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Contents
Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 1 Getting Started with Interplay | MAM System Administrator . . . . . . . . . 12
System Administrator Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Prerequisites for Using System Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Starting System Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
System Administrator Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Navigation Between and Within Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Quitting System Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2 Working with the Configuration View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Layout of the Configuration View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Layout of the Control Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Correct Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Managing Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Creating Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Renaming Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Copying Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Exporting Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Importing Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Import Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Deleting Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Managing Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Creating Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Renaming Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Copying Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Deleting Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Managing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Understanding System Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Layout of the Settings Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Data Types for Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Creating Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Renaming Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Copying Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Deleting Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Changing the Log Level for Multiple Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Refreshing the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 3 Working with the Naming Services View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Layout of the Naming Services View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Accessing Information about Specific Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Creating Naming Service Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Editing Naming Service Entries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Deleting Naming Service Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Exporting and Importing Naming Service Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 4 Working with the User Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Layout of the User Data View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Creating Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Deleting Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Exporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Importing Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Deleting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of Avid
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Interplay
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| Media Asset Manager, a powerful
system for archiving and managing media in a shared storage environment. This guide
describes how to use Avid Interplay | MAM System Administrator, an administrative tool
that is part of Interplay MAM Administrator and provides the administration interface for
the central configuration and service registry of Interplay MAM.
This guide is intended for all users charged with maintaining Interplay Media Asset
Manager, specifically those who need to configure and edit settings of all Interplay MAM
backend and client components.This guide contains all the task-oriented instructions and
conceptual information you need to work with System Administrator.
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All tasks described in this guide can only be performed by users with administrative
privileges.
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A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm.
Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when
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File menu and then select the Import command.
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1 Getting Started with Interplay | MAM
System Administrator
The following topics provide basic information to help you get started using Interplay MAM
System Administrator:
System Administrator Overview
Starting System Administrator
System Administrator Views
Navigation Between and Within Views
Quitting System Administrator
System Administrator Overview
Interplay MAM offers an administrative GUI — called System Administrator — that manages
the settings pertaining to Interplay MAM backend and client components. In three different
views, System Administrator provides the environment for configuring and editing these settings.
All initial information available in System Administrator is set during the installation of
Interplay MAM.
Note that “system settings” are set in Interplay MAM Control Center during system installation.
Although they can be edited in Interplay MAM System Administrator, Avid recommends editing
them in MAM Control Center. See
“Understanding System Settings” on page 31.
The configuration information of Interplay MAM is organized as a tree. Profiles are at the top
level. They include an arbitrary number of sections and subsections. These, in turn, have an
arbitrary number of settings that contain keys, or Key-Value pairs.
System Administrator allows you to add, edit, and delete services and interfaces with their
corresponding URLs and provides a tool for the management of user data by uploading or
downloading system-relevant information.
It enables you to do the following:
Create, edit, and delete profiles
Create, edit, and delete the sections of a profile
Prerequisites for Using System Administrator
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Create, edit, and delete the settings for the sections of a profile
Create, edit, and delete the URLs for all Interplay MAM services
Import, export, and delete system-relevant user data
Prerequisites for Using System Administrator
To use System Administrator, you need to be a member of an administrator group that has the
following group rights:
Administration/Platform_Administration
As an administrator you can review and assign these group rights in the Interplay MAM User
Manager. For additional information, see the “Interplay | MAM User Manager User’s Guide”
that is shipped with the software.
Starting System Administrator
System Administrator is started from within Interplay MAM Control Center.
To start System Administrator:
1. Open an Internet browser and enter the URL https://<hostname>:9911/ControlCenter/web/
The Interplay MAM Control Center login dialog opens.
2. Type your user name and password, and click Login.
Interplay MAM Control Center opens.
3. Click MAM Administrator on the Links pane.
The Interplay MAM Administrator login dialog opens.
4. Type your user name and password, and click Login.
Interplay MAM Administrator opens.
5. Click the System Administrator link on the Overview page of Interplay MAM
Administrator.
System Administrator opens in a new tab.
System Administrator Views
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System Administrator Views
Once started, System Administrator displays the Configuration view - the default view set when
MAM Administrator is installed. System Administrator includes the following three views,
accessible through three corresponding tabs:
View Description
1 Configuration Creates, deletes, and edits profiles, sections and settings. For additional
information, see
“Working with the Configuration View” on page 16.
2 Naming Services Creates, deletes, and edits URLs for individual Interplay MAM services. For
additional information, see
“Working with the Naming Services View” on
page 46
.
3 User Data Imports, exports, and deletes system-relevant user data. For additional
information, see
“Working with the User Data View” on page 55.
Navigation Between and Within Views
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Navigation Between and Within Views
To navigate between and within views, consider the following options.
Navigation Within the View
In the Configuration view, the profile selection list, the sections pane and the settings pane
function as a navigation tree: Selecting an entry in the profile list loads the information for the
selected profile in the other panes of the view - for example: If you select the profile
“LockManager” in the profile list, the Sections pane displays a list of sections and subsections of
the profile “LockManager”. The Settings pane displays the keys and values for the “DB” section,
the top entry in the Sections for Profile Lock Manager list. You can now click another section or
subsection in the list to display the keys and values for the corresponding entry.
You can use the keyboard keys to navigate within the Naming Services view: Press a character
on the keyboard to jump to the first Instance starting with this character.
Navigation Between Views
To navigate between the Configuration, Naming Services, and User Data views, simply click the
corresponding tabs.
You can directly jump from a profile selected in the Configuration view to the corresponding
instance in the Naming Services view: If you click the Go to Naming Entries button in the
Configuration view, the Naming Services view opens with the corresponding instance selected.
Quitting System Administrator
When you are finished using System Administrator quit the application.
To quit the application:
t Click X in the System Administrator tab.
System Administrator quits, but both Interplay MAM Control Center and Interplay MAM
Administrator continue to run. You can resume working in both applications or quit.
2 Working with the Configuration View
The default view visible upon starting System Administrator is the Configuration view. It
supplies access to configuration settings of the Interplay MAM backend and client components.
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After changing the configuration of a component, you must refresh the component’s
configuration cache to make the changes become effective. See
“Refreshing the Configuration”
on page 44.
The following topics provide information about the options of the Configuration view:
Layout of the Configuration View
Managing Profiles
Managing Sections
Managing Settings
Layout of the Configuration View
The Configuration view is arranged in three panes that provide information and controls to
manage profiles and elements of profiles. The following illustration and table describe the layout
of the Configuration view.
Layout of the Configuration View
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Layout of the Control Elements
See the following illustration and table for an overview of the Configuration view’s control
elements:
Pane Description
1 Profiles Provides controls to select, create, edit, copy, delete, import, and export
profiles. For additional information, see “Managing Profiles” on page 18.
2 Sections Lists sections and subsections of the selected profile. Subsections are
indicted by slashes. Provides controls to create, edit, copy, and delete
sections. For additional information, see
“Managing Sections” on page 26.
3 Settings Lists sets of settings for a selected section or subsection.The figure
illustrates that the Config section of the AffinityWS profile has five settings
or keys: Language, MaxStoredDays, MaxStoredEntries, MinQuantitySearch,
and ReturnedWords.
For additional information, see
“Managing Settings” on page 31.
Button Description
1 New Profile/Section/Setting Creates new profiles/sections/settings.
2 Rename Profile/Section/Setting Renames profiles/sections/settings.
Managing Profiles
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Correct Sequence
The Configuration view provides all the necessary information about the configuration settings
of Interplay MAM backend and client components, and enables you to create the components
necessary for the modeling of a new configuration. However, as you put these components
together, you must keep the following sequence in mind:
1. Create a profile using the Profiles pane.
2. Add sections to the profile using the Sections pane.
3. Add settings to each section using the Settings pane.
Managing Profiles
You can create and edit profiles at the top level of the organizational structure of the
Configuration view. The initial installation of Interplay MAM includes a comprehensive set of
profiles.
Note that services that can be installed more than once can have more than one configuration
profile: a “shared” profile containing settings that are equal for the service and all of its instances
(for example, VideoAnalysis) and a profile for each instance containing instance-specific
settings (for example, VideoAnalysisService_1).
3 Copy Profile/Section/Setting Copies profiles/sections/settings.
4 Delete Profile/Section/Setting Deletes profiles/sections/settings.
5 Import Profile Imports profiles.
6 Export Profile Exports the selected profile.
7 Set Log Level for Multiple Components Changes the log level for several components at the same
time. See
“Changing the Log Level for Multiple
Components” on page 42
.
8 Go to Naming Entries Opens the Naming Services view and selects the Instance
of the component whose profile is selected in the
Configuration view. See
“Navigation Between and
Within Views” on page 15
.
9 Refresh Component Configuration Refreshes the configuration of a component. See
“Refreshing the Configuration” on page 44.
10 Edit Setting Edits the properties of the selected setting.
Button Description
Managing Profiles
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Making adjustments to a profile that was part of the initial installation of Interplay MAM
can result in serious system damage.
The only conceivable customization on the profile level is the import of a profile.The following
topics provide information about the options of the Profiles pane:
“Creating Profiles” on page 19
“Renaming Profiles” on page 20
“Copying Profiles” on page 20
“Deleting Profiles” on page 25
“Importing Profiles” on page 22
“Exporting Profiles” on page 22
Creating Profiles
Whereas a number of standard profiles are created automatically when Interplay MAM is
installed, it may become necessary to add new profiles to the existing stock.
To create a profile:
1. Click the New Profile button in the Profiles pane.
The New Profile dialog opens.
2. Enter a name for the new profile in the Profile field.
3. (Option) If you want to copy all sections and settings of a profile, select the profile in the
Copy from list.
4. Click OK to save the new profile.
The New Profile dialog closes. The new profile is highlighted in the Select a Profile list.
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- If you copied sections and settings from another profile, the Sections pane displays the
list of sections and subsections you have copied. The Settings pane displays the keys
and values for the top entry in the list of sections.
- If you did not copy sections and subsections from another profile, the Sections pane and
the Settings pane stay empty.
Renaming Profiles
You can rename a profile on the Profiles pane.
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Changing the name of a profile that was part of the initial installation of Interplay MAM
can result in serious system damage.
To rename a profile:
1. Select the profile you wish to rename from the Select a Profile list.
The sections of the selected profile are displayed in the Sections pane.
2. Click the Rename Profile button in the Profiles pane.
The Rename Profile dialog opens.
3. Overwrite the name of the profile in the Profile field.
4. Click OK to save the changes.
The Rename Profile dialog closes. The renamed profile is highlighted in the Select a Profile
list.
The Sections pane displays the list of sections and subsections of the renamed profile. The
Settings pane displays the keys and values for the top entry in the list of sections.
Copying Profiles
You can copy all sections and settings of an profile to another.
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