CHAPTER 2 Media Flow Manager Overview
Media Flow Manager Administrator’s Guide
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Note!
Media Flow Manager is a separate product and is not a component of Media Flow
Controller. It needs to be deployed and managed separately.
Important!
Media Flow Manager does not support RAID arrays.
Tip!
Media Flow Manager provides a Web-based interface to manage your Media Flow
Controllers; this is described fully in
Chapter 3, “Media Flow Manager Web-Based Interface."
Remote Monitoring and Management
You can use CMC to manage multiple Media Flow Controllers located anywhere in the
network. It communicates with a client running on each Media Flow Controller to collect
management information.
Figure 1, “Media Flow Manager Interaction"
shows how Media Flow
Controllers can be scattered in various places and managed by a single CMC.
CMC can be used to configure each of the Media Flow Controllers that the CMC manages.
You can send CLI commands to a particular Media Flow Controller, or a group of Media Flow
Controllers. You can also copy the configuration from one Media Flow Controller and apply it
to another.
Detailed management information about each Media Flow Controller that a CMC manages,
including operational state, disk space, CPU utilization, and software version is provided as
well as summary information about the CMC console.
CMC allows you to access the Management Console of each of the Media Flow Controllers it
manages. You log into, configure, manage, and control a particular Media Flow Controller.
Media Flow Manager logs show the behavior of managed Media Flow Controller’s with respect
to their operational status. The logging infrastructure provides time-based logs to correlate
Media Flow Controller behavior at different times.
Fault Management
CMC provides a real-time fault management of the managed Media Flow Controllers. It
constantly checks the live status of the Media Flow Controller by sending periodic HTTP
“heartbeats.” CMC has the ability to view the full health of appliance(s)—including all system
resources. It uses different colors for in-service versus out-of-service Media Flow Controllers.
CMC can be configured to send SNMP traps for certain alarm generations. CMC also uses
various logs for different events.
Groups and Profiles
CMC allows multiple Media Flow Controllers to be grouped together for ease of configuration
and management. CMC also allows administrators to create profiles, i.e. configuration items
that are grouped together. Once a profile is created, it can be applied to an individual Media
Flow Controller or a configured group of Media Flow Controllers.
CMC can also use a mutual authentication between the Media Flow Controllers and itself
using configurable shared secrets.
