Media Administrator, a console application, includes some command line-executable operations.
There should be no need to use these during daily operations, but they may be of help during installation or while investigating issues.
Info:
Any changes performed with these commands are only active until Media Administrator is next restarted.
For persistent changes, use regular configuration, as described in
Media Administrator Properties Editor and
Video Server, MAM and Database Connection Strings.
The list of available commands is as follows:
add <clipname> <index>: Adds a clip manually to the list of clips currently monitored. Typically used to test the installation.
delete <index>: Deletes a monitored clip with the given index.
dumpclips <filename>: Outputs a list of all monitored clips in an XML format. Outputs to console if no filename is given.
dumpprofiiler: Shows timing information. Typically used to test the installation.
exit: Exits the Media Administrator.
flushactionqueue: Flushes the internal action queue of all pending actions.
help: Outputs all available commands.
listactionqueue: Outputs the pending list of actions to be executed.
listclips: Outputs a list of all monitored clips.
listservers: Outputs a list of all configured media servers.
mmhost <hostname>: Sets the hostname of the Manus Administrator. Default: localhost.
postroll <roll>: Sets/displays the current value of the post roll.
reconnect: Reconnects to all configured media servers. Typically only one video server is connected.
reconnectadmin: Reconnects to the Manus Administrator.
refresh <n>: Refreshes the status for all monitored clips <n> times (by making a request io the server for all clips). Typically used to test the installation. Default <n> =
1.search <regex>: Issues a clip search to the video server. The regex is a regular expression for clip names. Typically used to test the installation.
set <property>=<value>: Sets a property value. If no property is given, a list of all supported properties is displayed. The following properties are available:
NextClipAttemptDelay: Delay in seconds when to automatically verify presence of non-existing clips.
Note that most video servers support asynchronous notifications making this functionality unnecessary.NextServerAttemptDelay: Delay in seconds when to try to reconnect to a video server. When the connection to a video server is not successful, this delay determines the time to wait before a new connection attempt.
NextPingDelay: Delay in seconds for pinging the connected video servers, to detect whether the servers are valid.
MonitorClipInterval: Interval for monitoring clips. A clip is polled for changes as long as any of its attributes change.
settings: Opens the Media Administrator Properties Editor.
verbose: Toggles verbose output. In Verbose mode, more information is logged to the console.
version: Outputs Media Administrator version and some system information.