Creating Publishing Points

Chapter 4

The WM Server can also be configured with publishing points to be used as a reflector server. When used in this manner, live WM streams reflected from the WM Server can be selected and viewed from the ETV Portal Server. To have the reflected stream appear on the

Live Broadcasts page of the Portal Server, go to the Configuration: Encoder > Server page

in IWS and complete the Announce External Server section. For more information, see the "Configuration" chapter in the WM Appliance Admin Guide.

The following paragraphs explain how to create publishing points on a Windows Media Server to allow live streaming from a VBrick WM appliance to the server. It is important to note that, by default, WMS Publishing Points ACL Authorization is enabled on the Windows Media Server. This means that an HTTP push from a WM appliance will not connect to the server unless you first create a user name and password for an authorized user on the WM Server and enter that user name and password in the appliance configuration. (If you disable authorization entirely, anyone who knows the URL can view the stream.) See the ETV Portal Server Admin Guide and the Microsoft Windows Media Server documentation for more information.

Creating Publishing Points

The WM Appliance supports both authenticated and non-authenticated push publishing points for the Microsoft Windows Media Server. Depending on how you configure the Windows Media Server, authentication can be the default setting for all push publishing points, it can be required on a per-publishing-point basis, or not required at all. A typical deployment of the Windows Media Server will most likely have the authentication setting on to force a push device to authenticate itself before it can send data to the publishing point.

TTo verify and enable or disable authentication:

1.Go to the Windows Media Services Manager. The first device directly under Windows Media Services in the left pane is the name of the Windows Media server.

2.Select the named Windows Media server and click Properties in the right pane. This displays two additional panes.

3.In the left pane, select Authorization and right-click WMS Publishing Points ACL

Authorization.

In the right pane click Properties. If there are user names in the list, click the username to view the allowed function. The named user will have a combination of read/write/create permissions as follows:

•Read – will allow the user to read from the publishing point.

•Write – will allow the user to write (push) to the publishing point.

•Create – at the server level will allow a user to create publishing points, or at the individual point level it will allow a user to create "Copy From Points. "

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