DTS manual Terminology, DTS Pro Series Network Encoder Manager’s Guide

DTS Pro Series Network Encoder for MAC OSX – Manager and User Guide

1.Terminology

Several terms used throughout this guide need identification.

Types of users

Encoding Service Manager: The user in charge of the day-to-day administration of the encoding service. This is a regular user, as seen by the OS.

Encoder User: A user of the encoding and related services offered over the network. This kind of user has no OS-level user account.

SysAdmin: The OS X System Administrator. An OS-level privileged user.

Types of accounts

Administrative account: The OS X account of the SysAdmin.

Encoding Service Manager’s account: A regular OS X user’s account. The Encoding service resources will be actively managed through this account.

Encoder User’s account: An internal abstraction within the DTS Pro Series Network Encoder, to provide encoding services to physical users. These users do not require an OS X user account on the encoding machine. These users and their accounts are administered through the DTS Pro Series Network

Encoder system.

Manager and User Guide – DTS Pro Series Network Encoder for MAC OSX

2.DTS Pro Series Network Encoder Manager’s Guide

2.1.Introduction

The DTS Pro Series Network Encoder system requires periodic attention from a particular user - the Encoding Service Manager, or the “Manager”.

The Manager is responsible for the administration of resources and Encoder Users. The Manager’s tasks include periodic maintenance to the DTS Pro Series Network Encoder database as well as enforcement of policies regarding disk space usage. The Encoding Service Administrator program (XencodeAdmin.jar) assists the Manager with the maintenance of the database. Policy enforcement should be dictated and regulated by the organization that is using the DTS Pro Series Network Encoder.

2.2. A policy on disk usage

The hard disk where the DTS Pro Series Network Encoder is installed should not be used as long-term storage for source material and/or subsequent encodings. While it may contain the base directory for sources and encodings, this space is not intended to hold these files for extended periods of time. The allowance of storage for these files should be regarded as strictly temporary. To ensure that enough free disk space is available at all times; source and encoded files should be removed from the disk as soon as possible, and properly stored elsewhere.

There is a way to allow the Encoder Users to manage their own files (see the next topic, User File Management via FTP). If the Encoder Users are managing their own files, then the Encoding Service Manager’s responsibility in this area is only to monitor the remaining free disk space, and to encourage the Network Encoder Users to move their files out of the disk as soon as practical. If the FTP capability is not used by the Encoder Users then the responsibility for administering the stored files belongs to the Manager. In either case, database and file maintenance must be periodically performed by the Encoding Service Manager using the Encoding Service Administrator program and OS tools.

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