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Table Of Contents
- Avid iNEWS Command Installation and Configuration Guide
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Installing and Configuring the Command Server
- System Architecture
- Checklist: Before you Begin
- Checklist: Command Server Installation
- Copying Install CD to Local Directory
- Installing Avid Service Framework
- Installing the License Service
- Installing Avid iNEWS Command on the Server
- Configuring the iNEWS Command Server
- Configuring a Second Command System
- Installing and Configuring the AirSpeed Video Servers
- Checklist: Installing the AirSpeed Video Server
- Installing Avid Service Framework
- Installing AirSpeed Multi Stream Device Services
- Checklist: Configuring the AirSpeed Video Server
- Configuring Properties for Interplay Workgroup
- Configuring the AirSpeed Multi Stream Device Service
- Configuring Properties for Command Workgroup
- Working with Play While Record
- AirSpeed Multi Stream Los-Res Proxy Viewer
- Installing and Configuring the Deko
- System Architecture
- Checklist: Installing the Deko
- Installing Avid Service Framework
- Installing Avid Deko Device Service
- Installing the DekoMOS Gateway
- Installing the DekoMOS Macro Server
- Checklist: Configuring the Deko
- Configuring the DekoMOS Gateway
- Configuring the DekoMOS Macro Server
- Configuring Avid Workgroup Properties
- Configuring the Deko Device Service
- Configuring the Avid Deko Renderer Service
- Creating Graphic Styles in Command
- Installing and Configuring the Graphic Device Service
- Installing Avid Service Framework
- Installing Avid Graphic Device Service
- Installing Third-Party Plug-ins for the Graphic Device Service
- CII Integration
- Installing and Configuring the Thunder
- Installing the Command Workstation
- Installing and Configuring the Tablet Application
- Configuring Playout Control
- Controling Playout via the Keyboard
- Disabling a Command Workstation’s Keyboard
- Checklist: Setting up an X-keys USB Keypad
- Installing an X-keys USB Keypad
- Mapping Indices to Channel Names
- Programming the X-keys
- Setting up the Playout Panel for Touch Screens
- Checklist: Setting up the GPI Panel
- Configuring the GPI Card
- Restarting the GPI Device Service
- Confirming Successful Setup of a GPI Panel
- Mapping Events to Actions for a GPI Panel
- Enabling the GPI Panel
- Configuring GPI Out
- Integrating with Avid iNEWS
- Integrating with ENPS
- Configuring the Perle IOLAN Server
- Confirming Functionality
- Index
9 Integrating with Avid iNEWS
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Monitor Servers
Monitor server is a utility program—running on the iNEWS newsroom computer
system—that checks a show’s event requests for errors, creates composite and event lists,
and sends newsroom playlists to Avid iNEWS Command.
A monitor server must be assigned device and mailbox numbers—typically, these numbers
are the same, which makes the configuration easier to remember. A device number is chosen
for monitor server so iNEWS recognizes the server (utility) program as a valid device. The
device number must be entered in the newsroom computer system’s configuration file. The
mailbox number must be assigned to both the show’s monitor server and its rundown queue.
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A mailbox is an activation mechanism for a server (utility) program, so if a queue has a
mailbox number matching a server program, then that server is the one activated whenever
something happens to the queue.
The mailbox enables iNEWS to notify the monitor server of changes made to a rundown
queue—the one sharing the same mailbox number—while that show is monitored.When on,
monitor server checks its assigned rundown for machine control events, and builds playlists.
The monitor server then sends updates to that rundown’s newsroom playlist in Command,
and will continue to do so as long as the monitor is running and the newsroom computer
system retains the lock on the playlist. It also updates composite and event lists, if
necessary.The monitor server is turned on when a user at an iNEWS Workstation turns it on.
The monitor server loads data to the iNEWS Command system or the MOS Gateway system
when a user instructs it to do so from an iNEWS Workstation.
Creating a Monitor Server for Each Show
The procedures in this section assumes the user has a working knowledge of administration
tasks associated with an Avid iNEWS system and that rundown queues for the shows being
monitored already exist in iNEWS. If not, create them before continuing. For more
information on how to create queues or further details regarding steps in this section, see the
administration documentation that accompanied your iNEWS system.
To create and configure a monitor server:
1. Check the configuration file (
/site/config
) and choose the next available device
number for the monitor server, from the range of 3-digit numbers reserved for use by
your system’s server programs, such as 201 to 300.
Valid standard mailbox numbers are 1 through 4096.