Installation guide

For example, if you create a global application _ owner property, every instance of that
application could access that property using this syntax:
Application.config.application _ owner
Enable/disable native bandwidth detection
Feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash Player
6 or later.
Flash Media Server 3.5 can detect a client’s bandwidth using native bandwidth detection or
server-sideActionScript(calledscript-basedbandwidthdetection).Becausenativebandwidth
detection is built into the core server code, it is much faster than script-based detection.
Nativebandwidth detection is enabled by default and can be further congured in the
Application.xml le.
Activity logs
Enhancement available in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server;
requires Flash Player 6 or later.
Flash Media Server 3.5 oers real-time server monitoring and extensive logging capabilities to
help you with server management and troubleshooting. e log les track activity such as
general trac and server load, who is accessing the server, client behavior and interaction, and
general diagnostics.
Flash Media Server maintains several dierent types of logs that track information about
the following:
• Accesslog—Usersaccessingtheserver
• Applicationlog—Activitiesinapplicationinstances
• Diagnosticlog—Serveroperations
• HTTPlog—ApacheHTTPServeraccessanderrors
FlashMediaServeraccessloglesarewritteninW3Cformat.Youcanusestandardparsing
tools to parse these log les.
Access logs
e access log records information about connection requests by Flash Player and Flash Media
Server application instances. e default conguration creates a single access log per server, called
access.X X.lo g, which is located in the Flash Media Server logs directory. You can also
congureFlashMediaServertocreateaseparateaccesslogforeachvirtualhost.e“XX”inthe
lenameisatwo-digitnumberrepresentingtheversionofthelog(forexample,acces s.00.lo g
containsthemostrecentlogs).
e access log records data such as:
• Dateandtimeaclientconnectedtotheserver
• Howmuchtotalbandwidthwasconsumedduringthesession
• Whichstreamswereaccessedbytheconnection
• Whethertheclientpublishedastream
• Whethertheclientjumpedtoanewlocationwithinarecordedstream
Application logs
e application logs record information about activities in application instances. ese logs are
especially useful for debugging applications.
e default conguration creates one application log per application instance, called
application.XX.log, which can be found in the application or instance folder of the
corresponding virtual host.
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