Chapter 4 System Configuration
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Harmonic MediaGrid Release 4.1
Verifying ContentServer and ContentDirector Services
You should see a reply similar to the following:
PID TTY TIME CMD
23452 ? 00:14:39 mdscore
If the service “mdscore” is not running, the times may not be synchronized between
ContentDirectors.
2. To verify that the time and date are set on each ContentDirector, refer to
3. Also check each ContentDirector’s actual current time by typing the following at the
command prompt:
date
4. If the times do not match, restart the services, and then repeat the steps above.
Verifying the mdscore Service Connection
1. Type the following at the command prompt to verify connection to the mdscore service:
sudo /opt/omcld/bin/mdsclientn localhost
You should see a reply similar to the following if the connection is successful:
mdsclientn: built on 2006-Jun-11 01:36 (USM_Branch_1_0)
Connecting to host “localhost”, protocol “tcp”, prog 0x20000003
New client is 0x56f8f0
Connected to “localhost”
Opening default session...
Found 4 IP addresses
192.168.0.200
192.168.1.200
10.31.6.200
10.31.7.200
Retrieving keys
Retrieved keys successfully, mdslen=140, sslen=140
sessionID = 0x7dafec9c
key = 78 56 34 12 f0 de bc 9a 44 33 22 11 88 77 66 55
currentTime = Tue Jun 13 10:42:17 2006
idleTime = 300 sec
*host 0 = [email protected]/10.31.7.200 id=0x7cc464a9b842dea
host 1 = [email protected]/10.31.6.201 id=0xaae24951f45af6df
Opened default session of 0x7dafec9c
The connection is unsuccessful if, instead, you see the following reply:
mdsclientn: built on 2006-Jun-11 01:36 (USM_Branch_1_0)
Connecting to host “localhost”, protocol “tcp”, prog 0x20000003
Unable to reconnect to “localhost”: RPC: Remote system error -
Connection refused
Unable to connect to “localhost”: RPC: Remote system error -
Connection refused
2. If the connection is unsuccessful, wait 15 minutes and then try connecting again.
3. Type the following command to exit the mdsclientn program:
exit
