iXOS-JUKEMAN is the leading software product for managing jukeboxes, drives, and recorders for optical disks. It provides simple and efficient access to optical storage devices with unrivaled performance and flexibility.
Simplicity
iXOS-JUKEMAN presents all available CDs as a standard file system, completely hiding the jukeboxes. The UNIX version acts as a standard NFS file server; the NT version acts as a standard NT file system that can be shared across all available protocols. Users can access the CDs as simply as they access a shared hard disk. Version 2.1 also allows clients to concurrently write CDs.
Efficiency
The file system server provides data and directory structure caching, and powerful device management and job scheduling features. As a result, iXOS-JUKEMAN provides the industry's highest performance - even under extremely high load use.
In addition, iXOS-JUKEMAN's redundant CD management means you can count on short response times with the added advantage of protection against hardware failure.
Flexibility
iXOS-JUKEMAN has been carefully designed to ensure support for a wide range of environments, including a range of mixed clients and network protocols.
In addition, iXOS-JUKEMAN is highly customizable. For example, multiple views can be defined with various name formats and configurable subsets of visible CDs.
iXOS-JUKEMAN consists of a file system server and a CD writer.
The server provides native file system support for multiple client types, and allows users to view CDs in their preferred file system format. It accesses real hardware devices and hides them completely by presenting an abstract hierarchical file system. It caches files and directories, optimizes access to CDs and jukeboxes, and minimizes jukebox movements.
The writer supports burning ISO 9660 file systems on recordable CDs with the reliable constant data rate required by CD recorders.
Version 2.1 of iXOS-JUKEMAN combines the server and writer in a writable file system. It can be configured to present all CDs as if they were hard disks, allowing clients to add data to CDs through the same file system interface that presents the CDs for read access.
For each operating system, iXOS-JUKEMAN uses one generic SCSI driver for all hardware-related software products. A device that works under one operating system will work equally reliably under all other supported operating systems.
iXOS-JUKEMAN Architecture
| NT network support |
| NFS | iXOS file system for NT |
| iXOS mixed file system server | iXOS CD writer |
| iXOS generic SCSI driver |
| hardware devices |
The NT version also includes "Jukeman Administrator", a graphical user interface (GUI) that makes administration available, both locally or remotely from any PC.
The iXOS-JUKEMAN server controls CD-jukeboxes, CD-drives, and the CDs they contain. The server combines all CDs in a single file system in which each CD is a subdirectory of the root and the jukeboxes are hidden.
UNIX clients access the server's file systems via NFS. The server accepts NFS requests and replies with the NFS protocol. Clients mount it's file system just like any other Network File System.
With Windows NT, iXOS-JUKEMAN includes a native file system that appears as a drive letter, and can be accessed and shared through the file system file server. This guarantees the same jukeboxes are supported across both the NFS and NT file system interfaces.
Because NT shares local native file systems across all installed protocols, PCs can access the file system as easily as they access a network drive. The same file system can simultaneously be accessed by UNIX clients via NFS.
IXOS JUKEMAN optimizes jukebox performance caching, optimizing disk movement, parallel access to all devices, advanced queuing, and "request anticipation". iXOS-JUKEMAN also recognizes hard disk images as CDs - allowing them to be used as a replacement for CD drives. With the built in NTFS compression single hard disks can replace large numbers of CDs. -
For very high performance demands CDs are replicated across several jukeboxes. When a CD is requested the server automatically chooses the least loaded jukebox..
The iXOS-JUKEMAN writer can send either ISO 9660 file systems or raw data to a CD recorder. The writer accepts data from a pre-mastered file, a raw partition, a CD-ROM drive, or from a pipe.
The writer's preview mode can be used to test the writing process before you start, and the verify option allows the CD to be verified immediately after it is written.
To eliminate the high overhead of session lead-in and lead-out iXOS-JUKEMAN provides multi-track writing, which uses the CD space more efficiently than multi-session writing.
iXOS-JUKEMAN provides support for a wide range of devices including jukeboxes, stand alone CD-ROM drives and hard disk drives across multiple operating systems.
To minimize the non-portable sections of the drivers, iXOS-JUKEMAN uses a generic SCSI driver that passes a SCSI command to the hardware through the operating system.
If a generic driver is not present the iXOS generic driver must be installed. Once the driver is installed it works with all iXOS products.
iXOS-Jukeman supports all of the following devices under Windows NT and UNIX:
ASM, DISC, DSM, Grundig, JVC, Kodak, Kubik, Logicraft, MicroDesign International, NSM, Nakamichi, Phillips, Pinnacle, Pioneer, Plasmon, Plextor, Ricoh, Sony, Todd, Yamaha.
iXOS is continually adding support for new jukeboxes and recorders. An updated device list can be found on www.jukeman.com
iXOS-JUKEMAN runs with the following:
Updated platform support lists can be found at www.jukeman.com
This manual describes the final release of version 2.1, January 1997.
There are no separate "demo versions" of iXOS-JUKEMAN. Both the server and writer run in restricted "demo mode" unless they find a valid license file. In demo mode, the server only supports five disks (and stops after two hours of operation) and the writer will not accept more than 128 MB of data. Licenses are available separately for the server and the writer
Valid license files contain a description of licensed capabilities and capacity, and a license key that is bound to both these capabilities and a host ID. The host identifier that is produced by these commands is:
| Solaris | /usr/ucb/hostid
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| AIX | /bin/uname -m
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| HP-UX | /bin/uname -I
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| IRIX | /sbin/sysinfo -s
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| DEC UNIX | IP-address (/sbin/ifconfig ln0)
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| SunOS | /usr/bin/hostid
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| NT | either the IP address in the result of ipconfig or the network adapter address, which can be determined by the last entry
of the "Workstation active on" line of the result of net config workstation.
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The host identifier also appears at the top of the file named logfile.txt in "Your key for a license order."
For testing purposes, you can obtain a temporary license for a reasonable number of CDs by contacting jukesupport@ixos.de
Note for Windows NT use the GUI under:
Services
License Keys
to enter the number of CDs and your license keys.
For all Unix platforms, using a text editor of your choice, you will need to edit the server.lic and
writer.lic files.
By default the server.lic will appear as follows:
version=2
volumes=250
license=justdemo
You will need to change volumes=250 to the number of CD's which you license supports. Likewise,
license=justdemo, must be changed to your actual license key.
If you are also using the iXOS CD writing software you writer.lic file must also be changed from
the default configuration.
version=2
writer
license=justdemo
You need only change the last line, license=justdemo, to reflect your actual license.
You can obtain licenses from your vendor.
If you do not know where to buy iXOS-JUKEMAN,
see www.jukeman.com or contact
jukesupport@sanmateo.ixos.com for USA and Canada.
Otherwise contact support@ixos.de.
A 30 day evaluation license maybe obtained from the iXOS-JUKEMAN WWW-server
www.jukeman.com