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Kaleido-X (7RU)
Installation & Service Manual
Upgrade Oveview
Upgrade packages are made available by download from a Grass Valley FTP server. The
format of the file should be
770-30G01-xxx.zip
. The upgrade package contains:
• the Kaleido Software Upgrade Manager application required to upgrade the
multiviewer.
• one or more Kaleido Software operating system (
.os
,
.zip
, or
.run
) files.
• documentation, including the Release Notes.
If you do not have the upgrade package, contact Technical Support (see Grass Valley
Technical Support , on page 216).
If you have a cascade system, refer to the Cascade Upgrade section, in the Cascade Step-by-
Step Configuration guide for your system (see Related Documentation , on page 15).
Cluster and cascade systems
All multiviewers that are part of a cluster or cascade system must have the
same Kaleido Software version.
For cluster systems, Kaleido Software versions 8.70 and 6.50 introduce a hard
compatibility break with previous Kaleido Software versions.
Cluster backups you create with version 8.70 and 6.50 (or higher), cannot be
restored by using an earlier version of XEdit. Grass Valley recommends you
make a backup of the individual databases for every cluster member,
before
upgrading from a pre-8.70 or pre-6.50 version, to version 8.70 or 6.50 (or
higher) respectively.
Virtual alarms used in iControl Web pages
The internal representation of virtual alarms has changed as of version 6.30
of the Kaleido Software. If you are upgrading the multiviewer from a version
prior to 6.30, then, once the upgrade is complal alarms created in iControl are
not affected.
Alarm debouncing may need to be recalibrated
Before upgrading from version 6.50 (or earlier) to version 6.60 (or higher) of
the Kaleido Software, make sure to review your system’s alarm debouncing
calibrations, some of which you may have to modify if you want to maintain
the same behavior.
iControl Alarm latching
As of version 6.60 of the Kaleido Software, multiviewer GSMs have their
acknowledgement snooze duration set to 0 ms, by default. If you have set a
non-default value for the acknowledgement snooze duration in the past, you
may want to verify whether it is appropriate for your current purposes:
1 In the GSM alarm browser, click the Admin tab, and then click
Configuration on the second-level tab bar.
2 Review the value indicated for Acknowledgement snooze
duration .
3 Set it to 0 ms if needed, and then click Save .
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