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Introduction
ETV Portal Server Administrator Guide 5
Administrative Features
• Access Control - allows administrators to allow/deny access to specific functions of the
ETV Portal Server server. Access control functionality can use the local ETV Portal
Server database or authenticate to an LDAP directory server.
• Clustering support – multiple EtherneTV-NXG Video-on-Demand servers can be
clustered to increase total throughput. The ETV Portal Server will automatically load
balance all servers defined in ETV Portal Server; no additional configuration is necessary.
See Servers
on page 17 for more.
• SSL/TLS security – the ETV Portal Server server can be set up to provide encrypted
access to the Administrative pages, the Login pages, or all pages. See Configuring for SSL
on page 61.
• Customer defined URLs – can be entered into the system and displayed in the ETV
Portal Server interface. The URLs can point to video assets or other assets such as PDFs
or PowerPoint documents.
• Autoingestion to the EtherneTV-NXG server – content placed in autoingestion folders
on the ETV Portal Server will be automatically transferred and ingested into the
EtherneTV-NXG server.
• Customized global messages can display on the ETV Portal Server interface.
• Channel numbers can be assigned to live streams.
• Define a startup channel for STBs – the STB will automatically tune into this channel
when users select the
Live TV option.
• Emergency broadcasts – can define pre-configured emergency broadcast templates that
can be launched instantaneously. See Emergency Broadcast
on page 32 for more.
• Status window – shows the status of videos being added, recorded, or ingested.
• Diagnostics window – displays a complete log of system events by source, time, and IP
address.
• Custom fields and streams – the ability to add customized information and search
parameters to live and stored streams.
Additional ETV Components
EtherneTV Video-on-Demand Server
The EtherneTV Video on Demand (VoD) server provides the ETV Portal Server with a list
of available video content organized in folders. The VoD content is displayed on the ETV
Portal Server, along with the duration of the video and associated descriptions, key words, and
other custom information entered by an administrator. The user plays content from the VoD
server by selecting it by program name from the ETV Portal Server interface. The ETV
Portal Server currently supports NXG and VOD-W on demand servers. The configuration is
essentially the same (see Servers
on page 17) and there is no difference in functionality for
end users.
EtherneTV-STB Set-Top Box
EtherneTV-STBs access the ETV Portal Server through a web browser within the Set-Top
Box. Using the Set-Top Box remote control, users can navigate and search for specific on-