3.2
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Getting Started with the Interplay | Administrator
- Database Settings
- Creating an Interplay Database
- Interplay Databases, Folders, and Files
- Creating and Restoring Database Backups
- Types of Interplay Administrator Backups
- Recommendations for Backup Configuration
- Setting the Number of Database Backups to Keep
- Scheduling Automatic Database Backups
- Starting a Backup Manually
- Using an Archiving Tool for Backup
- Restoring an Earlier Version of a Database
- Performing a Partial Restore of an Interplay Production Database
- Creating a Metadata-Only Backup for Customer Support
- 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
- Running Database Maintenance Tools
- Identifying the Root Folder of the Interplay Server 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
- Enabling Interplay Synced Projects
- Setting Options for Deletion
- Viewing and Setting the Metadata Override Status
- Production Engine Bus Connector
- Application Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Setting Options in the Editing Settings Tab
- Setting Audio Mixing Defaults for Access, Assist, and MediaCentral | UX
- Sending a Source to Playback in Interplay Assist
- Setting the Shotlist Start Timecode for Interplay Access and Interplay Assist
- Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct
- Configuring the Frame Locators Display
- Configuring the Restrictions Display
- Media Composer | Cloud Settings
- Setting Instinct/Assist User Options
- Pro Tools Plug-Ins Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Interplay Services
- Troubleshooting
- Reuniting a Split Database
- Installed Components and Services
- Interplay Engine Configuration Files
- Valid and Invalid Characters in Interplay
- System Metadata Properties
- Server Error Codes
- Consistency Check Codes
- Index
Avid Interplay Engine Servers and Services
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Two servers are installed on the Interplay Engine:
• The Avid Interplay Engine Server is the central process where all assets and asset
meta-information are managed. See “Avid Interplay Engine Server” on page 256
.
• The Avid Workgroup HTTP Server is a module for the Apache server that allows clients to
connect to the Avid Interplay Engine Server using a HTTP protocol. See
“Avid Workgroup
HTTP Server” on page 257
Four services are installed on the Interplay Engine. You can view these services through the
Control Panel (Click Start and select Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services):
• Avid Workgroup Server Browser service: This service makes the Avid Interplay Engine
visible to the network. It answers requests on the 8313 port, which are called from the
clients. See
“Avid Workgroup Server Browser Service” on page 258.
• Avid Workgroup Preview Server service: This service is an Apache web server. It provides
the thumbnail images for the Preview facility and the client connection interface. See
“Avid
Workgroup Preview Server Service” on page 258
.
• Avid Workgroup TCP COM Bridge service: This service provides a bridge from TCP calls
to the Avid Workgroup COM interface. See
“Avid Workgroup TCP/COM Bridge Service”
on page 262
.
• Avid Workgroup VSS service: This service provides backup functionality to the Avid
Interplay Engine (Interplay version 2.1 and later only). See
“Avid Workgroup VSS Service”
on page 262
.
One service is installed only on the Interplay Failover Cluster:
• Avid Workgroup Engine Monitor: This service starts the Engine Server process and
monitors the health of the Engine Server, Apache HTTP Server, and TCP/COM Bridge
components (Interplay version 2.3 and later only) See
“Avid Workgroup Engine Monitor
Service” on page 263
.
Avid Interplay Engine Server
The Avid Interplay Engine Server is the central process where all assets and asset metadata are
managed. The main task of the server is to manage all the information that is in the database and
implement the server-side logic of database operations. The database itself is changed whenever
content in the database has been changed; therefore the Interplay Engine process needs fast
access to the location where the database is installed.
Backups
The database files, as well as the assets, can be backed up while the Interplay Engine is running.
For details, see
“Creating and Restoring Database Backups” on page 29.