User guide

Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services

Last updated 8/28/2014

Managing the server

Remote management tools

To manage your Amazon Web Services account, use any of the following:

• AWS Management Console

When you sign in to the console, select Amazon EC2 from the drop-down list. Or, after you sign in to the console,

select the Amazon EC2 tab. After you sign in, you can launch an instance of Adobe Media Server.

• Elasticfox, a Firefox browser extension that works much like the AWS Management Console.

• Amazon Web Services API

Amazon has several developer tools that let you call the Web Services API to manage your instances and

applications. See

Amazon Developer Tools.

• Amazon EC2 API Tools

Amazon describes these tools as, “The client interface to the Amazon EC2 web service. Use these tools to register

and launch instances, manipulate security groups, and more.”

To connect to the Adobe Media Server instance from a remote computer, use any of the following:

• SSH clients (for example, PuTTY, Terminal, and WinSCP). These SSH clients can also use SCP (Secure Copy

Protocol) and SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). See

Managing content.

• Adobe Media Server Administration Console

You can use the Administration Console to manage multiple Adobe Media Server instances. Adobe Media Server

Administration Console is not configured to run by default.

Adobe Media Server Administration Console

Adobe Media Server Administration Console is not configured to run by default. To use it, you must enable it in the

ams.ini configuration file and start it.

For general information about the Administration Console, see Using the Administration Console.

Configure the Administration Server

Note: Before running any command in Adobe Media Server Administration Console, add a sudo command before it to

assume super user or root user privileges. This is necessary because root user is disabled in AMS version 5.0.4 and higher

and amsadmin is the new user. amsadmin user has permission to browse the contents of the AMS installation directory.

1 In /opt/adobe/ams/conf/ams.ini, set values for the following parameters:

• SERVER.ADMIN_USERNAME = someusername

• SERVER.ADMINSERVER_HOSTPORT = :1111

The first two parameters add one user for the Administration Console. To add additional users, see the next section,

“A d d a d m i n i s t r a t o r s ”.

To set the administrator password, perform the following steps:

1 Ensure that AMSAdmin is not running.

2 Execute the following command from the shell:opt/adobe/ams/amsadmin –console –user someusername