Graceful restart with a live stream running?

[rrlanham]

There are a couple of steps to enabling JMX:
http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....tart-guide#jmx

Richard

[stefanc]

Has the behavior for Application shutdown been changed in Wowza 3?

I'm testing Wowza 3.1.0 and after shutdown of an application through JMX, I observe that ongoing VOD RTMP streams continue playing while the Application is stopped. If I start playing a new stream (e.g. same content in other player), the application is started again.

So it seems like you now have support for graceful restart of applications. Is my observation correct or do you have any other explanation to what I have observed.

I could not find anything in the release notes about this.

/Stefan

[rrlanham]

The player is just playing out the stream buffer, I'm sure

Richard

[rrlanham]

You have to change /conf/Server.xml /JMXRemoteConfiguration /Enable to "true", then restart Wowza

http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....tart-guide#jmx

Richard

[stefanc]

Thanks for your response.

I updated my earlier post to state that I was testing VOD and not live. I am pulling files from the file system through the Media Cache.

But I still see that after stopping the application, the player continues playing the file for at least 10 minutes without a problem, and it is pulling the content from Wowza and not from any local buffer. It seems like the stream just lives on in Wowza 3.1 although the application is dead. What am I missing?

/Stefan

[rrlanham]

I just set that all up and tested, vod mediacache, then shutdown the application instance with JConsole like this:

http://www.wowza.com/forums/showthre...ght=#post52138

Then the player stopped right away.

Richard

[stefanc]

Thanks,

I tested again, and you are right, but the stream only stops if I execute "shutdownAppInstance".

If I only execute "shutdown" (on full application), the application is killed, but the streams in the application instances continue playing (forever). And now I cannot stop them, since I don't see the application at all through JMX.

I think that "shutdown" (on full application) should cause all app instances to be properly stopped.

Any comments on this?

/Stefan

[rrlanham]

Stefan,

The ApplicationInstance is the run-time, instantiated Application. Application.shutdownAppInstance(instanceName) is how to do what you want to do.

Richard

[FrankTrog]

I attempted to use the shutdown as specified but the stream doesn't restart. How do I start the stream back? Basically I want to stop the stream if needed and restart it as needed.

[rrlanham]

You will have to provide much more info/detail as to what you are doing and what you want to accomplish.

Richard