Registration

This view allows registering hosts such as WebRTC Gateway servers, and Artist-1024 devices that have been discovered on the network to make the device’s resources available for use within STAGE.
This workflow includes:

• Creation of main and sub-locations that represents where equipment is physically located.

• Assignment of Discovered Hosts to their locations.

Overview

System Commissioning - Registration

Filters allow you to quickly narrow-down a list to find a device.
See chapter Getting familiar with the User Interface #Filtering for more information.

Quicksteps for Registration of Hosts

Host registration adds hosts to STAGE to allow them to be controlled and monitored. By assigning hosts to locations, STAGE is able to represent how the system is physically organized in the real world.

Proceed as follows.

1. Optional: Create one or more locations that represent where the equipment is physically located. See section #Edit-Add-Locations.

2. Your hosts should automatically be discovered. Select one or more hosts to be assigned to a location. See section #Discovered-Hosts.

3. Select a Location in which the selected hosts will be registered. By assigning a host to a geographic location, STAGE’s users have a view of where hosts are physically located. You can then focus your attention on the hosts situated at a specific location. See section #Locations.

4. Click Register Host(s) in Selected Location.

5. Once a host is registered to a location, it is removed from Discovered Hosts to be now listed in Registered Hosts. See section #Registered-Hosts.

6. You can filter the Registered Hosts by host type. Seesection #Host-Types.

Edit/Add Locations

To assign a host to a location, you must first create the location. Proceed as follows. See also section #Locations.

1. Click to quickly create top-level locations
   or

2. Click to open the Edit Locations dialog. See also section #Edit-Locations-Dialog.

   

   1. Click to add locations and sub-locations.

   2. Click Duplicate to duplicate the selected location.

   3. Click Delete to delete the selected location.

   4. Double-click on a location to edit its name.

   5. Close the window:

      1. Click Confirm to apply all changes
         or

      2. Click Close to discard all changes.

Discovered Hosts

This section displays all hosts that can be found in the STAGE network through the use of the Discovery protocol.

	Set a filter to only display hosts that match the current online status.
	Set to hide/show the selected host.
	Indicates wheather the host is online () or offline ().
Name	Shows the host name that comes from the host. This name is configured on the host. Several hosts of the same type are grouped together. The hosts in a group can be displayed/hidden by clicking on the minus or plus symbol.
IP Address	Shows the IP adress of the hosts.
	Click to register the selected Host(s) in the selected location.

Prerequisites:

• Hosts being registered must have network connectivity with STAGE.
  See chapter Network Architecture and the
  section #Device-Discovery (in this chapter).

• Artist-1024 devices that are to be used with STAGE must have been previously configured in Director to have one or more STAGE Ports. See section #Artist-1024-Setup. Stage Ports are required by the Virtual SmartPanel for use as intercom ports, to allow inter-operability with the Artist system.

• WebRTC Gateway devices must have been previously configured. See chapter Installation #Main-Steps-to-install-WebRTC.

Locations

This section specifies the location/sub-location to which the discovered hosts are assigned.

A location is metadata that gives an indication where the registered hosts are located. For example, a location can represent a country, a city or a building, while a sub-location can be more specific and represent a building, a floor or an equipment room. Users can use the locations in the way that suits them best.

By default, STAGE uses the Unassigned Location option, which allows users to register a host if they do not want to register it at a specific location.

Edit Locations Dialog

This Edit Locations dialog can be opened by clicking the icon in the Locations section.

Register Host(s) in Selected Location

Proceed as follows to register hosts in a location.

1. Optional: Focus the list of Discovered Hosts to hosts found in the system by selecting the search and All/Online/Offline filters. See also section #Discovered-Hosts.

2. Optional: Focus the list of Locations to a location by selecting a location in Locations. See also section #Locations.

3. In Discovered Hosts, select one of more registered Hosts. See also section #Discovered-Hosts.

4. In Locations, select one location. See also section #Locations.

5. Click Register Host(s) in Selected Location.

• On the left, the discovered Host will disappear in the section Discovered Hosts.

• On the right, the registered Host will appear in the section Registered Hosts.

Please note in STAGE 1.0: If there are several STAGE instances in a network, make sure that hosts are only registered with a single STAGE system.

Registered Hosts

This section lists all hosts that are currently registered at the selected location.

Host Types

Focus the list of Registered Hosts to a host type (for example, Artist-1024, or WebRTC Gateway) by selecting a host in Host Types.

This section lists all host types that are available in the STAGE system.

Deregister Host(s)

Proceed as follows to deregister hosts from a location.

1. Optional: Focus the list of Registered Hosts to hosts found in a location by selecting a location in Locations. See also section #Locations.

2. Optional: Focus the list of Registered Hosts to a host type (for example, Artist-1024, or WebRTC Gateway) by selecting a host in Host Types. See also section #Host-Types.

3. In Registered Hosts, select one of more registered Hosts. See also section #Registered-Hosts.

4. Click Deregister Host(s).

5. Click Deregister.

• On the right, the deregistered Host will disappear in the section Registered Hosts.

• On the left, the deregistered Host will appear in the section Discovered Hosts.

Device Discovery

This is an overview of how STAGE typically discovers network-connected devices or software instances, to add them to the Riedel Registry. This makes the device or software service available for use in STAGE.

Riedel devices and software services use common network services such as DHCP and DNS to find STAGE in an automatic fashion resulting in STAGE being able to register them.

For certain devices or software services, you will have to manually configure the device with STAGE’s IP address for the connection to be made between them.

Prerequisites

The device to be discovered must have IP connectivity with:

• For automatic discovery: the following network servers:

  • DHCP server.

  • DNS server.

  • STAGE server.

• For a manually configured connection: the STAGE server.

Automatic Device Discovery

Here are the typical sequence of events for automatic device discovery.

If the device is unable to resolve the Riedel Registration Service through the DNS server, or the DNS server is unavailable, the device may fallback to using mDNS to attempt to connect with the STAGE Riedel Registration service.

Manual Mode

When installing a product such as the WebRTC Gateway through the Riedel Software Manager (RSM), you configure where it is to find the Riedel Registry.

Artist-1024 Setup

In order for an Artist-1024 to be recognized as a Discovered Host and Artist-1024 ports to be used in STAGE, the following configurations must first be set up in the Director.

Proceed as follows:

Editing the Web Properties

Open the web properties. See chapter 'Web' Properties in the Director manual.

Creation of the Stage ports

Open the workspace of an AES67-UIC of an Artist-1024 by double-clicking on the corresponding AES67-UIC in the ‘Networks’ navigation bar.

The Media Interface 2 and the redundant SMPTE 2022-7 operation will be available in a later version.

Editing names in the properties window

The names can be customized in the properties window of the STAGE port.
Open the properties window of a STAGE port by right-clicking on the desired port and selecting “Properties”.

The ports are displayed in Stage as Intercom Resources with the names defined here.

This completes the configuration of the STAGE ports on the Director side.