Management

Patrick: Welcome back.

In this video, we're gonna talk about the management options in Q-SYS RoomSuite Modular System.

It's time to talk about the thrilling world of network settings.

Yay.

Nate: Seriously, this stuff is actually pretty important, so try to keep up.

Back in the RoomSuite Manager, let's look at the Status page.

This contains details about the RMP-100 itself and the various peripherals connected to it, either directly or via the QIO-VEN4.

You'll also notice the VEN4 itself listed there, as well as the displays and the available video inputs on both the RMP-100 and QIO-VEN4.

This section is largely informational, although you can edit the system name if you'd like.

I'm actually gonna name mine Candy Conference Corner to match the room name we specified earlier to show on our touchscreen controller.

Patrick: Next, let's look at the Network Settings, starting with Basic sub-menu.

It contains all the usual options for network configurations for both of the AUX network ports on the RMP-100.

The processor is set to DHCP right out of the box, but you can, of course, assign static addressing to either or both of those network ports.

Nate: Next, we have Date and Time where, shockingly, we can specify the date and time, or connect to an NTP server to fetch this information for us.

Patrick: Certificates contain a whole bunch of information that you almost certainly will never need unless you're deep into the dark arts of networking and cybersecurity.

Secure Communications is in the same vein, as is 802.1x, but if you need to adjust these in conjunction with your IT department, this is where you'll find them.

Nate: Our next menu item is Access Management.

Now, this one, this is important, and you will need to, and I cannot encourage you strongly enough to use this.

Underneath the Access Management heading is a single option, Users.

All RMP-100s, like regular Q-SYS Cores, are shipped with access management disabled, and like regular Q-SYS Cores,

it's almost always a good idea to enable access management on your RMP-100 when you deploy it.

This works in the exact same way as in Q-SYS Core Manager.

First, I'll enable access control, which will prompt me to create a username and password,

and as soon as I confirm my password and hit save, I'm outta here.

No, seriously, now that access control is enabled,

I'll need those credentials to get back into Q-SYS Room Suite Manager and make any further changes to the configuration of the system or access the controls,

and you don't need to be deep into the dark arts of networking and cybersecurity to understand that putting some kind of a barrier between your system

and anyone that can access it on the network is probably a good idea.

I will log back in, and we can continue.

Diving back into access management, you'll see that I now have two options: users and roles.

As you might imagine, users lets me add more users or edit the ones you gots.

If I hit this new user button, I'm prompted to create another username and password, but also to choose a role for this new user.

Different roles provide different levels of access, from viewer, which is largely read-only access, to administrator, or king of all candy mode, as they call it here at RoomSuites.

If the predefined roles don't quite fit the bill for a certain user, you can always choose the roles menu option and create a custom role,

where you can get very specific about which areas you wish to allow a user to edit or even view.

Patrick: All right, let's move on to the utilities section.

This contains an event log, which you can easily filter, sort, and search, and even export a CSV file.

Also under the utilities section is the system and firmware update menu.

This is also a distinctly different process from standard Q-SYS deployments that use Q-SYS Designer Software.

For RoomSuite, all firmware updates are applied manually from this section of RoomSuite Manager.

Simply download the latest Q-SYS RoomSuite software from our website and upload that folder here.

The download page will give you further instructions on this process.

We can also reboot the system from this section if you want, or if necessary, download the system log,

although you should only have to do this if you've been asked by a member of the Q-SYS support team, because you need a special tool to even read the resulting log file.

Nate: Finally, we come to Reflect Registration.

By now, I expect you're familiar with Q-SYS Reflect, our cloud-based management and monitoring software,

but what Reflect can do in conjunction with the Q-SYS RoomSuite platform is so powerful that we've got a whole nother video just on that topic coming up.

Patrick: But next, we'll look at the final steps of your room setup.

Move on whenever you're ready.