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Table Of Contents
- Title
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Avid Interplay Administrator 19
- Chapter 2 Database Settings 31
- Chapter 3 Server Settings 81
- Chapter 4 User Management 91
- Chapter 5 Site Settings 127
- Chapter 6 Application Settings 163
- Chapter 7 Avid Interplay Services 189
- Chapter 8 Troubleshooting 191
- Chapter 9 Configuring Interplay for a Split Database 199
- Appendix A Installed Components and Services 223
- Appendix B Interplay Engine Configuration Files 241
- Appendix C Valid and Invalid Characters in Avid Interplay 255
- Appendix D System Metadata Properties 257
- Appendix E Server Error Codes 269
- Appendix F Consistency Check Codes 285
- Using This Guide
- Getting Started with the Avid Interplay Administrator
- Database Settings
- Creating an Interplay Database
- Avid Interplay Databases, Folders, and Files
- Limits on the Number of Assets and Objects in the Interplay Database
- Creating and Restoring Database Backups
- Performing a Consistency Check
- Viewing Database Information
- Locking and Unlocking Databases
- Managing Databases: Deactivating, Activating, and Migrating
- Moving a Database to Another Server (Non-Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database and Users to Another Server (Non-Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database to Another Server (Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database and Users to Another Server (Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database Under Low Disk Space Conditions
- Renaming a Database
- Server Settings
- User Management
- Understanding the Central Configuration Server
- Adding Users to a Central Configuration Server
- Setting User Authentication Providers and Importing Users
- Managing Users, User Groups, and User Rights
- Understanding Default User Groups, Users, and Roles
- Adding User Groups
- Adding Users Manually
- Viewing and Setting Attributes
- Understanding Standard Roles and Default Rights
- Viewing and Changing Roles
- Viewing and Setting Authentication Providers for Individual Users
- Deleting Users and User Groups
- Removing Users from User Groups
- Managing Database Roles
- Guidelines for User Management
- Site Settings
- Defining Property Layouts
- Setting the Resolutions Available for Display
- Creating Custom Properties
- Configuring Remote Workgroups
- Configuring Categories
- Setting Server Hostnames and the Workgroup Name
- Interplay Media Services View
- Interplay Transfer Status View
- Interplay Transfer Settings View
- Workgroup Transfer Presets View
- Specifying Remote Servers for Asset Tracking
- Specifying Archive Settings
- Setting the Ownership for New Database Folders
- Setting Options for Deletion
- Viewing and Setting the Metadata Override Status
- Application Settings
- Avid Interplay Services
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring Interplay for a Split Database
- Installed Components and Services
- Interplay Engine Configuration Files
- Valid and Invalid Characters in Avid Interplay
- System Metadata Properties
- Server Error Codes
- Consistency Check Codes
- Index
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Chapter 8 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Troubleshooting Login Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Troubleshooting Client Connection Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Optimizing Avid Interplay Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Troubleshooting Firewalls and Avid Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Troubleshooting the Server Execution User Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Creating the Server Execution User Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Determining the Server Execution User Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Re-creating the Server Execution User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Shutting Down or Locking the Server Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chapter 9 Configuring Interplay for a Split Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Understanding a Split Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Supported Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Preparing for a Split Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Splitting a Database for New Interplay Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Splitting a Database for Existing Interplay Installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Configuring the workgroup.xml File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Identifying the Root Folder of the Interplay Server Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Reuniting a Split Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Reuniting a Split Database (AvidWG Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Reuniting a Split Database (AvidWG and _InternalData). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Appendix A Installed Components and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Avid Interplay Engine Directory: Folders and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Apache Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Activating Creation of the access.log File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Data Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
AvDeletes.log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
AvMetaDataDelete.log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
AvMoveEx.log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Preview Server Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Server Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Required TCP/IP Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231