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Joe Herold
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Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:
Tracking Multicast Connections |
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Does NetIQ or any other product/vendor offer a solution
to view the number of connections to a live MULTICAST
(not UNICAST) broadcast? From what I see in the log file
created by Microsoft Media Services 9, running on a
Windows 2003 Server, the logfile, created for each
multicast publishing point, is empty of any activity.
I am not even sure whether that information (i.e. 1 to
1000 connections) is being recorded by the Windows Media
Service.
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Mike M.
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Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:15 am Post subject:
Re: Tracking Multicast Connections |
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I can't say with any real knowledge except, Multicast uses UDP broadcast
packets sent over the network. The player gets the information about these
packets (IP addr, port, etc.) and then grabs the packets. It seems logical
to me that there is no connection between the player and the server.
Just a thought.
"Joe Herold" <joseph.ctr.herold@faa.gov> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Does NetIQ or any other product/vendor offer a solution
to view the number of connections to a live MULTICAST
(not UNICAST) broadcast? From what I see in the log file
created by Microsoft Media Services 9, running on a
Windows 2003 Server, the logfile, created for each
multicast publishing point, is empty of any activity.
I am not even sure whether that information (i.e. 1 to
1000 connections) is being recorded by the Windows Media
Service. |
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Ravi Raman
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Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:51 am Post subject:
Re: Tracking Multicast Connections |
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Mike is right in that with multicast there is no
connection made to the server.
however, when announcing an ASX that contains the NSC
file for the multicast, you can also specify a logging
URL in the ASX. The Windows Media Player will then send
the logging information to that URL. There is
a "Multicast Logging Agent" that is part of Windows media
Services installation. This is just a DLL that works in
conjunction with IIS. When the WMP sends the logging info
to this DLL, it collects the logs similar to the way WMS
does.
I believe the Windows Media services doc explains this
somewhere. Hope this helps.
Ravi
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| Quote: | -----Original Message-----
I can't say with any real knowledge except, Multicast
uses UDP broadcast
packets sent over the network. The player gets the
information about these
packets (IP addr, port, etc.) and then grabs the
packets. It seems logical
to me that there is no connection between the player and
the server.
Just a thought.
"Joe Herold" <joseph.ctr.herold@faa.gov> wrote in message
news:2dafe01c46a96$d8229440$a401280a@phx.gbl...
Does NetIQ or any other product/vendor offer a solution
to view the number of connections to a live MULTICAST
(not UNICAST) broadcast? From what I see in the log
file
created by Microsoft Media Services 9, running on a
Windows 2003 Server, the logfile, created for each
multicast publishing point, is empty of any activity.
I am not even sure whether that information (i.e. 1 to
1000 connections) is being recorded by the Windows
Media
Service.
.
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