Setup guide

Wiretap Gateway is a Wiretap server that exposes any mounted standard filesystem as a Wiretap hierarchy
of directories, files, and clip nodes, and streams them as raw RGB to local or remote Wiretap clients, such
as WiretapCentral. If Wiretap Gateway is installed on a Mac equipped with a RED ROCKET card, it can use
the card to improve the speed of decoding and debayering R3D files. Wiretap Gateway machines in your
network are labeled as such in the WiretapCentral network tree, or in the Lustre file browser. They act as
gateways to the storage devices where the media to import resides. When you select a Wiretap Gateway
machine, and initiate a media import operation, the media is read from the source storage by the Wiretap
Gateway, processed by the Media I/O Adapter encoding engines on the processing nodes, and then written
to the destination storage through the Wiretap server.
Installation
Set up your Creative Finishing workstation. WiretapCentral, Wiretap Gateway, Backburner (page 81), Back-
burner Manager (page 107), and Backburner Monitor (page 86) are automatically installed on the workstation.
A stand-alone installation is the simplest deployment model, as all components are installed and configured
with your application on the same workstation. All media processing is performed locally, which can have
a significant impact on system performance if you are using several components at the same time. If you
need more performance, consider using distributed, deployment. Performance is improved by distributing
processing tasks via Backburner (page 81) Server and Media I/O nodes on your network. This is the only
supported deployment model for Lustre Windows workstations.
To install this software you must be able to administer a Linux system with root access. If you plan to
reconfigure your workstation or your storage, knowledge of computer hardware, storage and networking in
a professional video/film production environment is recommended. The default root account password on
an Autodesk workstation is password.
Some or all of these components can also be installed on other networked hardware:
■ Install and license Wiretap Gateway on a dedicated system (page 135), then Configure Wiretap Gateway
(page 136)
■ Install WiretapCentral on a dedicated system (page 137)
■ Test the installation (page 140)
Optionally Configure Wiretap Gateway (page 136)Configure WiretapCentral (page 138), and Test the installation
(page 140).
Set up your Creative Finishing workstation. WiretapCentral, Wiretap Gateway, Backburner (page 81), Back-
burner Manager (page 107), and Backburner Monitor (page 86) are automatically installed on the workstation.
Some or all of these components can also be installed on other networked hardware:
■ Install and license Wiretap Gateway on a dedicated system (page 135), then Configure Wiretap Gateway
(page 136)
■ Install WiretapCentral on a dedicated system (page 137)
■ Test the installation (page 140)
Optionally Configure Wiretap Gateway (page 136)Configure WiretapCentral (page 138), and Test the installation
(page 140).
Components
Wiretap WiretapCentral communicates with media and metadata databases through their Wiretap server,
typically a Creative Finishing workstation. Each workstation is listed in the WiretapCentral network tree as
a member of the Wiretap network.
WiretapCentral
Wiretap Gateway
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