Dear Avid,
This is a feature request regarding media indexer functionality in an Interplay media indexer NOMI HAG. In a NOMI HAG a media composer media indexer client seems to query only 1 media indexer for the media location on a Nexis storage. If for whatever reason one of the media indexers in a HAG is out of sync, for example because it crashed, there is no way for an administrator to stop the clients using that media indexer except by removing it from the server hostname setting on the interplay engine/removing it from the HAG/shutting the media indexer down. Would it be possible for the media composer/media indexer client on a media composer or mediacentral server to request the file locations on all available media indexers in case the media is reported as offline by one of them? That would make managing/updating/restarting media indexers much more easy in an 24/7 in use system with lots of clients.
It seems that the architectural design is currently based on the assumption that all media indexers in a HAG always have the correct media location information and that querying 1 available media indexer is enough and the ability to manually select from which media indexer on the client is not needed.
Best regards,