BROWSE CATDV SUPPORT MANUALS

Configuring CatDV Server is performed using the CatDV Server Control Panel application.

CatDV Server Control Panel

The  CatDV Control Panel should be launched automatically as part of the installation process under Mac OS X and Windows, however it can be launched manually in various ways as follows

  • Under Mac OS X, launch CatDV Control Panel.app from your Applications folder
  • Under Windows, double click ControlPanel.exe from the CatDV Server directory (eg. C:Program FilesSquare BoxCatDV Server)
  • Under Linux run the ‘controlPanel’ shell script located in the CatDV Server directory to  launch the Control Panel.

 Status window

When you launch the Control Panel you will see the main status window:

 

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Once running the control panel provides real-time status information about the server using a set of traffic light indicators that the status of:

  • Server Installation – Critical files are present correct and a valid license code has been entered .
  • Database – The database server is running and the ‘catdv’ database is accessible using the configured database URL.
  • CatDV Server – CatDV Server is running and the control panel can make an RMI connection to it.
  • Web Server – If licenced then the web client is installed and running

From this main screen you can also start and stop the server, view system log files and access server configuration and maintenance functions. Initial setup is entered using the setup wizard, while more advanced options are entered using the server configuration panel.

Server Configuration

The Control Panel allows editing of various options that control the operation of the CatDV Server and the Web Client (or Live HTML Publisher) by clicking the Server Config button on the main screen. The Server Configuration screen consists of six tabbed sections relating to different areas of functionality.

Server Settings

This section allows the setting of a number of global CatDV Server configuration options.

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The options available are:

  • Allow anonymous acces – whether users can access catalogs in the ‘Anonymous’ group (ie. where no production group has been specified) without logging on
  • Use recycle bin – when clips are deleted from the server they are first moved to the recycle bin, from where they are automatically deleted when the recycle bin gets too large or after 2 weeks
  • Extra catalog details – controls the amount of detail shown by tool tip text when displaying catalogs in the Server tree of the CatDV application (but can slow down browsing on large systems)
  • Perform houskeeping – whether to perform housekeeping autoamtically when the CatDV Server starts up. On large systems this can take some time, so you may prefer to do it manually at a convenient time such as at the weekend (see “Tools” below)
  • Use roles – this option should be checked if using CatDV Pro 9 or later clients to enable permission roles

The Other field allows advanced options to be entered as free text, with one option on each line.

Live HTML Publisher

This section is used to configure the optional Live HTML Publisher component.

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Please refer to Configuring Live HTML Publisher for more details.

Web Client

This section is used to configure the optional CatDV Web Client component.

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The options available are:

  • Date format – allows you to specify how date will appear in the Web Client user interface
  • Allow Downloads – specify whether the user should be able to download the original media associated with the asset they are viewing online
  • Show Catalogs – display a panel that allows the user to select what catalog they are working on
  • Show Smart Folders – display a panel that shows predefined ‘Smart Folders’ (essentially stored queries). This can be used to implement workflows by, for example, having a smart folder that displayed clips awaiting approval.
  • Customer Web UI – provides a choice of where custom metadata panel definitions should be taken from – either the setting defined by the production group the asset belongs to or from a specific field set.
  • Tabs to Show – a simple textual list of tabs to display and another of tabs to explictly exclude.
  • Custom Title – a custom title to use in place of the default “CatDV Web Client” title.
  • Custom Logo – a custom logo to use in place of the default “CatDV Web Client” logo.
  • Max Rows – maximum number of rows to return in a single query.

Web Client Proxies

This section is used to configure how the server finds HTTP proxies to server to the CatDV Web Client and desktop client where appropriate.

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The Proxy paths field is  a list of mappings from the Media Path that is stored against a clip to the location of the corresponding proxy file.

Note: “Original full-res root dir” specifies the path to the root of your media volume as seen by the machine that imported the clips (and as stored in the Media Path field) while “Low-res proxy root dir” is the location of the proxy files for that volume as seen by the web server.

If you import files on a PC and are running the Tomcat web server on a Macintosh you therefore might need a path mapping that looks like:

 M:Media => /Volumes/CatDV_Proxies

LDAP Settings

This section is used to configure the server to use LDAP authentication.

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Please refer to Configuring LDAP for more details.

License Server

This section is used to configure the server to act as a centralised License Server thereby avoiding the need to install licence codes on each machine individually.

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Please refer to Configuring a License Server for more details.