Video Transcript
Introduction to Q-SYS Reflect Enterprise Manager
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Hello and welcome to Q-SYS Reflect Enterprise Manager Training. My name is Patrick Heyn.
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And I’m Nate Makaryk.
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In this course, we’ll introduce you to QSC’s cloud-based AV remote monitoring and management platform.
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We’ll start with the basic architecture, so you have a better understanding of how it works.
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First and foremost,
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Q-SYS Reflect is a secure, web platform that is hosted on a mainstream Cloud service provider.
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It allows QSC to develop and deploy modern software products
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and services that extend the Q-SYS Platform beyond the Local Area Network.
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Enterprise Manager is the first of many AV services to be deployed on Q-SYS Reflect.
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Enterprise Manager is an IT-centric remote monitoring and management solution
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that allows you to monitor multiple systems in multiple locations,
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so you can get data on both your native Q-SYS devices as well as third party peripherals.
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And all of this is all accomplished without any programming experience.
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Let’s get started.
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The Q-SYS Reflect Cloud infrastructure is broken into three levels, starting with the Organization at the top.
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The ORGANIZATION represents your company as a whole, let’s call it NateCorp.
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That sounds like a great place to work!
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NateCorp is a big organization with offices in Los Angeles and New York.
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In Enterprise Manager, we’ll call these SITES.
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A SITE typically refers to a physical building or campus,
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while an organization can contain as many sites as the organization requires.
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The third tier is each individual SYSTEM … because any Site can have multiple SYSTEMS,
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which is represented by a single Design file running on a Core.
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For example,
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the Los Angeles site has one large SYSTEM that’s using an Enterprise Core to run paging for the building,
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and a second system that’s using a dedicated Core 110f to run a mission-critical boardroom.
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And obviously,
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each of these systems contains PERIPHERALS which are native to Q-SYS like a QSC amplifier,
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cameras, touchscreens, etc.,
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as well as third party devices with plugins like third-party lighting control, HVAC, displays, you name it!
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Every Core already automatically acts as a system-level aggregator for data from its own peripherals.
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This means that when it comes to connecting all of this to the Reflect cloud,
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the only device that requires an internet connection is the Q-SYS Core;
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there are no extraneous links between your individual peripheral devices and the Cloud.
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This is great because fewer device connections to the Internet
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means increased system security for your installation!
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We’ll talk about how to connect your Q-SYS Core to the Reflect cloud later in the course.
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Once your systems are connected to the Reflect Cloud,
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Enterprise Manager can help you use this data
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to provide valuable business outcomes for your organization.
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You can use Enterprise Manager’s realtime system monitoring,
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customizable alerts, and remote operation tools
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to equip the right support staff with the right information and the right tools to do their jobs,
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often times before the end user ever knows that anything has gone wrong.
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Lastly, there are a number of ways you can
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view and interact with the data and features you get from Enterprise Manager.
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The first is an easy-to-use browser-based interface,
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which you can access from essentially any connected PC or mobile tablet.
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The second way will allow
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your AV platform to connect and share data to other IT platforms.
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The Shangri-La scenario for IT administrators has always been to
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aggregate data from all their different subsystems
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onto a single pane of glass: from servers, telephony, .. and YES even AV systems.
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Often times, they will use building management systems or software applications
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like Splunk or Solarwinds to accomplish this,
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but historically, AV data has been next to impossible to connect to systems like this.
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Enterprise Manager solves that problem.
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Customers can use the Q-SYS Reflect RESTful API to extract real-time status and timestamped Event Logs
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from the Q-SYS Reflect database for use in any other software platform.
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This ability opens up worlds of possibilities,
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letting you use insights from AV data to feed the decision making processes for your entire enterprise!
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In a nutshell, that’s Q-SYS Reflect Enterprise Manager.
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The next few tutorials will review things such as the registration process,
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connecting Cores to the Reflect Cloud, and creating user privileges.
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Feel free to continue whenever you’re ready.