Wowza Server
 Corsair 540 Tower Case | |
| Active | operational 2015 |
|---|---|
| Location | SETV Main Office - Rack |
| Architecture | Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor |
| Power | 650 W |
| Operating system | Debian Jessie 8 64-bit |
| Memory | 16.00 GB |
| Storage |
120GB OS; 2TB VOD; 3TB Backup |
| Speed | 3.50GHz (peak) |
| Purpose | Wowza Streaming and VOD server |
The Wowza Media Server is what is used by the Springfield SETV office to broadcast our live streams online, and provide Video-On-Demand (VOD) content to our users.
Contents
Device Build
| Component | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor | Cooling: Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO |
| Motherboard | ASUS M5A99X EVO Rev.2.0 AM3+ | |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1600 | 2x8GB |
| Storage | Intel 530 Series 120 GB 2.5" SSD | (/dev/sda) Operating System & Wowza Install Root |
| Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD | (/dev/sdb) Wowza VOD, Live, FTP, WowzaShares | |
| Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD | (/dev/sdc) Wowza OS and VOD Backup Drive | |
| Video Card | PNY Quadro K4000 | |
| Case | Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower | |
| PSU | Corsair RM 650W 80+ Gold Modular | |
| Optical Drive | ASUS DRW CD/DVD Writer |
Operating System
The chosen operating system for the Wowza Server is Debian 8 64-bit, Codename Jessie. The reason this was chosen was because Linux, overall, is a more stable webserver environment. It is also free compared to RedHat and Windows IIS. Due to it's open-sourced nature, support is only as good as your troubleshooting and Googling.
If all is lost, and you need to start from scratch, visit Setting Up Wowza for the First Time.
Wowza Software
The streaming software we use is called Wowza Streaming Engine. The control panel backend is called Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. Users use the WSE Manager to administer common Wowza settings. Below we will go over the basics of starting, stopping the Wowza Service, Upgrading, and troubleshooting streams.
Wowza Streaming Engine
Wowza Streaming Engine/Manager
Notes to Consider
Shell Access
Shell access (SSH) has been highly secured. All access attempts to port 22 are blocked except from whitelisted IPs.
All IP's under 10.130.0.0/16 are whitelisted, meaning any computer on the SSD Network should have access to the SSH port.
To modify the Whitelist, use the monitor connected to the machine (or use PuTTY with X11 forwarding and Xming) launch firestarter and click the Policy tab
You can add or remove rules within Firestarter - Leave Ajenti, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, 8088 and 1935 ALONE! Do not touch these.
All SSH access is authenticated by Certificate. If you lost the cert, you will have to learn how to make a new one for SSH, convert it to a .ppk for PuTTY.
Certs are located on the Archive drives.
Notes to add
fstab
nvidia-smi and it's special love with wowza
setting up SSH access, using PPK and PuTTY
users
FTP public, private, management
rsnapshot
common commands for shell
