Viz Secure is a software system designed to monitor, audit, and help maintain Vizrt systems of any complexity and to improve on-air reliability.
Large installations require expertise to maintain, and providing good data is the first step in delivering effective support.
Diagnosing and resolving problems starts with data collection: What has failed, What was the status of the system immediately before the incident? Has the database become full? What about texture memory, or incompatibility between software versions?
What is the historical pattern of system utilisation, and what should be upgraded?
What is the time to fix – a key KPI for measuring internal and external engineering performance.
Viz Secure addresses all these challenges, and more. Viz Secure continuously checks the health of all components of your Viz systems – hardware, databases and application software. Uniquely, Viz Secure monitors the internals of the Vizrt environment such as on-air/off-air, texture memory usage and frame render speed. By monitoring the internals of the Vizrt application performance Viz Secure can highlight potential problems before they impact on-air performance and enables better diagnosis and quicker, more effective action from the engineering team.
Information is presented in a clear dashboard in a web browser, and full drill down capabilities displays the key information in the quickest possible time. Upon detection of a component failure a rule set determines the action to be taken which can range from a state change in a dynamic display to text messages, audible alarms, and emails. Live dashboards, provide queries and reports include time-to-fix, issues by period by severity, installed software versions. Touchscreen support means the display can be conveniently mounted in the machine room.
Subject to the site security policies remote application and system restart can be enabled allowing specialist off-site engineers to re-set a system. This is especially useful when on-duty shift engineers do not have the expertise required to deal with an issue.
A variety of security mechanisms ensure that Viz Secure logging and control data is not intercepted or interfered with. Clients wishing to have their systems accessible from the outside can employ conditional access to protect the integrity of their broadcast network. Passwords protect access to viewing and actions capability.
The hub runs on standard PC equipment (with optional failover safety duplication) and the monitoring access and control is via web browser. The lightweight agent application on the target system takes its instruction from the hub regarding the system elements it monitors, sample frequency etc. It is designed to run at a low priority level and use minimal system resources. Viz Secure can operate as an independent system, or as a slave to other monitoring systems. Viz Secure is equally effective for small and large installations and scales easily with the addition of new nodes and applications.
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