Harmonic ProStream 1000 6.7 User guide

ProStreamTM 1000

Stream Processing Platform

Software User Guide

ProStream 1000 VERSION 6.7.X

Rev A

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Conventions

NOTE: The Note symbol calls your attention to additional information that you will benefit from

heeding. It may be used to call attention to an especially important piece of information you need, or it

may provide additional information that applies in only some carefully delineated circumstances.

TIP: The Tip symbol calls your attention to parenthetical information that is not necessary for performing

a given procedure, but which, if followed, might make the procedure or its subsequent steps easier,

smoother, or more efficient.

In addition to these symbols, this manual uses the following text conventions:

Data Entry: indicates text you enter at the keyboard.

User Interface: indicates a button to click, a menu item to select, or a key or key sequence

to press.

Screen Output: shows console output or other text that is displayed to you on a

computer screen.

Bold: indicates the definition of a new term.

Italics: used for emphasis, cross-references, and hyperlinked cross-references in online

documents.

Related Documentation

Splicing Application Note

Slate Application Note

Edge Descramble Unit Software User Guide

Transcoding Application Note

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Features and Specifications

1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.2 Main Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter 2 Logging into ProStream 1000

2.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.2 Full Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.3 Logging into the Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.4 Setting/Changing a Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2.5 Restoring a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning

3.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.2 Web Client Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.2.1 ProStream Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.2.2 Stages of ProStream Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.2.3 Before you Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.3 Platform Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.3.1 Setting ETH1-3 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.3.2 Viewing/Setting Chassis Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.3.3 Viewing/Setting Card Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.3.4 Global Platform Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

3.3.5 Managing Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

3.3.6 Working with Wizards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.4 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3.5 Stream Config page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3.5.1 Stream Config page Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

3.6 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.7 Configuring Input Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.7.1 Setting the Mode of Work of the Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

3.7.2 Configuring the Input ASI Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3.7.3 Configuring the Input GbE Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3.8 Input Information (Extraction) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3.8.1 Viewing/Configuring Input Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

3.8.2 Input Properties section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

3.8.3 GbE Input Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3.8.4 Service Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

3.9 EDU - Descrambling a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

3.10 What’s Next... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Chapter 4 Output Configuration

4.1 Configuring Output Ports and Provisioning the ProStream . . . . . . 51

4.2 Defining Broadcasting Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

4.3 Configuring the Output Socket - GbE Output Port Only . . . . . . . . 55

4.3.1 Configuring the Output Socket Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

4.4 Provisioning the Output TS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

4.4.1 Configuring NIT Descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

4.4.2 Regenerating DVB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

4.4.3 Regenerating PSIP Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

4.4.4 TS Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

4.5 Provisioning/Multiplexing Stream Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

4.5.1 Provisioning/Multiplexing a Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

4.5.2 Configuring BISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

4.5.3 Reference Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

4.6 Provisioning/Multiplexing PIDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

4.6.1 Defining PID Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

4.7 What’s Next... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

4.8 Configuring the Output Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

4.8.1 Configuring an ASI Output Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

4.8.2 Configuring a GbE Output Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

4.9 8VSB Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Chapter 5 Re-Encoding

5.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

5.2 Re-Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

5.3 DiviTrackMX™. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

5.3.1 Configuring DiviTrackMX Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Chapter 6 Broadcast Transcoding

6.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

6.2 Video Transcoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

6.3 Video Transcoding Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

6.3.1 Transcoding an HD/SD Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

6.3.2 On Screen Display (OSD) Subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

6.3.3 CBR During Ad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

6.3.4 Transcoding a PIP Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

6.3.5 Defining Output Bitrate of a Transcoded Service . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

6.3.6 PCR and Video Transcoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

6.3.7 Creating a Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

6.3.8 Video Quality Enhancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

6.3.9 EBP Advanced Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

6.3.10 Stream Conditioning for DPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

6.3.11 Service CBR: Configuring Bitrate of Transcoded Stream at Service Level

122

6.4 Audio Transcoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

6.4.1 Audio Transcoding Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

6.4.2 Audio Transcoding Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

6.4.3 Specific Codec Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

6.5 Audio Transcoding Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

6.5.1 Configuration Following the Output Stream Type . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Chapter 7 Multiscreen Transcoding

7.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

7.1.1 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

7.1.2 HD/SD/Sub-SD Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

7.2 Processing Multiscreen Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

7.2.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

7.2.2 Setting Device Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

7.2.3 Transcoding Multiscreen Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Chapter 8 Deterministic SFN Re-multiplexing

8.1 DSR Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

8.2 Configuring the ProStream 1000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

8.2.1 DSR Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

8.2.2 Scrambled Regional Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Chapter 9 CAS

9.1 CAS Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

9.2 Setting General CAS Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

9.2.1 Main CAS Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

9.2.2 Setting EMMG Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

9.3 Working with AES CAS Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

9.3.1 Monitoring ProStream CWS Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

9.3.2 Fixed Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

9.3.3 Fixed Key Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

9.4 What’s Next... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

9.5 Internal EIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

9.5.1 Using Internal EIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

9.6 BISS Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

9.6.1 BISS Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

9.6.2 Configuring BISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

9.7 Viewing SCGs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

9.8 Using a PSIG Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Chapter 10 Monitoring

10.1 Viewing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

10.1.1 Alarms Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

10.1.2 Alarms History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Chapter 11 Troubleshooting

11.1 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Chapter 12 Additional Tools

12.1 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

12.2 Selecting IGMP Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

12.3 Setting Device Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

12.3.1 Network Time Protocol (NTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

12.3.2 Setting Device Time Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

12.4 Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

12.5 Defining HW Clock Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

12.6 Configuring DPI (Splicing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

12.7 Configuring A/V Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

12.7.1 Defining the Video Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

12.7.2 Configuring Set-Top Box Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

12.7.3 Defining ACE Video Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

12.7.4 Defining ACE Audio Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

12.8 Configuring EAS Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

12.8.1 Configuring EAS Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

12.9 Viewing EDU Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

12.10 Defining SNMP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

12.11 Video Inventory System (VIS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

12.12 Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

12.12.1 Licensing System Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

12.12.2 Supported Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

12.12.3 Working with Licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

12.12.4 License Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

12.13 Device Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

12.13.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

12.13.2 Configuring Device Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

12.13.3 Viewing Redundancy Group Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

12.13.4 Advanced Redundancy Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Chapter 13 Support

13.1 Support Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

13.1.1 Command list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Chapter 1

Features and Specifications

1.1 Introduction

Harmonic ProStream 1000 is a highly integrated MPEG/DVB multiplexer, scrambler and

descrambler, for multimedia services carried over digital broadcast networks. It features a

modular, high-density chassis that is furnished with up to 5 IOMs (Input/Output Module) and

up to 4 IPCs (Internal Processing Card) in a single one-rack-unit (1-RU) chassis. The

modularity of the platform allows easy field replacement of cards, as well as field upgrades of

SW and HW features.

This guide describes the configuration and monitoring instructions for ProStream 1000, a

high density stream processing platform.

1.2 Main Features

The following table lists the main features of ProStream 1000. The functionality of ProStream

1000 depends on the installed IPC. ProStream 1000 functions as an encoder or transcoder

according to the installed IPC type.

Table 1-1: Main Firmware Related Features

Category Feature Description

Input and

Output

Interfaces

IP IOM Two independent ports per IP IOM

line rate of 1 Gbps per IP IOM

Maximum input and output bitrate is 500Mbps per

IP IOM

ASI SCR IOM ASI-SCR - up to four ports per IOM

Inputs and outputs DVB-ASI streams

Supports Common Scrambling Algorithm scrambling

May synchronize the device to an external clock

coming from a GPS receiver

Bit rate:

Maximum output bit rate of 187 Mbps

Maximum input bit rate of 210 Mbps

Supports packet size: 188 or 204 bytes

Parsing

Tables

Dynamic parsing of

input

Extracts incoming feeds and displays their structure and

elements on the control interface. It displays their

bitrate, CC errors, SI PSI structure etc’.

Redundancy Input GbE port redundancy

Socket redundancy for each input socket

Service redundancy

Chapter 1 Features and Specifications Main Features

Processing

Multiplexing/

provisioning options of

the device

Maximum processing bit rate of 400 Mbps

Full multiplexing (any input to any output)

Multicast of any input stream to multiple transport

streams.

Multicast of services with different transcoding

configuration

IP multicast - supports IGMP ver 2/3

Passing range of PIDs from any input to any output

DiviTrack over IP Statistical multiplexing - combines rate shaping using

external encoders

DiviTrackMX (HW

dependent, type of IPC)

Statistical multiplexing - combines rate shaping using

internal encoders

ReEncoding (HW

dependent, type of IPC)

When re-encoding modules are mounted:

Re-encodes incoming MPEG programs and outputs

them with high video quality as follows:

CBR - user-configurable constant bit rate

DivTrackMX VBR - outputs pools of high quality, VBR

HD/SD re-encoded programs. It increases

bandwidth efficiency

Transcoding

(HW dependent, type of

IPC)

When transcoding modules are mounted:

Transcodes incoming H264/MPEG2 programs and

outputs them as H264/MPEG2 CBR/VBR services.

SFN-over-IP MPEG-over-IP transport in DVB-T / DVB-H networks

that operate in SFN mode. This includes ability to

synchronize to an external GPS clock and external MIP

inserter.

Scrambling Supports the following scrambling algorithm:

DVB-CSA

AES-NSA2

AES Fixed Key Control Word (CW) scrambling of

outgoing TS over IP

BISS

Selective Encryption

Functions as scrambler and in AES-CBC scrambling

mode, also as de-scrambler

Supports PSIG MUX protocol

Supports ECMG redundancy

Internal EIS

Output

Bit Rate

Transcoding Bit Rate Video

VBR - in a pool

CBR - For HD up to 3 services per pool for best

performances.

Audio

CBR only

Table 1-1: Main Firmware Related Features

Category Feature Description

Chapter 1 Features and Specifications Main Features

Output

Monitoring

TS Mirroring TS Mirroring - Duplicates each output TS (master) from

any interface (IP, ASI) to any other TS (slave) in any

interface. Supports all master functions such as: rate

shaping, scrambling, RSS, tables generation, common

PCR, PID range, DToIP.

IP Mirroring - Allows to duplicate all output data from

one port (GbE1) of an IP IOM card to the other port

(GbE2) of that card.

Output

Capabilities

SCT35 Insertion Receives an SNMP trap from SL 10 and generates an

SCT35 cue message

Table Generation Create CAT

Create SDT

Create NIT

Table Re-generation PSIP re-generation

EIT re-generation

PID Prioritization In case of Over subscription, the ProStream 1000 starts

dropping PIDs according to their priority.

PID Range Allows to pass a range of PIDs from any input to any

output.

Up to 16 PID ranges per unit.

Slate Any service can be configured to have an alternative, or

backup input feed or source that is enabled on the

output upon disruption of the primary feed. It allows

MSOs to inform their subscribers that they are doing

anything possible to restore the service.

Splicing Allows cable headends and broadcast affiliates to insert

locally-generated commercials and short programs into

remotely distributed regional programs before they are

delivered to home viewers

Emergency Alert System

(AES)

Enable MSO to automatically broadcast emergency

alert messages through pre-configured channels.

PCR Input PCR The PCR can arrive on any input PID, such as video,

audio or not on ES

Output PCR The PCR can outflow on any PID. In transcoding,

only over video PID

Generate PCR

Common PCR

Management Management and

monitoring interfaces

Control Panel

Web client

NMX (Harmonic's Digital Service Manager)

Table 1-1: Main Firmware Related Features

Category Feature Description

Chapter 2

Logging into ProStream 1000

2.1 Overview

In order to enhance the security of ProStream 1000, the device has three access levels. Each

access level applies to any form of communication with the device whether it is a web client

or a Telnet session. Each access level offers a different mode of work with the device. The

following table lists the various access levels and the available working modes:

The various access levels require a correct username and password combination.

The current access level appears in the upper right hand corner of the web client.

2.2 Full Device Configuration

The ProStream 1000 web client allows a full configuration of the device. It also allows the

user to monitor the ProStream 1000's status, view its alarms (if present), and troubleshoot

them. This manual describes and instructs you on how to configure and monitor the device

via the web client accessible through a web browser. The following table lists the web client

specifications:

Access Level Working Mode

Monitor Allows only to monitor the operation of the device.

Configure Allows to configure the device only via a web client and to define

the monitor access level password.

Username Password

monitor monitor

configure configure

Table 2-1: Web client Specifications

Parameter Explanation

Screen resolution 1280 x 1024

Supported web browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer

Versions 7, 8 and 9

Title bar User name

Chapter 2 Logging into ProStream 1000 Logging into the Device

NOTE: Once you open any of the supported browsers, clean the cash. The browser may save previous GUI

files. To clean cash, select Tools > Internet Options and in Browsing History click Delete.

TIP: After upgrading the firmware of a ProStream 1000 device, clean cash as explained in the note above.

2.3 Logging into the Device

The following instructions guide you on how to login via a web client.

1. In a browser, type in the address of the required device.

2. Click Login.

3. Type in the required username and password.

4. To save the password for the future, select Remember my password.

5. Click Ok.

The web client page appears and you may start working with the device according to the

restrictions of your access level.

Chapter 2 Logging into ProStream 1000 Setting/Changing a Password

2.4 Setting/Changing a Password

To change a password, you do not need to click Apply. Once you enter all required

information and click Change Password the new password is applied.

1. Select Tools > Password section.

2. If you logged in as Configure, you are authorized to change your password or the

password of Monitor. In this case, the User Name field appears and you need to select

either Monitor or Configure.

3. In Current User Password, enter the required password.

4. In New Password, enter the new password.

5. In Verify Password, re-enter the new password.

6. Click Change Password.

When logging in use the newly set password.

After three unsuccessful login trials, or if you forgot the password/user name, restore

your password. To restore the password, see the following section.

2.5 Restoring a Password

In case you forget your password, you can restore it. You have three trials to login to the

device. However, if you failed to log in, do the following:

1. Upon your failed trial to login, a screen appears with the Specific Data Number.

NOTE: The Specific Data Number is generated per each failed login.

2. Record this unique number and immediately contact Harmonic Customer Support and

provide customer support with the Specific Data Number.

Harmonic Customer Support personnel provides you with a temporary password.

3. Open your browser, and type the following:

http://<device IP address>/resetpass.htm

4. Click Go.

Specific Data Number

Chapter 2 Logging into ProStream 1000 Restoring a Password

5. The Connect To <IP Address> dialog appears:

6. In Username, type backdoor.

7. In Password, type the password you received from Harmonic Customer Support.

8. Once you logged into the device, set a password for future logins. See 2.4 Setting/

Changing a Password on page 12 .

Chapter 3

Configuring and Provisioning

3.1 Overview

Once the ProStream 1000 is properly cabled and setup in your network, you may access it

via the web client in order to configure, provision and monitor it. The web client reads data

from the device and presents it in an easy to use User Interface (UI).

This chapter guides you on how to configure and multiplex a ProStream 1000 standalone

model using the web client.

NOTE: ProStream 1000 version 4.9 and up requires IE 7 and up.

3.2 Web Client Page

The web client page includes the following sections:

Title bar

Tabs bar Input section Output section

Buttons section

Input Properties

section Output Properties section

Clock Logged in user

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning Web Client Page

Title bar - Indicates the ProStream model, its IP address, Alarm indicator, the current

logged in username and the Apply button.

Tabs bar- Links you to parameters required for ProStream configuration and provisioning.

The available tabs are as follows:

Platform - links you to the Platform page.

Stream Config - links you to the Stream Config page.

Status - links you to the Alarms page, the main monitoring page.

Tools - allows you to set device time and required protocols

CAS - links you to the CAS pages to configure CAS parameters and to view ECMs,

SCGs and CWSs parameters.

Support - links you to diagnostic information about the device

Work area - Presents the parameters available for configuration and provisioning and

allows to configure and provision the ProStream. It is divided into two sections: Input and

Output. The work area changes according to the tab you have selected.

Buttons section - Includes multiplexing buttons. See Multiplexing Buttons on page 24.

Clock - located at the Title bar. It displays the time of the device in the following format:

mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm.

3.2.1 ProStream Monitoring

Monitoring the ProStream operation is very easy and straightforward. An alarm indicator is

displayed in the title bar of each one of the available Web client pages. The Alarm indicator is

actually a link to the Alarm page and the indicator provides the following information:

3.2.2 Stages of ProStream Configuration

Configuring the ProStream standalone model includes the following stages:

ProStream Platform Parameters - configure Ethernet ports, slots and ASI port direction.

Usually, this configuration is a one time procedure performed as soon as you start

configuring the device. You can also view chassis and GbE port parameters and define

various global settings of the device.

ProStream provisioning - during this stage you may read information from the device and

then multiplex it. Multiplexing is done mainly from the Stream Config page and includes

the following stages:

Input configuration - enabling input ports and in case of GbE input port, setting port

Table 3-1: Alarm Indicators

Alarm Indication Explanation

Green Alarm button No active alarms.

Red Alarm button There is at least one active alarm. Once the mouse

pointer hovers on it, a hint appears displaying the alarm

description. Once you click it, the Alarm page opens.

Red Alarm button There is at least one active warning. Once the mouse

pointer hovers on it, a hint appears displaying the alarm

description. Once you click it, the Alarm page opens.

N Active Alarms ‘N’ stands for the amount of registered alarms. Click the

link to open the Alarm page.

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning Web Client Page

and socket parameters.

Reading data from the device (optional) - Web client displays the updated data as

read from the device.

Output configuration and multiplexing - in case of GbE port, setting port and socket

parameters, setting TSs, services and PIDs parameters, arranging the output content

(multiplexing) and setting output port parameters and enabling the port.

Scrambling/Descrambling - when ProStream functions as a scrambler/descrambler, set

communication parameters to allow communication between the device and the

Conditional Access System (CAS). You may also view other CAS parameters such as SCG,

ECM and EMM parameters.

When ProStream functions as a descrambler using the AES protocol, set the CWS

parameters.

Encoding - when ProStream functions as a re-encoder, set the re-encoding parameters.

Set these parameters via the Encoding tab.

SFN over IP - when ProStream functions as a transmitter or receiver in a SFN over IP

application, set the required parameters.

3.2.3 Before you Begin

Before you start configuring and provisioning the device, pay attention to the following:

Fields that are for viewing only, are greyed out.

To change parameter values, click in the field and type the required values. Once you

click away from the field, the web client interface is updated and displays the new

parameters. However, the parameters are not sent to the device.

Every web page dialog includes a Done button. When clicking this button, you save the

new configuration without applying it to the device and you close the web page dialog.

To close a web page dialog without saving the configuration, click the button at the upper

right corner of each page.

To send to the device the newly configured parameters, click Apply. Only when you click

Apply, you actually submit the new parameters to the device.

To delete rows in a table, check the Select box and then click Delete Selected.

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning Platform Parameters

3.3 Platform Parameters

Configure the platform parameters when you start the device configuration. Usually it is a one

time procedure that you do via the Platform page. The Platform page is the default page, it

opens as soon as you link to the device:

The Platform page is comprised of a graphical view of the ProStream back panel and as you

select each component, a table presenting its parameters appears. The table allows you to

configure and view various parameters.

3.3.1 Setting ETH1-3 Parameters

The IP address of the ETH3 port or ProStream primary IP address is configured as part of the

ProStream installation (see ProStream Installation and Start Up User’s Guide). However, when

required, you may change the IP address settings via the Platform screen, Ethernet table:

To change configuration of ETH1, ETH2 and ETH3

NOTE: Configure the IP address of ETH3 on a different subnet than that of ETH2. Configuring both ports

to be on the same subnet may result in serious network communication problems. ProStream uses the

ETH3 port to communicate with the network for management purposes and ETH2 for Conditional Access

Systems (CAS) purposes.

1. In Platform, select the required Ethernet port.

2. In the table that appears, type the required IP address, subnet mask and default gateway.

3. Click Apply to apply changes.

4. In case you configured ETH3, login to the new IP address.

NOTE: The MAC address is the physical address of the unit. The address is retrieved and presented in the

Platform page for viewing purposes only.

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning Platform Parameters

3.3.2 Viewing/Setting Chassis Parameters

1. Select the Platform tab.

2. Select Chassis/Main Card.

3. In the Chassis Properties table, view the following chassis parameters:

SW Version - indicates the firmware version.

RAM Size - indicates the RAM size of the device. In this case the chassis supports 1Giga

RAM.

Chassis Serial Number - the serial number of the chassis.

Hardware Revision - the revision of the Central Processing Card.

Internal Part Number - indicates hardware configuration.

Chassis Type - indicates chassis type.

Part Number - customer part number.

Boot Version - indicates the boot flash version.

CPC Part Number - part number of the CPC card and its version.

Midplane Part Number - indicates the part number and revision.

Unit Name - type in the required device name.

3.3.3 Viewing/Setting Card Parameters

1. Select the Platform tab.

2. Select the required slot. Each slot provides the following information:

View slot information

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning Platform Parameters

Slot # - the number of the slot as in the back panel of the device.

Slot # list - allows you to select another IOM card when required.

Actual - indicates the IOM card that is currently mounted in the slot.

3. To select the required card in the slot, open the Slot # list, and select the required card:

None - no IOM card in the slot

ASI - ASI IOM card

ASI SCR - ASI IOM with scrambling support

GbE Pro - GbE IOM card

GbE 4G - GbE 4G IOM card

8VSB card. See 8VSB Modulation on page 94.

The Card# Properties table is updated to display the following:

For an ASI or ASI SCR IOM Card - view or set the required port direction.

Table 3-2: Actual IOM Card

Icon of

Actual Card Explanation

ASI IOM card

ASI SCR IOM card

GbE Pro IOM card

GbE 4G

8VSB card

View properties

Set port direction

Chapter 3 Configuring and Provisioning Platform Parameters

For GbE Pro/GbE 4G IOM card - in the Card# Properties table, view the type, serial number

and the part number of the card.

For 8VSB card - in the Card# Properties table, view the type, serial number and the part

number of the card.

3.3.4 Global Platform Configuration

The Auxiliaries section allows you to apply global platform configuration according to the

following explanations:

To identify unit

In Platform under Auxiliaries, click Identify Unit.

The Local LED on the ProStream front and back panel turns on and the button toggles to

Stop Identify.

To reset the unit

1. In Platform under Auxiliaries, click Reset Unit.

2. Confirm the action by clicking OK.

3. Wait until the procedure is complete.

To clear configuration

1. In Platform under Auxiliaries, click Clear Configuration.

2. Confirm the action by clicking Ok.

The previous configuration is removed and the device boots up with the default

configuration.

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