3 Special Installation and Configuration

This chapter describes OTU installation and configuration for special situations and includes the following information:

• OTU Installation

  • Acquiring the FTP Proxy Server

• OTU Configuration

  • Configuring and Starting the FTP Proxy Server

  • Configuring the OTU Video Server Source

OTU Installation

Installation and configuration of OTU is only applicable in one case - when the Oracle DIVArchive Manager does not have access to the Source/Destination, but the Oracle DIVArchive Actor does have access. In this instance, the FTP Proxy must be installed on the Actor computer.

Note:

OTU only supports FTP, and not SFTP.

In this instance, there are additional installation and configuration steps required beyond the standard DIVArchive process to obtain the Object Transfer Utility functionality. The following subsections cover the processes required.

Acquiring the FTP Proxy Server

Oracle does not provide the required FTP Proxy as described in the previous section. You can obtain the supported FTP Proxy from http://handcraftedsoftware.org.

OTU Configuration

DIVArchive uses an FTP Proxy server to enable a connection from the DIVArchive Manager computer to the Source/Destination through a DIVArchive Actor computer.

Configuring and Starting the FTP Proxy Server

Configuration of the FTP Proxy Server is required before using it. If there is another FTP server running on the server, stop the FTP server. Use the following procedure to configure and start the FreeProxy server:

1. Open the FreeProxy Control Center from the Windows menu.

2. In the main window of the FreeProxy Control Center, click the Ports Tools icon. The FreeProxy/FreeWeb dialog box appears.

3. Enter the name for the server in the Name field. For example, FTPProxySvr.

4. Select FTP Proxy from the Protocol list.

5. Enter 21 for the value of the Client Port field.

6. Under the Local Binding field, select the Ethernet controller for your system. After selecting the controller, the software should automatically get the IP address of your system and display it in the box on the right.

7. Enter the desired values for Read Timeout field, and the Connect Timeout field in seconds.

8. Under FTP Proxy Options select Allow incoming port connect, Any IP address, and in the Proxy option field enter USER: RemoteId@Remotehost.

9. Click the Done button.

10. On the main tool bar, click Start/Stop.

11. Click Start FreeProxy in Console Mode.

After configuring and starting the FTP Proxy server, use the following commands to test the configuration and operation:

>ftp 172.16.3.21

The IP address of the computer where the FTP Proxy server is running.

>User: anonymous@172.16.3.100

The User ID and Host IP address of the FTP server to log in to.

>Pass: anonymous

The password for the FTP server.

This test should log in to the 172.16.3.21 FTP server. If these commands fail to log in to the FTP server, there is something set incorrectly in the configuration.

Configuring the OTU Video Server Source

This section describes the configuration of DIVArchive to work with the OTU enhancements. Configuration parameters are modified through the DIVArchive Configuration Utility. Use the following procedure to configure DIVArchive:

1. Start the DIVArchive Configuration Utility and connect to the DIVArchive database.

2. In the Source and Destinations panel, click + to add the source. The Add new row in Sources and Destinations dialog box will appear.

   Enter the Source name in the Source Name field.

   Enter the IP address of the video server in the IP Address field.

   Select the Source Type from the Source Type list: OMNEON for Omneon server, PDR for GVG server, LEITCH, and so on

3. Select the production system from the Production System list.

4. Enter the following connection options in the Connect Options field:

   • -login {userID}

   • -pass {password}

   • -port 21

   • -OTUlogin {userID}

   • -OTUpass {password}

   • -OTUport 21

   • -OTUIP {IP address}

   The DIVArchive Actor uses the login, pass, and port parameters to communicate with the video server. These are the video server FTP userid, password, and port.

   You can use a different log in, password, and port to access the list of clips, rather than the log in used by the Actor to transfer the clips. For example, with Grass Valley Profile Standalone Server, the triton user can list clips while the movie user is only able to transfer clips in GXF format.

   OTU uses the OTUlogin, OTUpass, OTUport, and OTUIP parameters to display the files and clips in the left panel of the OTU screen.

   OTUlogin

   This parameter is the FTP user for the Back Up, Mirror Video Server, or Video Server.

   OTUpass

   This parameter is the FTP user password for the Back Up, Mirror Video Server, or Video Server.

   OTUport

   This parameter is the FTP port number for the Back Up, Mirror Video Server, or Video Server.

   OTUIP

   This parameter is the IP address of the Back Up, Mirror Video Server, or FTP Proxy Server.

   For PDR servers, the Actor uses the login, pass, and port are the FTP parameters for the movie user, and OTUlogin, OTUpass, OTUport, and OTUIP are the parameters of the FTP server for the normal user.

   For example:

   • -login movie

   • -pass movie

   • -port 21

   • -OTUlogin anonymous

   • -OTUpass anonymous

   • -OTUport 21

   • -OTUIP 172.16.3.100

   For other video server types, the Actor uses the login, pass, and port parameters for the FTP server. OTU can use the OTUlogin, OTUpass, OTUport, and OTUIP parameters to talk to the video server through the FTP Proxy.

5. Set the other parameters as follows:

   • Max Throughput (Mb/s) = 1000

   • Max Accesses = 10

   • Max Read Accesses = 10

   • Max Write Accesses = 10

6. Click OK and the Source/Destination is added to the Source/Destination list.

7. Notify the Manager.

8. Stop, and then Start the DIVArchive Manager.