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FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin 1.0.5 released

We released FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin 1.0.5 a week or two ago and I completely forgot to blog about it.

FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin extends FCS Maintenance Pack to allow tasks to be performed simultaneously over a network. The Network Admin interface gives system administrators all the tools they need to manage, maintain and troubleshoot Final Cut Studio systems on their network.

This version was released to coincide with the major FCS Maintenance Pack 1.3 update. Here are some of the noteworthy changes:

QuickFix support

QuickFix, a new tool in FCS Maintenance Pack 1.3, is now supported in Network Admin. QuickFix allows you to perform common troubleshooting tasks such as trashing preferences and clearing caches with a single button click. It should be your first port of call when things go wrong.

Bonjour broadcasts are confined to the chosen interface

If you have chosen to make Network Client listen on a specific network interface, it now only broadcasts Bonjour messages on that interface. This means that if you have a network interface reserved for a specific purpose, such as Xsan, Network Client will not send any data over that interface.

Note: by default, Network Client listens and broadcasts on all interfaces.

Crash Analyzer HTML view

The improved HTML view in Crash Analyzer 1.3 has been extended to Network Admin.



This is in addition to general tweaks and bug fixes related to connection issues, software updates and progress bars.

FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin is priced at $69 for a 5-user license and $129 for an unlimited user license. Each client requires a separate version of FCS Maintenance Pack, with bundle pricing available. There is a 15-day trial of Network Admin that works with the 15-day trial of FCS Maintenance Pack.

We constantly strive to make things easier and if you have any suggestions for further improving Network Admin, we'd love to hear them.