Selecting the LAUNCH SERVICES MANAGEMENT CONSOLE button from the SERVICE OPTIONS
on the Xmedia Server Control Panel’s Service control page opens the Windows Services Management Console (figure 15-6).
Figure 15-6. Access all of the system’s services from the Microsoft Services Management Console The Services Management Console is a Windows system administration interface that allows you to start, stop, and change configuration on services defined on the Xmedia Server. Listed among these services is the XMS Server. Double-clicking the XMS Server name in the list opens the XMEDIASERVER PROPERTIES window, which provides a finer control over the service. Since the most common functionality (i.e. stopping and restarting the XMS service) is already provided on the Xmedia Server Control Panel’s Service Control page, we discourage the use of this interface.
Selecting the RUNTIME STATISTICS tab on the Xmedia Server Control Panel displays a real-time tally of the Xmedia Server’s session events and the asset content of its database. This information is useful when you have two Xmedia Servers in a replication setup (page 6-1).
By comparing the Runtime Statistics counts of the various event categories, you can quickly determine if the databases on each machine are synchronized.
Figure 16-1. The Xmedia Server Control Panel’s Runtime Statistics page
Clicking the REFRESH button (lower-left corner) executes a quick query for any changes to the server’s events and updates the XMS Runtime Statistics list with the most current tallies.
The XMS Runtime Statistics list provides the latest tallies for the following event and asset categories:
CURRENTSESSIONCOUNT The number of network connections to the server at the current moment.
This event reports two (2) connections per application.
TOTALCLIENTSESSIONS The number of network connections the instance of this Xmedia Server has received.
TCP MESSAGESSENT The number of back channel messages sent to all clients for the lifetime of this Xmedia Server session.
ASSET INSERTS The number of assets that have been added to the Xmedia Server database since the beginning of the current XMS service session.
ASSET DELETES The number of assets that have been deleted from the Xmedia Server database since the beginning of the current XMS service session.
ASSET UPDATES The number of assets that have been edited and whose changes were saved to the Xmedia Server since the beginning of the current XMS service session.
PUBLISHES The number of assets that have been published to devices since the beginning of the current XMS service session.
ACTIVEPRIMARYSERVER Category heading that identifies that all of the remaining events in the XMS Runtime Statistics list are a tally of the assets belonging to the primary Xmedia Server.
AUDIOCOUNT The number of audio assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
BLOBCOUNT The number of generic assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
CELANIMATIONCOUNT The number of cel animation assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
CHANNELCOUNT MOS asset object type. A channel is an object that is made up of a number of devices each associated to a publoc2 asset.
DEVICE2 COUNT MOS asset object type. A Device2 is a logical representation of a Vertigo XG or another driver (i.e. Lyric, Deko, etc.) to which Xplay will send Cue/Take, Set text, and Set image commands.
FONTCOUNT The number of font assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
GALLERYCOUNT The number of Xmedia objects that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
GRAPHICCOUNT The number of pages that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
IMAGECOUNT The number of image assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
METADATACOUNT The number of data sources that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
PANELCOUNT The number of panel assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
PLAYLISTCOUNT The number of playlist assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
PUBLOC2 COUNT MOS asset object type. A Publoc2 is a logical representation of a location (i.e. hostname, drive, directory) to which clips, audio, scenes and other files are to be published.
RUNDOWNCOUNT The number of rundown assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
SCENECOUNT The number of scene assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
SCRIPTCOUNT The number of script assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
SEGMENTCOUNT The number of segment assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
SHOWCOUNT This event has been deprecated and its value is always zero (0).
STATIONCOUNT The number of station configuration assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
STRINGMAPCOUNT The number of lookup tables that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
TEMPLATECOUNT The number of template assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
VIDEOCOUNT The number of video clip assets that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
WORKORDERCOUNT The number of work orders that are stored on the Xmedia Server.
WORKORDER_JOBCOUNT The number of work order jobs that are stored on the Xmedia Server.