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VBrick VOD-WM Server Admin Guide 17
Chapter 4
Creating Publishing Points
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.
T To 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. "