Installation guide

A wide variety of useful data such as information about stream events, application instances,
virtualhosts,andEdge/Originissues,andmore,canbeobtainedthroughcloseexaminationof
the diagnostic log les.
Using server tools
Administration API
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires Flash
Player 6 or later.
eAdministrationAPIcanbeusedtomonitor,manage,andconguretheserverfromaFlash
PlayerorAdobeAIRclientoverRTMPorfromawebclientoverHTTP.eFlashMediaServer
AdministrationConsolewasbuiltusingtheAdministrationAPI.YoucanalsousetheAPIto
create custom administration tools. Some of the methods available to you include:
• Add/deleteadministrativeusers
• Startandstoptheserver,virtualhosts,andapplications
• Initiategarbagecollection
• Getandsetserverconguration
eAPIisdescribedindetailintheAdobe Flash Media Server Administration API Reference.
Server healthcheck utility
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires
Windows/Linux; no Flash Player.
InadditiontotheAdministrationConsoleandserverlogs,thereisanewtoolavailabletoassist
you in evaluating the overall health of Flash Media Server. FMSCheck.exe is a command line
utility program that can be used to diagnose and determine server status. e tool is installed
withFlashMediaServerandisavailableforbothWindowsandLinux.
As a command-line utility, it can easily be integrated with your back-end monitoring systems.
FMSCheck provides information such as whether the server is running or not, what the
responsetimeis,andwhichcoreprocessesorapplicationsmaynotberesponding.Itcanalso
check every active instance of every application currently running on the server to be sure each
one is accepting connections as expected.
is tool can save the Flash Media Server administrator the signicant time and eort of
manuallycheckingapplicationsandstreams.Testconnectionscanberuninparallelor
staggered, depending on the desired test.
Video validation utility
New feature in Flash Media Streaming Server and Flash Media Interactive Server; requires
Windows/Linux; no Flash Player.
With the large number of encoding technologies able to convert video into a Flash-compatible
format, inconsistencies in video encoding can occur. is new tool, FLVCheck.exe, will let you
validateifaparticularvideocanbestreamedfromFlashMediaServer.Ifthelehasbeen
corrupted or encoded with missing information, this tool will let you know.
FLVCheckwillvalidatebothFLVandMPEG-4leformats.Itwillcheckthedatastructure
includingtheheaders,timestamps,andmetadata.Itisacommandlinetoolthatcanbescripted
orusedinanautomatedenvironment.ForFLVles(On2andSorensoncodecs),thetoolwill
even x minor errors to make sure the les run or that they do not corrupt the server.
Scaling Flash Media Server 3
Servers have a nite capacity, so as trac and throughput increases, applications need to be
scaled to preserve quality of service. Flash Media Server oers several exible options for
graceful scaling of high-trac applications.
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