First Time Setup for 3.4

Updated on December 10th, 2022

In order to enable the out of the box Ingest functionality carry out the following steps:

Set account for IPV Services

Set all IPV Services to run as a user.

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Change MySQL Options Update the MySQL Options File to improve connectivity and performance.

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Enable HTTPS in IIS In IIS setup HTTPS binding on a chosen port and select the required SSL certificate.

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Modify the Curator Service Administrator web.config (if needed)

Additional web.config modification is needed in systems running Curator 3.4 or newer with CSA version 1.6 where the TSL1 has been removed as is possible from Curator 3.4 onwards. This will be automatically set from CSA 2.0 (scheduled for Curator 3.6)

The CSA 1.6 web.config needs to be modified where TSL1 is not available. You will need to add the following two lines to the CSA web.config file:

<add key="AppContext.SetSwitch:Switch.System.Net.DontEnableSchUseStrongCrypto" value="false" />

<add key="AppContext.SetSwitch:Switch.System.Net.DontEnableSystemDefaultTlsVersions" value="false" />



Curator Gateway Setup Make changes to the Appsettings file and setup Sysadmin through Curator Gateway.

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Create Curator Folder Share Curator needs a storage area in which to create all of its required resources. The resources include but are not limited to transcode and conform presets, Curator proxy video files and High-Resolution files (before they is set to Archive). The accounts that the services are running as need write access to this storage area.

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Run First Time Setup Process

The First Time Setup Process covers:

  • Specifying the system environment (eg. PRODUCTION or TEST)
  • Creating the File/Metadata Ingest watchfolders and XChange Volumes
  • Starting the Out of the Box ingest Processes


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Set up Devices in Device Director Device Director will create a default set of required devices on server startup for new databases; configure the endpoints for these services.

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AME Setup For AME to work there must be a temp directory at the root of C:\.

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Configuring IIS Streaming IIS is used as a streaming service for the web application.

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Curator Clip Select web.config Set the required service endpoint and video playback configuration to get Clip Select up and running.

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Curator Clip Link web.config Set the required service endpoint and video playback configuration to get Clip Link going.

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Restart Ingest Plugin Take the plugin config file from the inetpub directory and place it under Curator Server's plugin folder structure. This step enables the plugin for administrators only.

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Required Firewall Ports These are required firewall ports not configured automatically. Both SpectreView Server and SVUtils require their ports to be configured here.

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Test Ingest Place an asset into the Ingest to Curator watchfolder and check the output in Curator Clip Link.

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