This chapter describes the menu and the individual views that are available in STAGE.
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Menu This chapter describes the individual menu items that are available in STAGE.
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Home The Home view contains topic blocks with links to the main views of the STAGE user interface.
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Registration This view allows registering hosts such as WebRTC Gateway servers, SAME DSP Engines, NMOS, and Artist-1024 devices that have been discovered on the network to make the device’s resources available for use within STAGE.
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Host Configuration This view allows setting the configuration parameters of each registered host.
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I/O Management I/O Management consists of mapping Hardware Devices to Virtual Devices. Hardware Devices represent the I/O Structure of a registered Host. Virtual Devices are used to represent elements of the real world (for example, a Mono Microphone) that are not directly visible to STAGE.
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Job Setup In Job Setup, you create a list of Jobs that are to be made available to STAGE operators. Each Job defines the resources and configuration required for a production or live event.
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Job Activation Job Activation is how you start a Production session.
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Virtual SmartPanel Management This chapter shows how to configure the Virtual SmartPanel in Virtual SmartPanel Management.
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Virtual SmartPanel Browser This view allows operating a configured Virtual SmartPanel in a browser.
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Audio Pilot This view allows selecting and managing the various DSP configurations to access their control user interfaces across all running Jobs and accessing audio monitoring and selecting the monitoring source when working with SAME Audio Tools within Jobs.
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Events This view allows retrieving simple user information about the processes in the STAGE system, e.g. when a user logs in or when an operating limit has been exceeded (e.g. when more than 80% of the channels of the WebRTC gateway are used).
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Live Metrics This view allows retrieving live measurement data from connected systems (e.g. the CPU load of a WebRTC gateway).
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System Configuration This view allows configuring basic STAGE system settings and viewing information such as serial number and package versions.
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License Management This view allows managing and validating STAGE licensing. Certain STAGE features require a license in order to use them.
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Users This view allows managing the users who can log into STAGE and assigning authorizations for the various functions.
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User Groups This view allows managing the available User Groups and assigning authorizations at group level.
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Identity Providers This view allows adding Identity Providers to the STAGE system. Instead of STAGE validating a user’s identity, STAGE uses one or more external Identity Provider services that provide user authentication for STAGE. In this scenario, STAGE does not store passwords or provide a 2-factor authentication mechanism for these users as this part is externalized by the Identity Provider for them.
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User Directories This view allows adding external user directories such as Microsoft Active Directory to the STAGE system to authenticate user access.
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Network Scopes This view allows creating Multicast Network Scopes.
Jobs are user profiles that define a production role. Jobs rely on a set of Consumers (inputs) and Producers (outputs) with Network Plugins for that person to fulfill their role. Jobs can be activated wherever the necessary resources are available.