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Avid Unity™ MediaNet

Management Guide

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Avid Unity MediaNet Management Guide • Part 0130-05219-01 Rev. A • April 2002

Contents

Using This GuideWho Should Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiiiAbout This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xivSymbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xivIf You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvRelated Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xviIf You Have Documentation Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

Chapter 1 MediaNet Management OverviewManagement Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2Configuring Your Workgroup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Overall Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3Setting Up and Managing Your Drive Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4Assigning Drives to Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4Creating and Sizing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5Protecting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6Controlling User Accounts and Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8Setup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8Administration Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9Monitor Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Chapter 2 Setup ManagerSetup Manager Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2Starting the Setup Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

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Using Setup Manager in a Failover Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4Failover Configuration Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4Determining the Active File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Starting and Stopping the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5Starting the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5Stopping the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Online Drive Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7Enabling AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Chapter 3 Configuring General, Failover, and Remote Error Notification Parameters

Configuring General Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2Configuring File Manager Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Failover Configuration Procedure Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5Step 1: Setting Up the Failover Connection on the

First File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6Step 2: Setting Up the Failover Connection on the

Second File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7Step 3: Validating the Failover Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8Step 4: Starting the First and Second File Managers . . . . . . 3-8

Setting Up E-mail Error Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9Configuring the E-mail Error Notification Service . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9Setting Up E-mail Error Notification Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Chapter 4 Managing the Drive HardwareCreating a New Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Creating a Drive Set Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2Creating a Drive Set Manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Creating a Data Drive Set from Raw Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4Creating Spare Data Drives from Raw Drives . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Adding Storage to Your Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

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Adding Active Data Drives to a Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6Adding Drives That Were Data Drives in Another

Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7Adding Drives That Were Previously Used with

Another Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Removing Drives From Your Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9Removing Active Data Drives from a Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10Physically Removing Storage from your Environment . . . . . . 4-11

Setting Drive Mode Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12Deleting a Data Drive Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12Rebuilding a Data Drive Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13Taking the Drive Set Online and Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13

Bringing the Drive Set Online. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14Taking the Drive Set Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

Identifying a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Chapter 5 Administration ToolUnderstanding the Administration Tool User Interface . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

User Interface Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2Message Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3List Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3Context-Sensitive Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3Information Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

User Interface Tab Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4Getting Help with the Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Opening The Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5Logging In to the Administration Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Administration Tool Preferences Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6Setting Administration Tool Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Preference Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7Undoing or Canceling Preference Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8Saving Preference Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

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Exporting and Importing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9Exporting Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9Importing Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Setting the Administration Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10Setting Workspace and Monitor Graph Bar Colors . . . . . . . . . 5-11Setting User Account Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12Setting Workspace Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13Setting Monitor Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15

Reestablishing Connection to the File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16

Chapter 6 Managing Allocation GroupsAllocation Groups Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2Allocation Group Usage Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3Creating Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3Adding Drives to Allocation Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5Removing Drives from Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7Renaming Allocation Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8Deleting Allocation Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Chapter 7 Managing WorkspacesThe Workspace Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Workspace List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2Reading the Workspace List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3Changing the Workspace List Graph Display . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Context-sensitive Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6Creating Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7Duplicating Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8Changing Workspace Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Increasing Workspace Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10Decreasing Workspace Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Renaming Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11Deleting Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12Protecting Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

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Enabling Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13Protecting All Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15

Optimizing Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16Moving Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17

Chapter 8 Managing User Accounts and Access PrivilegesUser Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2Creating User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3Duplicating User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4Renaming User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5Changing User Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6Deleting User Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6Guest Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7Workspace Access Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8

Access Privilege Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9Changing Workspace Access Privileges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Chapter 9 Monitoring System Usage and MessagesMonitor Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2Changing the Monitor List Graph Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

Selecting a Linear or Logarithmic Graph Display . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3Scaling the Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4Saving Your Monitor List Graph Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-4

Log Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5Viewing and Managing the Log File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-6

Appendix A Managing Drive ProblemsIdentifying Bad Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2Replacing the Drive Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3How Online Drive Recovery Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Recovering a Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4

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AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6Verifying AutoRecovery for Failed Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7

Replacing Bad Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7

Appendix B Advanced Support ToolsServer Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2Text Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2Disk Error Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3NtStatDump. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3RecoverDisks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4Avid Unity Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4

Appendix C Remote Administration Using the Text ConsoleStarting the Text Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2

Starting the Text Console Locally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2Using the Text Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2Command Categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-3

User Command Category. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-5Workspace Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6On/Offline Command Category. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-7Disk Command Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8Stats Command Category. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8

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TablesTable 3-1 File Manager IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5

Table 5-1 Preference Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-7

Table 5-2 Preference File Locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-8

Table 8-1 Workspace Access Levels access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-8

Table 8-2 User Table Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-10

Table C-1 Command Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4

Table C-2 User Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-5

Table C-3 Workspace Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6

Table C-4 On/Offline Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-7

Table C-5 Stats Subcommands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8

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Congratulations on your purchase of an Avid Unity™ MediaNet workgroup, an Avid Unity LANshare, a Trilligent™ Cluster, or a Trilligent LANserver. All of these products provide a high-performance distributed file system that contains high-capacity shared media storage for workgroups of connected Avid® editing workstations, or for streaming media to an in-house network or the Internet.

Who Should Use This GuideThis reference guide is intended for system administrators responsible for the setup and day-to-day management of a MediaNet workgroup or a Trilligent Storage environment. You should have a basic understanding of how to use and manage Windows NT® and Windows® 2000 systems, and should be familiar with the basic MediaNet concepts described in the Avid Unity MediaNet System Overview.

n This document describes the features for all MediaNet environments. Therefore, your system might not contain certain features that are covered in the documentation.

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About This GuideThis guide provides task-oriented instructions for the configuration, management, and basic troubleshooting of your environment.

The Contents lists all topics included in the book, presented with the following overall structure:

• Chapter 1 provides an overview of the MediaNet configuration process.

• Chapters 2 through 4 introduce the Setup Manager and describe how you use it to configure your environment parameters and configure your drives as a drive set.

• Chapters 5 through 9 introduce the Administration Tool and describe how you use it to perform initial workspace configuration and day-to-day tasks.

• The Appendixes describe how to manage drive problems and the advanced support tools available to you.

• A detailed Index helps you quickly locate specific topics.

Symbols and ConventionsUnless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows 2000 operating system.

This documentation uses the following special symbols and conventions:

1. Numbered lists, when order is important.

a. Alphabetical lists, when the order of secondary items is important.

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• Bulleted lists, when the order of the items is unimportant.

- Indented dashed lists, when the order of subtopics is unimportant.

t One arrow in a list indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

n A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

c A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

w A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this guide or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

If You Need HelpIf you are having trouble using your system, you should:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in your documentation.

2. Check the documentation that came with your hardware for maintenance or hardware-related issues.

3. Check the release notes supplied with your Avid application for information on accessing the Avid Web site and the Avid Knowledge Center.

4. For support services, call Avid Customer Support:

- Broadcast products — call 800-NEWS-DNG (639-7364).

- Postproduction products — call 800-800-AVID (2843).

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Related InformationThe following documents provide more information about your environment:

• Avid Unity MediaNet Site Preparation Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet File Manager Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Upgrade Notes

• Avid Unity MediaNet System Overview

• Avid Unity MediaNet Management Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Troubleshooting Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Macintosh Fibre Channel Client Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Macintosh Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card

• Avid Unity MediaNet Windows Fibre Channel Client Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Windows Fibre Channel Client Quick Start Card

• Avid Unity MediaNet Macintosh Ethernet Client Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Macintosh Ethernet Client Quick Start Card

• Avid Unity MediaNet Windows Ethernet Client Setup Guide

• Avid Unity MediaNet Windows Ethernet Client Quick Start Card

• Avid Unity MediaNet Release Notes

MediaNet also provides Help systems that include complete information about using the Setup Manager, the Administration Tool, and the Monitor Tool.

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If You Have Documentation CommentsAvid Technology continuously seeks to improve its documentation. We value your comments about this manual or other Avid-supplied documentation.

Simply e-mail your documentation comments to Avid Technology at

[email protected]

Please include the title of the document, its part number, revision, and the specific section you’re commenting on in all correspondence.

How to Order DocumentationTo order additional copies of this documentation from within the United States, call Avid Telesales at 800-949-AVID (2843). If you are placing an order from outside the United States, contact your local Avid representative.

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CHAPTER 1MediaNet Management Overview

MediaNet 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.

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:

• Management Tasks

• Configuring Your Workgroup

• Management Tools

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Management TasksAs an administrator, you are responsible for:

• Initial setup and configuration of the workgroup — You must configure the drive set, one or more allocation groups, workspaces, and user accounts.

• Day-to-day administration — You probably need to reconfigure MediaNet to accommodate new users and evolving projects.

MediaNet also provides comprehensive monitoring functionality that allows you to check total MediaNet 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. MediaNet provides easy-to-understand error messages that inform you of problems as well as tools that help you diagnose and fix problems.

Configuring Your WorkgroupEnsuring that MediaNet is always configured to optimize workflow in what can be a rapidly changing work environment is your primary responsibility as a MediaNet administrator.

This section provides information that enables you to efficiently perform configuration tasks.

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Configuring Your Workgroup

Overall Considerations

How you answer the following strategic questions determines your priorities when making configuration 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.

• Does your workgroup include dual-stream uncompressed clients?

If so, you will need to set up special hardware and allocation group configurations.

• How large is your drive set and does it include more than one drive type?

If your drive set is very large or has different drive types, you probably need to assign your data drives to more than one allocation group.

• 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.

• 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.

The following sections provide a high-level overview of the configuration implications of your answers to these questions.

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Setting Up and Managing Your Drive Hardware

Setting up your hardware to create a drive set is straightforward and is done only during the initial setup of your installation, unless you want to add or remove drives later.

The most important decision you must make is how many spare data drives to allocate so that they can be rapidly swapped in for faulty data drives. Avid recommends that you allocate at least one spare drive for each drive size in your drive set.

For more information about drive sets, see Chapter 4.

Assigning Drives to Allocation Groups

MediaNet requires you to assign the data drives that you want to be available as storage in your drive set, to one or more allocation groups. Because MediaNet handles the drives in each allocation group as a separate unit, creating multiple allocation groups allows you to:

• Support dual-stream uncompressed clients (this capability also requires a special hardware configuration).

• Divide very large drive sets into smaller units which reduces data loss in the event of a drive failure in an unprotected environment (see “Protecting Data” on page 1-6).

• Accommodate drives of different speeds and sizes.

For more information about creating and managing allocation groups, see Chapter 6.

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Creating and Sizing Workspaces

Because workspaces are virtual rather than physical partitions, they are easy to create, resize dynamically, and delete to accommodate your environment’s needs. This flexibility allows you to tailor your workspace allocation to accurately meet your current needs. As a result, you can easily reconfigure your workspaces later to accommodate future projects, users, or streaming needs.

First, you must consider how you want to allocate workspaces. For example, do you want to allocate them to accommodate projects, teams, individual users, streaming bit rates, media types, media distributors, or a combination of these?

Once you create a plan to allocate workspaces, you’ll need to determine how much storage each workspace will require and allocate space accordingly. For editing, this might be a function of project size or the number of users. For streaming, this might be a function of media duration or media resolution.

n When sizing workspaces in a multiple workspace configuration, you should consider reserving some space rather than assigning all of it immediately. Once space is allocated, it tends to be filled quickly and you might need space later to accommodate a new project or user or to extend or protect an existing workspace. In these situations, it tends to be easier to use space held in reserve than to take it away from an existing workspace.

When allocating and sizing workspaces, you should also consider whether access restrictions are required and whether protection for data integrity is necessary for each workspace. For more information, see “Protecting Data” on page 1-6.

For more information about allocating and sizing workspaces, see Chapter 7.

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Protecting Data

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.

Controlling User Accounts and Privileges

User accounts control access to MediaNet and its workspaces. Access privileges associated with the user account determine whether a client user can mount a given workspace and, if so, whether the user has full access (read/write) or read-only access to it.

To determine how you want to set up user accounts and access privileges for your environment, you first need to weigh the importance of access control against user inconvenience and administration effort.

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Once you have decided on the relative importance of security, you can decide upon an access control strategy that best meets your needs.

Example strategies include:

• Create a user account for each user.

This strategy offers optimum security, allowing each user access to the appropriate workspaces regardless of the MediaNet client at which they are working.

• Create a user account with appropriate access privileges for each project (multiple users can use the same account simultaneously).

This strategy offers moderate security and convenience, giving users working on each project appropriate access and requiring far less administrative effort than individual user accounts.

• 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.

n 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.

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Management ToolsMediaNet provides several tools that allow you to configure and perform day-to-day management:

• Setup Manager

• Administration Tool

• Monitor Tool

The following sections give an overview of each of these tools.

Setup Manager

You use the Setup Manager to perform storage hardware management tasks, including:

• Creating and managing a drive set

• Specifying drives as data drives or spare drives

• Starting and stopping the File Manager service to perform system maintenance

• Adding drives to and removing drives from the drive set

• Performing drive maintenance and error recovery operations

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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:

• View, create, rename, and delete allocation groups

• Add drives to allocation groups

• View, create, rename, resize, protect, and delete workspaces

• View, create, edit, and delete user accounts (with optional passwords) and assign user access privileges

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• Monitor system usage, including total system bandwidth use, number of active MediaNet clients or media servers, and bandwidth consumption per client or server.

• View a list of error, warning, and informational messages

You can open the Administration Tool from the File Manager or from any MediaNet 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

The Monitor Tool provides low-level performance-monitoring functions. Using the Monitor Tool, you can view:

• The current status of each drive, including name, number, available storage, percentage of storage used, and the number of affected files, if any

• A list of the workspaces

• The status of communications between the File Manager and the MediaNet clients or media servers

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• Information on the metadata maintained by the File Manager

• File Manager memory usage

• Counts and service times for MediaNet client or media server requests

You can also use the Monitor Tool to start and stop the File Manager service and to set advanced MediaNet features, such as clearing the administrator’s password.

When the Monitor Tool opens, File Manager status information appears.

For more information about the Monitor Tool, see the tool’s Help system.

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CHAPTER 2Setup Manager

This chapter introduces the Setup Manager and describes its basic operations.

To find out how to use the Setup Manager to set general and File Manager failover 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.


• Setup Manager Overview

• Starting the Setup Manager

• Using Setup Manager in a Failover Configuration

• Starting and Stopping the File Manager

• Online Drive Recovery

• AutoRecovery for Failed Drives

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Setup Manager OverviewYou use the Setup Manager to set general and File Manager failover parameters, configure and manage your drive set, and 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.

The Setup Manager divides all drives into one of three groups, reflecting their current usage allocations and state. The three drive groups are:

Drive list

Drive group list (Click an entry to select agroup to display in the drive list.)

Information area

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When you select 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 drive set and the status of the File Manager.

To access a comprehensive Help system for the Setup Manager, do one of the following:

t Click the Help button (Question Mark icon).

t Choose Help Topics from the Help menu.

Drive Group Description

Data Drive Set Shows active data drives and spare drives in the drive set.

Other FibreChannel Drives

Shows drives that are not appropriately initialized for use in an allocation group. These drives can be used for other purposes in your environment.

Raw Drives Shows raw drives that are marked for use but are not allocated for a specific purpose. Raw drives cannot be used until allocated.

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Starting the Setup ManagerTo start the Setup Manager:

t From the File Manager desktop, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Avid Unity and then select Setup Manager.

n Until you initialize the e-mail error notification service (see “Setting Up E-mail Error Notification” on page 3-9), 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.

n Until you configure your 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 drive set.

Using Setup Manager in a Failover ConfigurationIf you have a failover configuration with redundant File Managers, one File Manager assumes the active role and the other the passive role when the system starts.

Failover Configuration Guidelines

In failover configurations, you should always:

• Stop the passive File Manager before performing any hardware management tasks that involve stopping the File Manager service (such as adding drives to the drive set or performing a software upgrade).

• Perform hardware management tasks using the Setup Manager on the active File Manager.

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Determining the Active File Manager

To determine the active File Manager:

1. On both File Managers, click Start, point to Programs, point to Avid Unity, 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 ManagerThe File Manager software runs as a Windows NT 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

• Stopping the File Manager

Starting the File Manager

To restart the File Manager after it has been manually stopped or has failed for any reason:

t Choose Start File Manager from the Setup Manager’s File Manager menu.

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Stopping the File Manager

c In a failover configuration, you must stop the passive File Manager before stopping the active File Manager whenever you perform operations that require you to stop the File Manager. Otherwise, the system will perform a failover to the passive system in the middle of the shutdown.

To stop the File Manager:

1. Ensure that no clients have workspaces mounted. To do this, check client access from the Monitor tab of the Administration Tool, and then ask any client with workspaces mounted to unmount them.

2. Choose Stop File Manager from the File Manager menu.

Online Drive RecoveryThe 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.

n You must restart the Administration Tool on a Macintosh client after performing an 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.

For more information on using Setup Manager to perform an online drive repair, see “Recovering a Drive” on page A-4.

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AutoRecovery for Failed Drives

AutoRecovery for Failed DrivesThe AutoRecovery for Failed Drives operation can detect a media error andautomatically 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.

n The AutoRecovery for Failed Drives operation is disabled by default.

Considerations

System performance degrades during the AutoRecovery for Failed Drives operation. Leave the AutoRecovery operation 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 Begint Set up e-mail error notification: see “Setting Up E-mail Error

Notification” on page 3-9.

t Have at least one spare MEDIArray II drive (for each size drive in your system) available to use as the replacement for the bad drive.

Enabling AutoRecovery for Failed Drives

To enable AutoRecovery for Failed Drives:

1. Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Avid Unity, and then click Setup Manager.

The Setup Manager window opens.

2. Choose Enable AutoRecovery from the Recover menu.

The feature is enabled.

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For more information on how MediaNet runs and verifies an AutoRecovery , see “Verifying AutoRecovery for Failed Drives” on page A-7.

CHAPTER 3Configuring General, Failover, and Remote Error Notification Parameters

You can use the Setup Manager to set general parameters, configure File Manager failover, and set up remote error notification by e-mail.


• Configuring General Settings

• Configuring File Manager Failover

• Setting Up E-mail Error Notification

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Configuring General SettingsGeneral configuration settings allow you to fine-tune system performance by limiting the number of open files as well as specifying how the File Manager writes metadata and interprets available or missing drives during startup.

c 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.

To configure general settings:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to the AvidUnity folder, and then select Setup Manager.


2. Choose General Configuration from the File Menu.

The General Configuration Options dialog box appears.

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3. To give the File Manager a name that is different from the Computer Name defined in the system’s Network properties, type a name for the File Manager in the Virtual File Manager Name text box.

n In a failover configuration, you must specify the same virtual File Manager Name for both File Managers.

4. Choose the maximum number of open files allowed by the system from the “Maximum open files” pop-up menu. The default is 5000 files for LANShare, 10,000 files for a 1 gigabyte system, and 80, 000 files for a 2 gigabyte system.

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 drive set, the File Manger 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.

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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 search longer for drives during startup.

This option allows the system to accommodate the various start times required for different drives on the system.

7. Click OK.

Configuring File Manager FailoverIf properly configured with a redundant File Manager, MediaNet supports automatic failover to the passive File Manager when the active File Manager fails. Communication between the drive sets and polling over the Ethernet ensures that any lack of response from the active File Manager is because it is offline and is not due to a failure of network connections between the two File Managers.

n In a failover 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 standby 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.

For information on installing a second File Manager and setting up the IP addresses, see the Avid Unity MediaNet Setup Guide. Table 3-1 lists the recommended IP addresses. If you use different addresses, be sure to note them and have them available before proceeding with the configuration.

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Failover Configuration Procedure Overview

Configuring File Manager Failover requires the following steps:

• Step 1: Setting Up the Failover Connection on the First File Manager

• Step 2: Setting Up the Failover Connection on the Second File Manager

• Step 3: Validating the Failover Connections

• Step 4: Starting the First and Second File Managers

Table 3-1 File Manager IP Addresses

IP Address Description

192.168.1.1a Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 1

192.168.2.1 Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 2

192.168.3.1 Primary File Manager Ethernet NIC

192.168.1.2 Failover File Manager Ethernet Connector 1

192.168.2.2 Failover File Manager Ethernet Connector 2

192.168.3.2 Failover 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.

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Step 1: Setting Up the Failover Connection on the First File Manager

To set up the failover connection on the first File Manager:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to the AvidUnity folder, and then select Setup Manager. The Setup Manager window opens.

2. Stop the File Manager service by choosing Stop File Manager from the File Manager menu.

3. Choose File Manager Failover Configuration from the File menu. The File Manager Failover Configuration dialog box appears.

4. Make sure that the Enable redundant operation check box is selected.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. In the First network path area, choose the first built-in Ethernet adapter port from the Network Adapter pop-up menu.

8. Type the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address in the Local Machine First path IP address text box. This is the first IP address listed in Table 3-1.

9. Type the Failover File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address in the Remote Machine First path IP address text box. This is the fourth IP address listed in Table 3-1.

10. In the Second network path area, choose the port of the Ethernet NIC from the Network Adapter pop-up menu.

11. Type the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 IP address in the Local Machine Second path IP address text box. This is the second IP address listed in Table 3-1.

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12. Type the Failover File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 address in the Remote Machine Second path IP address text box. This is the fifth IP address listed in Table 3-1.

13. Leave the Setup Manager and the File Manager Failover Configuration dialog box open.

Step 2: Setting Up the Failover Connection on the Second File Manager

To set up the failover connection on the second File Manager:

1. Stop the Second File Manager.

2. Make sure that the Enable redundant operation check box is selected.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. In the First network path area, choose the second built-in Ethernet adapter from the Network Adapter pop-up menu.

6. Type the Failover File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address in the Local Machine First path IP address text box. This is the fourth IP address listed in Table 3-1.

7. Type the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 1 IP address into the Remote Machine First path IP address text box. This is the first IP address listed in Table 3-1.

8. In the Second network path area, choose the port of the Ethernet NIC from the Network Adapter pop-up menu.

9. Type the Failover File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 IP address into the Local Machine Second path IP address text box. This is the fifth IP address listed in Table 3-1.

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10. Type the Primary File Manager Ethernet Connector 2 IP address into the Remote Machine Second path IP address text box. This is the second IP address listed in Table 3-1.

11. Leave the Setup Manager and the File Manager Failover Configuration dialog box open.

Step 3: Validating the Failover Connections

To validate the connections for File Manager Failover:

1. Click the Validate Receive button on the first File Manager. The Validate Failover Connections dialog box appears.

Numbers in the Packets Received text boxes indicate the number of packets received from the first File Manager.

2. Click the Validate Send button on the second File Manager. The Validate Failover Connections dialog box appears.

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.

n If you have data traveling over only one of the failover network paths, recheck your configuration. This indicates that you probably have a network configuration problem.

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 the AvidUnity folder, and then select Monitor Tool.

The Monitor Tool opens.

2. Click Start File Manager.

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Setting Up E-mail Error Notification

3. From the second File Manager, click Start, point to Programs, point to the Trilligent folder, and then select Monitor Tool.

The Monitor Tool opens.

4. Click Start File Manager.

Setting Up E-mail Error NotificationYou can configure MediaNet to notify you when problems occur. A Windows NT service will regularly poll the client log file (UnityClientLogs.txt) and, if any errors are logged, send a concise summary of those errors to one or more e-mail accounts and/or sound an audible alarm on the File Manager.

n 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 send a message to your pager using e-mail, contact your paging service provider.

Configuring the E-mail Error Notification Service

To configure the e-mail error notification service:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to the AvidUnity folder, and then select Setup Manager.


2. Choose E-mail Configuration from the File menu.

The E-mail Configuration dialog box appears.

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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 button 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.

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.”

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Setting Up E-mail Error Notification

Setting Up E-mail Error Notification Contacts

You can add, edit, and delete your Setup Manager e-mail notification list.

To add an e-mail account to the Contact list:

1. Click the Add button.

The Add Contact dialog box appears.

2. Type a Name for the contact account.

3. Type the E-mail address (in the standard [email protected] format) to which the message should be sent.

4. 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 through 4.

6. When you are done, click Close.

The Add Contact dialog box closes.

To edit an existing contact:

1. Select the contact in the Contact list and select Edit.

The Edit Contact dialog box appears.

2. Change the Name and E-mail address information.

3. Click Change.

The changes are applied.

To remove a contact:

t Select the contact in the Contact list and click Remove. The contact is removed from the list.

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CHAPTER 4Managing the Drive Hardware

This chapter describes how to configure and manage your drive hardware as a drive set.

n 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.


• Creating a New Drive Set

• Adding Storage to Your Environment

• Adding Active Data Drives to a Drive Set

• Removing Drives From Your Environment

• Setting Drive Mode Pages

• Deleting a Data Drive Set

• Rebuilding a Data Drive Set

• Taking the Drive Set Online and Offline

• Identifying a Drive

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Managing the Drive Hardware

Creating a New Drive SetAfter you install all the hardware and software that comprise your environment, you must create a drive set, which is the set of physical drives that provides the large, virtual file system. A drive set can be set up either automatically or manually.

However, if you have specific requirements for configuring the drive set (for example, if you want to specify how many drives should be designated as spares), you will need to create your drive set manually.

This section tells you how to use the Configuration Assistant, and then tells you how to configure your drive set manually.

Creating a Drive Set Automatically

To create a drive set as quickly as possible, use the Setup Manager Configuration Assistant. The Configuration Assistant automatically creates a basic drive set consisting of:

• Active data drives (all but one of the available drives)

• A single spare data drive

n Avid strongly recommends keeping at least one spare drive of each data drive size in your drive set, even if you are using mirroring. (For example, if you have 18-GB and 73-GB drives in your drive set, you should have at least one spare of each size). Therefore, if you have mixed drive sizes, you should create the drive set manually.

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Creating a New Drive Set

To run the Configuration Assistant:

1. Choose Configuration Assistant from Setup Manager in the Quick Start menu.

The Setup Manager dialog box appears, describing the drive set that the Configuration Assistant is going to create.

2. Click OK.

When the configuration operation is completed, your working drive set will be ready for you to perform further configurations from the Administration Tool. For information about the Administration Tool, see “Administration Tool”.

Creating a Drive Set Manually

This section describes how to manually create a drive set consisting of data drives and optional spare data drives.

n If you have an existing drive set do not perform this procedure.

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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 the Avid Unity folder, and then click Setup Manager.


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 drive set.

4. Choose Create Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu to create a drive set from the selected raw drives.

A progress indicator appears, indicating that the Setup Manager is building the drive set.

When the drive set has been built successfully, the File Manager and drive set come online automatically.

To use the new drive set:

t 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 6-5.

Creating Spare Data Drives from Raw Drives

n Avid recommends keeping at least one spare drive of each data drive size in your drive set (for example, if you have 18-GB and 73-GB drives in your drive set, you should have at least one spare of each size).

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Adding Storage to Your Environment

To create a spare data drive:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to the Avid Unity folder, 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 Drive Set” on page A-2).

For information about manually adding a new spare drive to the MEDIArray II, see “Adding Storage to Your Environment” on page 4-5.

Adding Storage to Your EnvironmentTo physically add new MEDIArray II drives to your environment:

1. Stop the File Manager service (see “Starting and Stopping the File Manager” on page 2-5). In a failover configuration, stop the standby File Manager before stopping the active File Manager. Otherwise, the system will perform a failover to the passive system in the middle of the shutdown.

2. Shut down and turn off power to the File Manager system. In a failover configuration, shut down both File Managers.

3. Turn off power to the MEDIArray II drive enclosures.

4. Add the new MEDIArray II drives, installing new MEDIArray II enclosures to accommodate the drives if necessary as described in the Avid Unity MediaNet Setup Guide.

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5. Turn on power to the MEDIArray II drive enclosures.

6. Reset the Fibre Channel switch.

7. Start the File Manager. In a failover configuration, restart only one File Manager.

8. Open the Setup Manager.

The newly added drives will appear in the Raw Drives group, the Other FibreChannel Drives group, or an additional Data Drive Set group, depending on how they have been used previously.

c If the newly added drives create another Data Drive Set group, you must delete that new drive set before attempting to bring your environment online. See “Deleting a Data Drive Set” on page 4-12. If the newly added drives appear in the Other FibreChannel Drives group, you need to make them Raw.

n 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 MediaNet Setup Guide.

9. Add the new drives to the drive set (see “Adding Active Data Drives to a Drive Set” on page 4-6).

10. In a failover configuration, restart the other File Manager.

Adding Active Data Drives to a Drive SetThe Setup Manager allows you to enlarge your drive set by adding active data drives to your existing drive set. Available drives appear in the Raw Drives group, the Other FibreChannel Drives group, or the Data Drive Set group, depending on whether they are newly added and how they were previously used.

n If you are adding new, previously unused drives, proceed to “Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives” on page 4-8.

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Adding Active Data Drives to a Drive Set

Adding Drives That Were Data Drives in Another Drive Set

If the drives added to your drive set were used previously in another drive set, two Data Drive Set groups appear in the drive group list:

• One Data Drive Set group contains the newly added drives, including the drives you added from another drive set. This group may also includes any missing drives.

• The other Data Drive Set group is your existing drive set.

c You must delete the data drive set containing the newly added drives before you can use the new drives in your existing drive set.

To add data drives previously used in another drive set to your current drive set:

1. Select the Data Drive Set group that contains the drives you want to add to your drive set.

All the drives in that group appear in the drive list.

c 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 drive set to be lost.

2. Choose Delete Data Drive Set from the Drives menu.

The data drive set is deleted and all the drives in it become raw. Therefore, they now appear in the Raw Drives group.

3. Proceed to “Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives” on page 4-8.

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Adding Drives That Were Previously Used with Another Application

If the drives you want to add to your drive set were used previously in another environment, they will appear in the Other FibreChannel Drives group.

To add the drives to your current drive set:

1. Select the Other FibreChannel Drives group.


2. Select the drives from the drive list that you want to add as data drives to your drive set.

3. Choose Make Drive Raw from the Drives menu to remove any formatting and information on the drives.

c Making the drives into raw drives causes all data on the selected drive set to be lost.

4. Proceed to “Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives” on page 4-8.

Creating Data Drives from Raw Drives

To create data drives from raw drives:

1. Select the Raw Drives group.


2. Select the raw drives from the drive list that you want to add as data drives to your drive set.

3. Choose Make Drive Spare from the Drives menu.

The raw drives are added to the Data Drive Set group as spare data drives.

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Removing Drives From Your Environment

4. Select the newly created spare data drives from the Data Drive Set group.

5. Choose Add Additional Drives from the Drive Set menu.

A progress indicator appears. As soon as the drive set has been successfully enlarged, the File Manager and drive set come online automatically.

6. 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 6-5.

Removing Drives From Your EnvironmentYou can remove drives from your drive set, as long as the following conditions are met after you have done so:

• The drive set contains at least four drives.

• The drive set contains enough drives to support the space allocated to your workspaces. Note that this is the total amount of storage allocated to the workspaces, not the actual amount of data stored on the workspaces.

• The 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 drive set (which requires that you first remove them from any allocation groups to which they are assigned), then physically removing them from the MEDIArray II drive enclosure.

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Removing Active Data Drives from a 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.

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 6-7.

2. In the Setup Manager, select the Data Drives Set group.


3. Select the drives that you want to remove.

n In addition to the drive name, a good way to confirm that a drive is not in an allocation group and therefore 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 appears, informing you that the drive set must be taken offline.

The Server Offline Control dialog box appears.

7. Type the number of seconds to wait until the server goes offline and click OK.

8. When the drive set comes back online, select the Raw Drives group in the Setup Manager.

The drives you removed from the drive set should now appear in the drive set.

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Removing Drives From Your Environment

You can now physically remove the MEDIArray II drives (see “Physically Removing Storage from your Environment” on page 4-11).

Physically Removing Storage from your Environment

To physically remove MEDIArray II drives from your environment:

1. Stop the File Manager service (see “Starting and Stopping the File Manager” on page 2-5). In a failover configuration, stop the passive File Manager before stopping the active File Manager. Otherwise, the system will perform a failover to the passive system in the middle of the shutdown.

2. Shut down and turn off power to the File Manager system. In a failover configuration, shut down both File Managers.

3. Turn off power to the MEDIArray II drive enclosures.

4. Remove the new MEDIArray II drives (and MEDIArray II drive enclosures, if required) as described in the Avid Unity MediaNet Setup Guide.

5. Turn on power to the MEDIArray II drive enclosures.

6. Reset the Fibre Channel switch.

7. Restart the File Manager. In a failover configuration, restart both File Managers.

8. Restart the Setup Manager. In a failover configuration, restart the Setup Manager on both File Managers and determine the active File Manager (see “Determining the Active File Manager” on page 2-5). You must use the Setup Manager on the active File Manager to perform the remaining steps in this procedure.

9. Check that the drives no longer appear in the Raw Drives group.

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Setting Drive Mode PagesMode pages are a configurable 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. Select the appropriate drives.

2. Choose Set Mode Pages from the Drives menu.

The mode pages are corrected.

Deleting a Data Drive Set

c This procedure will cause all data on the drive set to be lost.

To delete an existing drive set:

1. Take the drive set offline (see “Taking the Drive Set Offline” on page 4-14).

2. Select the Data Drive set group in the drive group list.

3. Choose Delete Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu.

A dialog box appears prompting you to confirm this choice.

A progress indicator appears, showing that the Setup Manager is deleting the drive set.

After the drive set is deleted, all of the data drives previously in your drive set will appear in the Raw Drives group.

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Rebuilding a Data Drive Set

Rebuilding a Data Drive Set

c This procedure will cause all data on the drive set to be lost.

To rebuild an existing drive set:

1. Delete the existing drive set (see “Deleting a Data Drive Set” on page 4-12).

After the 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 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 drive set.

4. Choose Create Data Drive Set from the Drive Set menu to rebuild the drive set.

A progress indicator appears, showing that the Setup Manager is building the drive set.

As soon as the drive set has been built successfully, the drive set comes online automatically.

Taking the Drive Set Online and OfflineSome hardware operations (for example, repairing the drive set) require that you first take the drive set offline and then bring it online again. You can also take the drive set offline to prevent client access to all of your workspaces.

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Drive set sharing status is indicated in three ways:

• Information area of the Setup Manager

• Take Offline command in the Drive Set menu (available when the drive set is online)

• Bring Online command in the Drive Set menu (available when the drive set is offline).

Bringing the Drive Set Online

To bring the drive set online:

1. Select the Data Drive Set group in the drive group list.

2. Choose Bring Online from the Drive Set menu.

The drive set comes online.

Taking the Drive Set Offline

n Before taking the 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 drive set offline.

To take the drive set offline:

1. Select the Data Drive Set group in the drive group list.

2. Choose Take Offline from the Drive Set menu.

A dialog box appears, prompting you to specify the delay that you want to occur (in seconds) before the drive set is brought offline so that clients can unmount all workspaces.

3. Type the required delay or accept the default (60 seconds) and click OK.

After the specified delay, the drive set goes offline.

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Identifying a Drive

Identifying a DriveThe Setup Manager provides a function that can cause the LED on a selected drive to flash, physically identifying it in its MEDIArray II drive enclosure.

To see the drive being identified, you must be close enough to the physical drive to see which drive is flashing.

To identify a drive:

1. Select one or more drives you want to identify.

2. Choose Identify from the Drives menu.

The LED on the selected drive blinks for 15 seconds.

To cancel the identify function:

t Press the Esc key.

n When you are determining the identified drive, be aware that normal activity causes random drives to blink every 20 seconds as metadata is written to them.

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CHAPTER 5Administration Tool

The Administration Tool is the primary tool 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.

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).


• Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface

• Opening The Administration Tool

• Logging In to the Administration Tool

• Administration Tool Preferences Window

• Reestablishing Connection to the File Manager

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Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface

The Administration Tool, which you can run on the MediaNet File Manager or any client, has a tab-based user interface (UI) in which information and controls are grouped by function and are displayed in tabs.

Menus corresponding to each tab offer many of the same functions (with equivalent shortcut keys), but are active only when you select that tab. At all other times, the menus and their commands appear dimmed, indicating that they are unavailable.

User Interface Components

This section briefly describes each component of the Administration Tool’s UI.

Tabs

Listarea

Context-

Information

Message area

List opener Help button

area

sensitivebuttons

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Understanding the Administration Tool User Interface

Message Area

The message area typically shows the File Manager status or any error conditions. Informational messages that enter the message log are also displayed in the message area for several seconds.

n Error messages that appear in the message area are often overwritten by status messages. Check the Log tab on a regular basis if you are concerned about problems with your environment. For more information, see “Log Tab” on page 9-5.

List Area

The contents of the list area are different for each tab, 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.

n 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.

Context-Sensitive Buttons

Each tab has a collection of context-sensitive buttons that provide access to the most common operations with a single click.

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Information Area

The information area shows information about objects selected in the list area.

User Interface Tab Descriptions

The following table describes the five tabs in the Administration Tool.

Tab Allows

User View, create, edit, and delete user accounts (with optional passwords) and to assign access privileges to workspaces.

Workspace View, create, rename, resize, protect, optimize, and delete workspaces.

Allocation Groups

View, create, rename, and delete allocation groups. It also allows you to add and remove drives from existing allocation groups.

Monitor Monitor system usage, including total system bandwidth use, number of active clients, and client bandwidth consumption.

Log View a list of error, warning, and informational messages.

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Opening The Administration Tool

Getting Help with the Administration Tool

The Help system provides step-by-step procedures and reference information for all features of the Administration Tool. To access the Help system, click the Help button (Question Mark icon) in the Administration Tool to view information about the current tab displayed.

Opening The Administration ToolYou can open the Administration Tool from the File Manager console, any Windows client, or a Mac client and in more than one location simultaneously. You can do this on FibreChannel 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. However, 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.

Logging In to the Administration Tool

If you have specified an administration password (see “Setting the Administration Password” on page 5-10), the Administration Tool prompts you to supply that password to log in. If you enter the wrong password, an error message appears and the tool closes.

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Administration Tool Preferences WindowThe 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 (creating default names and setting access privileges for new workspaces and users).

You can also export entire sets of preferences that can be imported later and applied to workspaces and users. With the exception of Administrator passwords, preferences are system specific. For more information, see “Exporting and Importing Preferences” on page 5-9.

Setting Administration Tool Preferences

To open the Preferences window:

t Choose Preferences from the File menu.

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Administration Tool Preferences Window

Preference Tabs

The Preferences window contains five tabs, each containing options and default values related to an aspect of Administration Tool functionality. The following table describes the Preferences window tabs.

Table 5-1 Preference Tabs

Tab Specifies

Administration Administrator password. See “Setting the Administration Password” on page 5-10.

User Default name, password, and access privileges for new users. Also specifies view preferences (iconic/text) for access privileges. See “Setting User Account Preferences” on page 5-12.

Workspace Default name, access privileges, and size for new workspaces. Workspace graph view (linear/log) and scaling options. See “Setting Workspace Preferences” on page 5-13.

Color User interface colors. See “Setting Workspace and Monitor Graph Bar Colors” on page 5-11.

Monitor Monitor graph view (linear/log) and scaling options. See “Setting Monitor Preferences” on page 5-15.

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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 cancel your changes:

• Click the Revert Panel button to return the preferences to their last saved values.

• Click the Factory Settings button to return the preferences back to the original values set at installation time.

• Click the Cancel button to close the Preferences window without saving your changes.

Saving Preference Changes

To view preference changes immediately or 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. Table 5-2 shows the location of the preferences file on different system types.

Table 5-2 Preference File Locations

System type File Location

File Manager orWindows NT client

MediaNet installation directory (d:\Program Files\Avid Technology\AvidUnity by default).

Macintosh client System Folder:Preferences:Avid Unity Preferences

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If you want to make preferences available on other clients, you need to export your preferences to a shared drive, workspace, or floppy disk (see “Exporting and Importing Preferences” on page 5-9).

Exporting and Importing Preferences

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.

Exporting Preferences

To export the current preference:

1. Choose Export Preferences from the File menu.

The File Selection dialog box appears.

2. Select a location and name for the exported preferences file that you want to create and click OK.

Importing Preferences

To import a preference:

1. Choose Import Preferences from the File menu.

The File Selection dialog box appears.

2. Navigate to and select the Preferences file that you want to import, and click OK.

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Setting the Administration Password

The Administration tab allows you to specify an administration password to restrict access to the Administration Tool (see “Logging In to the Administration Tool” on page 5-5).

c To protect your configuration, Avid recommends that you specify an administration password the first time you use the tool after creating your 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 to open the Preferences window.

2. Click the Administration tab.

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. Click Apply to save your new password. You are prompted to supply the new password.

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n Be sure to remember the administration password. If you forgot 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 Workspace and Monitor Graph Bar Colors

The Color tab 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:


2. Click the Color tab.

3. Choose the graph bar element that you want to change from the Change Color pop-up 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.

Preview bars

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5. Select and change other graph bar elements by repeating steps 3 and 4.

6. Save the color changes by 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 User Account Preferences

The User tab 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:


2. Click the User tab.

3. Type the name for the user account in the Name text box.

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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, or Read/Write Access) from the Access Privileges pop-up menu.

6. Select whether access privileges will be displayed as text, colored squares, or icons in the user list display from the User Access Icons option.

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 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.

n You also can set your workspace graph scaling preferences by setting them dynamically and saving them from the Workspace tab.

To set workspace preferences:


2. Click the Workspace tab.

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3. Set new values for the preferences that you want to change:

- Type the name for the workspace in the Name text box.

- 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, or Read/Write 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.

- Choose the graph scale type (Linear or Log) for the workspace list from the Type pop-up menu.

Linear scaling provides a typical decimal scale graph. Log scaling provides a logarithmic scale graph that allows larger data values to fit into a smaller space.

- Type the division size, in gigabytes, for the workspace list in the GB per Division text box.

- Type the overall display size, in gigabytes, in the workspace list in the Zoom (GB) text box.

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Setting Monitor Preferences

The Monitor tab allows you to specify default scaling settings for the Monitor list graph display. For more information about the Monitor tab, see Chapter 9.

n You also can set your monitor graph scaling preferences by setting them dynamically and saving them from the Monitor tab.

To set Monitor preferences:


2. Click the Monitor tab.

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3. Set new values for the preferences that you want to change:

- Choose the graph scale type (Linear or Log) for the monitor list from the Type pop-up menu.

- Type the division size, in megabytes, for the monitor list in the MB per Division text box.

- Type the overall display size, in megabytes, in the workspace list in the Zoom (MB) text box.


Reestablishing Connection to the File ManagerIf the Administration Tool’s connection to the File Manager service on the File Manager is disrupted during a session (for example, you stopped and restarted the File Manager service), the tool does not poll for and attempt to reconnect to the server automatically. However, you can reestablish the connection manually.

To reestablish your connection to the File Manager:

t Choose Establish Connection from the File menu.

The Administration Tool attempts to reconnect to the File Manager. If it succeeds and an administration password has been set, you will be required to log in (see “Logging In to the Administration Tool” on page 5-5) before regaining access to the Administration Tool.

CHAPTER 6Managing Allocation Groups

Allocation groups are partitions, each containing four or more assigned data drives from the larger drive set. This chapter describes how to create and manage allocation groups in your file system.


• Allocation Groups Tab

• Allocation Group Usage Guidelines

• Creating Allocation Groups

• Adding Drives to Allocation Groups

• Removing Drives from Allocation Groups

• Renaming Allocation Groups

• Deleting Allocation Groups

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Allocation Groups TabYou perform operations related to allocation groups from the Allocation Groups tab in the Administration Tool. From this tab you can create, delete and assign drives to allocation groups.

The Allocation Groups tab contains two sections. The left side displays an allocation group list showing the MediaNet drive set and all existing allocation groups. The right side displays a drive list showing the contents of the object selected in the allocation group list.

If you select the Partition 0 Data Drive Set, the drive list shows all the data drives in the drive set, with drives that are already assigned to allocation groups highlighted in yellow. If an allocation group is selected, the drive list shows all the data drives in that allocation group.

The context-sensitive buttons that appear to the right of the drive list have equivalent commands in the Allocation Group menu.

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Allocation Group Usage Guidelines

Allocation Group Usage GuidelinesYou 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 MediaNet Supported Configurations Guide.

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 uncompressed media, that client is serviced independently from any other clients in 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:

• Use only one drive type (size) per allocation group.

• Use a minimum of four drives per allocation group.

• Divide very large 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 GroupsAn allocation group is a set of physical drives that form a subset of the 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.

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To create a new allocation group:

1. Click the Allocation Groups tab.

2. Select the partition in the allocation group list.

3. Select all the drives you want to assign to the new allocation group (four-drive minimum) by clicking the check boxes beside their drive names.

n To select all unassigned drives, choose Select All Drives from the Allocation Groups menu. To deselect all checked drives, choose Deselect All Drives from the Allocation Groups menu.

If you are creating allocation groups containing specific drives in the MEDIArray II drive enclosures:

a. Click the Identify Drive button or choose Identify Drive from the Allocation Group menu.

b. If the identified drive is the drive you want in the MEDIArray II drive enclosure, click the check box beside 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 in the allocation group.

4. Click the New Group button to create a new allocation group containing all the selected drives.

A dialog box appears, asking you to confirm that you want to create a new allocation group.

The new allocation group appears in the allocation group list.

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Adding Drives to Allocation GroupsYou can add unassigned data drives from the drive set to an allocation group at any time to increase its storage capacity.

n 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 free space on your workspace or drive to make a copy of your largest file, or optimization will fail.

To add drives to an allocation group:


2. Select the allocation group that you want to enlarge in the allocation group list.

3. Click the Add Drive(s) button.

The Add Drives to Allocation Group dialog box appears, displaying a list of active data drives that are not assigned to any allocation group.

4. Select all the drives you want to add to the allocation group by clicking the check boxes beside their drive names.

If you want to add specific drives from the MEDIArray II drive enclosures:

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a. Click the Identify Drive button or choose Identify Drive from the Allocation Group menu. The drive light flashes on the drive being identified.

b. If the identified drive is the drive you wanted in the MEDIArray II drive enclosure, click the check box beside 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.

5. Click the Add Drive(s) button to add the selected drives to the allocation group.

A dialog box appears, 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.

- 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 afterwards. (See “Optimizing Workspaces” on page 7-16.)

The selected drives are added to the allocation group.

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Removing Drives from Allocation Groups

Removing Drives from Allocation GroupsYou can remove drives from any existing allocation group that has no workspaces on it. Drives removed from the allocation group are returned to the drive set’s pool of unassigned data drives.

To remove drives from an allocation group:


2. Select the allocation group from which you want to remove drives in the allocation group list.

3. Select the drives that you want to remove from the drive list by clicking the check boxes beside their drive names.

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 appears, 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.

- 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 afterwards. (See “Optimizing Workspaces” on page 7-16.)

The selected drives are removed from the allocation group.

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Renaming Allocation GroupsYou can rename an allocation group at any time. Any changes you make are applied automatically in the Workspace and Monitor tabs.

To rename an allocation group:


n The following characters are illegal in allocation group names: \, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, and |. If you type an illegal character, the system beeps and the character is ignored.

2. Click the allocation group name you want to change and type a new name (maximum of 27 characters).

3. Press Enter (Windows NT) or Return (Macintosh) to effect the change. If you do not type a name or type a duplicate name, the name is not changed.

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Deleting Allocation Groups

Deleting Allocation GroupsYou 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 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).


3. Select the allocation group you want to delete.

4. Click the Delete Group button.

A dialog box appears prompting you to confirm that you really want to delete the allocation group.

5. Click OK to confirm.

The allocation group is deleted.

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CHAPTER 7Managing Workspaces

Workspaces are virtual volumes that exist on allocation groups and can be resized dynamically. Workspaces allow you to easily segment your drive set to accommodate projects and users.

This chapter describes how to create, rename, and delete workspaces. It also tells you how to manipulate the amount of storage allocated to each workspace, move a workspace and its contents to another allocation group, and protect a workspace against drive failure.


• The Workspace Tab

• Creating Workspaces

• Duplicating Workspaces

• Changing Workspace Size

• Renaming Workspaces

• Deleting Workspaces

• Protecting Workspaces

• Optimizing Workspaces

• Moving Workspaces

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Managing Workspaces

The Workspace TabYou perform workspace functions from the Workspace tab, which allows you to:

• Create, delete, and rename workspaces.

• Manipulate the amount of storage allocated to each workspace.

• Protect a workspace against drive failure by duplicating files on more than one drive (a form of mirroring).

• Monitor how much free space exists on each workspace, and how much unallocated space exists in each drive set.

• Move a workspace and its contents to another allocation group.

Workspace List

The workspace list displays all workspaces under the allocation groups on which they reside. For more information, see “Reading the

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The Workspace Tab

Workspace List” on page 7-3 and “Changing the Workspace List Graph Display” on page 7-4.

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 change the size of a workspace:

t 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.

t Type values into the corresponding Size text box.

Reading the Workspace List

The workspace list represents 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.

Each workspace listed has an icon that shows whether it is protected or unprotected.

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For the drive set and allocation groups, the bar colors represent:

• Allocated storage — Total drive space in the drive set or allocation group allocated to workspaces.

• Unallocated storage — Total drive space in the drive set or allocation group still available for allocation to workgroups.

For workspaces, the bar colors represent (from left to right):

• Space used by original data

• Space allocated to accommodate original data that remains unused

(Protected workspaces only)

• Space used by duplicate data (measured from the resize handle)

n Note that if this color zone is smaller than the one representing the space used by original data, then the workspace is not fully protected.

(Protected workspaces only)

• Space allocated to accommodate duplicate data that remains unused.

Changing the Workspace List Graph Display

The workspace list graph is customizable, allowing you to display drive set and workspace sizes using either linear or logarithmic scales, and adjust the scale divisions and the graph view size.

Allocated storage Unallocated storage

Space for duplicate data (unused)

Space used by duplicate data

Space for original data (unused)

Space used by original data

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The Workspace Tab

To change the appearance of the workspace list graph:

t Click the Graph Menu button. Context-sensitive graph buttons are displayed.

Selecting a Linear or Logarithmic Graph Display

The workspace list graph can display the drive set and workspace sizes by using one of two scales:

• Linear scale — When linear scaling is being used, the Linear Scale button appears dimmed and the Log Scale button is active. Click the Log Scale button if you want to switch to the logarithmic scale.

• Logarithmic scale — When logarithmic scaling is being used, the Log 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.

Scaling the Graph

To increase or decrease Linear and Logarithmic scale divisions:

t Click on the Division (Div) up and down arrow buttons

t Choose Increase Division or Decrease Division from the Monitor menu.

In either scale, numeric divisions are displayed in gigabytes (GB). To increase or decrease the size of the graph view:

t Choose Increase Zoom or Decrease Zoom from the Graph submenu.

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Saving Your Workspace List Graph Settings

If you prefer your modified workspace list graph display to the default display, you can save your settings as the new default values. When you do this, the new settings overwrite those in your preferences and are used as the defaults for future Administration Tool sessions.

To save your workspace list graph settings:

t Click the Save Settings button.

Context-sensitive Buttons

The context-sensitive buttons that appear to the right of the workspace list feature two selector buttons at the top that allow you to switch between different sets of related functions. The selector representing the active functions appears dimmed. The two sets of functions are:

• Workspace Menu buttons — This set of buttons is equivalent to the workspace-manipulation commands from the Workspace menu.

• Graph Menu buttons — This set of buttons is equivalent to the graph-scaling commands from the Graph submenu of the Workspace menu.

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Creating Workspaces

Creating WorkspacesNew workspaces inherit their attributes (name, size, and access privileges) from the Workspace tab preferences. For more information, see “Setting Workspace Preferences” on page 5-13.

To create a new workspace:


2. Select the allocation group on which you want to create the workspace.

3. If all storage in the allocation group is allocated to existing workspaces, make an existing workspace smaller by dragging its resize handle.

4. Click the New Workspace button from the Workspace Menu button to create a new workspace with the default name, access privileges, and size specified in your workspace preferences.

If there is no room for a workspace of the default size, the operation fails and displays a “Not enough unallocated space on the partition” error message.

If there is already a workspace with the default name, the new workspace will be named Default Name 1. If that name is already taken (for example, if you generate multiple new workspaces by repeatedly clicking New Workspace without renaming each one as it is created), the new workspace will be named Default Name 2, and so on.

The last new workspace you created appears in alphabetical order in the workspace list.

5. (Option) Rename any new workspace by clicking its name and typing a new name. For more information, see “Renaming Workspaces” on page 7-11.

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6. (Option) Change the size of any new workspace from the default value by pressing and holding the Alt key (on the server or a Windows client) or the Option key (on a Macintosh client) and dragging the workspace resize handle. For more information, see “Changing Workspace Size” on page 7-9.

7. (Option) Change the access privileges for each new workspace. For details, see “Changing Workspace Access Privileges” on page 8-10.

Duplicating WorkspacesWhen you duplicate workspaces, they inherit the attributes (name, size, and access privileges) of the workspace from which they were created.

n The contents of the original workspace are not duplicated.

To duplicate a workspace:


2. If all storage is allocated, make an existing workspace smaller by dragging its resize handle.

3. Select the workspace you want to duplicate.

4. Click the Duplicate button from the Workspace Menu button to duplicate the selected workspace. 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 original, the operation fails and displays a “Not enough unallocated space on the partition” error message.

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Changing Workspace Size

5. (Option) Rename any new workspace by clicking on its name and typing a new name. For more information, see “Renaming Workspaces” on page 7-11.

6. (Option) Change the size of any new workspace from the default value by pressing and holding the Alt key (on the server or a Windows client) or the Option key (on a Macintosh client) and dragging the workspace resize handle. For more information, see “Changing Workspace Size” on page 7-9.

7. (Option) Change user access privileges for each new workspace. For more information, see “Changing Workspace Access Privileges” on page 8-10.

Changing Workspace SizeThere are occasions when you must alter 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 some new media files. Alternately, you might need to make a workspace smaller to create space for other workspaces or to reserve storage for another day.

n Avid recommends that you do not resize workspaces while clients are creating files or files are being written to them.

To change the size of a workspace:

t 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.

The corresponding Size text box is updated as the workspace size changes. You can also type a value in a workspace’s Size text box.

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n The Workspace Resize utility on client workstations allows authorized users to resize their workspaces when they need more storage to complete a task. To learn how to grant workspace resize privilege to users, see “Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges”. For more information about the Workspace Resize utility, see “Renaming Workspaces” on page 7-11.

Increasing Workspace Size

To increase the size of a workspace:


2. If all storage is allocated, make some workspaces smaller or delete workspaces to make space available.

3. Resize the workspace using one of the following methods:

t Press and hold the Alt or Option (Macintosh) key while dragging the workspace resize handle to the right to increase its size. You cannot move the handle beyond the point that indicates all storage is allocated to workspaces. The numerical display of current size is updated as you drag the handle. When you release the handle, it stays in place and the size is set.

t Click the workspace’s Size text box, type the required value, and then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh) to effect the change. If the value is too large or otherwise invalid, the workspace size will revert to its original value.

Decreasing Workspace Size

n You cannot reduce workspace size below the amount already allocated to files. For empty workspaces, minimum workspace size is 1 GB.

To decrease the size of a workspace:


2. Resize the workspace using one of the following methods:

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t Press and hold the Alt or Option (Macintosh) key while dragging the workspace resize handle to the left to decrease its size. The numerical display of current size is updated as you drag the handle. When you release the handle, it stays in place and the size is set.

t Click the workspace’s Size text box, type the required value, and then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh) to effect the change. If the value is too large or otherwise invalid, the workspace size will revert to its original value.

Renaming WorkspacesYou 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.

n The following characters are illegal in workspace names: \, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, and |. If you type an illegal character, the system beeps and the character is ignored.

To rename a workspace:


2. Click the workspace name you want to change and type a new 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.

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Deleting WorkspacesYou can delete any workspace that is not currently mounted on any clients.

c 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. Ensure that the workspace is not currently mounted on any clients. To do this, check access from the Monitor tab and then ask any client with that workspace mounted to unmount it.


3. Select the workspace you want to delete.

4. Choose Delete Workspace from the Workspace menu.

A dialog box appears, prompting you to confirm that you really want to delete the workspace.

5. Click OK.

The workspace is deleted.

Protecting WorkspacesThe protection feature offers a high level of data integrity (at the cost of doubling drive space requirements) by storing duplicates of all media files. This allows drive sets with malfunctioning drives containing protected media files to be repaired quickly without data loss.

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Protecting Workspaces

Enabling Protection

To enable protection for a workspace:


2. Select the workspace you want protected.

3. Click the Enable Protection button.

Protection is enabled for the workspace.

n The Enable Protection setting only affects files written to the workspace from that point onward; existing files are not affected.

Protecting new files versus protecting existing files

The doubled space requirements of protection mean that you might not always want to protect files written to a workspace. Equally, you might not want to tie up the Administration Tool while large numbers of existing files on a workspace are protected or unprotected when you change the protection state of a workspace.

Because of these factors, a setting is provided that applies both to new files as well as operations that act on all files:

• 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.

• Protect All Files/Unprotect All 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.

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Enabling Protection of New Files Only

n 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 Protect All Files operation.

To enable protection of new files for a workspace:

1. Click the Workspace tab to access the workspace functions.

2. Select an unprotected workspace from the workspace list.

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 will need to perform the Protect All Files operation. For more information, see “Protecting All Files” on page 7-15.

Disabling Protection of New Files Only

n Disabling protection of new files for a workspace does not cause all existing files on that workspace to be unprotected. This will not happen until you perform the Unprotect All Files operation.

To disable protection of new files for a workspace:


2. Select a protected workspace from the workspace list.

3. Click Disable Protection to disable protection for the selected workspace.

The Unprotected Workspace icon replaces the Protected Workspace icon in the workspace list.

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4. If the selected workspace contains existing files that are already protected and you do not want them to be, you will need to perform the Unprotect All operation. For more information, see “Unprotecting All Files” on page 7-15.

Protecting All Files

To protect all files on a workspace (and to enable protection, if necessary):


2. Select the workspace whose files you want protected.

3. Choose Protect All from the Workspace menu.

A progress indicator appears, showing how many files remain to be protected.

Once all the files have been protected, the progress indicator closes and the Protected Workspace icon replaces the Unprotected Workspace icon in the workspace list.

Unprotecting All Files

To make all files on a workspace unprotected (and to disable protection):


2. Select a workspace from the workspace list.

3. Choose Protect All from the Workspace menu. A progress indicator appears showing how many files remain to be unprotected.

As soon as the files have all been unprotected, the progress indicator closes and the Unprotected Workspace icon replaces the Protected Workspace icon in the workspace list.

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Optimizing WorkspacesOptimization 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:

• 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 6-5 and “Removing Drives from Allocation Groups” on page 6-7.

• 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 7-17.

n 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 free space on your workspace or drive to make a copy of your largest file, or optimization will fail.

To optimize workspaces:


2. Select the workspace you want optimized (Shift+click to select multiple workspaces).

3. Choose Optimize All Files from the Workspace menu.

A progress indicator appears showing the number of files to be optimized.

Once all the files on the workspace have been striped optimally across all drives in the allocation group, the progress indicator closes.

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Moving Workspaces

Moving WorkspacesTo move a workspace and all its contents to another allocation group:

n If there are many files on the workspace, this operation can take a long time. The workspace must be optimized (see “Optimizing Workspaces” on page 7-16) to move the files from the drives of the source allocation group to the drives of the destination allocation group.


2. Select the workspace you want to move.

3. Click the Allocation Group button from the Workspace Menu.

A dialog box appears, warning you that the workspace must be optimized as part of the operation.

4. Click OK.

The Set Allocation Group dialog box appears.

5. Choose the allocation group onto which you want to move the workspace from the pop-up menu.

6. Click OK.

The workspace is moved. Existing files are moved and new files written to the workspace are written to the destination allocation group.

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CHAPTER 8Managing User Accounts and Access Privileges

User accounts 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 MediaNet System Overview).


• User Tab

• Creating User Accounts

• Duplicating User Accounts

• Renaming User Accounts

• Changing User Passwords

• Deleting User Accounts

• Guest Accounts

• Workspace Access Privileges

• Changing Workspace Access Privileges

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User TabThe Monitor tab is the default tab displayed when the Administration Tool starts. This tab allows you to monitor system usage, including total system bandwidth use, how many clients are active, and how much bandwidth each client is consuming.

This section provides an overview of the User tab and the operations that you can perform from it. The remainder of this chapter contains detailed, task-oriented descriptions of all user-related operations.

Figure 8-1 User Tab Example Display

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Creating User Accounts

The main section of the User tab contains a selectable table in which user accounts are represented as column headings, workspaces as row headings, and user workspace access privileges as the table cells. This table allows you to easily select user accounts for renaming or deletion and to manipulate access privileges for selected user accounts and workspaces.

The context-sensitive buttons that appear to the right of the User table duplicate commands from the User menu. When active, they allow you to create a new user account, to delete selected user accounts, to duplicate a selected user account, to set a selected user account’s password, and to change the access privileges for selected cells in the user table.

Creating User AccountsNew user accounts inherit their attributes (name, password, and access privileges) from the User tab preferences. For more information, see “Setting User Account Preferences” on page 5-12.

To create new user accounts:


2. Click the New User button to create a new user account with the default name, password, and access privileges specified in your user preferences.

If there is already a user account with the default name, the new user account will be named Default Name 1. If that name is already taken (for example, if you generate multiple new user accounts by repeatedly clicking New User without renaming each one as it is created), the new user account will be named Default Name 2, and so on.

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n If the maximum number of licensed user accounts has already been reached, the operation will fail and an error message will be displayed in the message area.

3. (Option) Change the user account’s name. For more information, see “Renaming User Accounts” on page 8-5.

4. (Option) Change the user account’s password. For more information, see “Changing User Passwords” on page 8-6.

5. (Option) Change the user account’s workspace access privileges. For more information, see “Changing Workspace Access Privileges” on page 8-10.

Duplicating User AccountsWhen you duplicate user accounts, they inherit the name and access privileges of the user account from which they were created.

To duplicate a user account:


2. Select the user account you want to duplicate.

3. Click the Duplicate User 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.

4. (Option) Change the user account’s name. For more information, see “Renaming User Accounts” on page 8-5.

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5. (Option) Change the new user account password. For more information, see “Changing User Passwords” on page 8-6.

6. (Option) Change the new user account workspace access privileges. For more information, see “Changing Workspace Access Privileges” on page 8-10.

Renaming User AccountsYou can rename a user account at any time, even when it is being used by a user actively working in your environment. The only effect is that the user will need to use the new name the next time workspaces are mounted.

n The following characters are illegal in user account names: \, /, :, *, ?, ", <, >, and |. If you type an illegal character, the system beeps and the character is ignored.

To rename a user account:

1. Click the User tab to access the user functions.

2. In the User table, click the name of the user account that you want to change. The user name is highlighted.

3. Click the Rename User button to access the Change User Name dialog box.

4. Type a new user name up to 31 characters in length.

5. Click OK.

If the name is a duplicate of an existing name, an error message will appear and, after you close the message, the user account will revert to its original name.

n The Guest user account cannot not be renamed and will not appear highlighted when you select it. For more information, see “Creating User Accounts” on page 8-3.

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Changing User PasswordsYou can change user passwords at any time to accommodate a new user, reestablish access for an existing user who has forgotten the password, or disable access to an account.

To change a user password:


2. Select the user account whose password you want to change.

3. Click the Password button.

The Change User Password dialog box appears.

4. Type and verify the new password.

5. Click OK

n You cannot change the guest account password. You set the administration password from the Preferences window (see “Setting the Administration Password” on page 5-10).

Deleting User AccountsTo delete a user account:

1. Ensure that the user account to be deleted is not currently active by checking access from the Monitor tab.


3. Select the user account you want to delete.

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4. Click the Delete User button.

If the user account is in use by a client, a message box appears, 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.

Guest AccountsThe Guest user account is special in several ways:

• The Guest user account cannot be deleted or be renamed, and has no password.

• If the Guest user account is the only user selected, the Delete User and Set Password functions and the User Name edit box are disabled.

• If several user accounts including Guest are selected, the Delete User function is enabled, but it does not delete the Guest user account.

To disable the Guest user account:

t Change its workspace access privileges to No Access (see “Changing Workspace Access Privileges” on page 8-10).

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Workspace Access PrivilegesThere are three levels of access to each workspace, which are listed in Table 8-1.

One of these access levels is assigned to determine each user account’s access privileges to each workspace. 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 5-12). 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.

Table 8-1 Workspace Access Levels access

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.

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Access Privilege Notes

As access privileges are increased, the newly accessible workspaces are immediately mountable.

If a user has a workspace mounted with read-only privileges, and is granted read/write privileges, the new privileges apply immediately, without remounting the workspace.

If a 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.

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 has 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.

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Changing Workspace Access PrivilegesThe User table allows you to select one or more access values that you want to change.

Table 8-2 describes how to select the access values you want to change.

To change access privileges:

1. Make sure that no user account whose access privileges you intend to downgrade is being used by a client who currently has workspaces mounted. Do this by checking client access from the Monitor tab and then asking anyone using the user account to unmount all workspaces.


Table 8-2 User Table Selections

Access Privilege Represented by To select privilege

Individual access Table cell Click a table cell.

Access for all users to a specific workspace

Table row Click a workspace name.

Access to all workspaces for a specific user

Table column Click a user account name.

Multiple access values Multiple cells, rows, or columns

Shift+click the appropriate access values, workspaces, or user names.

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Changing Workspace Access Privileges

3. Select the access permission values that you want to change (see Table 8-2).

4. 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 cells and the User table is updated to reflect these changes.

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CHAPTER 9Monitoring System Usage and Messages

This chapter describes how to use the Monitor tab to monitor system usage and how to use the Log tab to check the message log. It also describes how to view and manage the log file.


• Monitor Tab

• Changing the Monitor List Graph Display

• Log Tab

• Viewing and Managing the Log File

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Monitoring System Usage and Messages

Monitor TabThe Monitor tab is the default tab displayed when the Administration Tool opens. This tab allows you to monitor system usage, including total system bandwidth use, active clients, and bandwidth 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).

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 DisplayThe monitor list represents bandwidth consumption for the system and individual client workstations in the form of horizontal bars in a

Monitorlist

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Changing the Monitor List Graph Display

graph display. This graph is customizable, allowing you to display bandwidth consumption 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 Monitor list graph can display the overall and client bandwidth consumption by using one of two different scales:

• Linear scale — When linear scaling is being used, the Linear Scale button appears dimmed and the Log Scale button is active. Click the Log Scale button if you want to switch to the logarithmic scale.

• Logarithmic scale — When logarithmic scaling is being used, the Log 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.

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Scaling the Graph

To increase or decrease Linear and Logarithmic scale divisions:

t Click on the Division up and down arrow buttons.

t Choose Increase Division or Decrease Division from the Monitor menu.

In either scale, numeric divisions are displayed in megabytes (MB). To increase or decrease the size of the graph view:

t Choose Increase Zoom or Decrease Zoom from the Graph submenu.

Saving Your Monitor List Graph Settings

If you want your modified monitor list graph to be the default display, you can save your settings as the new default values. When you do this, the new settings overwrite those in your preferences and are used as the defaults for future Administration Tool sessions.

To save your monitor list graph settings:

t Click the Save Settings button.

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Log Tab

Log TabThe Log tab displays a scroll list of error, warning, and informational messages logged during the current Administration Tool session (many of which probably appeared in the message area).

The following icons indicate the message types:

Error message

Warning message

Informational message

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Viewing and Managing the Log FileWhen you quit the Administration Tool, the event log displayed in the Log tab is cleared and stored in a text file called Administration Tool Log in the install directory on the File Manager’s or client’s local drive (depending on where you are running the Administration Tool).

n You can use a standard text-editing application to view the Administration Tool Log file at any time.

The information stored in the local Administration Tool Log file is cumulative. To keep the file manageable, you should copy the Administration Tool Log file to a floppy disk once a day, week, or month (depending on your environment’s level of activity), and delete the old Administration Tool Log file. A new Administration Tool Log file will be created the next time you open the Administration Tool.

n AdministrationLogTool.txt files stored on the local drive only include information from Administration Tool sessions that were run on that client. Administration Tool sessions that were run elsewhere are stored on that client's local drive.

APPENDIX AManaging Drive Problems

This appendix describes troubleshooting techniques to manage drive problems in your environment.

This appendix discusses:

• Identifying Bad Drives

• Replacing the Drive Set

• Recovering a Drive

• AutoRecovery for Failed Drives

• Replacing Bad Storage

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Managing Drive Problems

Identifying Bad DrivesIf 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 Disk Error Analyzer from the File Manager console. To start the Disk Error Analyzer, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to the Avid Unity MediaNet folder, and click Disk Error Analyzer. Open the UnityClientLog.txt file.

Then perform the steps suggested by the data from the drive analysis to recover your drive set.

Replacing the Drive SetIf you have a spare drive available, you can use the Setup Manager’s Recover Failed Data Drive operation to recover the drive set after a data drive failure.

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Replacing the Drive Set

Before You Begin

n 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.

Before you begin an online drive recovery operation:

t Have a known good, similar size spare MEDIArray II drive available to use as the replacement for the bad drive.

How Online Drive Recovery Works

The Recover Failed Data Drive operation removes a malfunctioning data drive from the 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:

• duplicate file copies on other drives

• the drive being replaced if there is no duplicate present or if the duplicates cannot be read.

In order 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.

n Macintosh clients must disconnect at the end of an online drive repair.

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Recovering a DriveThe 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.

n 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:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Avid Unity, and then click Setup Manager.

The Setup Manager window opens.

2. 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.

3. Ensure that there is a spare, same size data drive to replace the failed data drive.

4. Select the drive to be replaced along with the spare drive (by Ctrl+clicking both drives).

5. Choose Recover Failed Data Drive from the Recover menu.

A confirmation dialog box appears:

6. Click Yes to recover the selected drive.

A dialog box appears, asking you to make a choice:

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Recovering a Drive

7. Click Yes if you want to start online drive replacement.

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 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 that was replaced will appear as a Replaced Drive colored purple.

8. (Option) Click No if you want to start an offline drive replacement.

The Server Offline dialog box appears:

9. Click OK to continue with the offline repair.

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When the drive set recovers from a manual (offline) repair, a completion dialog box appears.

After the drive set is recovered, it is possible that some data could not be re-created on the new drive. For example, if a file is not mirrored and a drive that contained some of its data completely fails, there is no way to recover the original data.

When this occurs, the part of any file that could not be recovered is replaced with a sequence of 0 (zero) characters, and those files are moved to the root of the workspace on which they are located and renamed to BadFileNNN OriginalName, where NNN is a unique integer and OriginalName is the original name of the damaged file. You should check these damaged files to see whether anything useful can be recovered and then delete those of no use to free up space.

n After you correct drive problems by repairing the drive set, you should reset the drive error indicator on the Monitor Tool by clicking the Reset Event button.

AutoRecovery for Failed DrivesThe AutoRecovery for Failed Drives operation can detect a media error and replace a drive automatically. 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 is disabled by default. To enable this feature see “Enabling AutoRecovery for Failed Drives” on page 2-7.

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Replacing Bad Storage

Verifying AutoRecovery for Failed Drives

AutoRecovery for Failed Drives works as follows:

1. A medium error occurs on a disk drive.

2. E-mail notifications are sent to a list of intended recipients.

3. The File Manager’s Windows System Event log contains an entry, as in the following example:

Replacing Harddisk4 sn - LA416339 with Harddisk9 sn - LAU92112.

This confirms that AutoRecovery has started.

4. The Windows System Event Log will receive an entry indicating whether the repair was successful when the repair is complete.

5. Check the Setup Manager. If the repair completed successfully, the bad drive is now labeled Replaced drive, and is colored purple.

Replacing Bad StorageTo replace a failed MEDIArray II drive:

1. Replace the drive set by following the steps described in “Replacing the Drive Set” on page A-2.

2. Select the replaced drive swapped out by the Recover Failed Data Drive operation from the Data Drives group and then choose Identify from the Drives menu. (The bad drive stays in the drive set as a Replaced Drive until you make it a Raw Drive.)

The drive light flashes on the identified drive for one minute.

3. Stop the File Manager (see “Starting and Stopping the File Manager” on page 2-5).

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c In a failover configuration, you must stop the passive File Manager before stopping the active File Manager whenever you perform operations that require you to stop the File Manager. Otherwise, the system will perform a failover to the passive system in the middle of the shutdown.

4. Turn off power to the drive enclosures.

5. Manually replace the problem drive.

n For detailed instructions on replacing drives, see the Avid Unity MediaNet Setup Guide.

6. Turn on power to the drive enclosures.

7. Restart the File Manager. In a failover configuration, restart both File Managers.

8. Make the new Raw Drive into a Spare Drive.

n The Windows operating system which the File Manager runs does not support hot swapping drives. New drives you physically add to a drive enclosure are not recognized until you restart the File Manager.

APPENDIX BAdvanced Support Tools

This appendix lists the advanced support tools available for troubleshooting your environment.

c Do not use these tools unless instructed to do so by Avid Customer Support. Improper use could result in system downtime or data loss.


• Server Log Viewer

• Text Console

• Disk Error Analyzer

• NtStatDump

• RecoverDisks

• Avid Unity Profiler

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Advanced Support Tools

Server Log ViewerInstalled 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:

t On the File Manager console, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to AvidUnity, and then select Server Log Viewer.

Text ConsoleThe Text Console is a text-based administration application that allows you to monitor the status of your environment and access a subset of the Administration Tool functionality.

For more information, see Appendix C.

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Disk Error Analyzer

Disk Error AnalyzerThe Disk Error Analyzer utility examines the client log file on the File Manager, providing useful information about any drive problems in your environment.

To start the Disk Error Analyzer:

t On the File Manager console, click the Start button, point to Programs, point to AvidUnity, and then select Disk Error Analyzer.

NtStatDumpInstalled 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.

To open NtStatDump:

t On the File Manager console, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the install directory, and then double-click NtStatDump.exe.

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Advanced Support Tools

RecoverDisksInstalled on the File Manager, the RecoverDisks tool is used to recover the disk labels based on information from the RecoveryInfo.dat file.

To open RecoverDisks:

t On the File Manager console, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the install directory, and then double-click RecoverDisks.exe.

Avid Unity ProfilerInstalled on the File Manager and all clients, the Avid Unity Profiler tool is a system that detects whether correct versions of required components are installed on your File Manager and clients for a specified release.

To open the Avid Unity Profiler:

t On the File Manager console, use Windows Explorer to navigate to the Profiler folder in the install folder, and then double-click Profiler.exe.

APPENDIX CRemote Administration Using the Text Console

This appendix describes the Text Console, a text-based administration application that allows you to monitor the status of your environment and access a subset of the Administration Tool functionality.

c 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.


• Starting the Text Console

• Using the Text Console

• Command Categories

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Remote Administration Using the Text Console

Starting the Text ConsoleThe Text Console allows you to monitor and perform administration tasks from the File Manager or from a client.

Starting the Text Console Locally

To start the Text Console locally from the File Manager console:

t Browse to the installation folder then double-click TextConsole.exe.

The Text Console starts in an MS-DOS window.

Using the Text Console The Text Console is a text-based application that includes several categories of commands, each providing some or all of the information and functionality accessible from the corresponding Administration Tool tab.

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Command Categories

Command CategoriesText Console commands are divided into the categories shown in Table C-1. 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.

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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>

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 at its prompt.

When working within a command category, you can type the access character for any other command category to switch directly to that command category.

Table C-1 Command Categories

CategoryAccess Character Command Functions Information displayed

User 2 Show user account information and manipulation

List of users with access privilege information

W[or]ksp[a]ce 3 Show workspace information and manipulation

List of workspaces and related information

On/Offline 4 Start and stop the File Manager Summary of File Manager statistics and its state

Disk 5 Obtain information about the drive set

List of all drives in the drive set

Stats 7 Obtain File Manager status and reset event log

Same information shown in the File Manager Status tab of the Monitor Tool

Quit q Quit the Text Console None

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Command Categories

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 (see Table C-2).

Table C-2 User Subcommands

Access Character

CommandName

CommandFunction

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

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Workspace Command Category

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 of the 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 C-3).

Table C-3 Workspace Subcommands

Access Character

CommandName

CommandFunction

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

m Mirror New Files Activates protection for all new files written to a workspace.

r Duplicate Creates a new workspace with the same properties as an existing workspace

i Get Info Returns detailed workspace information

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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 Table C-4).

You can use these subcommands only if the Text Console is running on the File Manager system.

Table C-4 On/Offline Subcommands

Access Character

CommandName

CommandFunction

s Start File Manager Brings the File Manager online

g Stop File Manager Takes the File Manager offline

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Disk Command Category

When you type its access character (5), the Disk command category displays information about the drives in your drive set.

The Disk command category is informational only; it has no subcommands.

Stats Command Category

When you type its access character (7), the Stats command category displays a summary of your environment’s statistics and its state.

You can use the ‘r’ command only if the Text Console is running on the File Manager system.

Table C-5 Stats Subcommands

Access Character

Command Name Command Function

r Reset event Performs the same function as the Reset Event button in the Monitor tool

Numerics5 tabs

Administration tool 5-4

AAccess privileges 1-6

access levels 8-8changing 8-10no access 8-2read/write 8-2, 8-8read-only 8-2, 8-8

Accommodating different drive types 1-4Accounts

Guest 8-7user 1-7

Adding data drives to an existing drive set 4-6Adding drives to an allocation group 6-5Adding spare data drives to the drive set 4-4Administration

remote C-1Administration password

logging in with 5-10setting 5-10

Administration preferences 5-7, 5-10

Administration Toolcontext-sensitive buttons 5-3described 1-9, 5-1information area 5-4list area 5-3logging into 5-5message area 5-3Preferences window 5-6starting 5-5tabs 5-4user interface overview 5-2

AdministrationToolLog.txt file 9-6Administrator tasks 1-2Aggregate bandwidth 9-2Allocating drives 1-4Allocating workspaces 1-5Allocation groups

adding drives to 6-5assigning drives to 1-4creating 6-3deleting 6-9described 6-1removing drives from 6-7renaming 6-8usage guidelines 6-3

Index

Index-2

Allocation Groups tab 5-4Assigning drives to allocation groups 1-4AutoRecovery A-6

BBad drives

identifying A-2replacing A-7swapping out of drive set A-2

Bandwidthaggregate 9-2

Bringing the drive set online 4-13

CChanging the monitor list graph display 9-2Changing the workspace list graph display 7-4Changing user passwords 8-6Changing workspace access privileges 8-10Changing workspace preferences 5-13Changing workspace size 7-9Characters

illegal in user account names 8-5illegal in workspace names 6-8, 7-11

Collapsible views 5-3Color preferences 5-11Configuration Assistant 4-2Configuration considerations

allocation groups 1-3security 1-3, 1-6site type 1-3uncompressed clients 1-3

Configuring Avid Unity MediaNet 1-1Configuring general settings 3-2Connection

reestablishing 5-16Console

Text C-1

Context-sensitive buttons 5-3Creating a drive set 4-2, 4-4Creating a new allocation group 6-3Creating new workspaces 7-7Creating user accounts 8-3

DData Drive Set group 2-3Data protection 1-6Decreasing workspace size 7-10Deleting a drive set 4-12Deleting an allocation group 6-9Deleting user accounts 8-6Deleting workspaces 7-12Disabling protection 7-14Disk Error Analyzer utility A-2Drive group list 2-3Drive groups 2-2

Data Drive Set 2-3Other FibreChannel drives 2-3Raw Drives 2-3

Drive listSetup Manager 2-3

Drive mode pagessetting 4-12

Drive setsadding data drives to 4-6adding spare drives to 4-4bringing online 4-13contents of 4-2creating 4-2, 4-4deleting 4-12rebuilding 4-13removing drives from 4-9repairing A-2taking offline 4-13

Drive typesaccommodating different 1-4

Index-3

Drivesallocating 1-4identifying 4-15identifying bad A-2managing problems with A-1removing 4-9replacing bad A-7swapping out bad drives from drive set A-2

Duplicating user accounts 8-4Duplicating workspaces 7-8

EE-mail error notification 3-9Enabling protection 7-13Error notification 3-9Establish Connection operation 5-16Exporting preferences 5-9

FFactory Settings button 5-8Failed Drives A-6File Manager

reestablishing a connection to 5-16stopping 2-6

File Manager Failoverconfiguring the first File Manager 3-6configuring the second File Manager 3-7validating connections for 3-8

File Manager See MediaNet File Manager

GGeneral Configuration Options dialog box 3-2General settings

configuring 3-2

Graph scaling 7-4, 7-5, 9-3Guest user account 8-7

HHelp

for the Administration Tool 5-5for the Setup Manager 2-3

IIdentifying a drive 4-15Identifying bad drives A-2Illegal characters

in user account names 8-5in workspace names 6-8, 7-11

Importing preferences 5-9Increasing workspace size 7-10Information area 5-4

Setup Manager 2-3

LLaunching the Administration Tool 5-5Linear scale 7-5

in monitor list 9-2List area 5-3List opener 5-3Log file

managing 9-6viewing 9-6

Log tab 5-4, 9-5Logarithmic scale 7-5

in Monitor list 7-5, 9-3Logging into the Administration Tool 5-5

Index-4

MManaging drive hardware 2-2Managing the log file 9-6Managing user accounts 8-2 to 8-11Managing workspaces 7-2 to 7-17maximum open files option 3-3MediaNet File Manager

reestablishing a connection to 5-16starting 2-5

menu commandsidentify 4-15

Message area 5-3missing drives, on startup 3-3Mode pages

setting 4-12Monitor list 9-2

linear graph scaling 9-2logarithmic graph scaling 7-5, 9-3

Monitor tabdescribed 5-4preferences 5-7

Monitoring system usage 9-2

NNo access privilege 8-2

OOnline Help See HelpOther FibreChannel Drives group 2-3

PPasswords

administration 5-10changing administration 5-10

changing user 8-6user 8-6

Preference tabsAdministration 5-7, 5-10Color 5-7, 5-11Monitor 5-7User 5-7, 5-12Workspace 5-7, 5-13

Preferencesexporting 5-9importing 5-9

Privileges 1-6Protection

disabling 7-14

RRaw Drives group 2-3Read/write access privilege 8-2, 8-8Reading the workspace list graph 7-3Read-only access privilege 8-2, 8-8Rebuilding a drive set 4-13Receiving error notification via e-mail 3-9Redundancy for File Manager 3-6Reestablishing a connection to the File Manager

5-16Reestablishing a connection to the MediaNet

File Manager 5-16Remote administration C-1Removing bad drives from the drive set A-2Removing drives 4-9Removing drives from an allocation group 6-7Renaming an allocation group 6-8Renaming user accounts 8-5Renaming workspaces 7-11Repairing the drive set A-2Replace Failed Data Drive operation A-2, A-3Replacing bad drives A-7Resize handle 7-3, 7-9

Index-5

Resizing workspaces 7-3, 7-9Revert Panel button 5-8Running the Text Console locally C-2

SSecurity considerations 1-3, 1-6Setting Administration Tool preferences 5-6Setting color preferences 5-11Setting drive mode pages 4-12Setting mode pages 4-12Setting Monitor tab preferences 5-15Setting the administration password 5-10Setting User tab preferences 5-12Setting Workspace tab preferences 5-13Setup Manager 2-6

drive group list 2-3Drive list 2-3Help 2-3information area 2-3starting 2-4

Sizing workspaces 1-5Spare drives

adding data 4-4Starting the Administration Tool 5-5Starting the MediaNet File Manager 2-5Starting the Setup Manager 2-4Stopping the File Manager 2-6Swapping bad drives out of drive set A-2System usage

monitoring 9-2

TTabs

Allocation Groups 5-4described 5-2, 5-4Log 5-4, 9-5Monitor 5-4, 9-2

User 5-4, 8-2Workspace 5-4, 7-2

Taking the drive set offline 4-13Tasks 1-2Text Console C-1

command categories C-3running locally C-2

Text consolestarting C-2

Turn Off Alarm button 3-10

UUsage guidelines for allocation groups 6-3User accounts 1-7

access privileges 8-8, 8-9creating 8-3deleting 8-6duplicating 8-4Guest 8-7renaming 8-5

User interfaceAdministration Tool 5-2

User passwordschanging 8-6

User tab 5-4, 8-2example 8-2preferences 5-7, 5-12

User table 8-3selecting from 8-10

VViewing the log file 9-6Views 5-3

Index-6

WWorkspace list 7-2

linear graph scaling 7-5logarithmic graph scaling 7-5reading the graph 7-3

Workspace list graph displaychanging 7-4

Workspace Resize Utility 7-11Workspace Resize utility 7-10Workspace tab 5-4, 7-2

preferences 5-7, 5-13Workspaces

access privileges 8-8, 8-9allocation strategies 1-5creating new 7-7deleting 7-12duplicating 7-8enabling protection 7-13renaming 7-11Resize handle 7-3, 7-9resizing 7-3, 7-9sizing 1-5

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