuration ApplicationDigital News Production 81 3. If you need to add another NewsShare client to t

Chapter 12 Setting up a NewsEdit client on a K2 iSCSI Network82 Digital News Production4. Select the iSCSI Client to be configured in the hierarchy vi

Configuring NewsShare Workstations with the K2 Configuration ApplicationDigital News Production 836. At the Network Configuration screen, click Modify

Chapter 12 Setting up a NewsEdit client on a K2 iSCSI Network84 Digital News Production7. At the File System Client Configuration screen, enter the dr

Configuring NewsShare Workstations with the K2 Configuration ApplicationDigital News Production 858. At the iSCSI Initiator Configuration screen, ente

Chapter 12 Setting up a NewsEdit client on a K2 iSCSI Network86 Digital News Productionc. Click Assign TOE.9. Click Next.10. At the Completing the Con

Digital News Production 87Chapter 13Installing NewsroomSuite SoftwareFor each NewsShare workstation on your K2 system, assuming a NewsroomSuite upgrad

Grass Valley Product Support Digital News Production 7 Grass Valley Product Support To get technical assistance, check on the status of problems, o

Chapter 13 Installing NewsroomSuite Software88 Digital News ProductionUninstalling the NewsroomSuite SoftwareUse the Windows Add/Remove Programs appli

Installing the NewsroomSuite 5.5 softwareDigital News Production 89Installing the NewsroomSuite 5.5 softwareThe next step of the upgrade process is to

Chapter 13 Installing NewsroomSuite Software90 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 91Chapter 14Testing Your K2 SystemOnce you’ve installed and configured all of the components, you should test the NewsShare K2

Chapter 14 Testing Your K2 System92 Digital News ProductionTesting NewsEditTo verify that the NewsShare K2 system is working properly:1. Record a shor

Testing FeedClipDigital News Production 93Testing FeedClip To ensure that the NewsShare K2system is working properly:1. Start FeedClip and start a rec

Chapter 14 Testing Your K2 System94 Digital News Production

Digital News Production 95Appendix ADatabase Maintenance UtilitiesSix command-line utilities are available for maintenance of the 4.1x, 4.5x and 5.x N

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities96 Digital News ProductionOverview>>> CAUTION: Use these utilities with great care. The restore and d

Digital News Production 97- Stop all access before restoring or dropping the database. - Take FSMs and DSMs out of service before restoring or droppin