VBrick Systems V4.4.3 manual Purchased Content Ingestion, Configuring IIS

Chapter 14

Purchased Content Ingestion

Topics in this section

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Configuring IIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Ingest Purchased Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Backing Up the Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Overview

EtherneTV users have the option of purchasing pre-packaged content from VBrick. If content was included on your original order, this purchased content is installed on your VOD servers prior to shipment. If content was not included with your original order, you will need to install this content on your VOD servers as explained here. This procedure is highly technical and should be performed by a knowledgeable system administrator with suitable IT experience. Note that VBrick does not support the ingestion of third-party content not purchased directly from VBrick.

The content package you purchased is shipped on a LaCie USB drive. If you open the USB drive in Windows Explorer, you will see that each content package is named by part number and text description. Each package has a corresponding Excel metadata spreadsheet describing the content in the package and a license file that contains content expiration data. The spreadsheet and license are used during the ingestion procedure. The Excel metadata spreadsheet for the package is inside the package folder with a name like 8000-0120 Clearvue HS MPEG Gold 7-17-08.xls. You must copy this spreadsheet to your local C: drive. The license file has a name like content_34294950443.lic. You must install the license using the Windows Add or Remove Programs utility. The Mass Ingestion Utility is installed with the Portal Server

and is located in C:\Program Files\VBrick\MCS\bin\MassIngestionUtils.exe

Note Content Ingestion to an SSL-enabled VOD-W is not supported. To ingest content to an SSL-enabled VOD-W, first disable SSL and run the ingestion; then re-enable SSL when done. See Configuring for SSL on page 123 for more information.

Configuring IIS

The following procedures explain how to ingest content to your VOD-W and/or VOD-WM servers. First you need to configure certain settings in IIS.

TTo configure IIS for mass ingestion:

1.Shutdown the Portal Server and attach the appropriate LaCie drive to a USB port.

a.Restart the server.

b.Copy MassIngestionUtils.exe and MassIngestionUtils.exe.config from the \Utilities

directory on the LaCie drive to C:\Program Files\VBrick\MCS\bin\ directory.

c.Copy xlviewer.exe from the \Utilities directory on the LaCie drive to the desktop. Then double click on xlviewer.exe to install Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003.

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