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teel_
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February 3, 2010
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Monitoring & Alerts

  • February 3, 2010
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Hi,

I'm running Flash Media Streaming Server on Windows Server 2008 and I need some kind of monitoring solution to ensure the quality of service. I tried searching for some options, but didn't find anything relevant, so I thought I'd ask here. So what are my options to make sure that Flash Media Server is up and running and to get alerts when something is wrong?

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    teel_Author
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    February 4, 2010

    I know, but what I'm looking for here, is an automated solution that automatically checks the health of the server and reacts to problems or sends alerts when the problem requires attention. I really don't have the resources nor the manpower to keep refreshing the admin console 24/7.

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    Anonymous
    February 3, 2010

    Hi,

    You could use the Administration API to monitor Flash Media Server. There are apis llike getServerStats() which retrieves the server status and statistics about the operation of the server. Information reported includes the length of time the server has been running and I/O and message cache statistics. You could refer to the administrationapi doc.

    You also mentioned regarding monitoring of quality of service which can be accomplished by using the NetStreamInfo class of ActionScript 3.0 which provides QOS statistics for stream performance and client network conditions.

    Here are few useful links:

    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashmediaserver/articles/dynstream_actionscript.html

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/net/NetStreamInfo.html

    Thanks

    Mamata

    Janaki Lakshmikanthan
    Adobe Employee
    Janaki Lakshmikanthan
    Adobe Employee
    February 4, 2010

    Yes, Mamata's reply answers your question. To add to it, you could also use a simple tool that gets installed with FMS

    , fmscheck tool. It resides at \$Root|Flash Media Server\tools\fmscheck.exe. This is a simple command line tool to check the health of the server at any point of time.

    Regards,

    Janaki L

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    teel_Author
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    February 4, 2010

    So there isn't support for FMS in any readily available monitoring software, like Nagios or similar? I'll have to make my own monitoring tools with the API?

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