Welcome to the Cantemo Installation and Administrator’s Documentation

Within this guide you should find details on how to install and configure Cantemo Software. Later in this document follows an overview how to use and administrate a Cantemo system.

This document is part of three guides for Cantemo:

• User’s Documentation.

• Installation and Administrator’s Documentation (this document).

• Developer’s Documentation. 1

This document shows how to:

• Do a basic install of Cantemo.

• Define the settings in Cantemo.

• Administrate and Configure a Cantemo systems.

• Introduction
  • Recommended environment
• Requirements overview
  • OS requirements overview
  • Hardware
  • Cloud support
• Filesystem Compatibility
• Database Requirements
• Installation checklist
• Basic Installation on Linux
  • Partitioning
  • Sizing a Portal system
  • Steps for installation
  • Steps for upgrading
  • Steps for updating your license key
• First Steps
  • Plugin installation
  • Setting up integration points
  • Defining transcode profiles
  • Defining Preview formats
  • Defining export locations
  • Define metadata groups
  • Define groups of users
  • Setup Storage.
  • Setting the site name and domain
  • Inform your users
• Running Portal
  • Monitoring Portal
  • Stopping & Restarting Portal
  • Status of services
  • Nginx (or other webservers)
  • Using HTTPS
  • Using HTTP and HTTPS Proxies
  • Changing the log level
  • Additional logging parameters
• Backup
  • Configuration files
  • Binaries
  • Database
  • Storages
  • Thumbnails
  • Solr Indexes
• Available settings
  • [replace_urls]
  • [logging]
  • [debug]
  • [admins]
  • [site]
  • [homepage_choices]
  • [reporting]
  • [thumbnails]
  • [media]
  • [paths]
  • [database]
  • [email]
  • [secrets]
  • [enable_extras]
  • [display]
  • [user_settings]
  • [cache]
  • [session]
  • [celery]
  • Vidispine settings
  • Allowed VSAPI URLs
  • Rename section (optional)
  • Optional settings
  • Elastic Search settings
  • Elastic Search AWS authentication
  • StatsD settings
  • Vidispine Notifier settings
  • Multiple audio tracks
• Portal logging
  • Advanced configuration
  • Log levels
  • Handlers
  • Choosing Handlers
  • Example logging configurations
  • Rsyslog
  • Notes
  • Additional Logs.
• Users
  • Listing users
  • User attributes
  • Adding users
  • Editing and deleting users
  • Changing Password
  • Changing the Admin password
• Groups
  • Group attributes.
  • Adding groups
  • Create subgroups
  • Updating and deleting groups
  • Adding users to groups.
  • Transcode profiles
  • Portal UI Roles
  • API Roles
  • Custom Portal Roles
  • Permissions
  • Export locations
  • Metadata
  • Notifications
  • Transfer
• Jobs
  • List View
  • Detailed View
  • Job Attributes
  • Job Statuses
• Transfers
• Storages
  • List View
  • Storage attributes
  • Storage grouping
  • Adding storages
  • Adding an auto import storage
  • Updating
  • Deleting
  • Storage Methods
  • Viewing files on storages.
  • Rescanning files on a storage
  • Automatic file movements
• Metadata Groups
  • Using Metadata Groups
  • Creating Metadata groups
  • Using Metadata groups
• Metadata Editor
  • Basic features of the Metadata Editor
  • Creating metadata groups
  • Deleting Metadata groups
  • Editing Metadata groups overview.
  • Editing metadata groups field chooser.
  • Metadata Group Preview Window.
  • Field Attributes.
  • Choices on metadata fields
  • Hierarchical fields and their definitions
  • Workstep field steps and transitions
  • ACLs on metadata fields
  • Add Metadata groups to group
• Patterns for Metadata editor
  • Email address field
  • Text only field
  • IP Address field
  • Timecode field
• Cascading Metadata
  • Metadata Manager
  • Item Page
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Subgroup cascading
• Conditional Metadata Setup
  • Practical Example
  • Notes about conditions
• Migrating metadata
  • Exporting metadata
  • Importing metadata
• Transcode Profiles
  • List View
  • Adding
  • Adding video transcode profile
  • Adding audio transcode profile
  • Adding image transcode profile
  • Updating
  • Deleting
  • Browse format settings in the configuration file
• Export Locations
  • List View
  • Adding
  • Updating
  • Deleting
  • Using
• Transfer Settings
  • General
  • Storage Mappings
  • Proxy Workflow
• System settings
  • Domain information
  • System
  • Logging
  • User Password Policies
  • Homepage Choices
  • Metadata Indexing
  • Healthcheck
  • Job
  • User Notifications
  • Search
• Recycle Bin
  • Configuration
• Themes
  • Listing themes
  • Logos
• Access Control List
  • ACL rights given directly on Item
  • ACL rights given through groups
  • ACL rights given though Collections
  • ACL rights given through Rules Engine
• Search indexes
  • Search reindex after upgrade
  • Difference in Vidispine and Portal indexes
  • Recreate indexes
• Comments
  • Comment Administration
  • Comment Usage
• Sharing
  • Sharing Configuration
  • Sharing Message
  • List Shares.
  • Changing/Extending Sharing functionality.
• Health Check
  • REST API
  • Command line
  • Configuring health checks
• Database Monitor and Purging
  • Database Purging
• Tasks
• Background Tasks
  • Celery workers
• Cantemo Notifications
  • Custom notifications
• Apps
  • Enabling Apps
  • Authentication
  • Transcoder Integrations
  • Archive Integrations
  • Rules Engine 3
  • NLE Integrations
  • Accurate.Video Integrations
  • Other apps
• Move Portal to another server
  • On the original system
  • Then on the new system
• Uninstalling Portal
• Help
  • What is included in the error report
  • Error report generator
  • Error report from command line
  • Agent logs
  • manage.py
• Debugging Cantemo Portal Adobe Panel
  • Debugging from Portal
  • See if the panel loads up in Premiere
  • Panel is there but blank.
  • Importing media problems.
  • Exporting problems.
  • Panel Installation paths
  • Where we look for Adobe Media Encoder presets.
  • User presets.
  • Installation errors of the Panel
  • Panel not working properly.
• Windows Agent Debugging
  • Log files
  • Configuration files
  • Installation problems
  • Uninstalling Cantemo Agent

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Contains configuration details for Cantemo, third party systems and operating systems environment setup.