June 24, 2015

Data disaster recovery for Nimble Streamer

WMSPanel collaborates with Nimble Streamer via sync-ups exchange. Nimble is sending statistics data to WMSPanel service for further processing and gets responses.

This scheme assumes that a Nimble Streamer media server is constantly online and it keeps sending sync-ups continuously. Internet is a very complex network and sometimes some of sub-networks and entire countries become invisible to other segments. In this case our server will not be able to send data and this might cause data losses.

Nimble Streamer now has proper improvements to prevent data losses and recover from disasters like that. Here is how it works now.
  1. When Nimble Streamer is launched after installation and registration in WMSPanel, is starts sending sync-ups.
  2. If wmspanel.com is not available for some reason, Nimble still tries to reach it, trying to send sync-ups for several times.
  3. If the service in unavailable for a long time, then the delta for the most useful daily statistics are accumulated on the server side.
  4. When the service becomes available, the calculated data is sent and WMSPanel fills the gap between the moment when the server "disappeared" and current moment.

The following most useful daily statistics are saved and recovered:
  • Connections count - total and per-protocol;
  • Traffic;
  • Peak bandwidth - incoming and outgoing;
  • Average view time;
  • Total view time.

This is the most critical data often used for billing customers, that's why it's saved and recovered. So your critical stats are always safe and you can rely on WMSPanel daily reporting.

Let us know if there are any other WMSPanel data recovery and consistency concerns.

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