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ThomasCrown35
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April 14, 2010
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Configure a Back-up Origin?

  • April 14, 2010
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Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5

We currently have an Edge/Origin configuration. We have another Origin Server to be used for fail-over. How do you setup a back-up Origin Server?

Thanks.

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    Anonymous
    April 14, 2010

    Hi,

    You could put in a simple fail-over mechanism by using a combination of client side action script on your SWF client and server-side action script of FMS application. Basically you can keep the netconnection ready on both the origin servers, use Origin1 and if it goes down, use the netconnection to Origin2 to revive the functionality.

    What's your usecase with FMS Edge-Origin setup? Could you describe a bit more about it so that I can understand your question better?

    Thanks

    Mamata

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    ThomasCrown35Author
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    April 14, 2010

    Thanks Mamata,

    What we hope to have is a load balanced Edge-Origin configuration with fail-over for the Origin server in case of loss. We have a lot of requests on our site for the same video. We want the Edge server in "front" so that it can cache these requests, and limit the connections to the Origin server. Between our Edge and Origin Server we will configure a load balancer as recommended in Adobe documentation for this configuration. We have yet to configure the load balancer yet, just the Edge/Origin by changing the Vhost.xml file on the server that will be used as 'Edge01'. As we expand, we want to add more Edge servers in the future.

    Today, an Adobe Engineer mentioned that we should not do anything "special" to the config files for the Origin Servers. He said we would need to make sure that exact same application and configuration are running on the Origin and Back-Up Origin; and that these should have access to the same shared storage (which needs to be super fast as he stated).

    Any more thoughts?

    Thanks

    Tom

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    Anonymous
    April 15, 2010

    Hi Tom

    Yes there isn't anything specific to be done on the config files of Origin and Back-up Origin servers. As you said Back-up Origin should have the application that Primary Origin is serving and be able to access every resource which the application could be using all of which is a basic necessity.


    Load balancing could be acheived through a hardware load balancer or simply through a server-side logic to redirect an incoming connection to a specific server in the cluster.

    You could refer to http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/origin_redundancy_print.html .

    Thanks

    Mamata

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