Adding a Broadcaster to a Manual Cluster

since for our use case, you selected the manual option under management type when configuring the broadcaster cluster, you need to manually add broadcasters to the cluster to manually add a broadcaster to a cluster in the main navigation, select broadcasters from the list of broadcaster clusters, select the cluster to which you want to add the broadcaster the details of the broadcaster are displayed at the right side of the screen in the broadcasters section, click + add broadcaster in tab view, you need to first select the broadcasters tab and then click on the + add broadcasters button the create new broadcaster window is displayed in the name field, type a logical name of the broadcaster this name is internal, so you don’t necessarily need to use exactly the same name used to configure the zixi broadcaster in the api user field, enter the username for accessing the zixi broadcaster via api (default value admin ) in the api password field, enter the password for accessing the zixi broadcaster the default password on zixi broadcasters is 1234 unless you have changed the password for this broadcaster, enter 1234 in this field in the ssh key field, select from the drop down list one of the existing remote access keys to be used for ssh tunneling between the zixi broadcaster and zen master select the broadcaster type options are primary (default) – the broadcaster functions as an active member of the cluster backup – the broadcaster does not receive sources/channels unless all primary broadcasters are unavailable (or it is manually configured to receive that source) click save the broadcaster is configured and will remain in pending state until you configure the initial connection to the zixi broadcaster, see the following section connecting the zixi broadcaster (zixi broadcaster ui) docid\ wwql4jkjhptmh86jvq 4a