Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide

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Chapter 12    Configuring State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT) 
 
 
 
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Accessing the SARFT Report from an External 
System 
If the feature is enabled, you can access the SARFT report from an external system 
using the following access link on the external system: 
http://[IP address of the DNCS]:[http_port]/casbuffer 
SARFT Files and Directories 
To help you manage your SARFT reports, the following directory structure and file 
format are used for SARFT reports: 
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All SARFT related files are located in this directory:  
/dvs/dncs/SARFT_DATA_DOCS 
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The SARFT reports template can be configured using the following command:  
Sarft_cfg.xml 
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All the reports's XSD are available under the SARFT directory for reference. 
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Backups of reports are stored in this directory:  
/dvs/dncs/SARFT_DATA_DOCS/backup 
Note:  Reports that are older than the number of days you configured your 
system to cache them are stored in this backup directory. 
Report Backup Process 
The system backs up reports using the following process. 
1  The SARFT feature is enabled with caching. For example, the feature is enabled 
on 04/01/2009 and you choose 30 days for caching (caching is also known as 
OPER_DAYS). 
2  A cron entry setting will run the SARFT report every day at the specified time 
(00:00 hrs). For this example, at 00:00 hours on 04/02/09 the following reports 
are generated: 
 
ICCardReport 
 
ProductListReport 
 
EntitlementReport 
 
StaticsReport 
3  Generated XML files are kept in the following directory with a 20090401 prefix: 
/dvs/dncs/SARFT_DATA_DOCS.XML Files