November 2012 (New Tuner Admin feature)

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December 2012 User Group Call
Wednesday December 19th, 2012 - 1PM Eastern / Noon Central
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BBCA 8.2.02 release
Feature- Light Weight Tuner Administrator

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Light Weight Tuner Administrator- Why?

Existing Behavior

- To administer a tuner, we use Infra Admin channel which requires a CMS channel to
be present in same tuner.

Overhead

- Existing design involves a two level connection
 Administrator connects to a CMS Machine
 CMS in-turn connects to End-Point

- This consumes twice the band-width

Current Solution
- Basic channel operations doesn’t need a CMS to be running.
- RPC can be used to connection and administer end-points

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Light Weight Tuner Administrator- How?

Light Weight Tuner Administrator can be used to administer end-point tuners in
two ways
Administer 8.2.02 end-points
- From browser connect to the 8202 tuner to be administered over RPC with below
address,
http://<end-point_tuner_host>:<rpc_port>/tuneradmin


Light Weight Tuner Administrator- How? (Contd…)

Administer pre-8.2.02 end-points
- From browser connect to one of the 8202 tuners in the environment,
http://<any_8202_tuner_host>:<rpc_port>/tuneradmin

- In the login page select ”Remote Tuner” option and the specify the pre-8202 tuner
RPC address


Light Weight Tuner Administrator - Options

Manage BBCA Channels
To perform channel related operations on the tuner like subscribe, start, stop, delete and update
Manage Packages
To perform package related operations such as install, un-install, verify and repair
Edit Settings
To change configuration on tuner. Supported options,
1. Edit Tuner UI mode
2. Change trusted transmitter settings
3. Add/Delete/Edit Custom Properties
Dependencies
To handle dependencies between channels/packages , when channel operations need to be carried
out in a sequential order.
Tuner Operations
Supported options,
1. Tuner Commands -> Restart/Stop Tuner, Launch Console, Update Policy and Scan machine
2. Storage Commands -> -fsck, -reconstruct and - repairchannels
Tuner Diagnostics
Can be used to diagnose tuner with options like,
?status, ?channelstatus, ?debug and ?log requests

Manage Channels…


Manage Packages…


Edit Settings (Tuner UI Mode Settings)…


Edit Settings (Trusted Transmitter Settings)…


Edit Settings (Custom Property Settings)…


Handle Dependencies…


Tuner Operations…


Tuner Diagnostics…


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New Tuner Admin Questions

1. Minimum server side Tuner version to use http://localhost:7717/tuneradmin

[Devendra Vamathevan] Minimum version will be 8.2.02; we don’t plan to back port as there is a
simple workaround

Customers have 2 options:

1) All tuners are on 8.2.02 and user wants to manage a single tuner - use the direct connect
option connect directly to the tuner and mange using the localhost option.

2) Some tuners are on older version ( prior to 8.2.02) install a tuner 8.2.02 use that tuner as the
proxy to connect to the tuner that you want to manage.

2. Minimum client side Tuner version which this tool can be used to control

[Devendra Vamathevan] 8.2.00 all other version are now EOL

3. Release date?

[Devendra Vamathevan] It will depend on how our testing progresses he hope to have it in 8.2.02 or in a patch
following 8.2.02


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