Any streaming infrastructure is based on some hardware. Regardless of what hardware you use, it fails sometime. If you use proper balancing techniques, your viewers will not be much affected, however you still will need to make repair and recovery. When the physical server is up and running, you need to restore its streaming settings which you previously defined using WMSPanel web UI. This is where WMSPanel may help and you won't need to make settings manually again.
As WMSPanel is the origin for all admin settings, it may send them back to server again so Nimble Streamer instance could be used as fully functional streaming server again. So we created a procedure for repairing server configs.
All you need is to start Nimble installation and run registration utility in recovery mode.
So let's assume you had a media server registered in WMSPanel. Its HDD crashed, you've replaced it then re-installed your server OS and you need it to be back online as streaming server with same settings.
When installing Nimble Streamer using the procedure listed here, complete the first step called Install Nimble Streamer and then stop at the next step Register Nimble in WMSPanel. Here you need to use special registration procedure. It will register server with old ID and would allow WMSPanel to handle new instance as an old one.
To find the procedure, go to severs list and click on the server name. That server will be shown as "offline" which means it's not sending There you see the "Recovery manual" button.
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Clicking on it, you will get a dialog box explaining the procedure and showing the command for server instance settings repair.
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The command will like this one:
The server will appear back online in WMSPanel again within a minute.
This is is an example of WMSPanel cloud service benefits. As long as you use cloud for handling infrastructure settings, you will save a lot of time in case of hardware failures. Later on we'll introduce some advanced techniques of settings recovery and replication, stay tuned to our news.
Nimble Streamer installation, Nimble Streamer configuration description, Nimble streaming config,
As WMSPanel is the origin for all admin settings, it may send them back to server again so Nimble Streamer instance could be used as fully functional streaming server again. So we created a procedure for repairing server configs.
All you need is to start Nimble installation and run registration utility in recovery mode.
So let's assume you had a media server registered in WMSPanel. Its HDD crashed, you've replaced it then re-installed your server OS and you need it to be back online as streaming server with same settings.
When installing Nimble Streamer using the procedure listed here, complete the first step called Install Nimble Streamer and then stop at the next step Register Nimble in WMSPanel. Here you need to use special registration procedure. It will register server with old ID and would allow WMSPanel to handle new instance as an old one.
To find the procedure, go to severs list and click on the server name. That server will be shown as "offline" which means it's not sending There you see the "Recovery manual" button.
Clicking on it, you will get a dialog box explaining the procedure and showing the command for server instance settings repair.
The command will like this one:
sudo /usr/bin/nimble_regutil --recovery-id 81ceadb9-d6c9-xxxx-yyyy-zzzze4fa9221Now go back to command line where you were installing Nimble and run this command in your server command line instead of default registration command. Once it's done, re-start Nimble as mentioned in installation procedure for your OS.
The server will appear back online in WMSPanel again within a minute.
This is is an example of WMSPanel cloud service benefits. As long as you use cloud for handling infrastructure settings, you will save a lot of time in case of hardware failures. Later on we'll introduce some advanced techniques of settings recovery and replication, stay tuned to our news.
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