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1. Windows Client PortServer or LANserver EX Macintosh Client MediaNetwork User Standalone User Accounts and Groups For this example you want to give several people working on a project access to the same workspaces with the same permissions You could create all the user accounts in the following manner On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a MediaNetwork user account ProjectA with a password of six Assign this account read write permission to the necessary MediaNetwork workspaces and read or no access permission to other workspaces on the PortServer 119 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges e On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a Windows user account Fred with a password of seven and a Windows user account Jill with the password twelve e On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a Windows group ProjectA Add Fred and Jill to the ProjectA group e On the client create a Windows user account Fred with a password of seven and a Windows user account Jill with the password twelve Example 3 Network Workgroup Using Domain User Accounts 120 For this example you are creating a network PortServer or LANserver EX workgroup the PortServer or the LANserver EX is part of a Windows domain and want to allow individual users access to
2. Save Settings Create Close 115 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges Create user names and passwords that match exactly for a MediaNetwork user account and a Windows user account Type a name Type a password then type it again for confirmation Select the user account s privileges Select the user account s workspace access privileges Click Create NIDA nn A W Number of Users Versus Licensed Client Seats The Administration Tool allows the administrator to create up to 300 user accounts plus the Guest account The user accounts are listed in the Users tab of the Administration Tool Although 300 user accounts can be created the application key often called a dongle attached to your File Manager dictates how many clients can access the MediaNetwork workgroup simultaneously The File Manager maintains a record of the Fibre Channel attached clients and the Ethernet attached clients To determine the number of users that can connect to your MediaNetwork workgroup use the Avid Unity Profiler on the File Manager to view the application key setting for the number of users Configuring User Accounts and Permissions 116 This section assumes you are a Windows network administrator with a working knowledge of managing Windows users groups and permissions Windows user accounts and permissions can be local to a PortServer or a LANserver EX or supplied by a Windows domain if the PortS
3. The NtStatDump Tool a Installed on the File Manager the NtStatDump tool displays information on the current state of the system including clients volumes partitions bad files metadata history disks memory and errors Do not use this tool unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss To open NtStatDump gt On the File Manager console use Windows Explorer to navigate to the install directory and then double click NtStatDump exe The RecoverDisks Tool 146 A Installed on the File Manager the RecoverDisks tool is used to recover the disk labels based on information from the RecoveryInfo dat file Do not use this tool unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss To open RecoverDisks gt On the File Manager console use Windows Explorer to navigate to the install directory and then double click RecoverDisks exe The Avid Unity Profiler Tool The Avid Unity Profiler Tool Installed on the File Manager and all clients the Avid Unity Profiler is a tool that detects the current versions of required software drivers and hardware components that are installed on a File Manager Windows Fibre Channel clients or a PortServer The Profiler is typically used by Avid Customer Support to help determine problems with installed versions of the operating system drivers adapter boards
4. You select a command category by typing a single corresponding key or access character When you select a command category related information and a list of subcommands you can use appear Command Categories Command Categories Access Category Character Command Functions Information Displayed User 2 Show user account information List of users with access privilege and manipulation information Wior ksp a Jce 3 Show workspace information and List of workspaces and related information manipulation On Offline 4 Start and stop the File Manager Summary of File Manager statistics and its state Disk 5 Obtain information about the data List of all drives in the data drive set drive set Stats 7 Obtain File Manager status and Same information shown in the File reset event log Manager Status tab of the Monitor Tool Quit q Quit the Text Console None The command prompt indicates which command category is currently selected For example when you select the User command category the Text Console command prompt is User gt With the exception of the Disk command category each category has subcommands which you access by typing a single access character at the command prompt Once accessed subcommands prompt you through their operation To abort a subcommand operation press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh at its prompt When working within a command category you can type the access character for any other command category to
5. 59 Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware Adding Active Data Drives to a Data Drive Set The Setup Manager allows you to enlarge your data drive set by adding active data drives to your existing data drive set Available drives appear in the Raw Drives group the Other Fibre Channel Drives group or the Data Drive Set group depending on whether they are newly added and how they were previously used If you are adding new previously unused drives proceed to Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives on page 61 Adding Drives That Were Data Drives in Another Data Drive Set S 60 If the drives added to your data drive set were used previously in another data drive set two Data Drive Set groups appear in the drive group list e One Data Drive Set group contains the newly added drives including the drives you added from another data drive set This group also includes any missing drives The other Data Drive Set group is your existing data drive set You must delete the data drive set containing the newly added drives before you can use the new drives in your existing data drive set To add data drives previously used in another data drive set to your current data drive set 1 From the File Manager desktop click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select the Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Select the Data Drive Set group that contains the drives you want to add to your d
6. Configuring File Manager Fail Over 48 If properly configured with a redundant File Manager the system supports automatic fail over to the passive File Manager when the active File Manager fails Because there is communication between drive sets and there is polling over the Ethernet any lack of response from the active File Manager indicates that it is offline and is not due to a failed connection between the two File Managers Ina fail over configuration neither File Manager is assigned to a primary or backup role the first system online becomes the active File Manager and the second system online becomes the passive File Manager If both systems are online at the same time the active role is negotiated arbitrarily between the two systems For this reason Avid recommends that you physically label and refer to your first and second File Managers as FM1 and FM2 Configuring File Manager Fail Over For information on installing a second File Manager and setting up the IP addresses see the Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide The following table lists the recommended IP addresses If you use different addresses be sure to note them and have them available before proceeding with the configuration File Manager Recommended IP Addresses IP Address 192 168 1 1 192 168 2 1 192 168 3 1 192 168 1 2 192 168 2 2 192 168 3 2 Description Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 Primary File Manager Ethernet Connect
7. Management Tools e Counts and service times for MediaNetwork client or for Media Server requests You can also use the Monitor Tool to start and stop the File Manager service and to set advanced MediaNetwork features such as clearing the administrator s password When the Monitor Tool opens File Manager status information appears Avid Unity Monitor Tool L i File Manager Status Active Clients File Status Drives Workspaces Administration Drive all Requests per second Megabytes per second Requests per second 16 3 Megabytes per second 8 8 Channels in use 199 File Manager Version 1 0 Stop File Manager Reset Event Unmount Close Help Getting Help with the Monitor Tool The Help system provides procedures and reference information for all features of the Monitor Tool The following sections provide a high level overview of the configuration implications of your answers to these questions 29 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview Configuring a Workgroup Your primary responsibility as an administrator is to ensure that MediaNetwork is configured properly This section provides a quick look at the tasks you must perform to establish a workgroup and includes e Creating a Data Drive Set e Creating an Allocation Group e Creating New Workspaces e Creating User Accounts e Protecting Data Creating a Data Drive Set 30 The data drive set defines the drives that the MediaN
8. Leave it disabled if you need to maintain full capacity during specific hours and manually perform repairs during lower traffic periods for example at 2 00 A M Before You Begin You need to meet the following conditions before enabling AutoRecovery e Set up e mail error notification see Setting Up E mail Error Notification on page 52 e Have at least one spare MEDIArray II drive or MEDIArray ZX drive for each size drive in your system available to use as the replacement for the bad drive 43 Chapter 2 Setup Manager Enabling AutoRecovery for Failed Drives 44 To enable AutoRecovery for failed drives 1 Click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager window opens 2 Choose Enable AutoRecovery from the Recover menu Avid does not recommend the use of the AutoRecovery feature unless you are do not need any type of drive performance When AutoRecovery is set you could automatically start a recovery in the middle of a live broadcast and possible slow the performance down to an undesirable level Chapter 3 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Parameters You can use the Setup Manager to set general parameters to configure File Manager fail over and to set up remote error notification by e mail This chapter discusses Configuring General Settings e Configuring File Manager Fail Over e Setting Up E mail Err
9. even when it is being actively used in your work environment The following characters are illegal in user account names lt gt and If you type an illegal character the system beeps and the character is ignored To modify a user account ch 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the User Management button m For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Click the user account that you want to change The user name is highlighted 3 Do one of the following a gt Click the Modify User button 4 gt Select Modify User from the Commands menu The Modify User dialog box opens fa Modify User x Name Password Name Password Confirm Password pe o Password can not exceed 16 characters Privileges w Can resize workspaces w Can Enable Disable protection OK Cancel ee 4 Option Type a new user name up to 31 characters 5 Option Type a new password then type it again 124 Deleting User Accounts 6 Option Click to enable privileges 7 Click OK If the name or password is a duplicate of an existing name or password an error message will appear and the user account does not change Deleting User Accounts a af To delete a user account 1 Ensure that the user account to be deleted is not currently active by checking access from the Connection Monitor window in
10. 23 51 i 29 8 1 00 J 12 76 0 0 100 1276 0 0 3 00 I 14 76 0 0 23 65 i 66 0 A I ee 19 33 0 0 3 3 3213 0 0 bes able space Used space Changing the Workspace List Graph Display The workspace list graph can be customized allowing you to display data drive set and workspace sizes by using either linear or logarithmic scales and to adjust the scale divisions and the graph view size Selecting a Linear or Logarithmic Graph Display The workspace list graph can display the data drive set and workspace sizes by using one of two scales Scale Button Description Linear When linear scaling is being used the Linear Scale button is hidden and the Log Scale button is displayed Click the Log Scale button if you want to switch to the logarithmic scale Logarithmic When logarithmic scaling is being used the Log l Scale button appears dimmed and the Linear Scale button is active Click the Linear Scale button if you want to switch to the linear scale The linear scale is easier to read because each division of the scale represents an equal amount The logarithmic scale allows you to view more information in a small space but is harder to read 98 Creating Workspaces Scaling the Graph In either scale numeric divisions are displayed in gigabytes GB To increase or decrease the size of the graph view do one of the following gt Click the Increase Scale or Decrease Scale button gt Select In
11. 3 GB File Manager that can have up to 500 000 files You can also increase the number of directories on the file system to more than 10 000 Doing so however decreases the total number of files you can store by 32 000 each time you cross a 10 000 directory boundary MediaNetwork warns you if you exceed either the directory or the file limits The metadata for 500 000 files can use as many as 15 data drives on your drive set If the metadata expands into a MEDIArray ZX drive enclosure that is set up as a single user allocation group for 1 1 video it could severely impact the performance of finishing clients Table MediaNetwork File Manager Directories and Files shows the dynamic relationship between the number of directories you have and the number of files you can store on 3 GB File Managers MediaNetwork File Manager Directories and Files 3 GB File Manager Maximum Number of Directories Files 10 000 500 000 20 000 468 000 30 000 436 000 Management Tasks and Overall Considerations MediaNetwork File Manager Directories and Files Continued 3 GB File Manager Maximum Number of Directories Files 40 000 404 000 50 000 372 000 60 000 340 000 Notes on Dynamic Directory and File Limits Large numbers of directories and files on the File Manager can effect the performance of the MediaNetwork workgroup management tools As you reach the upper limits for the number of directories and files the tools used to manage the
12. 4 Type a new name maximum of 27 characters 5 Click OK 93 Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups Deleting Allocation Groups You can delete any allocation group that does not have any workspaces on it As a result all drives previously assigned to the allocation group return to the data drive set s pool of unassigned data drives To delete an allocation group 1 Ensure that no workspaces exist on the allocation group that you want to delete see Chapter 7 2 Open the Administration Tool and click the Allocation Group wills Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 3 Select the allocation group you want to delete Delete Allocation Group button eo Allocation Group Management ix _ 18 Gig Group R Available Size Unit NT Nai Drive 004 i Drive 008 17253 8 Dis Drive 005 Drive 006 Drive 007 4 Click the Delete Allocation Group button A dialog box opens and prompts you to confirm that you really want to delete the allocation group 5 Click OK to confirm The allocation group is deleted 94 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces Workspaces are virtual volumes that exist on allocation groups and can be resized dynamically Workspaces allow you to easily segment your data drive set to accommodate projects and users This chapter describes how to create rename and delete workspaces It also tell
13. 5 The information in the From MEDIArray ZX tab displays the failing MEDIArray ZX enclosure 6 The message in the Message tab will display the following ISR lt Failed Serial and MEDIArray ZX 7 Once you find the MEDIArray ZX and drive serial number that has failed you can replace it see Replacing the Data Drive Set on page 139 Replacing the Data Drive Set hi If you have a spare drive available and a spare drive of the same size already in any MEDIArray ZX enclosure you can use the Setup Manager s Recover Failed Data Drive operation to recover the data drive set after a data drive failure or before a failure occurs Before you begin an online drive recovery operation you must have a known good same sized spare drive available to use as the replacement for the bad drive An online drive recovery takes longer than an offline manual drive repair While an online drive recovery is in progress clients might see degraded performance 139 Appendix A Managing Drive Problems How Online Drive Recovery Works Recovering 140 The Recover Failed Data Drive operation removes a malfunctioning data drive from the data drive set replacing it with a good spare data drive and then re creating as much as possible the data that was on the old drive onto the new drive To do this the Recover Failed Data Drive operation recovers data from e Duplicate file copies on other drives e The drive being replaced if t
14. 85 Percent Used Alarm 95 ALLOCATION GROUPS Enable Allocation Group warnings Percent Used Warning 85 Percent Used Alarm 95 Factory Settings Revert Panel y Je OK Cancel Apply 3 Choose percent used values for workspace and allocation groups 81 Chapter 5 Administration Tool The Workspace Management window will highlight yellow if the warning level is exceeded The Workspace Management window will highlight red if the alarm level is exceeded 4 Click Apply or OK to save your changes Alternatively you can click Revert Panel to revert to your previous warnings preferences or click Cancel to close the window without saving the new preferences You can disable these warnings if you do not want them to be active Setting Logo Preferences The Logo tab of the Preferences window gives you the option to create a text logo which displays next to the Management Window toolbar To set logo preferences 1 Choose Preferences from the File menu The Preferences window opens 2 Click the Logo tab Preferences Administration User Workspace Color Warnings Logo LOGO Logo Text Medianetwork Setti Revert Panel Factory Settings evert Panel OK Cancel Apply 3 Type the logo text 82 Reestablishing a Connection to the File Manager 4 Click Apply or OK to save your changes Alternatively you can click Revert Panel to revert to your previous user preferences or click Cancel to close the
15. Choose the maximum number of open files allowed by the system from the Maximum open files text box The default is 5000 files for all memory systems including LANshare EX If you are using the SR2200 system or the newer SR2400 system the maximum number of open files for MediaNetwork systems is 80 000 See MEDIArray ZX Drive and File Counts Using the Windows 2000 Operating System on page 48 for the maximum number of drives vs the maximum number of files In general you should use the default number For large and active systems you can increase this figure as needed 5 Choose the number of missing drives allowed when the File Manager starts from the Number of allowed missing drives when the server starts pop up menu If more drives than the number specified are missing from the data drive set the File Manager will not start Choosing a higher number allows the File Manager to start even if it cannot find the expected number of drives The File Manager can function with one drive missing by default when all workspaces are protected If more than one drive is missing or some workspaces are not protected the system will report errors 6 Choose the number of seconds the system waits for the last drives during startup from the Seconds to wait for last drive s to appear pop up menu A high number causes the File Manager to continue to search longer for drives during startup This option allows the system to accom
16. Groups For this example you want to give several people working on a project access to the same workspaces with the same permissions You could create all the user accounts in the following manner e On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a MediaNetwork user account ProjectA with a password of six Assign this account read write permission to the necessary MediaNetwork workspaces and read or no access permission to other workspaces on the PortServer or the LANserver EX On the Windows domain server create a Windows user account Fred with a password of seven and a Windows user account Jill with the password twelve e On the Windows domain server create a Windows group ProjectA Add Fred and Jill to the ProjectA group Local groups and users take precedence over domain groups and users of the same name Avoid same name conflicts when setting up user accounts User Accounts When you duplicate user accounts they inherit the name and access privileges of the user account from which they were created aun dd Duplicating User Accounts To duplicate a user account 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the User Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 Select the user account you want to duplicate Click the Duplicate User button The New User dialog
17. In the Setup Manager select the Data Drives Set group All the drives in that group appear in the drive list 3 Select the drives that you want to remove In addition to the drive name a good way to confirm that a drive is not in an allocation group and available for removal is that its Used is 0 00 4 Choose Remove Selected Drives from the Drive Set menu to remove formatting from the drives 5 Click Yes to confirm the removal 6 Click Yes when a message box opens informing you that the data drive set must be taken offline The Server Offline Control dialog box opens 7 Type the number of seconds to wait until the server goes offline and click OK 63 Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware 8 When the data drive set comes back online select the Raw Drives group in the Setup Manager The drives you removed from the data drive set should now appear in the data drive set You can now physically remove the MEDIArray drives see Physically Removing Storage from Your Environment on page 64 Physically Removing Storage from Your Environment To physically remove MEDIArray drives from your environment l Stop the File Manager service see Starting and Stopping the File Manager on page 40 In a fail over configuration stop the passive File Manager before stopping the active File Manager Otherwise the system will perform a fail over to the passive system in the middle of the shutdown Shut down a
18. MEDIArray ZX storage array and theMEDIArray storage are functionaly the same The term MEDIArray ZX is used throughout this manual and refers to both storage arrays This chapter provides an overview of the tasks you need to perform the configuration factors you need to consider and the tools needed to manage your workgroup This chapter discusses e Management Tasks and Overall Considerations e Management Tools e Configuring a Workgroup Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview Management Tasks and Overall Considerations 22 As an administrator you are responsible for Initial setup and configuration of the workgroup You must configure the data drive set one or more allocation groups workspaces and user accounts Day to day administration You probably need to reconfigure MediaNetwork to accommodate new users and evolving projects MediaNetwork also provides comprehensive monitoring functionality that allows you to check total MediaNetwork activity as well as that of each connected client Troubleshooting When problems occur with the storage hardware the File Manager or a client you need to diagnose the problem and if possible fix it MediaNetwork provides easy to understand error warning and informational messages that inform you of problems as well as tools that help you diagnose and fix problems How you answer the following strategic questions determines your priorities when making configuration
19. MediaNetwork workgroup the Monitor Tool the Setup Manager and the Administration Tool run slowly They run at a lower system priority than the File Manager software and require more time to manage metadata While the dynamic directory and file limits are calculated correctly by MediaNetwork Release 3 6 the dynamic limits might not be shown correctly in the Setup Manager or the Administration Tool This has no effect on performance it strictly affects the display of limit information Create a user account with appropriate access privileges for each client This strategy offers moderate security and convenience when users work at clients that provide access to the workspaces they need to use Passwords are optional If you want to provide users with access to appropriate workspaces and security is not an issue that is you trust users not to use other users accounts you can use any of the previously described strategies without assigning passwords for user accounts For more information about managing user accounts and access privileges see Chapter 8 25 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview Management Tools MediaNetwork provides several tools that allow you to configure and perform day to day management For more information on using these management tools see the following sections e Setup Manager e Administration Tool e Monitor Tool Setup Manager You use the Setup Manager to perform storage hardware man
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21. To validate the connections for File Manager fail over l 2 Click the Validate Receive button on the first File Manager The Validate Fail Over Connections dialog box opens Numbers in the Packets Received text boxes indicate the number of packets received from the first File Manager Click the Validate Send button on the second File Manager The Validate Fail Over Connections dialog box opens 51 Chapter 3 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Parameters Numbers in the Successful Round Trips text boxes indicate successful communication with the second File Manager and a valid connection The indicator box under Waiting for response is green If you have data traveling over only one of the fail over network paths you probably have a network configuration problem Recheck your configuration 3 Close the Setup Manager on both File Managers Step 4 Starting the First and Second File Managers To start the first and second File Managers 1 From the first File Manager click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Monitor Tool The Monitor Tool opens 2 Click Start File Manager 3 From the second File Manager click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Monitor Tool The Monitor Tool opens 4 Click Start File Manager Setting Up E mail Error Notification You can configure MediaNetwork to notify you when problems occur A Windows se
22. You can also export entire sets of preferences that can be imported later and applied to workspaces and users With the exception of administration passwords preferences are system specific For more information see Exporting and Importing Preferences on page 76 73 Chapter 5 Administration Tool Setting Administration Tool Preferences To open the Preferences window gt Choose Preferences from the File menu Preferences Preference Tabs The Preferences window contains six tabs each containing options and default values related to an aspect of Administration Tool functionality The following table describes the Preferences window tabs Preference Window Tabs Tab Specifies Administration Administrator password See Setting the Administration Password on page 77 User Default name password and access privileges for new users Also specifies view preferences icon text for access privileges See Setting User Account Preferences on page 78 74 Administration Tool Preferences Window Preference Window Tabs Continued Tab Specifies Workspace Default name access privileges and size for new workspaces See Setting Workspace Preferences on page 79 Color User interface colors See Setting Workspace and Monitor Graph Bar Colors on page 80 Warnings Percent used warnings for both workspaces and allocation groups See Setting Warning Preferences on page 81 Logo Lo
23. application that includes several categories of commands each providing some or all of the information and functionality accessible from the corresponding Administration Tool T mirrored 0 15 Gb 67 2 OD Cn Hew 2 Name Co Optimize f Fix Files d Delete Cs Size Cp Mirror AIL m Mirror New Files Cr Duplicate i Get Info Wkspce gt 2 q Quit 2 User 3 Wkspce 4 On Offline 5 Disk 7 Stats Special User Access Summary dministrator administrator Read Write access to all workspaces ues guest Read Write access to all workspaces 2 SYSTEM Read Write access to all workspaces New z Name Ca Access Delete x Password r Duplicate 2 User 3 Wkspce 4 On Offline 5 Disk 7 Stats The file manager is running File manager version 1 2 Using 0 channels out of 5000 All drives are available No drive errors reported No warning events logged Messages per second 5i Megabytes per second 0 0 Cr Reset event 2 User 3 Wkspce 4 On Offline 5 Disk 7 Stats is online created Mon Apr 03 15 39 22 2000 is 134 781 GB 1104128 chunks of 131072 bytes each 67 3301 GB is allocated to workspaces 67 4512 GB is unallocated contains 751 files of 99998 maximum contains 56 directories of 10000 maximum Running on the server system The server is running g Start Server s Stop server Disk Set gt 4 Text Console commands are divided into the categories shown in Table
24. be moved from the Workspace Remaining list to the Workspace s with Problems list 5 Option Click the Pause button to halt the process then click Run to resume Moving Workspaces To move a workspace and all its contents to another allocation group 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management ed button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Do one of the following gt Click the Move Workspace button hcl gt Select Move Workspace from the Commands menu 3 Select the workspace you want to move 109 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces 4 Click the Allocation Group Management button x 4 A dialog box opens warning you that the workspace must be optimized as part of the operation For more information see Optimizing Workspaces on page 108 5 Click OK The Select Allocation Group dialog box opens 6 Select the allocation group onto which you want to move the workspace 7 Click OK The workspace is moved Existing files are moved and new files written to the workspace are written to the destination allocation group Collecting Workspace Statistics You can export Workspace Management window statistics to a comma separated value CSV file which can then be opened in Microsoft Excel This provides you with system snapshot of workspace names workspace sizes allocated space the number of files in the wo
25. box opens containing information on the account you want to duplicate eo Hew User ix Name Password p_a Confirm Password Privileges Can resize workspaces Can enableidisable protection Access to all workspace s _ w No Access w Read Access w ReadiMtite Access Select user trom list to mirror access Si Setting aye Settings Create Close Click the Create button to duplicate the selected user account The new user account has the same name as the original with the lowest available integer as a suffix for example a duplicate of user account Original Name will be named Original Name 1 and inherits the access privileges of the original user account Option Change the user account s name For more information see Modifying User Accounts on page 124 Option Change the new user account password For more information see Modifying User Accounts on page 124 Option Change the user account s privileges For more information see Modifying User Accounts on page 124 Option Change the new user account workspace access privileges For more information see Changing Workspace Access Privileges on page 127 123 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges Modifying User Accounts You can rename an account change the password and edit privileges with the Modify User dialog box You can modify a user account at any time
26. click the User Management button 2 Do one of the following a gt Click the New User button gt Select New User from the Commands menu The New User dialog box opens eo New User 3 Type a user name 4 Type a password then type it again to confirm it 5 Select privileges and workspace access rights 34 Protecting Data Configuring a Workgroup 6 Option Click Save Settings if you want this to be your default user account 7 Click Create 8 Close the Administration Tool For more information about user accounts see Chapter 8 Protection is a feature that offers high levels of data integrity by ensuring that two copies of media data are written onto different physical drives to avoid data loss in the event of drive failure This allows workspaces that are protected to be repaired very quickly with no data loss upon drive failure The disadvantage is that protected workspaces use twice as much space as unprotected workspaces However because of the data protection and recovery speed that protection offers Avid recommends that you always protect your workspaces New workspaces are protected by default unless you specify otherwise in your preferences For more information about workspaces see Chapter 7 Select one of the following strategies depending on your security requirements 35 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview Chapter 2 Setup Manager This chapter introduces the Set
27. decisions and trade offs possibly affecting several aspects of your configuration What is your site type In house and rental editing suites probably require very different administration requirements particularly in terms of workspace access restrictions and how often you need to reconfigure workspaces and users For more information on managing workspaces see Chapter 7 Does your workgroup include dual stream uncompressed clients If so you will need to set up special hardware and allocation group configurations For more information on managing allocation groups see Chapter 6 How large is your data drive set and does it include more than one drive type If your data drive set is very large or has different drive types you probably need to assign your data drives to more than one allocation group For more information on managing the drive hardware see Chapter 4 Management Tasks and Overall Considerations e Will your client users be working on individual projects with their own media or will they be collaborating on team projects that use the same source media These factors affect how you should allocate workspaces and user accounts For more information on managing allocation groups see Chapter 6 e Which is more important at your site the integrity and speed at which your media can be recovered in the event of hardware failure or maximizing available storage space Avid recommends that you always use protectio
28. free space on your workspace or drive to make a copy of your largest file or optimization will fail If you try to use Avid Composer Products software to access a workspace that is undergoing an optimization you can cause the Avid Composer Products software to hang or crash This can prevent you from obtaining future access to some or all of the files on the workspace until you delete the mdb and pmr files from the OMFI MediaFiles subfolder To optimize workspaces 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Do one of the following b Click the Optimize All Files button gt Select Optimize All Files from the Commands menu The Optimize All Files dialog box opens Moving Workspaces Sa Optimize All Files x rWorkspaces Remaining Workspace Workspaces Remaining 2 Workspaced fo Files Remaining 0 Bytes remaining Workspace s with problems es 9 Workspaces with problems will be moved to the workspaces remaining list after a pause p w Clear progress flags Run Pause Close 3 Select the workspace you want optimized Shift click to select multiple workspaces 4 Click Run Two progress indicators appear showing the number of workspaces and the number of files remaining to be optimized If a workspace has a problem it will
29. in a Fail Over Configuration If you have a fail over configuration with redundant File Managers one File Manager assumes the active role and the other the passive role when the system starts 39 Chapter 2 Setup Manager Fail Over Configuration Guidelines In fail over configurations you should always e Stop the passive File Manager before performing any hardware management tasks that involve stopping the File Manager service such as adding drives to the data drive set or performing a software upgrade e Use the Setup Manager on the active File Manager to perform hardware management tasks Determining the Active File Manager To determine the active File Manager 1 On both File Managers click Start point to Programs point to AvidUnity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Check the File Manager status in the information area of the Setup Manager One File Manager should indicate Running this is the active File Manager The other File Manager should indicate Standby Mode this is the passive File Manager Starting and Stopping the File Manager The File Manager software runs as a Windows service that starts automatically whenever the server is online However various maintenance and administration functions require that you stop the File Manager and then restart it Therefore you can access these functions from the Setup Manager Starting the File Manager To restart the File Manager af
30. limit clients access to the file system This chapter describes how to assign user accounts with associated passwords and access privileges to accommodate projects employees or clients strategies for which are outlined in the Avid Unity MediaNetwork System Overview This chapter discusses e The User Management Window e Creating User Accounts Configuring User Accounts and Permissions Duplicating User Accounts e Modifying User Accounts e Deleting User Accounts Disabling Guest Accounts e Workspace Access Privileges e Changing Workspace Access Privileges Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges The User Management Window This section provides an overview of the User Management window and the operations that you can perform from it The remainder of this chapter contains detailed task oriented descriptions of all user related operations The User Management window contains a User Name list and a Workspace Name list These lists allow you to easily select user accounts for renaming or deletion and to manipulate access privileges for selected user accounts and workspaces 5 User Management x oA z s og he UserName sd Fave th lm Workspace SY Workspacet S Workspace10 Workspace3 SY Workspaced SY Workspaces S Workspaceb ony Workspace Creating User Accounts 114 New user accounts inherit their attributes name password and access privileges from the User Manag
31. lt lt chee canotsidebuuweds PRETE lier els EELT NET 159 11 Illustrations 119 Tables Command Calepwite ivcccndudacwiedeieseenseieesieceieewiae TM User SURCOMMMANES 2 00di0rdees denver aweseuguasdranacacancn IBZ Workspace SubcommandS ieckcectecatacedensioesienecessiax 153 14 Using This Guide Congratulations on your purchase of an high performance distributed file system that contains high capacity shared media storage for This document describes the features for all MediaNetwork environments Therefore your system might not contain certain features that are covered in the documentation This management guide is intended for system administrators responsible for the setup and day to day management of a system You should have a basic understanding of how to use and manage Windows 2000 Windows XP and Mac OS X systems and should be familiar with the basic concepts described in the System Overview Using This Guide Symbols and Conventions 16 Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions Symbol or Convention aN A Margin tips Windows Windows only Macintosh or Macintosh only Italic font Courier Bold font Ctrl key or mouse action 3 key or mouse action Meaning or Action A note provides important related information reminders recommendations and strong suggestions A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to yo
32. or firmware Do not use this tool unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss To run the Profiler gt Click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Profiler Although the Profiler is also available on the MediaNetwork Release CD ROM it cannot be run directly from the CD ROM The Profiler can only be run from its installed location 147 Appendix B Advanced Support Tools 148 Appendix C Using the Text Console for Remote Administration This appendix describes the Text Console a text based administration application that allows you to monitor the status of your environment and to access a Subset of the Administration Tool functionality A Do not use the Text Console unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss This appendix discusses e Starting the Text Console e Using the Text Console e Command Categories Starting the Text Console The Text Console allows you to monitor and perform administration tasks from the File Manager or from a Windows Fibre Attached Client However functionality is limited when you run the tool from a Client To start the Text Console from the File Manager console gt Browse to the installation folder then double click TextConsole exe The Text Console starts in an MS DOS window The Text Console is a text based
33. purpose without the express written permission of Avid Technology Inc Copyright 2005 Avid Technology Inc and its licensors All rights reserved Printed in USA The following disclaimer is required byGenivia inc Part of the software embedded in this product is gSOAP software Portions created by gSOAP are Copyright C 2001 2004 Robert A van Engelen Genivia inc All Rights Reserved THE SOFTWARE IN THIS PRODUCT WAS IN PART PROVIDED BY GENIVIA INC AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE The following disclaimer is required by Apple Computer Inc APPLE COMPUTER INC MAKES NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REGARDING THIS PRODUCT INCLUDING WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES IS NOT PERMITTED BY SOME STATES THE ABOVE EXCLUSIO
34. replace the disk Long read command time 080000022 WinNT Long write command time 0xC0000010 Long write command time OxCO00001 0 Description Long write command time client reads writes disks HWPS2 0 25 1 17 22 32 40 61 QA MM 0 1 1 17 22 32 40 61 zl Begining 05 08 2004 16 01 36 687 Ending 05 10 2004 11 58 33 750 Set Interval 3 Read the steps suggested by the data from the drive analysis and use it to recover your data drive set 135 Appendix A Managing Drive Problems Using the MEDIArray ZX Viewer This section explains how to use the viewer to determine if one of the drives within the MEDIArray ZX has failed or is taking a long time to respond to commands If you find a drive that seems to be going bad you can replace the drive before it actually fails Selecting Events to View 136 MEDIArray ZX selection panel Local Unity Connection Specific enclosure The viewer shown in the following figure contains two panels MEDIArray ZX selection panel contains a tree view that displays a hierarchical view of all the MEDIArray ZX enclosures found by the viewer Event panel displays different types of events and information from the MEDIArray ZX enclosures E Currently Running Avid MEDIArray ZXs MEDIArray ZX Event Viewer File Edit View Help majs il Avid iee e e EEE Event _ panel Local Unity All Events Type A Da
35. replaced 1 Wait until a drive fails 2 Monitor the drives and attempt to replace drives that seem to be slowing up or causing some type of problem but have not yet failed outright No matter which decision you make only the MEDIArray enclosure allows you to replace a failing drive with power on To replace a MEDIArray drive with power on you must have the following e A spare drive that is the same size within the same data disk set that contains the failing drive before the drive failure occurs e The Windows 2000 operating system running on your File Manager and Fail over File Manager if you have one e You follow the procedures exactly as described Identifying Bad Drives 134 There are two programs that you can use to help determine disk problems e Disk Error Analyzer e MEDIArray ZX Viewer The name of the MEDIArray ZX Viewer has not been changed to MEDIArray Viewer but works the same on the MEDIArray enclosure Identifying Bad Drives Using the Disk Error Analyzer If drive problems occur a Drive Error Analysis Needed message will appear in the File Manager Status tab of the Monitor Tool Run the Disk Error Analyzer utility when you see this message which will identify any drive problems in your environment You can obtain additional information to help you identify problem drives from the File Status tab of the Monitor Tool which shows the locations of bad blocks in damaged files You run the Dis
36. size is larger then maximum allowable size Requested size was reset to maximum size y User Interface Management This section briefly describes each component of the Administration Tool s Ul 70 Message Area Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface The message area shows your connection status along with information from the message log List Area The contents of the list area are different for each window but each list has similar functions such as You can expand and contract by clicking the list opener You can select a single object by clicking You can select multiple objects by Shift clicking You can select multiple objects by clicking a selection box and dragging it You can rename an object by clicking its name and typing a new one Clicking an icon in the list area selects the object without making its name editable Clicking directly on an item s name makes the name editable as well as selecting the item Window Buttons Each window has buttons that provide access to the most common operations with a single click User Interface Window Descriptions The following table describes the five windows in the Administration Tool Window Allows You To File Manager View and change your File Manager connection User View create edit and delete user accounts with optional Management passwords and assign access privileges to workspaces Workspace View create rename adjust the si
37. such as a z A Z and 0 9 but there are differences for characters outside the ASCII character set They each contain characters that do not appear in the other encoding Invalid Characters In MediaNetwork v3 2 and later all Macintosh and Windows clients use the Unicode character encoding This character encoding is common to both clients but has differences from the language specific character encodings For a list of checks that you need to make before upgrading to MediaNetwork v3 5 see the Avid Unity MediaNetwork Version 3 6 Upgrade Notes Avid supplies two HTML files MacRoman_not_in_ANSI htm and ANSI_not_in_MacRoman htm with these release notes in the Documents folder on the MediaNetwork CD ROM One lists ANSI characters that do not appear in the MacRoman character set The other lists MacRoman characters that do not appear in the ANSI character set These files will help you determine characters that might not convert properly during the MediaNetwork upgrade You will need to set your Web browser to display Unicode characters to view these files When you use an Asian double byte operating system the following restriction applies If you use ASCH characters to name bins projects tapes or other Avid elements use single byte characters If you use double byte characters the characters might appear with extra space between them and the names might not be recognizable by other clients Operating systems that use a double byte
38. switch directly to that command category 151 Appendix C Using the Text Console for Remote Administration The User Command Category When you type its access character 2 the User command category displays a list of user accounts and their workspace access privileges The left column of the user list assigns a unit number to each user account Use these unit numbers to specify the user account or list of user accounts upon which User subcommands must act The User subcommands are then shown with their corresponding access characters in the following table User Subcommands Access Command Command Character Name Function n New Creates a new user account Z Name Changes a user account name a Access Changes user account workspace access privileges d Delete Deletes user accounts x Password Changes user account password r Duplicate Creates a new user account with the same properties as an existing user The Workspace Command Category 152 When you type its access character 3 the Workspace command category displays a list of workspaces their sizes and their protection status The left column ofthe user list assigns a unit number to each workspace Use these unit numbers to specify the workspace or list of workspaces upon which Workspace subcommands must act The Workspace subcommands are then shown with their corresponding access characters see table Workspace Subcommands on page 153 Command Catego
39. system in the middle of the shutdown 2 Shut down and turn off power to the File Manager system In a fail over configuration shut down both File Managers 3 Turn off power to the MEDIArray drive enclosures 4 Add the new MEDIArray drives installing new MEDIArray enclosures to accommodate the drives if necessary as described in the Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide 5 Turn on power to the MEDIArray drive enclosures 6 Reset the Fibre Channel switch 7 Start the File Manager In a fail over configuration restart only one File Manager 8 Open the Setup Manager The newly added drives will appear in the Raw Drives group the Other Fibre Channel Drives group or an additional Data Drive Set group depending on how they have been used previously If the newly added drives create another Data Drive Set group you must delete that new data drive set before attempting to bring your environment online See Deleting a Data Drive Set on page 65 If the newly added drives appear in the Other Fibre Channel Drives group you need to make them Raw If the new drives are not listed there is probably something wrong with their physical connections Do not proceed any further and see the Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide 9 Add the new drives to the data drive set see Adding Active Data Drives to a Data Drive Set on page 60 10 In a fail over configuration restart the other File Manager
40. the Administration tool Open the Administration Tool For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 Do one of the following gt Click the User Management button gt Select User Management from the Commands menu Select the user account you want to delete 5 Click the Delete User button If the user account is in use by a client a message box opens warning you of this and asking if you want to proceed If you delete the user account its connection to the File Manager is broken immediately and any mounted workspaces are unmounted as soon as they are accessed Disabling Guest Accounts The Guest user account is created when you set up the File Manager You cannot delete or rename this account and there is no password You can only disable the account To disable the Guest user account gt Change its workspace access privileges to No Access see Changing Workspace Access Privileges on page 127 125 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges Workspace Access Privileges 126 The following table lists and describes the workspace access levels Workspace Access Levels Access Level Description No Access Workspace cannot be read written to or mounted Read Access Workspace can be read but not written to Read Write Access Workspace can be read and written to Select User from list Copies the access rights of the s
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42. the drive and select Take drive offline from controller Manually remove the problem drive from the MEDIArray ZX replace it with a new disk drive and wait for it to spin up Recovering and Replacing a Drive The new disk drive is now a raw drive You must continue with the procedure and use the Setup Manager software to make it a spare drive 11 On your File Manager browse to Install Directory Program Files Avid Technology AvidUnity The Install Directory is normally defaulted to D 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Run the IBEView exe Click the Rescan Drives button in the MEDIArray ZX viewer Window The program displays a window and tells you when it finds the new raw drive you placed into the MEDIArray ZX If not already running click Start and select Programs gt Avid Unity gt Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens Select Raw Drives in the left panel The raw drives discovered by the Setup Manager are displayed in the right panel of the window Select the raw drive in the right panel Select Drive gt Make Drive Spare The drive becomes a spare data drive and is moved from the Raw Drives group into the Data Drive Set group Close the Setup Manager The File Manager now sees the drive as a spare When time permits you should shutdown all parts of the system in the following order a Clients b File Manager c MEDIArray ZX You should then boot the components
43. window without saving the new preferences Reestablishing a Connection to the File Manager If the Administration Tool s connection to the File Manager is disrupted during a session the Connect icon will display an X mark To reestablish your connection to the File Manager 1 Click the Connect icon a The Login window opens 2 Enter your user name and password then click OK If the File Manager is running you will reconnect If the File Manager is down you will receive an error message 83 Chapter 5 Administration Tool Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups Allocation groups are partitions each containing four or more assigned data drives from the larger data drive set This chapter describes how to create and manage allocation groups in your file system This chapter discusses The Allocation Group Management Window e Allocation Group Usage Guidelines e Creating Allocation Groups e Adding Drives to Allocation Groups e Removing Drives from Allocation Groups Identifying Drives e Renaming Allocation Groups e Deleting Allocation Groups The Allocation Group Management Window You perform most allocation group operations from the Allocation Group Management window You create new allocation groups from a separate window which is described in Creating Allocation Groups on page 87 The Allocation Group Management window contains two sections The left side displays all the drives in your current s
44. you use the tool after creating your data drive set If you do not set an administration password anyone can access the tool To set the administration password 1 Choose Preferences from the File menu The Preferences window opens 2 Click the Administration tab Preferences 3 Type the current administration password if any and the new administration password twice the second time for verification purposes in the text boxes 4 Option Select Enable Automatic Refresh and enter a refresh interval 5 Click Apply to save your new password 77 Chapter 5 Administration Tool Be sure to remember the administration password If you forget it you can regain access to the Administration Tool by resetting the password from the Monitor Tool For more information see the tool s Help system Setting User Account Preferences The User tab of the Preferences window allows you to specify the default user names passwords and access privileges for new user accounts and the Guest user account You also can specify whether access privileges are displayed as icons or text in the user list display For more information see Chapter 8 To set user preferences 1 Choose Preferences from the File menu The Preferences window opens 2 Click the User tab Preferences Administration User Workspace Color Warnings Logo DEFAULT USER Name User Password Access Privileges Read Write Access USER ACCESS ICO
45. 1 Metachecker utility 58 Missing drives on startup 47 Mode pages setting 65 Modifying user accounts 124 Monitor graph bar setting colors for 80 Monitor list 129 linear graph scaling 130 Monitoring system usage 129 Moving workspaces 109 162 N New files disabling protection for 107 enabling protection for 106 NtStatDump tool 146 O On Offline command category Text Console 153 Online drive recovery 43 how it works 140 Online Help See Help Opening Administration Tool 72 Optimizing workspaces 108 Other FibreChannel Drives group 38 P Passwords administration 77 changing user 125 user 125 Permissions user accounts 116 Preference undoing or canceling 75 Preference tabs Color 80 Workspace 79 Preferences exporting 76 importing 76 logo setting 82 saving 75 warning settings 81 workspace setting 79 Preferences window Administration Tool 73 tabs in described 74 Privileges workspace access 126 Protecting data 35 Protection disabling for new files only 107 enabling for new files only 106 enabling for workspaces 105 recommendations 104 R Raw drives creating a data drive set from 57 creating data drives from 61 creating spare data drives from 58 Read write access privilege 126 Reading the workspace list graph 97 Read only access privilege 126 Rebuilding a data drive set 66 RecoverDisks tool 146 Recovering drives 140 Redundancy for File Manager 50 Reestablishing a connection to the M
46. 129 Allocation groups adding drives to 89 creating 87 deleting 94 described 85 managing 85 removing drives from 90 renaming 93 usage guidelines 86 AutoRecovery enabling 43 Avid Unity Profiler tool 147 B Bad drives identifying 134 swapping out of data drive sets 139 Bandwidth aggregate 129 Index Bringing the data drive set online 67 C Changing monitor list graph display 130 user passwords 125 workspace access privileges 127 workspace list graph display 98 workspace preferences 79 workspace size 101 Characters illegal in allocation group names 93 illegal in user account names 124 illegal in workspace names 103 Collapsible views 71 Color preferences 80 Command categories Text Console 150 Configuration Assistant 56 Configuration considerations See also Fail over configuration allocation groups 22 data protection 23 security 23 site type 22 uncompressed clients 22 Configuring Avid Unity MediaNetwork 21 e mail error notification service 53 File Manager fail over 48 general settings 46 workgroups 30 Context sensitive buttons 71 Creating a data drive set 56 allocation groups 87 data drives from raw drives 61 new workspaces 99 user accounts 114 D Data Drive Set group 38 Data drive sets See also Drives Drive sets Raw drives 160 adding data drives to 60 adding spare drives to 58 bringing online 67 contents of 56 creating 56 creating from raw drives 57 deleting 65 rebuilding 66 re
47. Avid Unity MediaNetwork Management Guide Avid make manage move media VI o Copyright and Disclaimer Product specifications are subject to change without notice and do not represent a commitment on the part of Avid Technology Inc The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement You can obtain a copy of that license by visiting Avid s Web site at www avid com The terms of that license are also available in the product in the same directory as the software The software may not be reverse assembled and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the license agreement Avid products or portions thereof are protected by one or more of the following United States Patents 4 746 994 4 970 663 5 045 940 5 267 351 5 309 528 5 355 450 5 396 594 5 440 348 5 452 378 5 467 288 5 513 375 5 528 310 5 557 423 5 577 190 5 584 006 5 640 601 5 644 364 5 654 737 5 715 018 5 724 605 5 726 717 5 729 673 5 745 637 5 752 029 5 754 851 5 799 150 5 812 216 5 828 678 5 842 014 5 852 435 5 987 501 6 061 758 6 223 211 6 301 105 6 532 043 6 546 190 6 636 869 6 747 705 6 763 523 6 813 622 Other patents are pending No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording for any
48. GB and 73 GB drives in your data drive set you should have at least one spare of each size To create a spare data drive 1 Click Start point to Programs point to AvidUnity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Select the Raw Drives group in the drive group list and click it to display all the attached raw drives in the drive list 3 Select a raw drive 4 Choose Make Drive Spare from the Drives menu The drive becomes a spare data drive and is moved from the Raw Drives group into the Data Drive Set group A spare data drive is required before you can replace a failing drive see Replacing the Data Drive Set on page 139 For information about manually adding a new spare drive to the MEDIArray ZX drive see Adding Storage to Your Environment on page 58 Adding Storage to Your Environment 58 The Metachecker utility checks the MediaNetwork metadata integrity Metachecker is run automatically anytime you add a drive to or remove a drive from your data drive set Do not run this utility manually unless directed by Avid Customer Support Adding Storage to Your Environment To physically add new MEDIArray ZX drives to your environment 1 Stop the File Manager service see Starting and Stopping the File Manager on page 40 In a fail over configuration stop the passive File Manager before stopping the active File Manager Otherwise the system will perform a fail over to the passive
49. L Le Soo O Version 30 7 Dive007 Disk3 596 17356 A A L S O Processors 2 A gt D j li Memory 2047 MB 8 Dive008 Disk2 594 17356 A A L S O Drive list M3 Drive009 Disk 595 17356 A A Le Ss 0 Drive Set Online 10 DiiveO10 Disk21 366 70007 A A 3 S O Created Tue Mar 19 15 08 32 5 Pou Server memo 1814 00 MB E11 Drive0l1 Disk20 366 70007 A A 3 S 0 Partition size 880 00 MB 12 Drive012 Disk16 366 70007 A A 3 S o 0 ce 5 13 Drive013 Disk17 366 70007 A A 3 S 0 orkspaces Meas deactorios 10000 B Replaced Disk 19 70007 R A 32 S Current directories 26 Replaced Disk 18 7o0o7 RA AL aa S Max files 500000 B Spate Disk 23 70007 S A 3 Sa 10k Current fies 1933 Spate Disk22 70007 S A 3 S O 4 a For Help press F1 Data Drive Set selected 14 active 7 The Setup Manager divides all drives into one of three groups reflecting their current usage allocations and state The three drive groups are Drive Group Data Drive Set Other FibreChannel Drives Raw Drives Description Shows active data drives and spare drives in the data drive set Shows drives that are not appropriately initialized for use in an allocation group These drives can be used for other purposes in your environment Shows raw drives that are marked for use but are not allocated for a specific purpose Raw drives cannot be used until allocated Starting the Setup Manager When you sel
50. Management Tools The Setup Manager runs only from the File Manager For a detailed description of the Setup Manager see Chapter 2 Administration Tool The Administration Tool is the primary tool for the initial setup and administration of allocation groups workspaces users and client connection privileges It also allows you to monitor storage activity Use the Administration Tool to e View create rename and delete allocation groups e Add drives to allocation groups e View create rename adjust the size of protect and delete workspaces e View create edit and delete user accounts with optional passwords and assign user access privileges e Monitor system usage including total system bandwidth use number of active MediaNetwork clients or media servers and bandwidth consumption per client or server e View a list of error warning and informational messages e Open multiple windows at the same time A The Administration Tool uses many system resources while running Avid suggests that if possible after initial setup you run the Administration Tool from a MediaNetwork client attached to the same Fibre Channel switch as the File Manager However if you must run the Administration Tool from the File Manager never leave it running or minimized Launch the Administration Tool perform the administration function needed and quit the Administration Tool 27 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview Eg A
51. MediaNetwork workspaces In this workgroup you need to create two user accounts e A MediaNetwork user account for each Windows and Macintosh user on the PortServer e A Windows user account for each Windows and Macintosh user on the domain server No user account is required on a Macintosh client The PortServer and all of its clients must be a part of the same Windows domain The MediaNetwork user account and the Windows user account must have the same user name and password to allow users to log in and set permissions Users should log in to the client by using their Windows domain user account and password Figure Network User Accounts on page 121 shows where the Windows and MediaNetwork user accounts are created For this example you have several people working on different projects that need access to different workspaces You could create all the user accounts in the following manner On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a MediaNetwork user account Fred with a password of seven Assign this account read write permission to the necessary MediaNetwork workspaces and read or no access permission to other workspaces on the PortServer or the LANserver EX Configuring User Accounts and Permissions On the Windows domain server create a Windows user account Fred with a password of seven Windows User Windows Client Domain Server PortServ
52. N MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WARRANTY PROVIDES YOU WITH SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS THERE MAY BE OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU MAY HAVE WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE The following disclaimer is required by Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics Inc for the use of their TIFF library Copyright 1988 1997 Sam Leffler Copyright 1991 1997 Silicon Graphics Inc Permission to use copy modify distribute and sell this software i e the TIFF library and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee provided that i the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation and ii the names of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the software without the specific prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL INCIDENTAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE The following disclaimer is requir
53. NGlWokK cccdacadeacdtaeieuseetseddedciewdiwenieag oe Managemen Tool carros rrisk itken a eE A ae BSUS Manager cesrscsrsaria keras i rE ewe we PRAT ite TA hc te iiti i ai ita kaieke abe beiddiad h AA Getting Help with the Monitor Tool 2 29 Contiguring a WarkgrOUD os cesci0sarancralncareiereceeaewsacaxe ae Creating a Data Drive S Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Determining the Active File Manager 40 Starting and Stopping the File Manager 40 Starting the File Manager 22 2 40 Stopping the File Manager 2 120022 cecccenicecenensueeawacnna Af Logging Out and the File Stopping the Online Drive Recovery AutoRecovery for Failed Drive Before You BEG 4 203 eneede bw leegedaew eed ededeeegwlbes nw OEE Enabling AutoRecovery for Failed Drives pieibprsberriyrsiye 44 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Paramete rare Ce cued a aaa tc cues e Setting Up E mail Error Notification saci sieirrsiecrirereretisoreve J2 Configuring the E mail Error Notifi Setting Up E mail Error Notification Contacts 54 Chapter4 Managing the Drive Hardware 55 ner New Data Drive Set Be ai Sr apo Reet ae ek Rae pe Ne se Deleting a Data Drive Set POS Pee ene ae cre erate ae Se Rebuilding a Data Drive Set 025icccdoislsesie ted ieweu
54. NS User Access Text NA R R W w User Access Square uo p w User Access Icon ow F Factory Settings Revert Panel 7 g OK Cancel Apply 3 Type the name for the user account in the Name text box 4 Type the login password for the user account in the Password text box 5 Choose the access privileges for the user account No Access Read Access Read Write Access or Selected User Access from the Access Privileges pop up menu 78 Administration Tool Preferences Window 6 Select whether access privileges will be displayed as text colored squares or icons in the user list display from the User Access Icons area 7 Click Apply or OK to save your changes Alternatively you can click Revert Panel to revert to your previous user preferences or click Cancel to close the window without saving the new preferences Setting Workspace Preferences The Workspace tab of the Preferences window allows you to specify the default names access privileges and sizes for new workspaces You also can specify default scaling settings for the workspace list in the Workspace tab For more information about the Workspace tab see Chapter 7 You also can set your workspace graph scaling preferences by setting them dynamically and saving them from the Workspace tab To set workspace preferences 1 Choose Preferences from the File menu The Preferences window opens 2 Click the Workspace tab Preferences Administration User Work
55. a Data Drive Set Manually This section describes how to manually create a data drive set consisting of data drives and optional spare data drives If you have an existing data drive set do not perform this procedure Creating a Data Drive Set from Raw Drives To create a data drive set from Fibre Channel drives that are in a raw state 1 Click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Select the Raw Drives group in the drive group list and click it to display all the attached raw drives in the drive list 3 Select a minimum of four raw drives of the same size that will become data drives in your new data drive set 4 Choose Create Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu to create a data drive set from the selected raw drives A progress indicator appears indicating that the Setup Manager is building the data drive set When the data drive set has been built successfully the File Manager and data drive set come online automatically To use the new data drive set gt Open the Administration Tool and use it to assign the data drives to one or more allocation groups For more information see Adding Drives to Allocation Groups on page 89 57 Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware Creating Spare Data Drives from Raw Drives Avid recommends keeping at least one spare drive of each data drive size in your data drive set for example if you have 180
56. a in a workspace 32 Da Configuring a Workgroup To create a new workspace 1 Click the Create New Workspace button in the Workspace Management window The New Workspace window opens Sa New Workspace x Allocation Group Create in Size 1 00 Max 109 88 Protected Acess to all user s No Access Workspace w Read Access Workspace2 g ReadMiite Access Workspaces Workspace4 w Select workspace Workspaces from list to mirror access Saye Settings dl 2 Select the allocation group on which you want to create the workspace 3 Type a name for the workspace amp Type a size for the workspace The maximum size allowed is listed next to the text box Click to select Protected or Unprotected Set the User Access privileges Click Create Leave the Administration Tool running oO N A U For more information about workspaces see Chapter 7 You can create as many workspaces as you need to support different projects Due to the physical restrictions of drive letters Avid Unity can only mount a maximum of 21 workspaces for Ethernet client use 33 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview Creating User Accounts User accounts allow individual users or groups of users access to the workgroup These accounts allow users to mount or map MediaNetwork workspaces on their Avid workstations To create a user account a 1 From the Administration Tool
57. able Drive 004 i S ete amp Drive 005 Drive 006 Drive 007 4 Click the Add Drive button to add the selected drives to the allocation group A dialog box opens asking whether you want to optimize all workspaces on the allocation group now Click Yes to add the drives and optimize all workspaces on the allocation group immediately A progress indicator appears while the optimization process occurs gt Click No only if because of time constraints you must add the drives without an immediate optimization You must manually optimize all workspaces on the allocation group as soon as possible afterward See Optimizing Workspaces on page 108 The selected drives are added to the allocation group Removing Drives from Allocation Groups You can remove drives from any existing allocation group that has no workspaces on it Drives removed from the allocation group are returned to the data drive set s pool of unassigned data drives 90 Removing Drives from Allocation Groups To remove drives from an allocation group 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Allocation Group willis Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the allocation group from which you want to remove drives 3 Select the drives that you want to remove from the drive list 3 Allocation Group Management x sd 18 Gig Gro
58. agement tasks including e Creating and managing a data drive set e Specifying drives as data drives or spare drives e Starting and stopping the File Manager service to perform system maintenance e Adding drives to and removing drives from the data drive set e Performing drive maintenance and error recovery operations Setup Manager oy x File Quick Start File Manager Drive Set Recover Drives View Help DA Data Drive Set Drive000 Disk10 5 93 17356 A A L S o OL other tiree hannel Drives Dive001 Dik9 598 17358 A A L S O Drive002 Disk8 595 17356 A A N So 0 Drive 003 Disk 5 93 17356 A A La S 0O Drive004 Disk6 593 17356 A A Le O Drive 005 Disk5 591 17356 A AW L O File Manager Running Drive 006 Disk 4 5 94 17956 A AW LL oS OO enot a Drive O07 Disk3 5 96 17356 A A L Suo O Memory 2047 MB Drive 008 Disk 2 DA 173 A CAs Ga Si D ey ee Drive O09 Disk1 595 17356 A A W Le Su O Drive O10 Disk21 366 70007 A A 3 S O iat ne Dive O11 Disk20 366 70007 A A 3 S OL Partition size 880 00 MB Drive O12 Disk16 366 70007 A A 3 Su 0 Drive O13 Disk17 366 70007 A A 3 S D poner Ap Replaced Disk 19 70007 Ru A 3 S Current directories 26 Replaced Disk 18 WOOF As Ax Bs Si Max files 500000 Spare Disk 23 70007 S A 3 S O Current files 1933 Spare Disk 22 70007 Si A 3 O E Far Helm nress F1 Data Drive Set selarted Md antive 4 26
59. air these workspaces at the earliest opportunity When you are deciding to use protection Avid recommends you consider the following e Allocation groups with an even number of drives provide the best performance and the best data distribution for all video resolutions e Allocation groups with an odd number of drives might not provide adequate performance for some video resolutions such as 1 1 or 2 1 Ifyou are not going to protect a workspace the allocation group can contain any number of data drives To enable protection for a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the workspace you want protected 3 Do one of the following gt Click the Enable Protection button lanana gt Select Enable Protection from the Commands menu Protection is enabled for the workspace Protecting New Files Versus Protecting Existing Files The differences between protecting new files versus protecting existing files follow 105 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces Enable Protection Disable Protection Switching this setting takes place instantaneously and only affects files written to the workspace from that point onward existing files are not affected When set all new files written to the workspace are protected existing files are not affected Synchroni
60. and click it to display all the attached raw drives in the drive list 3 Select all the raw drives that you want to become data drives in the new data drive set 4 Choose Create Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu to rebuild the data drive set A progress indicator opens showing that the Setup Manager is building the data drive set As soon as the data drive set has been built successfully the data drive set comes online automatically 66 Bringing the Data Drive Set Online and Taking the Data Drive Set Offline Bringing the Data Drive Set Online and Taking the Data Drive Set Offline Some hardware operations for example repairing the data drive set require that you first take the data drive set offline and then bring it online again You can also take the data drive set offline to prevent client access to all of your workspaces Data drive set sharing status is indicated in three ways Information area of the Setup Manager Take Offline command in the Drive Set menu of the Setup Manager available when the data drive set is online Bring Online command in the Drive Set menu of the Setup Manager available when the data drive set is offline Bringing the Data Drive Set Online To bring the data drive set online 1 From the Setup Manager select the Data Drive Set group in the drive group list 2 Choose Bring Online from the Drive Set menu The data drive set comes online Taking the Data Drive Se
61. ands The Stats Command Category 154 When you type its access character 7 the Stats command category displays a summary of your environment s statistics and its state see the following table Stats Subcommand Access Command Character Name Command Function r Reset event Performs the same function as the Reset Event button in the Monitor Tool You can use the r command only if the Text Console is running on the File Manager system Appendix D International Character Support MediaNetwork v3 3 and later provides support for international characters by migrating the MediaNetwork metadata from a multibyte character string MBCS encoding to the Unicode character encoding This allows you to use international characters in your MediaNetwork folder and file names When you install MediaNetwork on your File Manager all of the folder and file names in your MediaNetwork workspaces will be converted to Unicode International characters can currently only be used for folder and file names They cannot be used for computer names user names passwords or workspace names Appendix D International Character Support European Languages In MediaNetwork Release 3 1 and earlier folder and file names for European languages such as French Italian German or Spanish created by Macintosh and Windows clients using Avid Composer Products software used a character encoding MacRoman that is not native to the Windows operat
62. arning events displayed 4 The information in the Source tab located in the Event panel must be Avid MEDIArray ZX This is the software that detected the failure 5 The information in the From MEDIArray ZX tab displays the failing MEDIArray ZX enclosure 6 The message in the Message tab will display Long Command with the command type Write Read or Inquiry took more than 750 ms You normally only need to worry about the Write and Read commands responding slowly in the Message tab LUN Serial of the drive Amount of time the drive took to respond to the command 7 Once you find the MEDIArray ZX and drive serial number that is responding slowly you might consider replacing the drive see Replacing the Data Drive Set on page 139 The drive letter is the letter of the drive used as storage for the Avid Unity application Replacing the Data Drive Set Detecting a Failed Drive To detect if you have a failed drive in the MEDIJArray ZX you need to look at certain areas of the Event panel To start the viewer and detect a failed drive 1 Browse to drive_letter Program Files Avid Technology Avid Unity and double click IBEView exe 2 Select Local Unity Connection in the in the MEDIArray ZX selection panel 3 Scroll until you see the Error events displayed 4 The information in the Source tab located in the Event panel must be 3wDrv100 This is the software that detected the failure
63. as a workspace mounted and their privileges to that workspace are reduced to none then the workspace will be automatically unmounted the next time that workspace is accessed If there are files open when the workspace is unmounted they will be closed Changing Workspace Access Privileges You can use the following procedure to change access privileges for multiple users and workspaces at the same time To change access privileges l Open the Administration Tool For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 Do one of the following gt Click the User Management button gt Select User Management from the Commands menu Select a user and a workspace Click the button that reflects the level of access you want to grant No access Read only access or Read Write access The access level is applied to all selected users and workspaces 127 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges Chapter 9 Monitoring System Usage and Messages This chapter describes how to use the Connection Monitor and how to view and manage the log file This chapter discusses e The Connection Monitor Window e Changing the Monitor List Graph Display The Log File e Viewing and Managing the Log File The Connection Monitor Window The Connection Monitor allows you to monitor system usage including total system bandwidth use active clients and ban
64. ata drive set All the drives in that group appear in the drive list Do not proceed unless you are sure that you have selected the correct data drive set Deleting a Data Drive Set group causes all data on that data drive set to be lost 3 Choose Delete Data Drive Set from the Drives menu Adding Active Data Drives to a Data Drive Set The data drive set is deleted and all the drives in it become raw Therefore they now appear in the Raw Drives group 4 Proceed to Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives on page 61 Adding Drives That Were Previously Used with Another Application If the drives you want to add to your data drive set were used previously in another environment they will appear in the Other Fibre Channel Drives group To add the drives to your current data drive set 1 From the File Manager desktop click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select the Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Select the Other Fibre Channel Drives group All the drives in that group appear in the drive list 3 Select the drives from the drive list that you want to add as data drives to your data drive set 4 Choose Make Drive Raw from the Drives menu to remove any formatting and information on the drives A Making the drives into raw drives causes all data on the selected data drive set to be lost 5 Proceed to Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives on page 61 Creating Data Dr
65. character system usually allow the user to choose between single byte ASCII characters or double byte ASCII characters If you have a choice use single byte characters when entering ASCII text Invalid Characters Macintosh and Windows clients and some language kits allow and display characters in varying manners This can create problems with mounting or as you share media among several clients with different operating systems To minimize file sharing problems you should observe the following recommendations e Create workspace names with no spaces periods semicolons or apostrophes in their names If you need to separate two words in a workspace name use an underscore instead of a space or period A Macintosh Ethernet client cannot mount a workspace that contains an invalid character 157 Appendix D International Character Support e Create file and folder names that do not contain special characters such as or These characters can cause the client or the File Manager to behave unpredictably Unsupported Characters Do not use the Japanese Yen symbol in the ASCH character set The client might convert the symbol to a backslash Do not use the Y acute or and Y diaeresis or Y characters Some clients do not recognize the Y acute character Some clients might not display the Y diaeresis character correctly Normalization 158 All folder and file names are stored by the File Manager using th
66. crease Scale or Decrease Scale from the Commands menu Display Detailed Workspaces You can display your workspaces using either a Normal View or a Detailed View Normal View is workspace name workspace size and the graph bars Detailed View is all the columns that can be displayed which can be set in Preferences such as size available space maximum space percentage used mirrored and so on To switch between a normal view and a detailed view gt Click the Display Detailed View button Creating Workspaces E i New workspaces inherit their attributes name size and access privileges from the Workspace tab preferences or when you click the Save Settings button For more information see Setting Workspace Preferences on page 79 To create a new workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Do one of the following gt Click the Create New Workspace button gt Select Create New Workspace from the Commands menu The New Workspace window opens 99 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces Sa New Workspace x Allocation Group Creste in Workspace Name AEE EEE Size 1 00 Max 109 88 Protected Acess to all user s No Access Workspace w Read Access Workspace2 Readirite Access Workspace3 Workspace4 w Select workspace Wor
67. dministration Tool BPE File Edit View Commands Help Management r window buttons C EENAA Avid Unity MediaNetwork 3 Workspace Management Window buttons 4 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 a a Listarea ___ Current Size amp Drive 000 0 amp Drive 001 1 amp Drive 002 2 amp Drive 003 3 aa Drive 004 4 Drive 005 5 Drive 006 6 Drive 007 K gt T Connected as Administrator Message 12 06 2002 14 08 22 Workspace Workspace was resized to 3413 24 GB A 12 06 2002 14 08 07 Workspace Workspace was resized to 100 00 GB area EQ 12106 2002 14 07 31 Workspace Workspace was resized to 3413 24 GB You can open the Administration Tool from the File Manager or from any MediaNetwork client or media server where it communicates with the File Manager through the Fibre Channel network For a detailed description of the Administration Tool see Chapter 5 Monitor Tool 28 The Monitor Tool provides low level performance monitoring functions Using the Monitor Tool you can view e The current status of each drive including name number available storage percentage of storage used and the number of affected files if any e A list of the workspaces e The status of communications between the File Manager and the MediaNetwork clients or media servers Information on the metadata maintained by the File Manager e File Manager memory usage
68. dor amp Drive 003 3 Disk 5 SEAGATE amp Drive 002 2 Disk 4 AVID amp Drive 001 1 Disk 3 SEAGATE 0 Disk 2 SEAGATE amp Drive 000 Allocation Groups must contain drives of similar sizes Allocation groups must contain at least four drives aa geag c lose 3 Type a name for the allocation group Select all the drives you want to assign to the new allocation group four drive minimum by clicking them If you are creating allocation groups containing specific drives in the MEDIArray drive enclosures a Click the Identify button The drive light flashes on the drive being identified b Ifthe identified drive is the drive you want in the MEDIArray drive enclosure click the drive If it is not the drive you wanted select another drive c Repeat steps a and b until you have selected all the drives you want in the allocation group Click the Create button to create a new allocation group containing all the selected drives A dialog box opens asking you to confirm that you want to create a new allocation group The new allocation group appears in the allocation group list Adding Drives to Allocation Groups Adding Drives to Allocation Groups Lanse You can add unassigned data drives from the data drive set to an allocation group at any time to increase its storage capacity When you optimize you make a copy of a file on a nearly full workspace or drive move it to an empti
69. dwidth consumption of each client The Write Bandwidth and Read Bandwidth objects in the monitor list show total read bandwidth green bar by default and total write bandwidth red bar by default respectively in MB s Chapter 9 Monitoring System Usage and Messages Sa Connection Monitor xj KAENA Host Name Bandwidth Write Bandwidth Read Bandwidth fh Administrator LANSHAREEX1 th Administrator AVID XC8AFWCPS9 Below the Write Bandwidth and Read Bandwidth objects the monitor list displays each active client showing which users are currently using the system the client at which they are logged in and their most active current activity Changing the Monitor List Graph Display The monitor list represents bandwidth consumption for the system and individual client workstations in the form of horizontal bars in a graph display For information on how to customize your monitor list graph display see Changing the Workspace List Graph Display on page 98 The Log File The Log file displays a scroll list of error warning and informational messages logged during the current Administration Tool session While the Administration Tool session is open the log file appears in the message area 130 Viewing and Managing the Log File Connected as Administrator J 08 1 6 2002 14 17 34 Disk set contains 10 workspaces yy 08 16 2002 14 17 34 Disk setis online 08 16 2002 14 17 34 File manager has found metadata for d
70. e Time Source Category EventID FromMEDIAnayZx Msg ID aj E MEDlArray ZX 1 Infomation 04 23 03 16 2230 uServer none 060070002 MEDIAnay Zx 1 2 Drive S N VNVFIOGEGS44AG Lun 0 Dive0 Information 04 23 03 16 2230 uServer none 0x60070003 MEDIAnayZX 1 3 Drive S N VNVF10GEG54SJG Lun 1 Drive 1 Infomation 04 23 03 16 2230 Server none 0x60070002 MEDIAray ZX 1 Dive SA MVFIOGGCIADDG Lun2 Die2 iomain 023 03 162222 Eventog nome OSMOS EDIATOy2X NN 009 3 information ventLog none we ray pie pe indie eat TA z a Information 04 23 03 16 2222 EventLog none 0x80001775 MEDlAnay Z 1 6005 bess eek petiolate Information 04 23 03 16 22 13 bS7w2k none Ox4005000f MEDlAnay Z 1 1 Drive S N VNVFTOGBGSKV6G Lun 5 Drive 5 Information 04 23 03 16 20 17 EventLog none 0x80001776 MEDlAray ZX 1 6006 Diive S NVNVFIOGEGS4ETG Lun 6 Dive6 Information 04 23 03 16 04 50 uServer none 0x60070002 MEDIAnay Zx 1 2 Drive S N VNVFTOGEGSBXNG Lun7 DriveO f Information 04 23 03 16 00 27 uServer none Ox60070002 MEDIAnay Zx 1 2 Drive S N VNVF10GEG52PLG Lun 8 Drive 1 Information 04 23 03 14 04 39 Server none 0x60070005 MEDlAnay zx 1 5 Dive SAN NYFIOGEGESEVG Lun Dive iiam 0V2 140439 Seva me DEOS MEDAYAIAI 3 3 formation z uServer none hi iray Dine Senne Lun 0 Drive 3 Jinformation 04 23 03 14 0439 uServer none 0x60070003 MEDIAnayZX 1 3 bive 8 VOGEGSIMUG Lun 11 Drive 4 information 04 23 03 11 3410 uServer none 0x60070002 MEDIAnayZX 1 2 D
71. e Unicode UTF 8 character set As files and folders are requested by a client the client converts their names from UTF 8 to a character set appropriate for the client These character sets are e Windows clients convert to the UTF 16 character set e Mac OS 9 clients convert to the MacRoman character set for European languages and the local code page for Asian languages e Mac OS X clients use the UTF 8 character set without any conversion All characters are stored using normalized Unicode Normalization form C Index Numerics 7x24 work environment maintaining 43 A Access privileges access levels 126 changing 127 managing 113 read write 126 read only 126 Accounts Guest disabling 125 user creating 114 user deleting 125 user duplicating 122 Active data drives adding to a data drive set 60 removing from a data drive set 63 Active File Manager determining 40 Adding active drives to a data drive set 60 data drives to an existing data drive set 60 drives to an allocation group 89 spare data drives to the data drive set 58 storage to your environment 58 Administration password setting 77 Administration Tool accessing Help for 72 context sensitive buttons 71 described 69 list area 71 logging in to 73 message area 71 Preferences window 73 starting 72 user interface overview 70 windows described 71 AdministrationToolLog txt file 131 Administrator tasks 22 Advanced support tools 145 Aggregate bandwidth
72. e allocation group will experience degraded performance until the drive is moved to the same MEDIArray as the other drives in the allocation group It is best to move the recovered drive at the same time you remove the bad drive Macintosh client workspaces will be dismounted at the end of the online drive recovery In addition Macintosh clients will need to restart the Administration Tool if it was running during the recovery process To perform an online drive recovery l Click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager window opens If the Data Drive Set group is not already selected in the drive group list click its entry to display all the attached active and spare data drives Ensure that there is a spare same size data drive to replace the failed data drive Select the drive to be replaced along with the spare drive by Ctrl clicking both drives Choose Recover Failed Data Drive from the Recover menu The Recover Confirmation dialog box opens Recover Confirmation IN Are you sure you want to recover the selected drive now Recover Confirmation N Are you sure you want to recover the selected drive now 141 Appendix A Managing Drive Problems 142 6 Click Yes to recover the selected drive A dialog box opens asking you to make a choice MediaNetSetupMagr jis T Would you like to leave the drive set online while
73. ect the drive group that you want to view in the drive group list all the drives in that group then appear in the drive list The drive list displays the name size status unit number and other technical information about each drive You might need to click the right scroll arrow to see all the information You access all Setup Manager functions from the various menus in the menu bar The information area provides information about the data drive set and the status of the File Manager Getting Help with the Setup Manager The Help system provides procedures and reference information for all features of the Setup Manager Starting the Setup Manager To start the Setup Manager gt From the File Manager desktop click the Start button point to Programs point to AvidUnity and then select Setup Manager Until you initialize the e mail error notification service see Setting Up E mail Error Notification on page 52 the Setup Manager will open the E mail Configuration dialog box The open dialog box asks you whether you want it to appear each time Setup Manager starts Click OK to stop the dialog box from appearing again Until you configure your data drive set the Setup Manager information area will contain a message box warning you that it is not connected to the File Manager or that the File Manager is not running This is normal the File Manager does not come online until you create a data drive set Using Setup Manager
74. ed by the Independent JPEG Group Portions of this software are based on work of the Independent JPEG Group The following disclaimer is required by Paradigm Matrix Portions of this software licensed from Paradigm Matrix The following disclaimer is required by Ray Sauers Associates Inc Install It is licensed from Ray Sauers Associates Inc End User is prohibited from taking any action to derive a source code equivalent of Install lt including by reverse assembly or reverse compilation Ray Sauers Associates Inc shall in no event be liable for any damages resulting from reseller s failure to perform reseller s obligation or any damages arising from use or operation of reseller s products or the software or any other damages including but not limited to incidental direct indirect special or consequential Damages including lost profits or damages resulting from loss of use or inability to use reseller s products or the software for any reason including copyright or patent infringement or lost data even if Ray Sauers Associates has been advised knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages The following disclaimer is required by Videomedia Inc Videomedia Inc makes no warranties whatsoever either express or implied regarding this product including warranties with respect to its merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose This software contains V LAN ver 3 0 Command
75. ed in one of two locations If release notes are available they ship with your application If ReadMe files are available they are supplied in your Avid application folder ReadMe files are also available from Help Release notes and ReadMe files are also available on the Avid Knowledge Base 3 Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for maintenance or hardware related issues 4 Visit the online Knowledge Base at www avid com onlinesupport Online services are available 24 hours per day 7 days per week Search this online Knowledge Base to find answers to view error messages to access troubleshooting tips to download updates and to read join online message board discussions 5 For Technical Support please call 800 800 AVID 800 800 2843 For Broadcast On Air Sites and Call Letter Stations call 800 NEWSDNG 800 639 7364 Using This Guide Related Information 18 The following documents located on the Documentation CD ROM provide more information about configuring and managing your work environment Avid Unity MediaNetwork Site Preparation Guide Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide Avid Unity MediaNetwork Release Notes Avid Unity MediaNetwork Upgrade Notes Avid Unity MediaNetwork System Overview Avid Unity MediaNetwork Macintosh Fibre Channel Client Setup Guide MediaNetwork Macintosh Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card Avid Unity MediaNetwork Windows F
76. ediaNetwork File Manager 83 Removing drives 62 drives from an allocation group 90 storage 64 Renaming an allocation group 93 workspaces 103 Replace Failed Data Drive operation 139 Replacing data drive sets 139 Resize handle 101 Resizing workspaces 101 Revert Panel button 75 S Security considerations 23 Server Log Viewer 145 Setting administration password 77 Administration Tool preferences 73 color preferences 80 drive mode pages 65 preferences for logo 82 the administration password 77 Index user account preferences 78 Workspace preferences 79 Setting up e mail error notification 52 Settings general configuring 46 preferences for warnings 81 Setup Manager drive group list 39 information area 39 overview 38 starting 39 using in a fail over configuration 39 Spare data drives adding data 58 creating from raw drives 58 Starting Administration Tool 72 File Manager 40 Setup Manager 39 Stats command category Text Console 154 Stopping File Manager 41 Storage adding to your environment 58 physically removing 64 Support tools 145 Swapping bad drives out of data drive sets 139 Synchronize All Files option file protection and 107 System usage monitoring 129 T Taking the data drive set offline 67 Text Console command categories 150 starting 149 using for remote administration 149 The Workspace Management Window 95 Tools advanced support 145 Avid Unity Profiler 147 management
77. elected user to mirror access Default access privileges are initially assigned for each new user account and new workspace by using the default settings specified in your preferences see Setting User Account Preferences on page 78 You can increase or decrease these defaults to provide customized access for each user to every workspace if necessary For example you might need to increase the access privileges for a user who does not have write access to the appropriate workspace or for a workspace that does not provide the appropriate access to one or more users Consider the following for access privileges e As access privileges are increased the newly accessible workspaces are immediately mountable e Ifa user has a workspace mounted with read only privileges and is granted read write privileges the new privileges apply immediately without remounting the workspace e Ifa user is already at the workspace selection stage when the access privileges are removed then newly inaccessible workspaces will remain in the display However attempting to actually mount the workspaces will be unsuccessful Changing Workspace Access Privileges If a user has a workspace mounted with read write privileges and these are reduced to read only privileges the new privileges apply immediately without remounting the workspace If a file is open for writing the user retains write privilege to that file until it is closed If a user h
78. election The right side displays a list of all available drives Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups eo Allocation Group Management x s R i 18 Gig Group Drive 004 17253 Di amp Drive 005 17253 amp Drive 006 17253 amp Drive 007 17253 Drive 008 17253 i T t Current allocation group Add Remove drive Available drives buttons The toolbar buttons allow you to add delete and rename drives as well as identify all drives or specific drives Two context sensitive buttons allow you to add drives to and remove drives from the allocation group Allocation Group Usage Guidelines 86 You can assign all of your data drives to one large allocation group To further optimize performance you can use allocation groups to configure your file system If your environment supports clients with very high bandwidth requirements you will need to set up specific hardware and allocation group configurations to support them For more information see the Avid Unity MediaNetwork v3 6 and v3 5 Configuration Guidelines In such an environment you can use allocation groups to isolate clients that need very high bandwidth and thus eliminate the competition from other clients trying to access the same drives For example when uncompressed media is in its own allocation group and a single client is using the Creating Allocation Groups uncompressed media that client is serviced independently from any other clients in
79. ement preferences For more information see Setting User Account Preferences on page 78 When you create user names and passwords consider the following e Avid recommends that user names and passwords which are case sensitive match exactly for a MediaNetwork user account and a Windows user account Creating User Accounts e If your MediaNetwork workgroup has one or more PortServers and a number of Ethernet clients Avid recommends that you use domain user accounts not local user accounts for the PortServer and Ethernet clients e When you create new user accounts on a PortServer Pro Avid recommends that you do not select the Change password at next logon option Instead select the Password never expires option To create new user accounts ch 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the User Management button hnnan For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Do one of the following gt Click the New User button a gt Select New User from the Commands menu The New User dialog opens containing the default information specified in your user preferences Name Password Name Password J Confirm Password Privileges w Can resize workspaces w Can enable disable protection _ Access to all workspace s w No Access w Read Access Readiwrite Access w Select user from list to mirror access
80. ents by storing duplicates of all media files This allows data drive sets with malfunctioning drives containing protected media files to be repaired quickly without data loss For more information on protecting workspaces see the following sections Workspace Protection Recommendations Capacity of Odd Number of Drives Enabling Protection of New Files Only Disabling Protection of New Files Only Synchronizing All Files Workspace Protection Recommendations 104 Because of the potential impact of a drive failure Avid recommends protecting all your workspaces whenever possible If you want to ensure protection of your files at all times a ways use the Enable Protection option when creating new workspaces before any files are stored on the workspace and never use the Unprotect All Files option Protecting Workspaces If you are not sure that all files on a given workspace are protected select the workspace and click Protect All Files This enables protection for all new files added to the workspace and adds protection to any existing files in the workspace that are not already protected The File Manager allows MediaNetwork clients to mount protected workspaces that have more than one drive missing from the workspace s allocation group However protected allocation groups with more than one drive missing are unstable Some or all of the files the allocation groups contain might not be available for use The administrator should rep
81. er 51 validating connections for 51 File protection Synchronize All Files option 107 Files new disabling protection for 107 new enabling protection for 106 G General Configuration Options dialog box 46 General settings Index configuring 46 Graph bar colors setting 80 Graph scaling 98 Guest user account 125 Guidelines allocation group usage 86 fail over configuration 40 H Hardware drive managing 55 Help Administration Tool 72 Monitor Tool 29 Setup Manager 39 Identifying bad drives 134 drives 92 Illegal characters in allocation group names 93 in user account names 124 in workspace names 103 Importing preferences 76 Information area Setup Manager 39 IP addresses File Manager 49 L Launching Administration Tool 72 Setup Manager 39 Text Console 149 Linear scale 98 in monitor list 130 List area 71 List opener 71 Lists drive group 39 161 Index workspace 96 Log file managing 131 viewing 131 Logarithmic scale 98 Logging in to the Administration Tool 73 Logo setting preferences for 82 LUN Masking 47 Management tasks 22 Management tools 26 Managing access privileges 113 allocation groups 85 drive hardware 38 log file 131 user accounts 113 workspaces 96 Maximum open files option 47 MediaNetwork File Manager reestablishing a connection to 83 MEDIArray ZX drives adding 59 MEDIArray ZX Event Viewer filter events 137 select events 136 using 136 MEDIArray ZX3 definition 21 Message area 7
82. er or LANserver EX Macintosh Client MediaNetwork User Network User Accounts Example 4 Network Workgroup Using Domain Groups Dig Oh For this example you are creating a network PortServer or LANserver EX workgroup the PortServer or the LANserver EX is part of a Windows domain and want to allow users access to MediaNetwork workspaces In this workgroup create two user accounts and one Windows group e A MediaNetwork user account for the group on the domain e A Windows group on the domain server e A Windows user account for each Windows and Macintosh user on the domain server No user account is required on a Macintosh client The PortServer or the LANserver EX and all of its clients must be a part of the same Windows domain The MediaNetwork user account and the Windows group must have the same name to allow users to log in and set permissions Users should log in to the client by using their Windows domain user account and password Figure Network User Accounts and Groups on page 122 shows where the Windows and MediaNetwork user accounts and the Windows group are created 121 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges A Duplicating 122 Windows Group Windows User Windows Client Domain Server PortServer or LANserver EX Macintosh Client MediaNetwork User Network User Accounts and
83. er workspace or drive then delete the original You must maintain sufficient free space on your workspace or drive to make a copy of your largest file or optimization will fail Be aware that the size of files when using MXF starting in v3 5 3 is vastly larger than what is possible with OMF files For optimize to succeed you must have enough free space on the drive equal to the largest data file on the disk If you have a data file that is larger than the available free space you will receive a Some files were not optimized error To add drives to an allocation group 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Allocation Group Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the allocation group where you want to add drives 3 Select all the drives you want to add to the allocation group by clicking them If you want to add specific drives from the MEDIArray drive enclosures a Click the Identify Drive button The drive light flashes on the drive being identified b Ifthe identified drive is the drive you wanted in the MEDIArray drive enclosure click the drive name If it is not the drive you wanted select another drive c Repeat steps a and b until you have selected all the drives you want to add to the allocation group 89 Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups Add Drive button eo Allocation Group Management Avail
84. erver or LANserver EX is part of a network For more information about Windows users groups and permissions contact your network administrator or consult the Windows Help system This section also assumes that you are familiar with MediaNetwork system administration and understand how to create user accounts with passwords and how to assign user permissions to workspaces Configuring User Accounts and Permissions On the PortServer the Avid Unity PortServer service matches MediaNetwork users and Windows users or groups to validate access to MediaNetwork workspaces When the PortServer service finds a match between a MediaNetwork user account and a Windows user account or group it applies the appropriate permissions to each MediaNetwork workspace to which the user has access The requested workspaces can then be mounted on the MediaNetwork client On the LANserver EX the Connection Manager performs the same tasks When the Connection Manager cannot find a match between a MediaNetwork user account and a Windows user account or group it displays a Login dialog box asking you to type a valid Windows MediaNetwork user account and password If these are not supplied the user login request is denied The following examples provide information about how and where to create the necessary user accounts for MediaNetwork and Windows Example 1 Standalone Workgroup Using Local User Accounts For this example you are creating a standalone wo
85. etwork software can use to store data Each MediaNetwork workgroup can have only one data drive set To create a data drive set 1 From the File Manager desktop click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager 2 Click Raw Drives in the left section of the window You can create your data drive set with no spare drives or with two spare drives Having spare drives allows you to perform online drive repairs if a drive fails If you are not running the optional UnityRAID protection software you should consider having spare drives 3 Select the drives you want in the data drive set in the right section of the window 4 Choose Create Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu 5 Click OK The data drive set is created Configuring a Workgroup 6 If you did not use all of the drives in the data drive set select the remaining drives in the right section of the window and choose Make Drive Spare from the Drives menu 7 Click Data Drive Set in the left section of the window All of the drives should move from Raw Drives to Data Drive Set 8 Quit the Setup Manager For more information about data drive sets see Chapter 4 Creating an Allocation Group An allocation group defines how the drives in a data drive set are partitioned to store data If you have drives of different sizes they must be in separate allocation groups To create a new allocation group 1 Open the Ad
86. ew name maximum of 27 characters 3 Press Enter Windows or Return Macintosh or click elsewhere in the workspace list to effect the change If you do not type a name or type a duplicate name the name is not changed Deleting Workspaces AN You can delete workspaces that are not currently mounted on any clients You can delete multiple workspaces at the same time When you delete a workspace all media stored there is lost Before deleting a workspace make sure that its media is no longer needed is moved or is backed up To delete a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the workspace or workspaces you want to delete 103 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces Ensure that the workspace is not currently mounted on any clients To do this check access from the Connection Monitor window of the Administration Tool Then ask any client with that workspace mounted to unmount it Do one of the following gt Click the Delete Workspace button gt Choose Delete Workspace from the Commands menu A dialog box opens prompting you to confirm that you really want to delete the workspace Click OK The workspace is deleted Protecting Workspaces The protection feature offers a high level of data integrity at the cost of doubling drive space requirem
87. exchanging drives Choosing yes allows all clients to remain connected during the drive exchange Choosing no disconnects all clients before the drive exchange Click Yes to start the online drive replacement or No if you want to do an offline replacement No disconnects clients A progress indicator appears showing that the Setup Manager is performing an online drive recovery Writing to disks is blocked for a brief period at the end of online recovery When the data drive set has been recovered from an online repair the progress indicator closes A dialog box informs you that the previously spare drive will appear in the Data Drive Set group marked as active and the previously active drive that was replaced will appear as a Replaced Drive colored purple When complete you need to determine which physical drive is bad within the MEDIArray ZX enclosure Highlight the drive that was replaced bad and select Identify from the Drive Menu This causes the selected drive in the MEDIArray ZX enclosure to blink for 15 seconds Any of the other drives can be blinking while transferring metadata If possible you should watch when you select Identify to determine the actual drive that needs repair You should make note of that drive to make sure you know which drive needs to be physically replaced An example would be to place a small piece of tape on the front of the drive 9 10 Highlight the replaced bad drive right click
88. ferences window opens 2 Click the Color tab Preferences i Administration User Workspace Color Warnings Logo COLOR Workspace used space Workspace total space Monitor read C write Red UIT TTT MMT 80 Green mE M Imm Mm 80 Bue mM TTT mM 80 Factory Settings Revert Panel OK Cancel Apply Nee N Nee Niel 80 Administration Tool Preferences Window 3 Choose the graph bar element that you want to change from the Color menu 4 Select the red green and blue color component values by moving the corresponding sliders As you alter the values the color of the selected graph bar element changes in the preview bars 5 Select and change other graph bar elements by repeating steps 3 and 4 6 Click Apply or OK to save your color changes Alternatively you can click Revert Panel to revert to your previous color preferences or click Cancel to close the window without saving the new preferences Setting Warning Preferences The Warnings tab of the Preferences window allows you to set warnings and alarms for both workspaces and allocation groups To set warnings preferences 1 Choose Preferences from the File menu The Preferences window opens 2 Click the Warnings tab Preferences Administration User Workspace Color Warnings Logo WORKSPACE wo Enable Workspace warnings Percent Used Warning
89. following gt Click the Identify Drives button gt Select Identify Drive from the Commands menu Drive 000 8579 amp Drive 001 8579 8579 ca Identify Drives xi Drive 003 Ep Identity each drive s tor IIE seconds Press the Cancel button to stop identifying Click either the each or all button and specify the number of seconds you want the light to blink on the drive When you choose Identify each on a selection of drives the light will blink until each drive has been individually identified When you choose Identify all on a selection of drives the light will blink simultaneously on all the drives Click Identify Renaming Allocation Groups Renaming Allocation Groups You can rename an allocation group at any time Any changes you make are applied automatically in the Workspace Management window The following characters are illegal in allocation group names lt gt and To rename an allocation group 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Allocation Group ails Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the allocation group name you want to change R 3 Click the Rename Allocation Group button ie The Rename Allocation Group dialog box opens eo Rename Allocation Group x New allocation group name ji 8 GB ok Cancel
90. go text for the main window See Setting Logo Preferences on page 82 Undoing or Canceling Preference Changes If you need to undo any changes you make the Preferences window offers three options to revert to earlier preferences or to cancel your changes e Click the Revert Panel button to return the preferences to their last saved values e Click the Factory Settings button to return the preferences back to the original values set at installation time e Click the Cancel button to close the Preferences window without saving your changes Saving Preference Changes To view preference changes immediately or to apply some changes and then continue changing preferences click the Apply button This saves your changes without closing the Preferences window When you have finished making preference changes click OK This saves all your changes and closes the Preferences window Preferences are saved locally to a file on the system on which you are running the Administration Tool The following tale shows the location of the preferences file on different system types 75 Chapter 5 Administration Tool Preference File Locations System Type File Location File Manager or MediaNetwork installation directory D Program Windows client Files Avid Technology AvidUnity by default Macintosh client System Folder Preferences Avid Unity Preferences If you want to make preferences available on other clients you need to export you
91. he File Manager software 3 Click OK A dialog box opens indicating that the File Manager is stopping and saving metadata 4 Click the Start button and then select Shut Down The Shut Down Windows dialog box opens 5 Select Shut down the computer 6 The File Manager shuts down 42 Online Drive Recovery Online Drive Recovery If drive problems occur a Drive Error Analysis Needed message will appear in the File Manager Status tab of the Monitor Tool The online drive recovery feature is designed to recover a drive while the system remains online This significantly improves workflow because clients no longer need to unmount workspaces during a drive repair To perform an online drive repair see Appendix A There are several issues to consider Only connected clients can continue working during online repair e Clients are denied write access at some point during online repair AutoRecovery for Failed Drives The AutoRecovery for Failed Drives operation can detect a media error and automatically recover a drive This operation helps you maintain a 7x24 work environment and offers an alternative to using the Setup Manager to manually intervene and replace failed drives AutoRecovery requires that you use mirroring and should never be viewed as a substitute for mirroring Considerations System performance degrades during the AutoRecovery for Failed Drives operation AutoRecovery is disabled by default
92. he duplicates cannot be read To do this online the repair function must remain aware of the fact that the mirrored copies of the blocks designated for the drive under repair are changing It must make several passes to accommodate this each pass picking up changes to these blocks that were made since the previous pass At some point the repair function must inhibit I O for a brief period in order to make the final pass Once complete full bandwidth access is available to the file system and Replacing a Drive The online drive recovery operation is designed to recover drives while your system remains online and without disconnecting clients This significantly improves workflow because client machines no longer need to dismount workspaces during repairs When you perform an online drive recovery remember the following e Clients that are not already connected to the MediaNetwork workgroup by having a workspace mounted or by running the Administration Tool are prevented from connecting to the workgroup until the recovery is complete If a connected client logs off or crashes during disk repair they will not be able to reconnect e Clients are denied write access at some point during online repair while the File Manager locks the sets from writes in order to finish the repair Recovering and Replacing a Drive When you recover a drive that is part of a single user allocation group and the recovered drive is in another MEDIArray th
93. he metadata file Open the partition where Avid Unity is installed typically D Program Files Avid Technology AvidUnity Find the PartitionDump bin file with a modification date from when you stopped the File Manager if upgrading or modifying the system in any way copy the PartitionDump bin and the Recoverylnfo dat to another partition before you continue If the PartitionDump bin file exists with the correct time and date continue with Shutting Down the Windows 2000 System 41 Chapter 2 Setup Manager Shutting Down the Windows Operating System To shut down the Windows operating system 1 Click the Start button and then select Shut Down The Shut Down Windows dialog box opens 2 Click Shut down this computer 3 The File Manager shuts down Logging Out and Stopping the File Manager Changes To log out from the File Manager and leave the File Manager software running 1 Click the Start button and then select Shut Down The Shut Down Windows dialog box opens 2 Select Logoff as Administrator and click Yes Stopping the File Manager A If you stop the File Manager no clients will be able to access MediaNetwork workspaces To stop the File Manager software and shutdown the system 1 Click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and select Monitor Tool The Monitor Tool opens 2 Click the Stop File Manager button A message appears asking if you are sure you want to stop t
94. ibre Channel Client Setup Guide MediaNetwork Windows Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card Avid Unity MediaNetwork Macintosh Ethernet Client Setup Guide MediaNetwork Macintosh Ethernet Client Quick Start Card Avid Unity MediaNetwork Windows Ethernet Client Setup Guide MediaNetwork Windows Ethernet Client Quick Start Card Avid Unity MediaNetwork PortServer Setup Guide Avid Unity MediaNetwork 3 6 Supported Configurations Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Failover Installation Notes Avid Unity LANserver EX Setup Guide Avid Unity LANserver Upgrade Notes Avid Unity LANserver Release Notes For the latest product information visit the online Knowledge Base at www avid com onlinesupport How to Order Documentation How to Order Documentation To order additional copies of this documentation from within the United States call Avid Sales at 800 949 AVID 800 949 2843 If you are placing an order from outside the United States contact your local Avid representative Avid Educational Services For information on courses schedules training centers certifications courseware and books please visit www avid com training or call Avid Sales at 800 949 AVID 800 949 2843 19 Using Thi Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview MediaNetwork allows you to centrally manage very large amounts of storage that multiple clients can access to share video audio and effects media in an intuitive collaborative environment The
95. iguring the data drive set for example if you want to specify how many drives should be designated as spares you will need to create your data drive set manually Creating a Data Drive Set Automatically 56 To create a data drive set as quickly as possible use the Setup Manager Configuration Assistant The Configuration Assistant automatically creates a basic data drive set consisting of e Active data drives all but one of the available drives e A single spare data drive Avid strongly recommends keeping at least one spare drive of each data drive size in your data drive set even if you are using mirroring For example if you have 180 GB and 73 GB drives in your data drive set you should have at least one spare of each size Therefore if you have mixed drive sizes you should create the data drive set manually To run the Configuration Assistant 1 Choose Configuration Assistant from Setup Manager in the Quick Start menu The Setup Manager dialog box opens describing the data drive set that the Configuration Assistant is going to create Setup Manager x ren Creating a new drive set consisting of 18 data drives 1 spare drive 1 2 Click OK Creating a New Data Drive Set When the configuration operation is completed your working data drive set will be ready for you to perform further configurations from the Administration Tool For information about the Administration Tool see Chapter 5 Creating
96. ill need to synchronize files For more information see Synchronizing All Files on page 107 Enabling protection of new files for a workspace does not cause all existing files on that workspace to be protected This will not happen until you perform the Synchronize All Files operation Protecting Workspaces Disabling Protection of New Files Only To disable protection of new files for a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select a protected workspace 3 Click Disable Protection to disable protection for the selected workspace The Unprotected Workspace icon replaces the Protected Workspace icon a in the workspace list 4 If the selected workspace contains existing files that are already protected and you do not want them to be you will need to synchronize files Synchronizing All Files When you synchronize files they inherit the workspace setting For example when you synchronize files on a protected workspace all the files become protected To synchronize all files on a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 a Le 2 Select the workspace whose files you to synchronize 3 Do one of the fo
97. in the following order a MEDIArray ZX b File Manager c Client 143 Appendix A Managing Drive Problems 144 Appendix B Advanced Support Tools This appendix lists the advanced support tools available for troubleshooting your environment A Do not use these tools unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss This appendix discusses e The Server Log Viewer The Text Console The NtStatDump Tool e The RecoverDisks Tool e The Avid Unity Profiler Tool The Server Log Viewer Installed on the File Manager the Server Log Viewer is a valuable tool that allows you to view the File Manager Log as it is buffered in memory This log provides detailed status information that is especially useful to Avid Customer Support personnel for monitoring system status during prolonged operations To open the Server Log Viewer gt On the File Manager console click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Server Log Viewer Appendix B Advanced Support Tools The Text Console A The Text Console is a text based administration application that allows you to monitor the status of your environment and to access a subset of the Administration Tool functionality Do not use this tool unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss For more information see Appendix C
98. inal the operation fails and displays a Not enough unallocated space on the partition error message Adjusting Workspace Size There are occasions when you must change the size of workspaces For example you might need to make a workspace larger to create room for a digitize procedure planned for later in the day or for some new media files Alternatively you might need to make a workspace smaller to create space for other workspaces or to reserve storage for another day Do not adjust workspaces while clients are creating files or files are being written to them You can select multiple workspaces and adjust them at the same time The workspace list allows you to select workspaces for renaming deletion and moving to another allocation group It also allows you to manipulate workspace size To adjust the size of a single workspace gt From the workspace list press and hold the Alt key on the server or a Windows client or the Option key on a Macintosh client while dragging the workspace resize handles You can also type a value in a workspace s Size text box 101 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces To adjust the size of multiple workspaces 1 E 2 3 3 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 Select the workspaces you want to adjust Do one of the follow
99. ing gt Click the Adjust Workspace Sizes button gt Choose Adjust Workspace Sizes from the Commands menu The Adjust Workspace Sizes dialog box opens Sa Adjust Workspace Sizes x Increase the selected workspace s by Loof Gb v Click Increase or Decrease 5 Type a value in the text box Click OK The Administration Tool might report that a workspace s capacity has been completely used even though Windows Explorer shows that the workspace still has some room available This is the result of the File Manager distributing its data across all of the drives in the data drive set If you encounter this situation Avid recommends you back up some of your data and then remove it from the data drive set to make room for new files 102 Renaming Workspaces Renaming Workspaces You can rename a workspace at any time even when it is being used by client workstations The only effect on users is that the workspace name will be different the next time they need to mount it The following characters are illegal in workspace names lt gt and If you type an illegal character the system beeps and the character is ignored To rename a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Click the workspace name you want to change and type a n
100. ing system Windows clients that used applications other than Avid Composer Products software created folder and file names using a character encoding ANSI that is native to the Windows operating system The MacRoman and ANSI character encodings function in the same manner for 7 bit ASCII characters such as a z A Z and 0 9 but there are differences for characters outside the ASCII character set They each contain characters that do not appear in the other encoding In MediaNetwork v3 2 and later all Macintosh and Windows clients use the Unicode character encoding This character encoding is common to both clients but has differences from MacRoman and ANSI For a list of characters that you need to check before upgrading to MediaNetwork v3 6 see the Avid Unity MediaNetwork Version 3 6 Upgrade Notes Asian Languages 156 In MediaNetwork Release 3 1 and earlier folder and file names for Asian languages such as Chinese or Japanese created by Macintosh and Windows clients using Avid Composer Products software after installing the Avid language kit used a character encoding such as ANSI Japanese that is native to the Windows operating system Macintosh clients that used applications other than Avid Composer Products software created folder and file names using a character encoding such as Mac Japanese that is not native to the Windows operating system Character encodings like these function correctly for 7 bit ASCII characters
101. isk set Data Drive Set J 08 1 6 2002 14 17 34 Authenticated as administrator J 09 16 2002 14 17 34 Communication established with catalog 12345678901 2 The following icons indicate the message types Icon Message Type cf Error iy Warning Informational Viewing and Managing the Log File When you quit the Administration Tool the event log is stored in a file called AdministrationLogTool txt located in the install directory on the File Manager s or client s local drive depending on where you are running the Administration Tool You can use a standard text editing application to view the AdministrationLogTool txt file The information stored in AdministrationLogTool txt is cumulative To keep the file manageable you should copy it to a floppy disk once a day week or month depending on your environment s level of activity and delete the old copy A new version will be created the next time you open the Administration Tool 131 Chapter 9 Monitoring System Usage and Messages Appendix A Managing Drive Problems This appendix describes troubleshooting techniques to manage drive problems in your online environment This appendix discusses e Overview Identifying Bad Drives e Replacing the Data Drive Set e Recovering and Replacing a Drive Appendix A Managing Drive Problems Overview The following are two scenarios that you can use to help manage your drives to determine if they should be
102. ives from Raw Drives To create data drives from raw drives 1 From the File Manager desktop click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select the Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Select the Raw Drives group All the drives in that group appear in the drive list 3 Select the raw drives from the drive list that you want to add as data drives to your data drive set 61 Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware 4 Choose Make Drive Spare from the Drives menu The raw drives are added to the Data Drive Set group as spare data drives 5 Select the newly created spare data drives from the Data Drive Set group 6 Choose Add Additional Drives from the Drive Set menu A progress indicator appears As soon as the data drive set has been successfully enlarged the File Manager and data drive set come online automatically 7 Use the Administration Tool to assign the newly added drives to one or more allocation groups For more information see Adding Drives to Allocation Groups on page 89 Removing Drives from Your Environment 62 You can remove drives from your data drive set as long as the following conditions are met after you have done so e The data drive set contains at least four drives e The data drive set contains enough drives to support the space allocated to your workspaces This is the total amount of storage allocated to the workspaces not the actual amount of data
103. k Error Analyzer from the File Manager console To start and run the Disk Error Analyzer 1 Click the Start button gt Programs gt Avid Unity and click Disk Error Analyzer 2 Open the UnityClientLog txt file S avid Disk Error Analyzer 5 xj File Client Log Explorer Summary Detail l io Long Read Command Errors Occurred il en this oe Long Read Command indicates a disk read request took longer than expected shows two error ypes HWPS2 1 of 3 clients reported Long Command on 1 of 62 disks 4 33 of all clients report this error on 1 disk s 61 Cerah Corrective actions were taken that may fix the condition Long Read Commands ABS suspect Disks If you continue to receive large numbers of these and Long Write Commands you may want to replace the disk Disk 0 WinNT Long read command time 080000022 Disk 1 Description Long read command tine Teat EN da Sa ais They both have similar Disk 22 eld ql aI but different examples of zzz Disk 32 Eee Long Write Command Errors Occurred what to do Disk 40 A Long Write Command indicates a disk write request took longer than expected Disk 61 2 of 3 clients reported Long Command on 6 of 62 disks 66 of all clients report this error on 6 disk s 1 17 22 32 40 61 N Errors and Retries Corrective actions were taken that may fix the condition If you continue to receive large numbers of these Unrecognized Error 000000000 you may want to
104. k the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select the Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Select the appropriate drives 3 Choose Set Mode Pages from the Drives menu The mode pages are corrected Deleting a Data Drive Set A This procedure will cause all data on the data drive set to be lost To delete an existing data drive set 1 Take the data drive set offline see Taking the Data Drive Set Offline on page 67 2 From the File Manager desktop click the Start button point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select the Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 3 Select the Data Drive set group in the drive group list 4 Choose Delete Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu A dialog box opens and prompts you to confirm this choice A progress indicator opens showing that the Setup Manager is deleting the data drive set 65 Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware After the data drive set is deleted all of the data drives previously in your data drive set will appear in the Raw Drives group Rebuilding a Data Drive Set A This procedure will cause all data on the data drive set to be lost To rebuild an existing data drive set 1 Delete the existing data drive set see Deleting a Data Drive Set on page 65 After the data drive set is deleted all of the data drives will appear in the Raw Drives group 2 Select the Raw Drives group in the drive group list
105. kspaces from list to mirror access Saye Settings Create Close 3 Select the allocation group on which you want to create the workspace Type a name for the workspace Type a size for the workspace The maximum size allowed is listed next to the text box Click to select Protected or Unprotected Set the Access to all user s privileges Click Create Duplicating Workspaces 100 E When you duplicate workspaces they inherit the attributes name size and access privileges of the workspace from which they were created The contents of the original workspace are not duplicated To duplicate a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the workspace you want to duplicate Adjusting Workspace Size 3 Do one of the following gt Click the Duplicate Workspace button gt Select Duplicate Workspace from the Commands menu The New Workspace window opens with all the settings set for the workspace you selected 4 Click Create The new workspace has the same name as the original with the lowest available integer as a suffix for example a duplicate of workspace Original Name will be named Original Name 1 and inherits the access privileges and size of the original workspace If there is no room for a workspace of the same size as the orig
106. llowing gt Click the Synchronize All Files button ra hanan gt Select Synchronize All Files from the Commands menu A progress indicator appears showing how many files remain to be synchronized Once all the files have been synchronized the progress indicator closes 107 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces Optimizing Workspaces 108 E Clients should unmount or unmap the affected workspace until the optimization is complete Optimization is an operation that ensures all files on a workspace are evenly striped across the drives in the allocation group to provide optimal file system performance Optimization is necessary whenever you e Add drives to or remove drives from an allocation group The Administration Tool can optimize all the workspaces on the allocation group automatically but gives you the option to perform the optimization manually later See Adding Drives to Allocation Groups on page 89 and Removing Drives from Allocation Groups on page 90 e Move a workspace from one allocation group to another Optimization is an integral part of moving the workspace Therefore you do not need to perform a manual optimization unless the move is canceled or fails for some reason See Moving Workspaces on page 109 When you optimize you make a copy of a file on a nearly full workspace or drive move it to an emptier workspace or drive then delete the original You must maintain sufficient
107. ministration Tool from the File Manager console from any Windows client or from a Macintosh client te 2 Click the Allocation Group Management button a 3 Click the Create New Allocation Group button The New Allocation Group dialog box opens 31 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview 3 New Allocation Group x r ALLOCATION GROUP Name M DRIVES v a a a a ee Unit NT Name Vendor amp Drive 003 3 Disk 5 SEAGATE amp Drive 002 2 Disk 4 AVID amp Drive 001 1 Disk 3 SEAGATE 0 Disk 2 SEAGATE amp Drive 000 Allocation Groups must contain drives of similar sizes Allocation groups must contain at least four drives 4 Type a name for the allocation group 5 Select the appropriate GB gigabyte size from the Drive button 6 Select all the drives you want to assign to the new allocation group four drive minimum by clicking them 7 Click the Create button to create a new allocation group containing all the selected drives A dialog box opens and prompts you to confirm that you want to create a new allocation group The new allocation group appears in the allocation group list 8 Leave the Administration Tool running For more information about allocation groups see Chapter 6 Creating New Workspaces Workspaces are locations to store and segregate data You can allow users to access some or all of the workspaces and assign permissions for how each user can access the dat
108. modate the various start times required for different drives on the system 7 LUN Masking is enabled by default LUN Masking slows the Registry Hive Growth problem when you have the following configuration Two Fibre channel controller boards A looped two switch configuration The software automatically detects if you have only one Fibre Channel controller and disables the LUN Masking function Avid allows you to manually disable the LUN Masking function in case support or the system administrator deems it necessary 47 Chapter 3 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Parameters 8 Choose the Maximum file size limit This defines the largest file size a client is able to create Since MXF files can create very large file this parameter was created to allow you to define the largest size if you need to do so The default value 0 defines no maximum file size value 9 Click OK The system must be re booted before the changes are effected MEDIArray ZX Drive and File Counts Using the Windows 2000 Operating System A Unity MediaNetwork system using a Windows 2000 File Manager and only MEDIArray ZX storage can be configured to maximum of 96 drives The maximum amount of files and folders available for a 96 drive system is 500 000 files and 10 000 folders However as the amount of storage increases the maximum number of files and folders decreases Files and folders can be traded at a ratio of 3 2 to 1
109. moving active data drives from 63 replacing 139 taking offline 67 Data protection 35 Decreasing workspace size 103 Deleting a data drive set 65 an allocation group 94 user accounts 125 workspaces 103 Detecting failed drives 139 Detecting slow drives 138 Disabling Guest accounts 125 Disabling protection for new files only 107 Disk command category Text Console 154 Disk Error Analyzer utility 135 Drive group list 39 Drive groups 38 Data Drive Set 38 Other FibreChannel drives 38 Drive hardware managing 55 Drive mode pages setting 65 Drive recovery online 43 Drive sets See also Data drive sets removing drives from 62 Drives See also Data drive sets Raw drives adding to allocation groups 89 AutoRecovery for failed 43 identifying 92 identifying bad 134 recovering 140 removing 62 removing from allocation groups 90 swapping out bad drives from data drive sets 139 Duplicating user accounts 122 workspaces 100 E Enabling AutoRecovery for failed drives 44 Enabling protection for new files only 106 for workspaces 105 Exporting preferences 76 F Factory Settings button 75 Failed drives AutoRecovery for 43 Fail over configuring the File Manager 48 Fail over configuration guidelines 40 using Setup Manager in 40 File Manager determining active 40 IP addresses 49 reestablishing connection to 83 starting 40 stopping 41 File Manager fail over configuring the first File Manager 50 configuring the second File Manag
110. n the Contact list and click Edit The Edit Contact dialog box opens Change the Name and E mail address information Click Change The changes are applied To remove a contact gt 54 Select the contact in the Contact list and click Remove The contact is removed from the list Mh Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware This chapter describes how to configure and manage your drive hardware as a data drive set You perform all drive management operations described in this chapter from the Setup Manager For more information about how to start and use the Setup Manager see Chapter 2 If you need to recover and replace a failing drive online see Appendix A This chapter discusses e Creating a New Data Drive Set e Adding Storage to Your Environment e Adding Active Data Drives to a Data Drive Set e Removing Drives from Your Environment e Setting Drive Mode Pages e Deleting a Data Drive Set Rebuilding a Data Drive Set e Bringing the Data Drive Set Online and Taking the Data Drive Set Offline Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware Creating a New Data Drive Set After you install all the hardware and software that comprise your environment you must create a data drive set which is the set of physical drives that provides the large virtual file system A data drive set can be set up either automatically with the Configuration Assistant or manually However if you have specific requirements for conf
111. n to avoid data loss However These factors determine whether you will want to protect your workspaces e Is security more important than ease of access at your site Individual password user accounts combined with tightly controlled workspace access privileges provide the most security at the cost of restricting user flexibility For more information on managing user accounts and access privileges see Chapter 8 Directory and File Limits LANserver EX The following section provides directory and file limits for LANshare LANserver EX and MediaNetwork environments On a LANserver EX MediaNetwork Release 3 6 supports 10 000 directories and up to 250 000 files for LANshare streaming You can also increase the number of directories on the file system to more than 10 000 Doing so however decreases the total number of files you can store by 32 000 each time you cross a 10 000 directory boundary MediaNetwork warns you if you exceed either the directory or the file limits Table LANserver EX Directories and Files on page 24 shows the dynamic relationship between the number of directories you have and the number of files you can store on the 2 GB LANshare LANserver EX 23 Chapter 1 MediaNetwork Management Overview MediaNetwork 24 LANserver EX Directories and Files 2 GB LANshare LANserver EX Maximum Directories Number of Files 10 000 250 000 20 000 218 000 30 000 186 000 MediaNetwork Release 3 6 only supports
112. nd turn off power to the File Manager system In a fail over configuration shut down both File Managers Turn off power to the MEDIArray drive enclosures Remove the new MEDIArray drives and MEDIArray drive enclosures if required as described in the Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide 5 Turn on power to the MEDIArray drive enclosures Reset the Fibre Channel switch Restart the File Manager In a fail over configuration restart both File Managers Restart the Setup Manager In a fail over configuration restart the Setup Manager on both File Managers and determine the active File Manager see Determining the Active File Manager on page 40 You must use the Setup Manager on the active File Manager to perform the next step in this procedure 9 64 Check that the drives no longer appear in the Raw Drives group Setting Drive Mode Pages Setting Drive Mode Pages Mode pages which can be configured are part of the drive firmware that determines how the drive handles data When you create data drives the Setup Manager configures the mode pages to efficiently handle media data in your environment If drive mode pages are incorrect for example they were changed by another application the Setup Manager warns you by changing the Mode Page column value in the drive list from Okay to Incorrect To reconfigure drives with the correct mode pages 1 From the File Manager desktop clic
113. neeince BB Taking t the Data Dri Chapter5 Administration Tool 0 0 00 00 69 Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface 70 User Interface Management 2 2 2 222 70 eling Preference C Saving Preference Changes 0 000 c cece eee ee eee 75 Expotting and Importing Preferences 2is 2iccsccnawacseancaan FO Setting the Administration Password 77 Setting User Account Preferences 78 Adding Drives Removing Drives from Allocation Groups 90 Chapter 7 Reading the Workspace List i0 lt icsciecsscasizeaisaccas SF Changing the Workspace List Graph Display 98 Creating Workspaces Duplicating Wo Adjusting Workspace Size Sh dA Stal Bie Sats ee Reclama Reta A Renaming Wika paces 2 veri ee aietupetadeneswcowssmiacemenwn 100 Chapter8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges 113 The User Management Window 0 00 ce cece cence ee es 114 114 116 116 117 118 120 a121 Creating User Accounts eine User ACCOM ss cian cies aae paama aa a Tee sabling Guest AGCOUNISy cc0cccreiananereiaiadaceiadeaeeeine 129 os Workspace Access Privileges 2 2 127 10 Chapter 9 Appendix A Appendix C Changing
114. nfiguration dialog box opens Make sure that the Enable redundant operation check box is selected Type a virtual server name in the Virtual Server Name text box This name must be the same for both the first and second File Managers Leave the Monitor port set to 5000 If you have another application that uses port 5000 change the Monitor port to an available port number This port number must be the same on both the first and second File Managers In the First network path area choose the first built in Ethernet adapter port from the Network Adapter pop up menu Type 192 168 1 1 in the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address in the Local Machine First path IP address text box Type 192 168 1 2 in the Fail Over File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address in the Remote Machine First path IP address text box In the Second network path area choose the port of the Ethernet NIC from the Network Adapter pop up menu Type 192 168 2 1 in the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 IP address in the Local Machine Second path IP address text box Type 192 168 2 2 in the Fail Over File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 address in the Remote Machine Second path IP address text box Leave the Setup Manager and the File Manager Fail Over Configuration dialog box open Configuring File Manager Fail Over Step 2 Setting Up the Fail Over Connection on the Second File Manager To set up the fail over co
115. nnection on the second File Manager l 2 3 10 11 Stop the second File Manager Make sure that the Enable redundant operation check box is selected Type a virtual server name in the Virtual Server Name text box This name must be the same for both the first and second File Managers Leave the Monitor port set to 5000 If you have another application that uses port 5000 change the Monitor port to an available port number This port number must be the same for both the first and second File Managers In the First network path area choose the second built in Ethernet adapter from the Network Adapter pop up menu Type 192 168 1 2 in the Fail Over File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address in the Local Machine First path IP address text box Type 192 168 1 1 in the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address into the Remote Machine First path IP address text box In the Second network path area choose the port of the Ethernet NIC from the Network Adapter pop up menu Type 192 168 2 2 in the Fail Over File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 IP address into the Local Machine Second path IP address text box Type 192 168 2 1 in the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 IP address into the Remote Machine Second path IP address text box Leave the Setup Manager and the File Manager Fail Over Configuration dialog box open Step 3 Validating the Connections for File Manager Fail Over
116. ollowing functions e Stopping and restarting the File Manager unmount all workspaces e Taking the data drive set offline unmount all workspaces e Rebooting the File Manager unmount all workspaces e Changing users access unmount only the affected workspaces Optimizing workspaces unmount only the affected workspaces Logging In to the Administration Tool A If a client is using a workspace when it is taken offline the connection to the workspace is broken and data might be lost Logging In to the Administration Tool If you have specified an administration password see Setting the Administration Password on page 77 the Administration Tool prompts you to supply that password to log in If you enter the wrong password an error message appears and the login window reappears Regular users can log in to the Administration Tool and view the Workspace management window However they can view only the workspaces they have Read Write access to and must be given privileges to adjust the size of their workspaces User Name User Password OK Cancel Administration Tool Preferences Window The Administration Tool allows you to set preferences that specify a wide range of options such as the administration password user interface colors and graph display options You also use the tool to configure your environment by creating default names and setting access privileges for new workspaces and users
117. on to stop the sound SMTP Specify the IP address or host name of your SMTP server If you are unsure of this address contact your network administrator Port Specify the port number of your SMTP server If you are unsure of the port number contact your network administrator The default value 25 is appropriate in most instances Return address Enter the user or administrator e mail address you would like to receive returned messages to any e mail sent by the File Manager 4 Specify the list of contacts that you want the error notification service to e mail when a logged error occurs For more information see Setting Up E mail Error Notification Contacts on page 54 53 Chapter 3 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Parameters Setting Up E mail Error Notification Contacts You can add to edit and delete your Setup Manager e mail notification list To add an e mail account to the Contact list l Click the Add button The Add Contact dialog box opens Type a Name for the contact account Type the e mail address in the standard person domain com format to which the message should be sent Click the Add button to add the account to the Contact list and clear the Name and E mail fields 5 To add more accounts repeat steps 2 to 4 When you are done click Close The Add Contact dialog box closes To edit an existing contact l Select the contact i
118. or 2 Primary File Manager Ethernet NIC Network Interface Card Fail over File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 Fail over File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 Fail over File Manager Ethernet NIC a This is the default IP address to use for configuring the Fibre Channel switch initially Change this IP address to comply with your specific IP addressing conventions when configuring the Fibre Channel switch for use in your network Fail Over Configuration Procedure Overview Configuring File Manager fail over requires the following steps e Step 1 Setting Up the Fail Over Connection on the First File Manager on page 50 e Step 2 Setting Up the Fail Over Connection on the Second File Manager on page 51 e Step 3 Validating the Connections for File Manager Fail Over on page 51 e Step 4 Starting the First and Second File Managers on page 52 49 Chapter 3 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Parameters Step 1 Setting Up the Fail Over Connection on the First File Manager 50 To set up the fail over connection on the first File Manager 1 10 11 12 13 Click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager window opens Stop the File Manager service by choosing Stop File Manager from the File Manager menu Choose File Manager Fail Over Configuration from the File menu The File Manager Fail Over Co
119. or Notification Chapter 3 Configuring General Fail Over and Remote Error Notification Parameters Configuring General Settings A Inappropriate configuration of the settings described in this section could result in degraded system performance Contact Avid Customer Support before attempting to change these settings These configuration settings should also be set the same in the Fail Over File Manager To configure general settings 1 Click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Choose General Configuration from the File Menu The General Configuration Options dialog box opens General Configuration Options Enter a name for the server that will be used by the clients Virtual File Manager Name MEDIANETWORK Maximum Open Files 5000 Maximum open files Drive Control 1 Number of allowed missing drives when server starts 60 Seconds to wait for last drive s to appear LUN Masking Enable Maximum File Size Limit 0 GB Value of zero indicates no maximum file size limit Cancel 3 Type a name for the File Manager in the Virtual File Manager Name text box Give the File Manager a name that is different from the Computer Name defined in the system s Network properties 46 Configuring General Settings In a fail over configuration you must specify the same virtual File Manager Name for both File Managers 4
120. overview 26 163 Index NtStatDump 146 RecoverDisks 146 Server Log Viewer 145 Turn Off Alarm button 53 U User accounts configuring 116 creating 114 deleting 125 duplicating 122 Guest 125 managing 113 modifying 124 passwords 124 permissions 116 User command category Text Console 152 User interface Administration Tool 70 User Interface windows Connection Monitor 129 Log file 130 Workspace 96 User Management window 114 V Viewing the log file 131 Views 71 W Warnings setting preferences for 81 Windows Administration Tool described 71 Allocation Group Management 85 User Management 114 Workspace Management 96 Workgroups configuring 30 Workspace command category Text Console 152 Workspace graph bar setting colors for 80 164 Workspace list linear graph scaling 98 logarithmic graph scaling 98 reading the graph 97 Workspace list graph display changing 98 Workspace Management window 96 Workspace tab preferences 79 Workspaces access privileges 126 creating new 99 deleting 103 duplicating 100 managing 95 moving 109 optimizing 108 renaming 103 Resize handle 101 resizing 101 setting preferences for 79
121. r preferences to a shared drive workspace or floppy disk see Exporting and Importing Preferences on page 76 Exporting and Importing Preferences 76 The Administration Tool allows you to export and import preferences This allows you to save multiple preferences sets to accommodate different usage situations and multiple administrators and to provide consistent settings across multiple systems on which the Administration Tool can be run Additionally you can export preference sets to a shared drive or workspace if you know that it will not be deleted for import into the Administration Tool on any client in your environment To export the current preference 1 Choose Export Preferences from the File menu The File Selection dialog box opens 2 Select a location and name for the exported preferences file that you want to create and click OK To import a preference 1 Choose Import Preferences from the File menu The File Selection dialog box opens 2 Navigate to and select the Preferences file that you want to import and click OK Administration Tool Preferences Window Setting the Administration Password AN The Administration tab of the Preferences window allows you to specify an administration password to restrict access to the Administration Tool see Logging In to the Administration Tool on page 73 To protect your configuration Avid recommends that you specify an administration password the first time
122. ration Tool This chapter provides an overview of the Administration Tool and describes the basics of how to use it opening the tool logging in setting preferences and so on This chapter discusses e Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface e Opening the Administration Tool e Logging In to the Administration Tool e Administration Tool Preferences Window e Reestablishing a Connection to the File Manager Chapter 5 Administration Tool Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface The Administration Tool which you can run on the MediaNetwork File Manager or any client has a user interface UI where controls are grouped by function and are displayed by clicking the appropriate management window buttons You can open multiple management windows in a session and retain window placement and sizes between sessions ao Tool Management window buttons Badoa Avid Unity MediaNetwork Sn Workspace Management Window buttons niin ay Ez Allocation Group Management x E E You can open Drive 000 i Drive 001 multiple Drie 002 windows Drive 003 Drive 004 Drive 005 Drive 006 amp Drive 007 List area Message 12 06 2002 14 08 22 Workspace Workspace was resized to 3413 24 GB area 12 06 2002 14 08 07 Workspace Workspace was resized to 100 00 GB A 12 06 2002 14 07 31 Workspace Workspace was resized to 3413 24 GB 12 06 2002 14 07 31 Requested
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124. ries Workspace Subcommands Access Command Command Character Name Function n New Creates a new workspace Z Name Changes a workspace name o Optimize Optimizes workspaces f Fix Files Ensures duplication of all files on protected workspaces d Delete Deletes workspaces s Size Changes size of workspaces p Mirror All Protects all existing files 5 Mirror New Files Activates protection for all new files written to a workspace Duplicate Creates a new workspace with the same properties as an existing workspace jais Get Info Returns detailed workspace information The On Offline Command Category When you type its access character 4 the On Offline command category displays a summary of File Manager statistics and its state The On Offline subcommands are then shown with their corresponding access characters see the following table On Offline Subcommands Access Command Command Character Name Function n Start File Manager Brings the File Manager online Stop File Manager Takes the File Manager offline ga 153 Appendix C Using the Text Console for Remote Administration You can use these subcommands only if the Text Console is running on the File Manager system The Disk Command Category When you type its access character 5 the Disk command category displays information about the drives in your data drive set The Disk command category is informational only it has no subcomm
125. rive S N VNVFIOGEGSD1AG Lun 12 Drive5 Infomation 04 23 03 11 06 07 uServer none 060070002 MEDIAnayZX 1 2 Drive S N VNVFIOGEGS4TGG Lun 13 Drive6 information 04 23 03 10 48 28 AvidBOD none 0x407e0013 MEDIAnayZX 1 19 Drive S N VNVF10GEG52NGG Lun 14 Drive 7 Information 04 23 03 10 48 21 EventLog none 0x800017793 MEDIAnayZX 1 6009 E MEDIAray ZX 8 2 Infomation O Log none 0x80001775 MEDlAnay Z 1 6005 yi era tne 101 A d AWANARAINNN MEDIAar V 196 E Raadi MARA Fuente Chou 7 MEDIArray ZX Event Viewer Window You can select what events to view in the Events panel in two ways Events for all MEDIArray ZX enclosures by selecting the Local Unity Connections in the MEDIArray ZX selection panel the highest of the tree view Events for only one MEDIArray enclosures by selecting a specific MEDIArray ZX enclosure or drive within the enclosure in the MEDIArray ZX selection panel If you select only one specific drive within the MEDIArray ZX enclosure you still see events for all drives within the MEDIArray ZX enclosure Filtering Events Identifying Bad Drives The Filter Events button above the Event panel allows you to narrow the events displayed in the Event panel by applying filters When you use the filters they apply regardless of whether all MEDIArray ZX enclosures are selected or just one When you click the Filter Events button a dialog box opens Event Filter Settings Avid MEDIArray ZX Event Viewer
126. rkgroup and want to allow individual users access to MediaNetwork workspaces In this workgroup you need to create three user accounts e A MediaNetwork user account for each Windows and Macintosh user on the PortServer or the LANserver EX e A Windows user account for each Windows and Macintosh user on the PortServer or the LANserver EX A Windows user account for each user on the Windows client No user account is required on a Macintosh client The MediaNetwork user account and the Windows user account must have the same user name and password to allow users to log in and set permissions Users should log in to the client by using their client user account and password Figure Standalone User Accounts on page 118 shows where the Windows and MediaNetwork user accounts are created 117 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges Windows User Windows User Windows Client PortServer or LANserver EX MediaNetwork User Standalone User Accounts Macintosh Client For this example you have several people working on different projects that need access to different workspaces You could create all the user accounts in the following manner On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a MediaNetwork user account Fred with a password of seven Assign this account read write permission to the necessary MediaNetwork workspaces and read or no access permission to other wo
127. rkspace and so on To create a csv file 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management ee meee button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select Export Statistics from the Commands menu 3 Save the csv file 110 Collecting Workspace Statistics To open the csv file in Excel 1 Open your Excel application 2 Navigate to the csv file 3 Import the file into Excel then save it Here is an example of a CSV file opened in Excel ND Fe EN S EDEN 1 Name Size Avail Max Used P Used Mirrored Files Dirs P Sys 2 19 Gb Group 33 51 0 21 33 3 99 40 91 3 3 fwefwefewt 3 77 3 77 3 87 0 0 00 0 QO 0 2 00 4 sadfsdvdsf 3 5 3 5 3 6 Oo 0 00 0 D 0 1 90 5 sdfsdfdsf 1 1 1 11 Oo 0 00 0 D Oo 0 50 6 Workspace 3 08 2 08 3 29 1 32 50 0 81 90 3 1 70 7 Workspacet 2 2 2 21 0 0 00 0 1 0 1 10 8 Workspace2 1 94 1 94 2 15 Oo 0 00 D D 0 1 00 9 Workspace 1 1 1 11 Oo 0 00 0 D Oo 0 50 10 Workspace10 1 1 1 21 0 0 00 0 QO 0 0 50 44 Workspace11 1 1 1 11 Oo 0 00 0 0 0 0 50 12 Workspaceb4 1 97 1 97 2 07 Oo 0 00 0 D 0 1 10 Ifyou want to generate statistics for billing purposes Avid recommends that you install the billing server software 111 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces 112 Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges User accounts
128. rkspaces on the PortServer or the LANserver EX e On the PortServer or the LANserver EX create a Windows user account Fred with a password of seven e On the client create a Windows user account Fred with a password of seven Example 2 Standalone Workgroup Using Local Groups 118 For this example you are creating a standalone workgroup and want to allow a group of users access to MediaNetwork workspaces In this workgroup you need to create three user accounts and one Windows group e A MediaNetwork user account for the group on the PortServer or the LANserver EX e A Windows group on the PortServer or the LANserver EX Configuring User Accounts and Permissions A Windows user account for each Windows and Macintosh user on the PortServer or the LANserver EX e A Windows user account for each user on the Windows client No user account is required on a Macintosh client The MediaNetwork user account and the Windows group on the PortServer or the LANserver EX and the Windows user accounts on the PortServer or the LANserver EX and the Windows client must have the same name to allow users to log in and set permissions Users should log in to the client by using their client user account and password Figure Standalone User Accounts and Groups shows where the Windows and MediaNetwork user accounts and the Windows group are created Windows Group Windows User Windows User
129. rvice will regularly poll the client log file UnityClientLogs txt and if any errors are logged will send a concise summary of those errors to one or more e mail accounts will sound an audible alarm on the File Manager or both If you subscribe to a text messaging service you can configure the error notification service to send messages to your alphanumeric pager To find out how to use e mail to send a message to your pager contact your paging service provider 52 Setting Up E mail Error Notification Configuring the E mail Error Notification Service To configure the e mail error notification service 1 Click Start point to Programs point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager The Setup Manager opens 2 Choose E mail Configuration from the File menu The E mail Configuration dialog box opens 3 Configure the General parameters as follows Enable E mail Set this option to enable the e mail error notification service Poll Frequency Specify the frequency by setting an interval in seconds with which the error notification service checks for problems Wait Period Specify the amount of time to pass between notification messages Unless you specify a period the system will send messages each time it polls for problems or errors Enable Alarm Set this option to enable an audible alarm on the File Manager to warn you of any logged errors When the alarm sounds select the Turn Off Alarm butt
130. s all workspaces under the allocation groups on which they reside For more information see Reading the Workspace List on page 97 and Changing the Workspace List Graph Display on page 98 96 The Workspace Management Window Reading the Workspace List The workspace list represents data drive set allocation group and workspace sizes and usage Color coding customizable from the Preferences window allows each bar to represent up to four characteristics for protected workspaces The following icons identify the protected and unprotected workspaces Icon Description e You Unprotected workspace Protected workspace Unprotected workspace with some files protected Protected workspace with some file unprotected may want to synchronize files when you have either an unprotected workspace with some files protected or a protected workspace with some files unprotected For the data drive set and allocation groups the bar colors represent Used space Total drive space in the data drive set or allocation group allocated to workspaces Available space Total drive space in the data drive set or allocation group still available for allocation to workgroups 97 Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces Used space Available space avait 4 2 a4 sl 16 32 64 128 Max P Used EzE v 3 9Gig 33 51 Workspace 1 00 Workspacet 1 00 Workspace 3 00 v X 18 Gig 84 24 abe 5 00 Workspace3 3 48
131. s you how to manipulate the amount of storage allocated to each workspace how to move a workspace and its contents to another allocation group and how to protect a workspace against drive failure This chapter discusses The Workspace Management Window e Creating Workspaces e Duplicating Workspaces e Adjusting Workspace Size e Renaming Workspaces e Deleting Workspaces e Protecting Workspaces e Optimizing Workspaces e Moving Workspaces e Collecting Workspace Statistics Chapter 7 Managing Workspaces The Workspace Management Window You perform workspace functions from the Workspace Management window of the Administration Tool which allows you to e Create delete and rename workspaces e Manipulate the amount of storage allocated to each workspace e Protect a workspace against drive failure by duplicating files on more than one drive a form of mirroring e Monitor how much free space exists on each workspace and how much unallocated space exists in each data drive set e Move a workspace and its contents to another allocation group Graph menu buttons 2 Workspace Management x Workspace menu buttons 32 64 128 Max P Used Workspace Workspacet Allocation Workspace2 groups with workspace lists Workspace3 Workspace4 Workspaces Workspaces Workspace wWorkspaceg a i Workspace10 Workspace List The workspace list display
132. space Color Warmings Logo WORKSPACE TABLE Normal View Detailed View Maximum Size Used Space Percent Used Mirrored Space WORKSPACE DEFAULT Name Workspace Access Privileges No Access Size GB 1 00 Protection Enabled Factory Settings Revert Panel eS enema i wo Sancel Apply y 3 Set new values for the preferences that you want to change Type the name for the workspace in the Name text box 79 Chapter 5 Administration Tool Type the size in gigabytes for the workspace in the Size GB text box Choose the access privileges for the workspace No Access Read Access Read Write Access or Selected Workspace Access from the Access Privileges pop up menu If you do not want protection to be enabled by default for the workspace deselect the Protection Enabled option Shift select to choose a column view either Normal or Detailed only for data you want to display 4 Click Apply or OK to save your changes Alternatively you can click Revert Panel to revert to your previous user preferences or click Cancel to close the window without saving the new preferences Setting Workspace and Monitor Graph Bar Colors The Color tab of the Preferences window contains controls that allow you to change the color of the workspace and monitor graph bars in the Administration Tool s UI To set the workspace and monitor graph bar colors 1 Choose Preferences from the File menu The Pre
133. stored on the workspaces e The data drive set contains at least the number of drives currently required to store the file system s metadata The process for removing drives involves removing the drives from the data drive set which requires that you first remove them from any allocation groups to which they are assigned then physically removing them from the MEDfIArray drive enclosure Removing Drives from Your Environment Removing Active Data Drives from a Data Drive Set To remove active data drives from an existing data drive set 1 Use the Administration Tool to remove the drives from any allocation groups to which they are assigned Make your workspaces smaller if necessary For more information see Adjusting Workspace Size on page 101 When you optimize as explained below be aware that the size of files when using MXF starting in v3 5 3 is vastly larger than what is possible with OMF files For optimize to succeed you must have enough free space on the drive equal to the largest data file on the disk If you have a data file that is larger than the available free space you will receive a Some files were not optimized error When prompted to optimize all workspaces on the allocation group click Yes to optimize the workspaces and move all data from the drives you want to remove Make sure that this completes successfully For more information see Removing Drives from Allocation Groups on page 90 2
134. t Offline Before taking the data drive set offline you should identify any clients that have workspaces mounted using the Monitor Tool Active Client tab and warn the clients that you are taking the data drive set offline To take the data drive set offline 1 From the Setup Manager select the Data Drive Set group in the drive group list 2 Choose Take Offline from the Drive Set menu A dialog box opens prompting you to specify the delay that you want to occur in seconds before the data drive set is brought offline so that clients can unmount all workspaces 67 Chapter 4 Managing the Drive Hardware 3 Type the required delay or accept the default 60 seconds and click OK After the specified delay the data drive set goes offline 68 Chapter 5 Administration Tool The Administration Tool is used for the initial setup and day to day administration of allocation groups workspaces users and client connection privileges It also allows you to monitor your environment s activity The Administration Tool uses many system resources while running Avid suggests that if possible after initial setup you run the Administration Tool from a MediaNetwork client attached to the same Fibre Channel switch as the File Manager However if you must run the Administration Tool from the File Manager never leave it running or minimized Launch the Administration Tool perform the administration function needed and quit the Administ
135. ter it has been manually stopped or has failed for any reason gt Choose Start File Manager from the Setup Manager s File Manager menu 40 Starting and Stopping the File Manager Stopping the File Manager A Maintaining metadata integrity is very important to ensure you do not lose any data files Avid recommends you use the following shutdown procedure to avoid problems with metadata integrity In a fail over configuration you must stop the standby File Manager before stopping the active File Manager whenever you perform operations that require you to stop the File Manager Otherwise the active File Manager will fail over to the standby File Manager as the active File Manager stops To stop the File Manager software 1 Click the Start button point to Avid Unity and then select Monitor Tool The Monitor Tool window opens Click the Stop File Manager button The AvidMon window opens asking if you are sure you want to stop the File Manager Click OK The File Manager Shutting Down dialog box opens stating that it is saving multiple copies of the metadata Wait for the process to finish the dialog box to close and the lights in the Monitor Tool to change to yellow Do not add or change any hardware in the MediaNetwork workgroup until after the File Manager software stops successfully Close the Monitor Tool 5 Make sure the File Manager software has successfully written a local copy of t
136. the workgroup This logic can also be applied to separating audio and video media In other situations allocation groups are more flexible allowing you to assign drives in your file system configuration to allocation groups with few limitations other than the following guidelines e Use only one drive type size per allocation group e Use a minimum of four drives per allocation group e Divide very large data drive sets over 60 drives into several allocation groups to minimize the risk of two drives used in a protected workspace failing at the same time Creating Allocation Groups X An allocation group is a set of physical drives that form a subset of the data drive set to accommodate different drive types clients with different data rate requirements for instance clients that use compressed and uncompressed media and so on To create a new allocation group 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Allocation Group Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Do one of the following gt Click the Create New Allocation Group button gt Select New Allocation Group from the Commands menu The New Allocation Group dialog box opens 87 Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups 88 i Sa New Allocation Group x ALLOCATION GROUP Name M DRIVES 3 SB j Se ect Al T Deslect All 4 Identif y Unit NT Name Ven
137. up Drive 004 Drive 005 Drive 006 Drive 007 el Drive 008 Remove Drive button 4 Click the Remove Drive button This button is only active if at least four drives are not selected and they can accommodate all assigned workspaces A dialog box opens asking whether you want to optimize all workspaces on the allocation group now Click Yes to remove the drives and optimize all workspaces on the allocation group immediately A progress indicator appears while the optimization process occurs gt Click No only if because of time constraints you must remove the drives without an immediate optimization of all workspaces on the allocation group You must manually optimize all workspaces on the allocation group as soon as possible afterward See Optimizing Workspaces on page 108 The selected drives are removed from the allocation group 91 Chapter 6 Managing Allocation Groups Identifying Drives wie 92 Identifying a drive causes a light to blink on the physical drive itself You can identify one drive selected drives or all drives and then specify the number of seconds you want the light to blink To identify drives 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Allocation Group Management button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select the drives you want to identify 3 Do one of the
138. up Manager and describes its basic operations To find out how to use the Setup Manager to set general and File Manager fail over parameters see Chapter 3 For detailed descriptions of how to use the Setup Manager to manage and troubleshoot your drive hardware see Chapter 4 and Appendix A This chapter discusses e Setup Manager Overview e Starting the Setup Manager e Using Setup Manager in a Fail Over Configuration Starting and Stopping the File Manager e Online Drive Recovery e AutoRecovery for Failed Drives Chapter 2 Setup Manager Setup Manager Overview 38 Drive group list a Information area 7 You use the Setup Manager to set general and File Manager fail over parameters to configure and manage your data drive set and to start and stop the File Manager service You also use the Setup Manager to add drives and to perform drive maintenance and error recovery operations Setup Manager Be E File Quick Start File Manager Drive Set Recover Drives View Help AA Available Drive Groups Unit Dive N NT D0 Us size st v s Mm m eee eee i HO Drive000 Disk10 593 17356 A A Le S 0 aka e anne mives M1 DiiveOO1 Dik9 596 17356 A A L S O M2 Drive002 Disk8 595 17356 A A Nao S OL 3 Drive003 Disk 593 17356 A A L 0 4 Drive004 Disk6 593 17356 A A L S OL HI5 Drive005 Disk5 591 17356 A A L S OL File Manager Running G Drive006 Disk4 5 94 17356 A A
139. ur computer or cause you to lose data A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment This symbol indicates menu commands and subcommands in the order you select them For example File gt Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command This symbol indicates a single step procedure Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed This symbol represents the Apple or Command key Press and hold the Command key and another key to perform a keyboard shortcut In the margin you will find tips that help you perform tasks more easily and efficiently This text indicates that the information applies only to the specified operating system either Windows XP or Macintosh OS X Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to indicate variables Courier Bold font identifies text that you type Press and hold the first key while you press the last key or perform the mouse action For example 3 Option C or Ctrl drag If You Need Help If You Need Help If you are having trouble using the system 1 Retry the action carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide It is especially important to check each step of your workflow 2 Check for the latest information that might have become available after the documentation was publish
140. x Event Types Information Success audit M Waming Failure Audit W Error Source contains Category contains Event ID equals Message contains From First Event z 2790 v 1201 01 PM T Through Last Event z 03 7 Clear Filters iis i Cancel Filter Events Dialog Box To find failing drives and drives that are taking a long time to respond to commands Avid suggests that you only select the following filters e Warning e Error After you select the proper filters you can click on the Type tab in the Event panel of the viewer to further select only the Error or Warning events to be displayed in the Event panel 137 Appendix A Managing Drive Problems Detecting Slow or Failed Drives The drive letter is the letter of the drive used as storage for the Avid Unity application 138 Once you have applied the Warning and Error filters to the events displayed in the Event panel you need to detect whether you have a failing drive or a drive that is responding slowly to commands Detecting a Slow Responding Drive To detect if you have a drive that is responding slowly in a MEDIArray ZX you need to look at certain areas of the Event panel To start the viewer and detect a slow drive 1 Browse to drive_letter Program Files Avid Technology Avid Unity and double click IBEView exe 2 Select Local Unity Connection in the in the MEDIArray ZX selection panel 3 Click Type tab in the Event panel until you see the W
141. ze of protect optimize and Management delete workspaces fi Chapter 5 Administration Tool Window Allows You To AllocationGroup View create rename and delete allocation groups It also allows Management you to add and remove drives from existing allocation groups Connection Monitor system usage including total system bandwidth use Monitor number of active clients and client bandwidth consumption Getting Help with the Administration Tool The Help system provides procedures and reference information for all features of the Administration Tool Opening the Administration Tool AN You can open the Administration Tool from the File Manager console from any Windowsclient from a Macintosh client and in more than one location simultaneously You can do this on Fibre Channel clients but not Ethernet clients This allows you to monitor usage and to perform other administrative tasks from the most convenient location without having to return to another running copy of the Administration Tool to shut it down before doing your work Performing administrative functions on more than one Administration Tool at the same time can cause unexpected results For example if two administrators are deleting the same user account at the same time a second user account might also be accidentally deleted Before Performing Administrative Functions T2 It is critical that clients unmount workspaces when the administrator performs the f
142. zing Files These operations allow you to protect or unprotect all existing files on a workspace and to set the protection state of the workspace enabled or disabled to match Capacity of Odd Number of Drives When you have an allocation group with an odd number of drives and you protect the workspaces in the allocation group the workspaces can report that they are full even though there appears to be available free space This is caused by the primary data drives in the allocation group having one less drive than the secondary data drives The Administration Tool and any mounted workspaces report the free space that is available on the secondary data drives If you encounter this problem you should move some data to another workspace or resize the workspace if additional space is available to create some free space for new files Enabling Protection of New Files Only 106 To enable protection of new files for a workspace 1 Open the Administration Tool and click the Workspace Management E button For more information on opening the Administration Tool see Opening the Administration Tool on page 72 2 Select an unprotected workspace 3 Click Enable Protection to enable protection for the selected workspace The Protected Workspace icon replaces the Unprotected Workspace icon in the workspace list 4 If the selected workspace contains existing files that are not already protected and you want them to be you w

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