Sencore VB7880 User manual

VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor
User’s Manual
Software version 5.2
Form 8124B
VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor User’s Manual version 5.2
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Contents
Contents 3
1 INTRODUCTION 6
1.1 About the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2 How to Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP 8
2.1 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.2 First-time Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.5 Initial Setup Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.6 Upgrading From a Previous Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.6.1 Upgrading by Re-Installing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.6.2 Upgrading From Version 5.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.6.3 Upgrading From Version 5.1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.7 Upgrading To a Maintenance Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.8 Accessing the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 QUICK SETUP GUIDE 16
3.1 Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.2 Input Signal Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3 Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.4 Adjusting Alarm Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.5 License............................................ 17
4 REMOTE VIDEO WALL 18
4.1 Introduction to the Remote Video Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.2 Accessing the Remote Video Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3 Remote Video Wall Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3.1 Alarm View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3.2 Clock......................................... 20
4.3.3 Constellation Diagram (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3.4 DataMiner Alarms (requires DataMiner integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3.5 DataMiner View (requires DataMiner integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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4.3.6 Graphics View (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3.7 Image Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3.8 Loudness Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3.9 Media Window (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3.10 RF Graphs (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3.11 Stream View (requires VBC integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3.12 Weather (requires Internet access) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5 THE VB7880 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE 22
5.1 Main ............................................. 24
5.1.1 Main — Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.2 Main — Thumb overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2 Alarms ............................................ 27
5.2.1 Alarms — All alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.2.2 Alarms — Alarm setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.3 OTT.............................................. 33
5.3.1 OTT — Thumbnails (OTT — Active Testing, option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.3.2 OTT — Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.3.2.1 OTT — Details — Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.3.2.2 OTT — Details — Manifest (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.3.2.3 OTT — Details — Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.3.2.4 OTT — Details — Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.3.2.5 OTT — Details — Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.3.3 OTT — Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5.3.4 OTT — Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.3.5 OTT — Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.4 Multicasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5.4.1 Multicasts — Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5.4.2 Multicasts — Join . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.4.3 Multicasts — Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.4.4 Multicasts — Ethernet thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5.4.5 Multicasts — Service thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
5.5 Captions (Option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.5.1 Captions — Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.5.2 Captions — Caption service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.5.2.1 Captions — Caption service — Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.5.2.2 Captions — Caption service — Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5.5.3 Captions — Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5.6 RVW ............................................. 69
5.6.1 RVW — Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.6.2 RVW — Mosaic A–D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.7 Setup............................................. 73
5.7.1 Setup — Params . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.7.2 Setup — Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.7.3 Setup — Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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5.7.4 Setup — VBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.7.5 Setup — Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.7.6 Setup — VBC thresh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.7.7 Setup — Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.7.8 Setup — Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
5.8 Data.............................................. 82
5.8.1 Data — Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.8.2 Data — Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.8.3 Data — Eii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.9 About............................................. 85
5.9.1 About — Release info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.9.2 About — License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.9.3 About — Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.9.4 About — Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
A Appendix: Network configuration 88
B Appendix: OTT Profile Health 89
B.1 OTT Profile Health Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
B.2 OTT Profile Health Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 About the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor
The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor performs real-time loudness monitoring as well as objective
video and audio monitoring of MPEG-2, H.264/MPEG-4 and H.265/HEVC streams and offers a unique
web browser based Remote Video Wall capability providing full visual status from anywhere. The VB7880
Advanced Content Extractor enables operators to inspect massive amounts of content services beyond
human eyeball capability with dependable alarming on objective parameters having QoE impact.
In addition to providing automated Objective QoE of large amounts of services, the VB7880 offers
thumbnail and metadata extraction for up to 100 streams (TV multicast streams or OTT) concurrently,
depending on the license. The VB7880 with its RVW (Remote Video Wall) capability is ideal for visual
at-a-glance monitoring in the NOC, VOC, head-end or remotely via any standard web browser.
The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor is typically inserted before scrambling insertion in the head-end
and the extracted metadata and decoded imagery is fed to the VideoBRIDGE Controller. Disruption of
descrambling services is one of the main causes for service production disruptions in the head-end, and
for the first time cost-effective monitoring of scrambling is available.
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Further applications are in middleware scenarios for generating channel mosaics or for extracting channel
metadata such as picture resolution, video bandwidth or wide screen signaling information. Each VB7880
Advanced Content Extractor runs an HTTP server with the client as a web browser, so there is no need
to install custom software on computers needing access to the measurement data.
The VB7880 is designed to raise an alarm for descrambling failures at the head-end, before ingress
into the network. The VB7880 can also detect freeze-frame errors and audio silence. Alarming can be
masked during predefined time periods. The VB7880 enables at-a-glance monitoring remotely via any
standard web browser and it will also work with the VideoBRIDGE Controller.
The VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor is a server appliance, that can be installed onto any
server that meets the minimum requirements specified in chapter 2.
1.2 How to Use This Manual
This User’s Manual is valid for software version 5.2 of the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor.
Throughout this manual the term stream is often used rather than unicast or multicast. One stream may
consist of one or more services, and refers to one IP uni- or multicast.
Chapter 2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP explains how to install the software on a server.
Chapter 3 QUICK SETUP GUIDE contains a quick setup guide; a step-by-step description of how to
setup the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor once the initial setup has been performed.
Chapter 4 REMOTE VIDEO WALL describes the Remote Video Wall.
Chapter 5 THE VB7880 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE describes the graphical user interface (GUI) as
seen when pointing a web browser to the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor’s IP address.
A Appendix: Network configuration gives a brief introduction to the server OS network configuration.
B Appendix: OTT Profile Health explains the OTT profile health bar and timeline.
Note that current version of the User’s Manual can be obtained from Sencore ProCare support by
emailing [email protected].
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2 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL SETUP
2.1 System Requirements
The minimum hardware requirements are:
•Dual 6 core Intel E-Series 2.0 GHz CPU
•32 Gbyte 1600 MHz DDR RAM
•1 Tbyte HDD
•Dual 10/100/1000T Ethernet Network Interface card with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
2.2 First-time Installation
Make sure that the server hardware matches the requirements listed above and then follow the procedure
outlined below.
1. Obtain the latest installation kickstart image from Sencore.
2. Insert the installation medium into the server:
• For CD/DVD-based installations, burn the downloaded ISO image to a CD/DVD and insert
into the server.
• For USB-based installation, transfer the downloaded image to a USB mass storage device
using a tool such as dd (Mac, Unix, Linux) or USBWriter1(Windows).
• For installation in a virtualized environment, attach the downloaded ISO image to a virtual
DVD-ROM unit.
It is recommended that you disable any ‘Easy install’ or similarly worded option, and do not
select the operating system type when you initially create the new virtual machine instance
in your virtualization environment. These options may override the installation instructions
included in the provided installation image, causing an incomplete installation.
1http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbwriter/
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3. Boot the server and make sure that the primary boot device is set appropriately. If the system fails
to boot from the medium, you may need to configure the boot loader for ‘legacy BIOS mode’.
4. The installer will run, please follow the on-screen prompts to install the system, taking note of the
following:
•IMPORTANT: Leave ‘Software selection’ at ‘Custom software selected’.
•IMPORTANT: In the ‘Installation Destination’, the default partitioning will create a large /home
partition, which is unused. To avoid this, use the ‘I will configure partitioning’ option. Then
use the ‘Click here to create them automatically’ and manually reduce the size of (or remove)
the /home partition, instead giving that space to the /partition.
• We recommend that you configure network settings (IP address, gateway, DNS) within the
installer. Post-installation network configuration can be performed using the nmtui utility,
please refer to A Appendix: Network configuration for details.
• The default installation does not provide any graphical user interface environment. This can
be installed later if desired, please refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2
or CentOS Linux
3
documentation for more details.
5. At the end of the installation procedure, the server is rebooted. Remove the installation media and
ensure that the system boots up properly.
6. Enter the selected IP address in your web browser to access the Software Activation page. If your
host is using dynamic addressing, you can log in to the account created during installation and
issue the command ip addr to display the address assigned to the system.
Continue to chapter 2.4 for details on how to enable the VB7880 Advanced Content Extractor
system.
The kickstart will install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or CentOS 7 on the server. The disks will be
formatted and all contents lost. Make sure that any important data on the server has been backed
up before beginning the procedure.
2.3 Deploying in a Virtualized Environment
It is also possible to deploy the software in a virtualized environment. Pre-built images for VMware
(vSphere/Workstation/Player) are provided in OVA (Open Virtualization Format Archive) format. These
images contains a system already installed according to the steps described in the previous chapter,
with VMware Tools already installed and activated.
To deploy the image, you need to import it to the virtualization host, please refer to the documentation of
your virtualization environment for more details on how to do this.
2https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/index.html
3http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7
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If installed in a VMware vSphere environment, the machine should report back its network configuration
to the host environment. Please allow some time for it to do so, and then continue with the Software
Activation procedure as described in the next chapter.
If you need to log in to the console of the pre-built images, the default password for the root user is elvis .
When installing the software in the virtualized environment yourself, please follow the steps from chap-
ter 2.2. It is recommended that you disable any ‘Easy install’ or similarly worded option, and do not select
the operating system type when you initially create the new virtual machine instance in your virtualization
environment. These options may override the installation instructions included in the provided installation
image, causing an incomplete installation.
2.4 Verifying Correct Initial Setup and Software Activation
Once the software has been installed and restarted all further configuration takes place through HTTP.
1. Launch a web browser application on the management system.
Any web browser with support for JavaScript can be used to access the Software Activation
interface, one of the following are recommended:
•Edge
•Internet Explorer 11.0 or higher
•Firefox 2.0 or higher
•Chrome
•Safari
2. Type the IP address of the server in the browser URL field and press Enter .
The network settings should have been set when the operating system was installed. If the web
browser is unable to reach the web server, check the server’s network settings in the operating
system.
3. The Software Activation view should be displayed inside the browser. Software Activation is
password-protected, the user name is admin and the default password is elvis.
This password can be changed under the More options heading4.
The page displayed should look similar to the following screen shot.
4
If you forget the Software Activation password, you can reset it by logging in as root and issuing the command
/opt/btech/ssg/bin/reset_web_password
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