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In order to license and maintain your BYOC stack we suggest that you install the Vidispine VidiCore Management Agent (VMA) on your Vidispine Server (or on a server next to it). The Vidispine VidiCore Management Agent will act as a proxy between your Vidispine server and our Vidispine VidiCore Management Server which is an integrated part of VidinetVidiNet.

The VMA-VMS components are needed in order to license BYOC systems.

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The VMA needs two authentication configurations – one towards your local Vidispine API Server (username-password) and one towards Vidinet VidiNet (Access Key – Secret Key). The procedure is as follows:

1. Install VMA

   1. Download the suitable VMA package and install it on your Vidispine API Server (or on a separate machine). 

      RedHat/CentOS Debian/Ubuntu

2. Configure Vidispine API Server connection in settings file

   1. Configure the VMA connection to your Vidispine API Server by editing the following values in the file /etc/vidispine/management-agent.yaml (see example at the bottom of this email for syntax)

      1. vidispine.apiUrl

      2. vidispine.username

      3. vidispine.password

3. Configure Vidinet VidiNet connection

   1. In the Vidinet VidiNet Dashboard, go to “Settings” and create a VMA access key pair. Remember to copy the Access Key and Secret Key when they are displayed, you will only see the secret key once.

   2. Configure the Vidinet VidiNet connection by editing the following values in the file /etc/vidispine/management-agent.yaml

      1. vidinet.systemId: f70890fb-4064-41f1-9986-36e36cc86a3d (A UUID)

      2. vidinet.systemName (You decide this, it is used to identify your system and will appear under “My Services” in Vidinet Dashboard and also be inserted into license key)

      3. vidinet.accessKey (obtained in Step 3a)

      4. vidinet.secretKey (obtained in Step 3a)

   3. Save the configuration file

4. Start the VMA with command systemctl status vidispine-management-agent.service. (VMA must be restarted if configuration file is changed)

5. Verify the setup (can be done in multiple ways)

   1. In the VMA: The VMA comes with a monitoring interface at http://localhost:9010/overview, see image below:

   2. In Vidinet: In the Vidinet VidiNet Dashboard, your local Vidispine system will now appear under “My Services” as a BYOC licensed system.

   3. In Vidispine: Verify that your Vidispine Server is properly licensed by checking license info under /API/version (NOTE: it may take up to 10 minutes for the system to become licensed).

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