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SA D9032

With this connector, you can get a full overview of the Cisco SA D9032 Encoder, and monitor and configure the different applications that the device addresses, such as contribution, cable headends, DTH or DBV-T playouts and IP headends.

About

The connector uses SNMP to retrieve all information from the device. It allows the configuration of the Cisco SA D9032 Encoder IP network, Video, Audio, VBI, DPI, Output and Program. It also includes an overview of SA Messages with their status and severity, and provides access to the Web Interface of the device.

Installation and configuration

Creation

This connector uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection and requires the following input during element creation:

SNMP CONNECTION:

  • IP address/host: The polling IP of the device, e.g., 10.11.12.13.
  • Device address: This connector has no device address.

SNMP Settings:

  • Port number: The port of the connected device, by default 161.
  • Get community string: The community string in order to read from the device. The default value is public.
  • Set community string: The community string in order to set to the device. The default value is private.

Usage

General

This page displays general device information, such as the System Description, System Contact, System Name and System Location. The system name and location can be adjusted.

The page also displays the state of the commit mode via Enable Take. This is either Enable or Disable.

With the Reset button, the device can be reset.

IP Network

This page provides an overview of all the IP Networks with their corresponding Connector Names. You can reconfigure the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway of each network, and set alarm monitoring for these items in order to keep track of possible misconfigurations. These parameters are monitored and use normalization. As they consist of text, the Type in the DataMiner Cube alarm template must be set to discreet. There are two ways of defining the normal value, either via the alarm template or via the page button Normalize. (See "Notes" section below.)

Messages

This pages provides an overview of the message history. In order to reduce the number of messages, you can apply a filter on them via the Filters page button. From there, you can add a Message Subject text. The table will be filtered and a real-time count of messages with the Message State Open.Critical, Open.Major, Open.Minor, Open.Warning, Open.Information and Undefined will be shown in the Occurrence column. A filter can be removed with the Delete button for the specific row in the Filters Table.

Video

On this page, you can Enable or Disable the program state and its PID.

The following video parameters are also displayed on this page:

  • Input Type: The type of video, e.g., PAL, NTSC, SDI 525, SDI 625, SDI Auto, PAL M, PAL N.
  • SDI Resolution: The bit length of the samples in the SDI Input signal.
  • Composite NTSC Pedestal: The pedestal value in percent. This only applies to NTSC, PAL M and PAL N.
  • Frame Synchronizer: Makes it possible to disable or enable the synchronizer with or without an external reference.
  • Input Loss Action: This is the action that will be executed when the video is lost.
  • Input Loss Action Delay: The time the video must be lost before the Input Loss Action will be executed when the synchronizer is enabled.
  • Composite Source: Defines where the composite-in is sent.
  • VBR Minimum Bit Rate: The minimum bit rate used by the variable bit rate encoding algorithm.
  • VBR Maximum Bit Rate: The maximum bit rate used by the variable bit rate encoding algorithm.
  • VBR Video Quality: The quality number of the video. The higher, the better.
  • Bitrate Mode: The way the video rate is controlled, e.g., Fixed, Satmux or Variable.
  • Fixed Bit Rate: When the bitrate mode is set to fixed, this is the rate that will be used.

Aside from these parameters, you can also configure and monitor the Encoder, Pre-Processor, Low Pass Filter and Satmux via the corresponding page buttons.

Audio Layer II

The Video Audio Layer II Table shows an overview of all audio with its configured parameters. You can change this configuration in the table.

The page buttons Linear, AAC and Dolby show an overview of the represented audio.

VBI, DPI

On this page, the configuration of the VBI or DPI is displayed. Extra settings can be done via the page buttons VBI Caption, VBI 625 Line, and VBI 525 Line.

Output - TS

On this page, you can configure the Output Transport Stream. More detailed settings are done via the page buttons Terrestrial, Satellite, Cable or ASI.

Output - IP Streaming

This page displays the configuration of the Output IP Streaming. Alarm monitoring on these values is done via Normalization as described in the section "IP Network" above*.*

PCR Synchronize

This page displays the configuration of the PCR Synchronization. Alarm monitoring on these values is done via Normalization as described in the section "IP Network" above*.*

Program

This page contains an overview of the Program settings with a list of the Audio and Teletext Descriptors.

Notes

Instead of using the Normalize tables to indicate the Normal reference, you can also do this through the alarm template in DataMiner Cube. Double-click the [Ref] in the Normal column to select the Normalized value.

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