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codeMonkey32
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March 14, 2007
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Bandwidth Limits on FCS v1.5

  • March 14, 2007
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I'm new to FCS, so pardon my ignorance, or lack of correct terminology.

We're running Flash Communication Server v1.5. We have a hard limit of 2500 peak users, and 10Mbps. It's been a relatively maintenance free system for the last couple of years, but as of late we're hitting the 10Mbps threshold constantly.

The only documentation I've been able to find covers the new Flash Media Server 2.0, which allows you to reduce the number of peak users and increase the bandwidth limit accordingly.
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Unfortunately, I've been unable to find anything similar for FCS.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible, and if so, how to configure it. Or is our option to upgrade to the new FMS?
Not opposed to the upgrade, but would hate to have to spend the money when this one's been so trouble free.

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    No... decreasing clients doen't increase available bandwidth, it just decreases the number of users shaing that 10mbps limit.

    When you reach either limit, the server will reject connections until both connections and throughput fall below license limits. Unless you can come up with another FCS license (Adobe isn't selling FCS licenses anymore), there's no way around that bandwidth cap.

    I see where you're going... but unfortunately FCS doesn't have the profiles like FMS does.

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    codeMonkey32Author
    Participant
    March 15, 2007
    That's exactly what I needed to know.
    I guess we upgrade then.

    Thanks again for you assistance and your time. It's very much appreciated.
    Anonymous
    Correct answer
    March 14, 2007
    No... decreasing clients doen't increase available bandwidth, it just decreases the number of users shaing that 10mbps limit.

    When you reach either limit, the server will reject connections until both connections and throughput fall below license limits. Unless you can come up with another FCS license (Adobe isn't selling FCS licenses anymore), there's no way around that bandwidth cap.

    I see where you're going... but unfortunately FCS doesn't have the profiles like FMS does.
    codeMonkey32Author
    Participant
    March 14, 2007
    Hi Jay...

    Thanks very much for the quick response. In my efforts to not be long-winded with my question, I think I was a little too vague.

    We want to open up the servers' bandwidth as opposed to further limiting it. We have plenty of bandwidth available to us, so we want to stop the FCS from blocking accesses once it hits 10Mbps.

    My understanding was that by reducing the peak users (we're usually no more than 200, so I was wanting to set it for 250) we could in turn increase the available bandwidth limit, or in some cases make it unlimited.

    Feel free to correct me if I'm not clear on this.




    Anonymous
    March 14, 2007
    There are two ways you can approach this:

    You can configure at the vHost level - Just find the vhosts.xml file in the directory of your vhost (the default vhost is [fcs install dir]\conf\_defaultRoot_\_defaultVHost_\vhost.xml), and look for this line:

    <MaxConnections>-1</MaxConnections>

    You can also limit connections at the application level. In your onConnect method, you can check the number of clients already connected, and reject clients when at your limit:

    application.onConnect = function(clientObj){
    if (application.clients.length > 100){
    application.rejectConnection(clientObj);
    }
    }
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