User guide

Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services

Last updated 8/28/2014

Connect to the Administration Console

1 Open a web browser and enter the following into the address bar:

http://public-dns/ams_adminConsole.htm

For example:

http://ec2-184-72-164-117.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ams_adminConsole.htm

The Administration Console is located on the instance in the following directory:

/mnt/webroot/ams_adminConsole.htm

2 In the Server Address box, enter the Public DNS of the instance.

3 Enter the administrator username and password.

The username and password are stored in the /opt/adobe/ams/conf/ams.ini file.

For security reasons, the administration console does not save your password between sessions.

4 (Optional) Select the Automatically Connect Me option.

5 (Optional) Click Revert to return the Administration Console to its default settings.

Reverting deletes all saved servers, user names, and passwords from the Administration Console. All custom

resizing within the Administration Console is restored to the original state. (The Revert button, however, does not

affect the server.)

6 Click Login.

You can disconnect at any time by clicking Logoff.

Run the Administration Console from another computer

To run the Administration Console from a computer other than the one hosting the instance, copy

ams_adminConsole.htm, ams_adminConsole.swf, and AC_RunActiveContent.js from /opt/adobe/ams/tools to the

other computer.

Verify that the Allow and Deny tags in the Users.xml file allow the connection from the other computer’s IP address.

Using the Administration API

The Adobe Media Administration Server has an API that you can use to monitor and administer the server. You can

call Administration APIs over RTMP and HTTP.

Adobe Media Server 5.0.1 Administration API Reference

To call Administration APIs, configure and start the Administration Server. See the tasks in the section Adobe Media

Server Administration Console . After you’ve completed those tasks, you can call Administration APIs over RTMP.

Call Administration APIs over HTTP:

1 Edit the /opt/adobe/ams/conf/ams.ini file as follows:

USERS.HTTPCOMMAND_ALLOW = TRUE

2 Edit the file opt/adobe/ams/conf/Users.xml to list the Administration APIs that can be called over HTTP (only ping

is allowed, by default):