Harris ADC 100, User Manual

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Harris ADC Device Server User’s Guide
1-8 Installation
The legacy DOS .ini files do not contain the serial port configurations. In the ADC Device
Server, each serial device can be assigned to use any valid serial port. The advantage to this is
that if a serial card or port is suspected to be bad, the device can use another port without
having to reconfigure the device or any associated switching.
Make sure to configure each serial port after the server is brought up.
2.
The ADC Device Server supports extended device names. A device name may now be 16
characters long. This allows device names in large systems to be more informative (you can
still use 5 character names if you wish). To use the extended device names, enter them into the
device name field of the properties for the device being configured.
In order for the Air Client to use extended device names, the Air Client must be run with a
command line switch of
/NT :
ACLNT32 clientname main backup /NT
3.
On the ADC Device Server, list names (play lists, media lists, GMT lists, and compile lists) can
be set for each list. These names can be used in the Air Client without having to configure the
list names for each Air Client. In order for the Air Client to use them the Air Client must be
run with a
/NT command line switch. Using the /NT command line switch causes the Air
Client to read the list name from the ADC Device Server. Using list names on the Air Client
does not disable the listname property for configuration. As a result, do not use list names on
the Air Client if you are using the
/NT option. This way, the Air Client inherits the list name
from the device server.
ACLNT32 clientname main backup /NT
4.
You must configure your switchers before setting up any audio/video (A/V) information in
any of the devices. This includes naming the switcher and entering a crosspoint name for each
usable source and destination.
5.
The audio/video information is now configured under the list configurations (i.e., the A/V
paths for a device are configured on each list that might use the device). This is because the
information pertains to the switching for that list. The A/V information is still stored in the
device part of the ini files.
6.
The audio/video information for the preview channel is now stored as list number 17. In the
DOS Server, the preview channel was always stored in the device under the last list plus one
(if the server had 6 lists the preview, A/V information was stored as list 7). If you ever added a
list to the server the preview A/V information had to be reconfigured. This is not true in the
NT version.
When converting a DOS .ini file to an NT .ini file, you must reconfigure the preview A/V
information or edit the ADC100NT.INI file to change the preview A/V information for each
device.