DirMon2 Configuration:
Goto Start>>All Programs>>DragonGlobal>>DirMon2>>DirMon2 GUI
Job Management (Tab)
When you first get in here, you'll notice there are no current job profiles setup in DirMon2 (DM2). Click the "New" button in the lower left corner to add a new job. Title it "ShowAnalyzer."
Below is a screen capture of my current DM2 settings for launching SA.
* You need to tell it where the files are located, that you want SA to process.
* Browse to the SA executable file.
* Targets tell DM2 what files to look for when in that directory.
* "When" is the important one:
** Resources Required: This is what I talked about back in the SA setup. Out of 100%, I have each instance of SA setup to use 50% of the resources, which means, I can have a total of 2 instances of SA running at once. If you change that to 25, then you can have 4 instances.
** Triggers: This tells DM2 what condition it should launch SA on. My setup first looks for mpg files, if it finds one, it then checks to see if an edl file with the same file name, exists, if not, then it launches SA on that file.
** There are little check boxes here, in case you want to make sure that the file is done recording before starting SA. I like live detection, so I don't have these set. If your machine has problems running SA and recording at the same time, you might need to play around with these.
** Blackout: You can use this feature to keep DM2 from launching any SA intances, for instance, during the day, while you are home watching TV. You might not want SA processing files for some reason. Using this feature allows you to launch SA only when your system is idle, for instance, while you are at work.
***Notice, at the very bottom left corner, a button called "Validate." This button will generally check your settings to see if they are idiot proof. It does not garantee that everything will work, but generally catches errors commonly made.
Global Settings (Tab)
Global is where you tell DM2 how many available resources it has, this goes back to how many instances of a given task you want running. I leave this to 100, to make it easy to deal with. You can change the time in seconds, that DM2 polls your directories to check for new files to process. Depending on how fast you want SA to respond to new files, you need to set this low. 3 minutes, means that it could possibly take 3 minutes into a recording, before it would see that it has that recording to process (important for live TV detection).
Cleanup. This is where you tell DM2 what to clean up, if your specified file does not exist. Examples are in my screen capture. Click the Add button, and it's pretty easy to follow from there.
Service. This is tricky. In order to run the service, I believe you have to use the user name and password of the account being used on the system. You also need to make sure that user has the rights to be able to run services. Once you have this setup correctly, the order of the 4 buttons on the right should go like this:
First, it should look like the screen capture, and say, "Not Installed."
Click Install, and it should change to, "Stopped."
Click Start, and it should change to, "Started."
Current Status (Tab)
When everything is running, this is where you should see jobs pop up to be processed.
This pretty much ends the DirMon2 setup.