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Omneon MediaGrid

Course Goals:

This course is designed to provide a good working technical knowledge of the MediaGrid architecture, networking overview, operation and monitoring tasks, diagnostics and troubleshooting, system component maintenance, and the SystemManager and ContentManager GUI applications.

Intended Audience:

Site Engineers & Technicians, System Administrators and IT Professionals using or supporting the MediaGrid system.

Course Summary:

This course covers MediaGrid system hardware, cabling the system, powering up and shutting down the whole system as well as individual components, network overview, accessing the system, login accounts and users, administration tasks, basic diagnostics and log files, and system component replacements. This class will include hands-on demonstration of daily operations, monitoring and maintenance, as well as skill-building and lab exercises throughout the course.

Course Materials:

MediaGrid System's Training Guide
SystemManager for MediaGrid Training Guide
ContentManager Training Guide
MediaGrid Component Replacement Guide

Course Duration:

2 Days

Course Pricing:

Omneon's Facility
$2500 per student
$6,500 per class for 8 people
Minimum of 2, maximum of 8

Onsite at Customer's Location
$8,500 per class
Minimum of 2, maximum of 8

Omneon MediaGrid

MediaGrid Training Module

• MediaGrid Overview
  • MediaGrid Architecture
  • Historical & Active Media Workflow
  • Active Workflow
  • MediaGrid in the workflow
  • Real-time verses non-real-time
  • Data, slices, and replication
  • MediaGrid file access
  • Data protection and recovery
• MediaGrid Hardware Component Overview
  • ContentDirector
  • ContentServer
  • ContentBridge
  • Network Switches
  • SystemManager
  • Front / Back Panel of each component
  • Cabling the components
  • Powering up individual components
• Powering On & Off the MediaGrid system
• MediaGrid Software Component Overview
  • SystemManager
  • ContentManager
  • MediaGrid's File System Driver
  • ContentBridge
• Replication of data summary
• File System Driver
  • Supported operating systems
  • Downloading and installing the FSD
    • Windows, Macintosh, Linux
• ContentBridge
  • Supported Protocols
  • Share Name
  • Accessing the MediaGrid via the ContentBridge
    • Using FTP, AFP, Macintosh Client
    • Using CIFS Windows client & Linux Client
• SystemManager
  • Software overview
  • Logging On / Off
• ContentManager
  • Software overview
  • Installation and setup
    • System requirements
    • What gets installed
    • Installation requirements
    • FSD, Microsoft.NET Framework installation
    • ContentManager Installation
  • ContentManager Licensing
    • Assigning the license server
    • Launching ContentManager
    • Mounting a MediaGrid mount point
• File Transfers
  • Supported Protocols
  • Active transfers
  • How to test file transfers using NUL as the target
  • Network transfers between MG and Spectrum using jumbo frames
• Remote Access

SystemManager Training Module

• SystemManager GUI Overview
  • User interface and menu overview
  • MediaGrid properties page
• Clusters, Volumes & Groups
  • Clusters
  • Volumes
  • MediaGrid File System
  • Groups
  • Replication Factor
  • Single Group and Failures
    • Drive failures and inconsistencies
    • ContentServer failures
  • Multiple groups and failures
  • Viewing cluster properties
    • Cluster, Volume, and Group properties
    • Authentication User
  • Setting replication factors for a file system
  • Creating or deleting clusters, volumes, or groups
  • Adding or removing servers from a group
  • Adding or removing groups from a volume
  • Creating or deleting file systems from a volume
  • Setting or changing file system permissions
• Components
  • Viewing component properties
    • General information Section
    • Environments Section
    • Drive Section
    • Events Section
  • Component tasks
  • Changing descriptions for MediaGrid components
• Component Alarms & Events
  • Alarm and events for MediaGrid components
    • Viewing, clearing and deleting alarms and events
• Checkpoints
  • Metadata overview
  • Checkpointing overview
  • Scheduling checkpoints
• Diagnostics
  • Diagnostic navigation
  • Viewing system status & logs
  • Viewing, clearing and deleting alarms
    • Alarm colors
  • Filtering alarms
  • Alarm events and codes
  • Online help

ContentManager Training Module

• User interface and menu overview
  • Navigating around
  • Menu tool bar
• Launching and using ContentManager
  • Mounting a MediaGrid
• Setting Access Control Lists (ACLs)
  • ACL Editor screen options
  • Adding Users and Groups
• Duplicating files and directories
  • Setting ACLs and replication factor for groups of files or directories
  • Viewing logs

MediaGrid Maintenance Training Module

• MediaGrid Maintenance Tasks
  • Checking logs on ContentDirectors, ContentServers and ContentBridges
  • Checking ContentServers from a ContentDirector
  • Verifying ContentDirectors can see all users within a domain
  • Checking to see if the file system is mounted from a ContentBridge
• Replacement Procedures
  • ContentServer replacement procedures
    • Replacing a hard drive
    • Determining a hard drive failure
    • Replacing a hard drive
    • Replacing a ContentServer
    • Determining component problems
    • Checking alarms
    • Adding a ContentServer to a group
    • ContentServer 1242-only replacement procedure
    • Replacing a power supply
    • Replacing a fan
    • Replacing a blower
  • ContentDirector replacement procedures
    • Determining a hard drive failure
    • Replacing a hard drive
    • Determining a power supply failure
    • Replacing a power supply
    • Replacing a ContentDirector
    • Configuring a replacement ContentDirector
  • Network Switch replacement procedures
    • Replacing a network switch
    • Determining a network switch failure
    • Replacement procedures