MAM215 MediaCentral | Asset Management System Administration
Overview
The MediaCentral | Asset Management System Administration (MAM215) course is intended to give attendees a detailed overview of the core administrative and monitoring tools available in MediaCentral | Asset Management. It is also a prerequisite for those continuing onto the MAM470 Avid ACSR MediaCentral | Asset Management System Support course. It provides an overview of MediaCentral | Asset Management’s web-based user clients and focuses on the administration and configuration tools.
Audience
This course is designed for System Administrators.
Prerequisites
- Attendance of MAM101 or extensive equivalent experiences
- Working knowledge of handling the Windows GUI
- Basic knowledge of TCP/IP network technology
- Basic knowledge of MS Windows Server administration tools (RDP, MMC, IIS)
Note: Attendees are required to bring their own notebook/laptop to the course and have administrative privileges on the notebooks/laptops, allowing them to change network adapter settings, host files and install additional software components.
Objectives
At the end of this course you will:
- Understand the general structure, technology, and interactions within a MediaCentral | Asset Management system
- Use the right terminology for MediaCentral | Asset Management subjects
- Be able to check the MediaCentral | Asset Management systems current state to check if things are ok or need further investigation
- Be able to perform basic maintenance operations (e.g. start/stop the service groups)
- Be able to investigate errors shown in MediaCentral | UX, i.e. check the corresponding backbone processes using the administrative tools
- Be able to investigate log files
- Be able to gather the information required by Avid Customer Care to do error investigation
- Be able to check and modify the system's configuration including the configuration of processes and workflows
- Know the structure of MediaCentral | Asset Management's data model
- Be able to extend and adapt the data model to your needs
- Be able to create new users and assign required permissions
- Understand the link between user management for MediaCentral | UX and MediaCentral | Asset Management
- Work with the Production Kit and Production Archive Kit (MPI)
- List the pre-requisites needed to be able to archive a sequence to MediaCentral | Asset Management
- Explain the dataflow and software architecture of MPI
- Adapt the configuration of MPI
- Perform the recommended maintenance procedures
- Do some basic troubleshooting for MPI
- Be able to create new export targets and import watch folders