Grass Valley just introduced its new CommandCenter software application that’s designed to configure, control, monitor, and diagnose a range of broadcast infrastructure devices on-site or remotely.

With an intuitive GUI, CommandCenter gives broadcasters and media organizations a set of comprehensive tools to customize their workflows. This flexibility offers time-saving benefits by permitting operators to save commonly used configurations as template files, or save them to the clipboard for quick copying to other selected devices in the workflow. Remotely, users can configure and execute complex workflows with only short notice, with diagnosing and reporting of events using a hierarchical system status. Command Center also helps to maintain the integrity of workflows over time.

CommandCenter utilizes a variety of standard IT based technologies to enable managed use by groups, and tracks usage parameters over time. A standard database implementation can record, view, and archive historical workflow events along with storing the user-definable aspects of each device’s configuration. This database can also be redefined to match user requirements. For system administration, up to 64 user-groups can be defined, and for each group the level of access can be limited. Users can be added and assigned to groups, each with their own password. This ensures that CommandCenter can be used in operations where security concerning conditional access is required.

CommandCenter supports the control and monitoring of many Grass Valley products and extends Prelude, Encore and Jupiter control solutions to a broadcast infrastructure facility control layer. It also supports a wide variety of devices found in broadcast facilities from various manufacturers using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).

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