Installation guide

Activity logs
Feature available in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires
Flash Player 6 or later.
Flash Media Server 3 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:
• Accesslogs—Tracksinformationaboutusersaccessingtheserver
• Applicationlogs—Tracksinformationaboutactivitiesinapplicationinstances
• Diagnosticlogs—Tracksinformationaboutserveroperations
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.XX.log,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,
ac c e ss.00.lo g wouldcontainthemostrecentlogs).
e access log will record 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/instancefolderofthe
corresponding virtual host.
Application logs record application event data such as:
• Dateandtimeoftheevent
• Anevent’sserverprocessID
• Eventstatuslevel(warning,error,information,debug,andsoon)
Diagnostic logs
e diagnostic logs record information about Flash Media Server operations and are used
primarily for debugging server-level issues.
Flash Media Server is congured, by default, to create a diagnostic log for each type of
process. e default diagnostic logs are master.XX.log, edge.XX.log, core.XX.log,
ad min.XX.log, and httpcache.XX.log. All of the diagnostic logs are located in the
Flash Media Server logs directory.
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