Cisco Headend System Release 2.7
Major Improvements to SR 2.7/3.7/4.2 SP2
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Populating Host Record IDs After SP2 Upgrade
After you upgrade your system to SR 2.7/3.7/4.2 SP2, if you have separable security
set-tops at your site, you must reload your old EMM files to populate the Host
Record IDs in the DNCS.
set-tops at your site, you must reload your old EMM files to populate the Host
Record IDs in the DNCS.
If you batch load EMM files, you must make sure that you do not enable Digital
Interactive Services (DIS) or any other options on the Set Up DHCT screen, Secure
Services tab. If you do enable these options, you will provision the DHCTs when you
bulk load the EMMs, which prevents combo binding from working correctly.
Interactive Services (DIS) or any other options on the Set Up DHCT screen, Secure
Services tab. If you do enable these options, you will provision the DHCTs when you
bulk load the EMMs, which prevents combo binding from working correctly.
Important: When you load the EMM files, make sure that you do not provision any
DHCTs. Enabling any options on the Secure Services tab in the Set Up DHCT screen
causes the DNCS to provision the DHCTs.
DHCTs. Enabling any options on the Secure Services tab in the Set Up DHCT screen
causes the DNCS to provision the DHCTs.
If you do provision DHCTs when you load EMMs, combo binding will not work
correctly.
1 Are you loading EMM data from a CD?
correctly.
1 Are you loading EMM data from a CD?
If yes, make sure that the EMM CD is placed in the CD ROM drive of the
DNCS.
Note: The DNCS GUI might launch when the system mounts the CD.
DNCS.
Note: The DNCS GUI might launch when the system mounts the CD.
If no, go to step 2.
2 On the DNCS Administrative Console, select the DNCS tab and then select the
Home Element Provisioning tab.
3 Click DHCT to open the DHCT Provisioning window.
4 Select New and choose Batch Install.
5 Click Select. The Batch Data Directory Selection window opens.
4 Select New and choose Batch Install.
5 Click Select. The Batch Data Directory Selection window opens.
6 Search for the TOC file by replacing the existing export/home/dncs filter in the
Filter field with one the following options:
If you are loading EMMs from a CD, replace the export/home/dncs filter
with /cdrom/cdrom0/* and press Enter.
with /cdrom/cdrom0/* and press Enter.
If you obtained EMMs through FTP, replace the export/home/dncs filter
with the path you recorded when you extracted the EMM files. Refer to
Explorer Digital Home Communications Terminal Staging Guide (part number
734375) for more information.
with the path you recorded when you extracted the EMM files. Refer to
Explorer Digital Home Communications Terminal Staging Guide (part number
734375) for more information.