You can add multiple RPDs or RMDs to a VUE system. Each VUE system has multiple ACCPs (Aux Cores) installed (1 ACCP is installed on each VUE application server and on VPS #2). Each ACCP can support up to 1000 RPDs/RMDs. An ACCP installed on a VUE server does not utilize any CPU core resources until an it is configured. ACCP uses CPU core when you configure the Generic Control Plane (GCP) IP address for an ACCP instance. The GCP IP address must be one of the already configured VIP addresses on either VPS #2 or on a VUE application server.
When an ACCP is configured to run on a VUE application server, 1 CPU core must be available (an ACCP core utilizes 1 CPU core when running on a VUE application server). If a CPU core is not available, then the ACCP core will not be able to be used on that VUE server (configuration of ACCP will be rejected). There is no restriction of core usage when an ACCP core is configured to run on VPS #2. To determine current available number of cores, refer to the Monitor VUE servers/RCs section.
The ACCP communicates through the GCP protocol with each device to configure the RPD/RMD device's QAM and QPSK channels, as well as the DEPI and UEPI pseudowires which will be used to deliver VUE created transport streams. The import and export functions in VUE are used to add Remote PHY Devices (RPDs) and/or Remote MAC-Physical Devices (RMDs) to the ACCPs running within the VUE System. For each ACCP, an individual JSON file, containing a list of RPDs/RMDs and their configuration information, can be imported and associated to the appropriate ACCP designated to manage that particular population of devices.
This task describes using VUE's native import and export functions to add Remote PHY Devices (RPDs) or Remote MACPHY Devices (RMDs) to the VUE Auxiliary Core Control Plane (ACCP). Adding RPDs/RMDs to the ACCP requires importing a JSON configuration file which provisions RPD/RMD video and SCTE 55-1 OOB channel resource configurations.
You can import or export the ACCP configuration. This functionality is mainly helpful when you have to do a large number configuration.
Before you begin, make sure you have the JSON file with all the required configuration saved in your machine.
The RPD/RMD information is loaded from the JSON file. New RPDs/RMDs are shown in the RPD table. Any RPD/RMD may be edited as described in View, edit, or delete ACCP and its RPDs/RMDs.