VBrick Systems Server ETV v3.1 Manual Do Utilizador

ETV Portal Server Administrator Guide

65

Chapter 5

Auto Content Ingestion

It is possible to FTP prerecorded content or copy prerecorded content to the ETV Portal 
Server for easy ingestion to the NXG server. The ETV Portal Server periodically (every 5 
minutes) polls certain folders for presence of content and if found ingests the content onto 
multiple NXG servers. This process is called Automatic Content Ingestion or Auto-ingestion. The 
content can come from a VBrick VBSTAR or a file recorded with StreamPlayer Plus. 
The content should be placed in a pre-defined sub-folder (

mcs\autoingest

) under the FTP 

root folder. This pre-defined folder is called the auto-ingest root folder. For example, if the FTP 
root is at 

c:\inetpub\ftproot

, the content could be placed anywhere under 

c:\inetpub\ftproot\MCS\AutoIngest

. In this example the auto-ingest root is 

c:\inetpub\ftproot\MCS\AutoIngest

.

Content that is placed under the auto-ingest root folder on the ETV Portal Server will be 
ingested into the root video folder on the NXG server provided that it is configured using the 
ETV Portal Server Administrator interface. If it is desired to place content on a subfolder in 
the NXG server, that same folder would have to be created and configured using the ETV 
Portal Server Administrator Interface as described below. 
Go to 

. Here an existing or 

new folder can be associated with select NXG Servers for auto-ingestion. The folders are 
listed on the left with the path relative to auto-ingest root. The NXG servers are listed on the 
right inside the Add-Modify Folders on Selected Servers box. Select the desired folder and 
then select the target NXG servers to ingest content. Press 

. The folder is now created 

under the auto-ingest root folder and configured. 

The default FTP path may be on a different drive, refer to the IIS default FTP 
configuration to confirm.