User guide

Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services

Last updated 8/28/2014

You will be prompted to enter a password. Ensure that the password is atleast 8 characters long.

3 Go to Users.xml and check for the salted hash of your password under the password tag.

4 Restart the server:

./amsmgr server ams restart

5 Open port 1111 in the Security Group of the instances you want to administer. Open the port only to the IP

addresses that are allowed to access the Administration Server. See

Modifying a Security Group.

Start, stop, or restart the Administration Server

1 Do one of the following to connect to the instance over SSH:

• Connect to an instance and copy files from a Windows computer (To start or stop the Administration Server

connect with PuTTY, not WinSCP. WinSCP is for copying files.)

• Connect to an instance and copy files from a Linux/UNIX computer

2 Enter the following to change to the Adobe Media Server root installation directory:

cd /opt/adobe/ams

3 To start, stop, or restart the server:

./amsmgr adminserver start | stop | restart

Add administrators

1 To add administrators for a particular application, copy a Users.xml configuration file from opt/adobe/ams/conf to

/mnt/applications/myapplication. Add a <User></User> section to the Users.xml file with the username and

password of the administrator.

See Configure an application.

2 You can optionally specify which IP addresses and domains each administrator is allowed to connect from

<Allow></Allow>, and which IP addresses and domains each administrator is not allowed to connect from

<Deny></Deny>.

3 Restart the server and the Administration Server:

./amsmgr adminserver restart

./amsmgr server ams restart

Note: When you edit a configuration file, restart Adobe Media Server. When you edit the Users.xml configuration file,

restart Adobe Media Server and Adobe Media Administration Server.

Secure the Administration Console

❖ To limit access to the Administration Server at a global level, edit the Server.xml configuration file. For information,

see

Limit access to Adobe Media Administration Server.