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Bit-rate A data rate (the amount of data transferred in one direction over a link divided by the time taken to transfer it) expressed in bits per second. Juniper Networks notation examples: Kbps (kilobits per second), KB/s (kilobytes per second).
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 1 Preface KB and KiB KB=1000 Kilo Bytes (networking), KiB=1024 Kilo Bytes (storage). MB and MiB MB=1,000,000 Mega Bytes (networking), MiB=1,005,376 (1024 x 1024) Mega Bytes (storage). Media Flow Manager: A management interface that allows you to push configurations to a number of Media Flow Controllers from a central interface.
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 1 Preface Opening a Case with JTAC You can open a case with JTAC on the Web or by telephone. • Use the Case Manager tool in the CSC at http://www.juniper.net/cm/ • Call 1-888-314-JTAC (1-888-314-5822 –...
CHAPTER 2 Media Flow Manager Overview Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 2 Media Flow Manager Overview Juniper Networks Media Flow Manager manages Media Flow Controllers: • Central Management Console (CMC)—Lets you attach to Media Flow Controllers and monitor them, group Media Flow Controllers into named categories, create and apply configuration templates, and apply preset action profiles.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 2 Media Flow Manager Overview Central Management Console This section describes how the Central Management Console (CMC) works; first, terminology: • Media Flow Manager Server: The machine running the CMC software managing clients. • CMC Client: The software on a Media Flow Controller being managed by a CMC server.
This section describes how the Service Director feature works. Online video viewing can be significantly improved by delivering content from a location close to the user. Juniper Networks Service Director application is a cost-effective and easy to deploy solution to direct video requests to the nearest content server and deliver location specific content.
Real-Time Log File Analyzer Juniper Networks Media Flow Manager also provides an interface to AWStats™ realtime logfile analyzer to provide aggregated log information output to the Reports page. A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information: •...
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 2 Media Flow Manager Overview • Files type • Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate) • OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OS detected) • Browsers used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version Web, Wap, Media browsers: 97 browsers, more than 450 if using browsers_phone.pm library file) •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 4 Monitoring > Summary Page Detail System Information About the Media Flow Manager running the CMC: • Date and Time, current • Hostname, as configured • Uptime, since boot up •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Click Interrupt to stop a profile or command set from being applied, once application has already started. Click Remove Key if you need to install new Host Keys. Figure 6 Monitoring ->...
Speed and Duplex—Choose Auto (default) for the Speed and Duplex to be set automatically based on hardware. Or you can set these options to alternate values in the drop-down menu. Juniper Networks highly recommends that Speed and Duplex Note! not be changed from the auto-configured defaults.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface System Config > Routing Set IP Routing options, including Default Gateway and Static Routes. See Default Gateway On the System Config > Routing page, enter an IP address and click Set Default Gateway to apply changes;...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Static and Dynamic Domain Names View all configured static and dynamic domain names: • Domain—The configured name for that domain. • Active—Whether or not this domain name is being used currently. •...
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Static and Dynamic ARP Entries View Static and Dynamic ARP Entries. See Figure 19, next. • IP address—The configured IP address for this entry. • MAC address—The physical address of this entry. •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 22 System Config > Web Page Detail (Web UI Configuration) Web Proxy Configuration On the System Config > Web page, set parameters for the CMC Web-based interface when proxied.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 24 System Config > Users Page Detail (User Accounts) Select a user account and Remove, Enable, and/or Disable it. Click Save at the top of the page to make changes persistent across reboots. Add New User On the System Config >...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Authorization Set authorization options. See Figure 28. • Map Order— Determine how the remote user mapping behaves when authenticating users via RADIUS or TACACS+. If the authenticated user name is valid locally, no mapping is performed.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 34 System Config > TACACS+ Page Detail System Config > SNMP Configure SNMP server options. See for CLI details. snmp-server SNMP Configuration Enable SNMP and set SNMP authentication parameters. See Figure 35, below, for graphic.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface System Config > Faults Configure Fault Reporting options. See for CLI details. email Fault Reporting Set SMTP server, Domain name overrides, Return address, and other options. See Figure next.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface System Config > Logging Configure logging options. Local Log Filtering Set severity level, see Figure 40 for graphic; options are: • Notice—Normal but significant condition or response that could affect operations (default). •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Log Format Choose either Standard (default) or WELF (Web trends Enhanced Log Format). If you choose WELF, a WELF firewall name option displays; specify the firewall name that should be associated with each message logged in WELF format.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface • Import shared data only—Uncheck to import all nodes, even those not available on this system. Figure 48 System Config > Configurations Page Import Configuration Detail System Config > Date and Time Set system Date and Time, and Time Zone;...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Add New NTP Server Enter NTP server IP address, version, and enable/disable. See Figure 52, next. Figure 52 System Config > NTP Page Detail (Add New NTP Server) System Config >...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 56 System Config > Upgrade Page Detail (Installed Images) Install New Image To set partition; use Switch Boot Partition, above, if needed. See Figure 57 for graphic. •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface management to the selected Media Flow Controllers; and Refresh to update the page with the latest information. Figure 58 CMC Setup Page Detail (Managed Nodes List) Add New Media Flow Controller Node For each Media Flow Controller that you want this CMC to manage you’ll need a name, IP address, and authentication type with applicable values.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface CMC Setup > Groups Once you’ve added the Media Flow Controllers that you want to manage, you can group them logically. A group can be treated acted on as an individual appliance. Figure 60, next, for graphic.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface CMC Setup > Rendezvous Rendezvous is the mechanism by which Media Flow Controllers connect to a CMC for management. This page lets you set parameters for Media Flow Controllers to connect automatically.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface 4. You can add a Generic Command by entering a Sequence # for where in the sequence of existing commands for that profile this command should be executed, and entering a CLI command in the Command text box.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface When you edit a profile, you must re-apply it to the nodes and/or groups that you Important! want to have that profile; the changes are not automatically pushed out. Figure 66 CMC Profiles >...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Upgrade “System Config > Upgrade” on page Preset Profiles The Preset Profiles pages let you take certain actions on configured profiles and Media Flow Controllers. Preset Profiles > Preset Actions For the selected Media Flow Controller or group, you can use Preset Actions.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 72 Preset Profiles > Audit Nodes Page Detail Preset Profiles > Preset Config For the selected Media Flow Controller or group, you can verify a Preset Config. Apply Probe Setup a probe namespace that can be used by probes, such as load-balancer probes, to check the health of nodes.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Configure Service Director Use the Service Director > Configure page to set up Service Director, see Figure 74. You need the name and location of any Preset XML Response files you have created (in the format given above), or, to enter information directly, the host/domain names (URL Host) for Media Flow Controllers to which geographically-near incoming requests should be directed.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Figure 77 Service Director > Configure Page Detail (Match Response Configuration) Manage Service Director Activate, Deactivate, or Remove entirely a configured Matching URL Host chosen from the drop-down list. Figure 78, below, for graphic.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface Admission Control > Configure Click the Configure link at left to open configuration options, the Media Flow Controller Transmit Bandwidth graph still displays at top. Configure Control Parameters Configure a high watermark bandwidth and low watermark bandwidth.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface View Logs The Media Flow Manager system log (syslog) records system activity including: Continuous log, updated every 10 seconds. Current log, that day’s activity. Archived (does not display if not applicable) log (1 - n) Figure 83 CMC View Log Page Detail Reports...
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 3 Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface • Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate), • OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OS detected), • Browsers used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version (Web, Wap, Media browsers: 97 browsers, more than 450 if using browsers_phone.pm library file), •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 4 About the Command Line Interface (CLI) The Juniper Networks Media Flow Manager™command line interface (CLI) supports industry- standard commands for configuration and management as well as Media Flow Manager specific commands. The CLI supports command-line editing: press the up arrow to repeat previous lines, and the left arrow to edit the current line.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 4 About the Command Line Interface (CLI) Command Syntax Notation Conventions Table 3 shows the notation conventions used in this document to describe command syntax. Table 3 Command Syntax Notation Conventions Notation Description Example Keyword The first word or set of consecutive characters interface...
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 4 About the Command Line Interface (CLI) Some settings, such as the terminal length and width, are inherently session-specific, Note! and there are no corresponding commands to set defaults. Also, some commands are only available in default form.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Configure AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) settings; AAA accounting options are not supported at this time. Note that RADIUS and/or TACACS+ authentication must be configured before these options can be specified with this command. aaa (authentication) Configure authentication settings.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands • —Specify which location the system should boot from by default; use 1 or 2 for system location ID. Use next to set the boot location to be the next one after the one currently booted from.
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Create or delete (with no) an <appliance ID> for a remote appliance to manage; also enter an address and port number. NOTE: this will interrupt any active operations on this appliance (e.g.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Notes: • or ssh-rsa2 identity —Configure options for ssh-dsa2 or ssh-rsa2 ssh-dsa2 authorization. • —Generate a new identity (a private and public key-pair) or delete (with no) generate an existing identity. •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Notes: • —Enable or disable status checking of connected appliances. enable • —Sets the time delay between the start of one check-interval <number of seconds> status check and the start of the next. •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands specified file, and change the active file to that one. If no-switch is specified after to, the active configuration file is not changed to the named file after the save. If downloading configuration files from another system running the management Note! system, they can be found in the /config/db directory.
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Notes: • auth • —Enable SMTP authentication for Media Flow Controller emails; default is enable disabled. Use no email auth to re-disable. • —Set a password for SMTP authentication of emails; if no password is set, password the user is prompted for the password.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands • —An interface’s link state has changed to DOWN.* interface-down • —Average CPU utilization has risen too high. cpu-util-ave-high • —Average CPU utilization has fallen back to normal levels. cpu-util-ave-ok * Can be added to info events class (see below) with email notify event <event_name>. email class Email class options are as follows: •...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands ftp-server Configure FTP (file transfer protocol) settings. ftp-server {enable} Enable the FTP server. Use no ftp-server enable to disable. show ftp-server Show FTP server settings. hostname Set system hostname. See “System Config > Hostname” on page 43 for task details.
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—Set or clear (with no) this interface’s IP address and netmask. Important! IP_address • —Set the interface MTU. Default is 1500. Juniper Networks recommends keeping the default. Use no interface <interface_name> mtu to reset default. • —Enable or disable (with no) the specified interface.
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Jobs are specified in local time, meaning that if the time on the system changes, the job occurs in the new local time of the system (assuming that time has not passed). An arbitrary number of CLI commands may be specified with a job and are executed in the order specified by the set sequence numbers.
It does not record service activity or errors. The Media Flow Controller errorlog records service related errors but is mostly useful for debugging by Juniper Networks Support. Media Flow Controller provides several service-specific logs, detailed in Chapter 5, “Media Flow Controller Fault...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands name is set, the hostname is used by default. Use no logging format welf fw-name to delete. • —Set the severity level at which user-executed CLI commands are level cli commands logged.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands • —Allowable version numbers are 3 and 4; default is 4. If version number unspecified, default is used. • —Add or delete (with no) an NTP server. server • —Temporarily disable this NTP server. Use no ntp server disable <NTP_server_IP_address>...
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Notes: • —Reboot the system. If there are unsaved changes to the configuration, you may reload be prompted to save these changes (do a write memory) first before rebooting. The prompt is suppressed if confirmation of losing unsaved changes is disabled (with the no cli default prompt confirm-unsaved command).
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Example: http://www.example.com/svc/geo/uk- service-director xml-response UK-response xml-map.xml service-director query-url-host geosvc.example.com match isp Comcast response video1.comcast.com video2.comcast.com match zip 95054 response example1.video.com example2.video.com match city “Los Angeles” response cdn1.video.com cdn2.video.com match state CA response 12.1.10.183 12.1.10.184 12.2.18.23 match country USA response cdn2.video.com match country GBR response UK-response match continent Asia response cdn.singapore.com...
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Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands traps event <event_name> user {<user_name> | admin} v3 Notes: • —Set a community name for either read-only (ro) or read/write (rw) SNMP community requests. Default, and if unspecified, is ro. The read-only community means only queries are performed.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands connections are only accepted on those specified interfaces. When disabled, SSH connections are accepted on any interface. • —Add interfaces to the listen list; default is eth0. If interface <interface_name> the interface is also running as a DHCP client, it is as if the interface was not added. If DHCP is later turned off on this interface, it is as if the interface was then added to the listen list.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands • —If a filename is specified, the stats are exported to a file of filename <filename> that name; otherwise a name is chosen automatically and contains the name of the report and the time and date of the export. Any automatically-chosen name is given a .csv extension.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Table 7 Stats CHDs (continued from previous page) Stat CHD Description Filesystem usage for that month: bytes. Default interval and range are 7200 fs_mnt_month seconds. Filesystem usage for that week: bytes. Default interval and range are 1800 fs_mnt_week seconds.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands show tacacs TACACS+ settings. tcpdump tcpdump [<options>] Network diagnostic tool. Invokes standard binary, passing command line arguments straight through. Runs in foreground, printing packets as they arrive, until user hits Ctrl+C. telnet EXEC command.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands Notes: • —List of all user accounts and the capabilities of each. usernames • —List of all currently logged-in users, and related information such as idle time and users what host they have connected from. Optionally, choose history to view the history of user logins, past and present.
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide CHAPTER 5 CLI Commands auth authtype is set to basic. Note the password is accepted and stored in plaintext. —Specify a username for HTTP basic authentication with • username <username> an authenticating proxy. Only used if the web proxy auth authtype is set to basic.
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