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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Change the impersonation settings for the Avid Interplay Preview Server with the
NXNServerUser.exe tool only. See “Troubleshooting the Server Execution User Account”
on page 229.
Configuring the Preview Service
The Preview Service is responsible for the generation of thumbnails and preview images on the
server, as well as delivering them to the Interplay application.
All settings can be edited in the workgroup.xml file in the <preview><settings … /> section.
This file is located in the Interplay Engine installation directory, for example,
• C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay Engine\Data\Apache\conf\workgroup.xml
(non-cluster systems)
• S:\WorkgroupData\Apache\conf\workgroup.xml (cluster systems).
The settings should look similar to the following. Default settings are shown; the actual file
references the locations you specified during installation:
<settings
CacheRoot="C:\WG_Database$\PreviewServer/Cache"
IconRoot=”C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay Engine\Data\Apache/icons"
ServerEnableDiskGuard="yes"
ServerCacheMinFreeDiskSpace="250mb"
ThumbnailImageFormat="png"
ThumbnailsUseAlpha="yes"
PreviewsUseAlpha="yes"
/>
The Preview Server reads the settings from this file when the service is started. This means
settings become active only after you restart the Preview Server. You can do this without
restarting the whole machine by restarting the service Avid_Workgroup_Preview_Server. Select
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services, double-click the service, and click Start.