Organizing services for scanningΒΆ
The scanning configuration comprises of the following elements:
RPM Services
Scripts
Lineups
Bouquets
This chapter includes procedures for creating services and assembling them to build lineups and bouquets. A service is associated with test methods (script and schedules). A lineup contains service sequences assembled to scan channels. During operation, bouquet translates services to channel numbers for a specific area STB. The chapter also describes how to import/export bouquets and lineups to and from text files and spreadsheets.
In the RPM system, a lineup is a collection of services/programs to monitor (radio and video channels, etc.) and their associated test methods (scripts) and schedules. A lineup includes the order in which to dial services, what to test, when and how often to test the service in the monitoring cycle (schedule and recurrence). The RPM system offers scripting capability empowering you to create advanced monitoring plans in your operations.
In a bouquet the association of a service and a dial number is often only valid for a specific city or neighborhood. That means that in another area, the same service could be accessed with a different dial number. In order to manage the service and dial number associations for the RPM Observer, you can create several different bouquets that cover the areas your operation is monitoring.
Once defined, you can assign a specific lineup and bouquet to each encoder in the RPM probes. This enables the encoder to dial any service that is offered in its area in a way that mimics the channel mapping that a customer would use on his set-top box.
