Managing the Services - Users Guide. SelenioFlex File. Version

Normally you will set up the required services using the Configuration Wizard as part of the installation process. This section describes how to check on the installed services, and manually change them if needed.

Open the Control Panel, click on Administrative Tools and double click on Services.

If the SFX-File Manager is installed and configured you will see the following Services with their status set to "started" and startup type set to "automatic":

DRC Kayak Server DRC RMI Registry Jini Services

SelenioFlex File Manager

postgresql-9.2 – PostgreSQL Server (if you installed the default database on the system) If you installed the Imagine Communications License Server on this system, then you will also see:

DRC License Server

If you installed the Zenium Plugins Repo Server on this system, then you will also see:

DRC Kayak Plugins Repo Server (required if Zenium Engines will be used)

If the Agent and Transcode software is installed and configured on the transcode host system you will see the following Services with the status set to "started" and startup type set to "automatic":

SelenioFlex File Agent DRC RMI Registry

DRC Kayak Server (required if Zenium Engines will be used) DRC Stream Server (required if Stream Engines will be used) DRC Hypersonic (required if Stream Engines will be used)

In the "Log On As" column, these services must use an account that has administrator privileges on the local system and appropriate network privileges (not Local System) with the exception of the PostgreSQL Server service. The PostgreSQL Server service should NOT be set to use an administrator account, it should use either a non-admin account or the Network Service account.

If you need to change the Log On information, you can run the SFX-File Configuration Wizard again at any time. Alternatively, you can find the service entry and double click on it to open the Properties panel for that service.

On the Log On tab, Select "This account". For all services except the PostgreSQL service enter a

username and password that has administrator privileges on the local system and appropriate network privileges. This account will need to have Read and Write permission on the Network Shares where your watch folders and other required files used by the transcode tasks (for example, graphics, source files, etc.) will be located.

For the PostgreSQL service use a non-admin account or the Network Service account.

If your computer is connected to the Network as part of a Domain, then you will need to enter your domain\username. If your computer is connected to the Network as part of a Workgroup, then you will need to enter hostname\username.

Note that if you are connected as part of a Workgroup, it is possible that the "Full Name" being used by your computer was changed after it was set up. In order to start and stop services, you will have to Log On using the original Name. To see the original user name, right click on My Computer and choose Manage. Expand Local Users and Groups, and click on the Users folder. This will show you the user Name and the Full Name (or alias) on this local system.

If you have administrator privileges, you can also right click on the user, and use the "Rename" option to make the Name match the Full Name.

If you make any changes to the services, you will need to restart the service for the changes to take effect. If you are manually stopping and starting services on the SFX-File Manager system, please note that the DRC RMI Registry service must be started before the SelenioFlex File Manager service.

You can also configure and start/stop the DRC Kayak Server service and the DRC Stream Server service remotely, using the SFX-File Console software.

Launch the SFX-File Console software. When you launch the software you will be able to select your Manager from a list of the "Found Managers", and then click the Connect button. Once the Console software has successfully connected to the Manager, you will see a tabbed interface. Select the Agents tab, or if it is not showing use the main menu and select Manager > Agents. This will show you a list of all of the systems with Agents that the Manager can detect. Click on an Agent system to select it (or multi-select many Agent systems to change them all at once). The buttons used to access the services are found to the right of the window.

Click the Configure Stream Service or Configure Zenium Service.

• For the Startup type choose Automatic.

• Enable the Edit box

• For Account enter a username (e.g., domain\username if you are part of a network domain, or hostname\username if you are part of a workgroup) and password that has administrator privileges on this machine. For SFX-File this account will also need to have Read and Write permission on Network Shares where the required files will be located.

• Click the Save button. The service will be restarted automatically as a background task. It may take a few seconds for the changes to be made.

Licensing

The SFX-File Manager and Transcode Hosts which use Zenium engines use the Imagine Communications License Sever. The License Server requires a USB HASP. The HASP ID is used in the corresponding License Package file.

The License Package file includes the following SFX-File Manager features:

• SelenioFlex File – Authorizes the SFX-File Manager service to run.

• Backup Manager Enabled – Enables a SFX-File Backup Manager to run.

• Zenium Enabled – Enables the Zenium Transcode Resource role. When this is not enabled you cannot create a Zenium transcode group.

• Zenium Server – The service used to monitor and control Zenium Engines. This service can also be used by the SFX-File Manager when making any required modifications to a Blueprint before running a transcode task.

• Zenium Run Designer SFXF – This feature allows the Zenium Designer to be launched from the SFX-File Console. A standard SFX-SFX-File license includes one instance of this feature. Note that this feature allows you to create and save Zenium Transcode Blueprints. In order to run the Blueprint additional features are required.

• Stream Transcode Resource – When a Stream resource is brought online it will acquire this feature (and a Stream resource which is taken offline will release this feature). The maximum number of instances of this feature is the maximum number of simultaneous Stream Transcode Resources that can be managed by TS.

• Note that the maximum number of Zenium Resources that can be running a job is licensed in the Zenium Engine. (See next section)

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