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© 2005 VBrick Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

12 Beaumont Road

Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 USA www.VBrick.com

This publication contains confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information. No part of this document may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any machine-readable or electronic format without prior written permission from VBrick. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and VBrick Systems assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies.VBrick, VBrick Systems, the VBrick logo, StreamPlayer, and StreamPlayer Plus are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and other countries. Windows Media is a trademarked name of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other products or services mentioned in this document are identified by the trademarks, service marks, or product names as designated by the companies who market those products. Inquiries should be made directly to those companies. This document may also have links to third-party web pages that are beyond the control of VBrick. Use these links at your own risk. The use of such links does not imply that VBrick endorses or recommends the content of any third-party web pages. Some VBrick products use open source software provided by third parties. VBrick supports the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and this source code is freely available at http:/ /www.vbrick.com/opensource.

About VBrick Systems

Founded in 1997, VBrick Systems, an ISO 9001 certified vendor, is a privately held company that has enjoyed rapid growth by helping our customers successfully introduce mission critical video applications across their enterprise networks. Since our founding, VBrick has been setting the standard for quality, performance and innovation in the delivery of live and stored video over IP networks—LANs, WANs and the Internet. With over 20,000 video appliances installed across over 1,000 IP networks world-wide, VBrick is the recognized leader in reliable, high- performance, easy-to-use networked video solutions.

VBrick is an active participant in the development of industry standards and continues to play an influential role in the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), the MPEG Industry Forum, and Internet2. In 1998 VBrick invented and shipped the world's first MPEG Video Network Appliance designed to provide affordable DVD- quality video across the network. Since then, VBrick's video solutions have grown to include Video on Demand, Management, Security and Access Control, Scheduling, and Rich Media Integration. VBrick solutions are successfully supporting a broad variety of applications including distance learning and training, conferencing and remote office communications, security, process monitoring, traffic monitoring, business and news feeds to the desktop, webcasting, corporate communications, collaboration, command and control, and telemedicine. VBrick serves customers in education, government, healthcare, and financial services markets among others.

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Contents VBrick EtherneTV Portal Server Copyright About VBrick SystemsContents Access Control Auto Content Ingestion Contents Organization Font ConventionsRelated Documents Printer-FriendlyOverview Downloaded ComponentsMySQL ETV Portal ServerServer Requirements Desktop RequirementsEnd User Features Windows PCsEtherneTV Video-on-Demand Server Administrative FeaturesAdditional ETV Components EtherneTV-STB Set-Top BoxETV Network Video Recorder Additional Portal Server ComponentsVBrick Encoders/Decoders ETV Live Portal ServerPortal Server License Files Live Portal Server User InterfaceLicense File Description License Errors Administrator Login Administrator OptionsOption Description Global Settings Global AssignmentsFunction Description Only be done if advised by a VBrick technician or Network Custom Fields Customize Streams Add Link Servers Add/Modify Video On-Demand ServersAdd/Modify On-Demand Content Folders VBricks Select Add VBricks and click Submit To Configuration System Securit y IWS Server Port Advanced Settings Set Top BoxesAdministration To add a Recorder configuration RecordersSelect Add Recorders and click Submit Script Devices Scripts Select Add Scripts and click Submit URLs Add/Modify a URL for a Live Video StreamVOD Content URLNon-Video to Content PC Users Only Emergency Broadcast Administration VBrick Systems, Inc Administration Modify VOD Content Access ControlAdministration Required by ETV Portal Server. Case sensitive. Must begin Using Single Sign-On Using Ldap Servers with SSL Installing the Root CertificateClick Browse Diagnostics Resolving Other Security AlertsStatus Help LogoutAccess Control DefinitionsVBrick Database AuthenticationAuthorization Resources and Resource GroupsSTB Authentication Authentication by PINAuthentication by IP Address Setup and Configure the EtherneTV SystemChoose an Authentication Method Ldap Directory Server Create User Groups on the Portal ServerCreate Resource Groups on the Portal Server Assign Resources to Users or User Groups UsersCreate Users on the ETV Portal Server VBrick Systems, Inc Add/Modify User Information Assigning Privileges to UsersAdd/Modify Users Resource Group Assignments Allow Access to Specific VOD ServersAdd/Modify Users Group Assignments Add/Modify Live Channel PrivilegesAllow Content Publishing Allow Access to Specific VOD ContentAllow Viewing by Content Type Allow Content RecordingUser Groups Add/Modify Groups Resource Assignments Add/Modify Group InformationAdd/Modify Groups User Assignments Resource Groups Add/Modify Resource Group Information Add/Modify Users Resource AssignmentsVBrick Systems, Inc Configuring for SSL Generate a Certificate RequestInstall the Certificate Submit a Certificate RequestConfigure Resources for SSL VBrick Systems, Inc Auto Content Ingestion Removing Closed Captions To remove the closed captions track from MPEG-4 files VBrick Systems, Inc Index Index ETV Portal Server Administrator Guide Index Page VBrick Systems, Inc Beaumont Road Wallingford, Connecticut
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