Chapter 2 Installation and Startup
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Electra 9200 Release 01, Rev A
License Requirements
NOTE:
Licensing requirements may differ from one version to another. You must have the necessary
hardware and feature licenses for the version you are installing, or service may be interrupted. For
information about the requirements for your platform version and configuration, see the release notes that
came with your platform firmware.
License Requirements
Licensing is required for many of the encoders and features supported on the Electra series
platform. For a list of features that require licenses, see the release notes included with your
software package.
You cannot enable the features under license until the licenses are applied to the encoder.
The encoder raises licensing alarms for the following circumstances:
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when a license is not available for a feature you are trying to configure
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to report how many days are left on a grace period or temporary license
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when a grace period or temporary license expires
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when you delete a license
Alarms are remitted when you apply a valid license for the feature, or when you disable or delete
the affected stream.
For more information about licensing, see the online help and the release notes.
Setting Up the Device
Before you start configuring services, you need to set up the device communication and default
settings. For the example in this guide, we will only set the minimum settings.Go to the SAG
Administration page to make the following settings:
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Global Settings—Set the device name, and whether to automatically rebuild PSI
(recommended)
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Date & Time—Set the device clock, or enable NTP to control the device clock
In this page you can also configure SNMP trap listeners for monitoring the device, define server
communication with external PSIP generators, and indicate an Iris server to receive VQ data.
What’s Next
When you can access SAG, have installed your encoder platform firmware, and acquired the
licenses for the features you want to use, you are ready to begin configuring the input and output
for your encoding programs.
The instructions included in this guide will step through configuration of a basic service with SDI
input, one video and one audio stream, and IP or ASI output. They include the steps for adding
video streams to a DTMX pool (optional)