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Chapter 3 MediaNetwork Management Overview
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Spare Drives
The MediaNetwork drive set can also include optional spare drives that you
can swap for bad data drives if a drive fails. When you replace a failed drive, it
appears as a raw drive and must be converted to a spare drive before it can be
added to the drive set and an allocation group.
Management Tasks
As an administrator, you are responsible for:
• Initial setup and configuration — You must configure the drive set, one
or more allocation groups, workspaces, and user accounts before a
MediaNetwork workgroup can be used.
For more information on initial setup and configuration, see the
Avid Unity MediaNetwork File Manager Setup Guide.
• Day-to-day administration — You need to manage your configuration
to accommodate new users and evolving projects (for example, you will
have to create, delete, or resize workspaces; create and delete user
accounts; and change user account access privileges).
The MediaNetwork software also provides comprehensive monitoring
tools that allow you to check total storage activity on a regular basis as
well as that of each connected client.
For more information on day-to-day management, see the Avid Unity
MediaNetwork Management Guide.
• Troubleshooting — When problems occur with the storage hardware, the
File Manager, or a client, you need to diagnose the problem and, if
possible, fix it. The MediaNetwork software provides easy-to-understand
error messages that inform you of problems in your environment as well
as tools that help you to diagnose and fix problems.
For more information on troubleshooting, see the Avid Unity
MediaNetwork Troubleshooting Guide.