Chapter 4: Setting Up Your Servers

Setting Up Your Servers
Setting Up a Control Server
Setting Up an Archive Server
Setting Up a Broadcast Server

Setting Up Your Servers

This chapter describes how to set up a Control Server, Archive Server, or Broadcast Server. After the servers are set up, you can create on-demand, scheduled, and live-capture programs (see "Defining Programs").

Setting Up a Control Server

To set up a Control Server, you must define your Archive Server and Broadcast Server in the IP/TV Content Manager.

Note The Control Server has Internet Explorer preinstalled. You can also access the IP/TV Content Manager from another machine using Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

To define an Archive Server or Broadcast Server in the IP/TV Content Manager, follow these steps:

Step 1 From your browser, access the IP/TV Content Manager by entering the following URL: http:// contentmanagerhost/

where contentmanagerhost is the name of the Control Server on which the IP/TV Content Manager is installed.

Step 2 From the IP/TV Content Manager main page, click the Servers link.

Step 3 On the Servers page, click the New Server link on the task bar.

Step 4 On the New Server page, enter server information.

Note In the OnDemand Information section of the New Server page, check IP/TV OnDemand Server if you are defining an Archive Server, and Other File Server if you defining a Broadcast Server. Note also that while the default capacity of a new server is 5 Mbps, the server capacity can be set as high as 37 Mbps depending on the constraints of your network.

Step 5 Click the Define Server button.

See "Defining Servers" in Chapter 4 of the IP/TV Content Manager manual for more detailed information.

Setting Up an Archive Server

This section describes how to set up an Archive Server so that it is controlled by the IP/TV Content Manager.

To set up an Archive Server, follow these steps:

Step 1 From the Program Listing window, choose Settings>Configure IP/TV Server.

Step 2 Select the Server tab.

Step 3 In the IP/TV CM Host field, enter the IP address or host name of the Control Server.

Step 4 Copy your media files to e:\avi.

Setting Up a Broadcast Server

This section describes how to set up a Broadcast Server so that it is controlled by the IP/TV Content Manager.

To set up a Broadcast Server, follow these steps: