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Installing Your Avid FastServe | Playout Engine
This chapter contains the tasks you must perform to prepare an environment for FastServe | Playout
installation and to install the Avid FastServe | Playoutengine.
Topics in this chapter include:
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FastServe | Playout Engine Linux Installation
•
Installation of Windows FastServe | Playout [FSP]
FastServe | Playout Engine Linux Installation
The procedure below describes the installation of the FastServe | Playout server on Linux (CentOS7)
machines.
Having your hardware received, the first step to perform is to connect power cables, network cable,
VGA monitor and USB keyboard and power the system on, as described in the topic
FastServe | Playout System" on page
The following table provides a checklist of tasks that must be performed when installing Avid
FastServe | Playout engine for the first time on a machine.
b
Configure the network, as described in the topic
b
Set up the RAID, as described in the topic
page
29.
b
Install necessary MiddleWare, as described in the topic
page
30.
b
Install Avid Shared Storage components, such as the Nexis client, as described in the topic
"Installation of Avid Shared Components (NEXIS Client)" on page
b
Configure the DVG boards, as described in the topic
b
Verify the DVG boards in your system, as described in the topic
System" on page
b
If necessary, burn the firmware as described in the topic
page
31.
b
Finally, install the FastServe | Playout engine on Linux (CentOS7), as described in the topic
"Installation of the FastServe | Playout Server on Linux (CentOS 7)" on page
b
After installing the FastServe | Playout engine, configure the WatchFolder, as described in the topic
"WatchFolder Configuration" on page
"RAID Setup and Mounting to the /Clips Folder" on
30.
38.
21.
"Network Configuration" on page
"Installation of MiddleWare (MW)" on
38.
"Configuring DVG Modules" on page
"Listing DVG Boards in Your
"Burning FastServe | Playout Firmware" on
"Installing the
28.
30.
33.
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