Preface

Introduction

This guide describes how to configure, manage, and operate Network Appliance™ ContentDirector 2.0.

Audience

This guide is for system administrators and others who will configure or use ContentDirector. It assumes you are familiar with your operating system, your network, and the basic concepts of how data moves over a network. If you plan to distribute streaming media content, you also need a basic understanding of streaming media protocols and service. This guide does not cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and network topology; it emphasizes the characteristics of the ContentDirector software.

Terminology and conventions

The term "ContentDirector" refers to a complete configuration including all components of the software.

This guide uses the term "type" to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard. It uses the term "enter" to mean pressing one or more keys, and then pressing the Enter key.

Keyboard conventions

When describing key combinations, this guide uses the hyphen (-) to separate individual keys. For example, "Ctrl-D" means pressing the "Control" and "D" keys simultaneously. Also, this guide uses the term "Enter" to refer to the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named "Return" on some keyboards.

Typographic conventions

The following table describes typographic conventions used in this guide.

Convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. File names. Placeholders, for information you must supply. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
`Bold` `monospaced` font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Convention

Type of information

Italic type

Words or characters that require special attention.

File names.

Placeholders, for information you must supply.

Book titles in cross-references.

Monospaced font

Command names.

Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.

The contents of files.

Bold monospaced font

Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that are described as follows:

Note
A note contains important information that helps you install or operate the system efficiently.

Caution
A caution contains instructions that you must follow to avoid loss of data.