Manus Administrator is the intelligent element of Viz Mosart, monitoring the rundown in the connected NRCS, parsing the content into Viz Mosart functionality that is presented in the Viz Mosart GUI.

Manus Administrator is a console application and must be kept running at all times on your Mosart server.

NRCS Software Compatibility

There are three types of the Manus Administrator, corresponding to the flavor of newsroom system that it connects to.

  • (Default) Vizrt.Mosart.ManusAdministrator.exe. A combined iNEWS/MOS program.

  • MMConsoleAdmin_2007.exe. Only for iNEWS (with ftp) workflow.

  • MMConsoleAdmin_MOS.exe. Only for newsroom systems with MOS workflow.
    Use for all systems except iNEWS with ftp workflow, including iNEWS with MOS workflow.

All three variants are installed at Viz Mosart (server) installation:

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Note:

  • Only one Manus Administrator can be active at any given time

  • The Manus Administrator shortcut will always start the combined Manus Administrator. Whilst the old Manus Administrator applications are still available, any Start menu shortcuts to either of these has to be created manually.

Tip: Type help in the Manus Administrator console window to see which commands you can use. See Manus Admin Commands.

See also Avid iNews Web Service for Status Feedback in the Appendix. 

Configuration Utilities

Centralized Settings Menu

A significant Viz Mosart ease-of-use improvement was introduced with the combined Manus, from version 5.3.

To open the Settings menu

From the Manus Administrator console you can open a configuration editor in a new menu:

  • Type settings in the Manus Administrator console, then ENTER.

For details see:

Newsroom Settings

  • To open the Newsroom Settings XML Editor, type ns in the console window followed by ENTER. For details see: 

Note: The Newsroom Settings editor opens in a new window. If you make changes to the configuration, restart Manus Administrator for the changes to be applied.

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