Video: Brainsalt Hub
Steps
The Hub is the management interface of a Brainsalt media server. It configures, operates and maintains the server from a browser — without logging into Windows on the machine itself, which is the point of it: the people who run a show should not have to touch the operating system to do their job.
It is served by the server, so there is nothing to install. You need two things: the server's address, and an account on it.
1. Open the Hub in a browser
Type the server's IP address into the address bar and press Enter. Any machine on the same network reaches it this way — no client software involved.
2. When you do not know the address
Use the Brainsalt Hub Desktop App. It finds every Brainsalt server on the network and opens the Hub for the one you choose, so the address never has to be looked up or written down.
It also finds servers that are not correctly networked. That is the part worth knowing, because it is the case where nothing else works: a freshly imaged or misconfigured server — wrong subnet, or no usable address at all — cannot be reached by a browser, but the Desktop App still sees it and can set its IP address to bring it onto the network.
So the order is: try the browser, and reach for the Desktop App when that fails, not only when you have forgotten an address.
3. Sign in
Enter the user name, press Tab, then the password.
A new server starts on the factory default account. The Hub shows a security warning until it is changed, and it should be changed before the server goes anywhere near a production network — the default is the same on every machine we ship.
Change it under Configure → Access, which is also where you add accounts for everyone else and give them a role. Not everyone needs an administrator account; most people running a show need far less.
4. What the Hub covers
The sidebar is grouped by what you are doing, rather than by which piece of hardware it belongs to:
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Group |
What lives there |
|---|---|
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Overview |
Health of the whole server on one page — hardware, display outputs, storage — each row linking to its detail. |
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Configure |
Access (users and roles) · Network · GPU display setup · Hardware Baseline · Backup & Restore · Settings · Notes. |
|
Operate |
Applications · Remote screen and remote UI · Web Consoles · Storage Estimator · File Transfer · Power. |
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Maintain |
GPU Status · Resource Usage · Storage · Hardware sensors and inventory · Logs. |
What you see depends on your role — sections you have no rights to are not shown, so a sidebar with fewer entries than a colleague's is normal rather than a fault.
Done when: you are on the Overview page and it is reporting the server's health. From there the two things worth doing on a new machine are changing the default password and setting the network up the way the site needs it.