User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

2 Requirements

This section describes general requirements, such as hardware, software, access rights

and policies for a number of software components in your Viz work flow.

For more in-depth system information, see the relevant sections in your respective user

and/or administrator guides.

IMPORTANT! Always check release notes for information on supported versions.

This section contains information on the following topics:

• General Requirements

• Hardware Requirements

• Software Requirements

• Shared Data

• Ports and Connections

2.1 General Requirements

There are some general requirements for any Vizrt system to run. These requirements

apply when setting up a complete system with integration to other Vizrt and third party

software products:

• All machines should be part of the same domain.

• Users of the Vizrt machines should ideally be separated in at least two groups,

administrators and designers/operators.

• Most machines running desktop applications must be logged in with sufficient

privileges in order to run Vizrt programs, while services by default do not require

users to be logged in.

• Vizrt servers must have static IP addresses.

Caution: Third party systems that provide Vizrt systems with files must only use

Microsoft Windows operating system compatible characters as the file name.

• Vizrt has license restrictions on all Viz Engine and Viz Artist instances. To have an

output of Vizrt generated graphics (preview and program channels), either an USB

or parallel port dongle on the renderer machine is required.

2.2 Hardware Requirements

Hardware requirements vary depending on the system purchased; however, every

system delivered by Vizrt has an accompanying hardware specification sheet that, for a

new system, matches the Software Requirements.

For older hardware that are used with newer versions of Vizrt software, such as Viz

Engine, it is always recommended to check against the current hardware specifications

for the new software version to make sure that the latest software can run on the old

hardware specification.