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Revision Status Rev Date Description September 21, Release 071-8516-00 for Software Version 6.0. Initial release of 2006 Aurora Playout User Guide. January 18, 2007 Release 071-8516-01 for Software Version 6.0b May 23, 2007 Release 071-8516-02 for Software Version 6.1 September 19, Release 071-8516-03 for Software Version 6.3 2007 November 19, Release 071-8516-04 for Software Version 6.5 2008 April 14, 2010 Release 071-8516-05 for Software Version 7.0 4 Aurora Playout User Guide April 14, 2010 Contents Contents Grass Valley Product Support................................................................................................11 Chapter 1: Introducing Aurora Playout....................................................................13 About Aurora Playout.............................................................................................................14 Terms You Should Know........................................................................................................14 Overview of Aurora Playout...................................................................................................15 Using Aurora Playout.............................................................................................................16 Linking to a Newsroom Computer System (NCS) .............................................................17 Creating playlists manually ...............................................................................................18 Overview of the Assignment List Plug-in...............................................................................19 Overview of the Assignment List Manager............................................................................19 Overview of the Housekeeper...............................................................................................21 Overview of the Simple Database (SDB) Server ..................................................................21 Overview of the XMOS Server .............................................................................................22 Chapter 2: Preparing for installation.......................................................................25 About Aurora Playout and SiteConfig....................................................................................26 About SiteConfig...................................................................................................................26 Aurora Playout installation checklists....................................................................................27 Pre-installation planning checklist......................................................................................27 Hardware installation checklist...........................................................................................27 Network setup and implementation checklist.....................................................................28 Software update checklist..................................................................................................29 Chapter 3: Installing Aurora Playout Hardware......................................................31 Hardware installation checklist..............................................................................................32 Installing Aurora Playout Hardware.......................................................................................32 Cabling the Aurora Playout computer ...................................................................................32 Connecting the RDU 1510 Under Monitor Display ...............................................................33 Installing the X-keys Jog/Shuttle Controller (optional)...........................................................34 Chapter 4: Configuring the network........................................................................35 Network setup and implementation checklist........................................................................36 About developing a system description.................................................................................37 About the corporate LAN.......................................................................................................37 Configuring the corporate LAN..............................................................................................38 Adding a group......................................................................................................................38 Adding a device to the system description............................................................................39 About device and host names...............................................................................................40 Modifying a device name.......................................................................................................40 About IP configuration of network interfaces on devices.......................................................41 Placeholder device IP configuration...................................................................................41 Discovered device IP configuration....................................................................................42 Modifying unassigned (unmanaged) network interfaces on Aurora Playout