With the
release of Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Wowza Media Systems made a great step towards better user experience. Its server control and monitoring dashboard provide a great way of controlling a single given media server.
How does WMSPanel fit this new Wowza approach to server management?
WMSPanel still works
perfectly for any user of Wowza Streaming Engine.
Let's review basic areas of useful functionality.
Server management
In spite of the fact that Wowza management web GUI provides a great user experience for majority of control features, WMSPanel can still propose unique capabilities.
WMSPanel provides
multiple servers management. When an administrator wants to make some action like creating application, or its instance, or
managing streams, he selects the designated servers and applies an action to them. It will be applied and this action will be logged in central panel log.
WMSPanel gives an exterior third-party view on running server so it can alert about
server downtime. Moreover, with Dispersa
streams availability monitoring an administrator can be sure that he's notified about any gives stream malfunction.
So if you manage a number of Wowza servers and live streams, WMSPanel is still useful for you.
Excellent reporting capabilities for end users
That's where WMSPanel does its best. All of your Wowza servers will send statistical information and WMSPanel central handler will process and store this info for further display via
web browser. It works from
any device with a web browser,
including iOS and Android. Here's what the panel can do for you.
Daily statistics include a
variety of reports including
connections, bandwidth and traffic,
geo-location report,
playtime and duration,
players and devices stats.
High precision report gives statistics for connections, traffic, peak bandwidth and 95% bandwidth with
5-minutes granularity.
Streams real-time and retro statistics will give you a brief snapshot of any given stream.
White label - let's start with the end-user look. You can
set up your own domain, logo, CSS and even favicon for displaying reports. Moreover, you can create
multiple domains with their logos and favicons.
Data slices allow
splitting your statistics into any number of buckets and assign non-admin users to see those statistics. You can create both
applications-based and
streams-based slices. Having white label, you can give end-users access to their data via separate domain or domains. You can even
make end-user billing based on user's data.
Statistics export API allows you obtaining the collected statistics for further processing in case you have some complex data processing mechanics within your company.
With all this you may have a
full view of what's happening to all your Wowza servers. You can watch it real time or get back to collected data any day after.
Read more about WMSPanel streaming reporting.
Streaming protection and restriction
On top of advanced management and excellent reporting, WMSPanel gives more power to control streaming process.
We call this a
Paywall feature set:
More than just control panel
So WMSPanel is more than yet another control panel tool. It's a
framework for
controlling the streaming process and
collecting the data for further
business analysis.
And if you need more than just configuring apps and streams, WMSPanel is the right way to do it.
Further steps
If you are
already using WMSPanel and would like to upgrade Wowza, please use this
instruction for WMSPanel agent migration.
Please also check the full list of supported Wowza versions in case you'd like to keep using Wowza 2 or Wowza 3.
Now
sign up and try these features if you haven't tried them yet.
