Adobe MEDIA SERVER User Manual page 28

USING ADOBE MEDIA SERVER ON AMAZON WEB SERVICES
Using Adobe Media Server on Amazon Web Services
Adobe Media Server Administration Console
Adobe Media Server Administration Console is not configured to run by default. To use it, you must enable it in the
ams.ini configuration file and start it.
For general information about the Administration Console, see
Configure the Administration Server
1 In /opt/adobe/ams/conf/ams.ini, set values for the following parameters:
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SERVER.ADMIN_USERNAME = someusername
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SERVER.ADMINSERVER_HOSTPORT = :1111
The first two parameters add one user for the Administration Console. To add additional users, see the next section,
"Add administrators".
To set the administrator password, perform the following steps:
Ensure that
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AMSAdmin
Execute the following command from the shell:
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opt/adobe/ams/amsadmin –console –user someusername
You will be prompted to enter a password. Ensure that the password is atleast 8 characters long.
3 Go to Users.xml and check for the salted hash of your password under the password tag.
Restart the server:
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./amsmgr server ams restart
Open port 1111 in the Security Group of the instances you want to administer. Open the port only to the IP
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addresses that are allowed to access the Administration Server. See
Start, stop, or restart the Administration Server
1 Do one of the following to connect to the instance over SSH:
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"Connect to an instance and copy files from a Windows
Administration Server connect with PuTTY, not WinSCP. WinSCP is for copying files.)
• "Connect to an instance and copy files from a Linux/UNIX
Enter the following to change to the Adobe Media Server root installation directory:
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cd /opt/adobe/ams
3 To start, stop, or restart the server:
./amsmgr adminserver start | stop | restart
Add administrators
To add administrators for a particular application, copy a Users.xml configuration file from opt/adobe/ams/conf
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to /mnt/applications/myapplication. Add a
password of the administrator.
See "Configure an application" on page 38.
You can optionally specify which IP addresses and domains each administrator is allowed to connect from
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<Allow></Allow>, and which IP addresses and domains each administrator is not allowed to connect from
<Deny></Deny>.
is not running.
<User></User>
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Using the Administration Console.
"Modifying a Security
computer" on page 31 (To start or stop the
computer" on page 34
section to the Users.xml file with the username and
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Group" on page 22.