Brainsalt Hub - Set Up and Manage the Server

Last updated 8 August 2026

Brainsalt Hub is how you find, configure, and operate your Brainsalt B8/B9 media servers. This is the first half of any installation: until the server is on the network, signed in to and configured, there is nothing for Backstage to run on.

Start with the Brainsalt Hub Desktop App to discover a server on your network, then open its System Management web interface, where nearly all configuration lives.

Server ready? Move on to Backstage - Build and Run the Show.

In this section

Section	What it covers
Getting Started with Brainsalt Hub	What Brainsalt Hub is, the desktop app, discovering servers and setting their IP, first sign-in.
Server Configuration	Network, users and roles, display and GPU setup, backup and restore. The bulk of the work.
Operation & Monitoring	Health and hardware status, GPU signal status, power control.
Remote Access to a Server	The BMC KVM console and the browser Remote UI.
The Server Front Panel	The physical touch panel on the front of the server.

The order it happens in

Find the server and give it an address — the desktop app does this even when the server is on the wrong subnet or has no address at all.
Sign in and change the factory password, then create the accounts the site needs.
Configure the displays and outputs — EDID, Mosaic, output format, genlock, then hand the outputs to Backstage.
Back up the configuration once it is proven, and reboot once to confirm it comes back.

Prefer to watch?

The setup work in this section is recorded step by step in Brainsalt Hub Videos — and every one of those video pages is written out as a walkthrough too, so they can be read instead of watched.