ZEN Master
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Broadcasters
Viewing Existing Clusters
Viewing Existing Broadcasters
2min
to view the full list of broadcasters, from the main broadcasters screen, click the broadcasters view button broadcasters view button to view the broadcasters of a specific broadcaster cluster, from the clusters screen, click the dropdown arrow of a specific broadcaster cluster to view its related broadcasters dropdown of clusters to view the full details of a specific broadcaster, click on it from the list list of broadcasters in cluster the info pane includes the following details parameter description cpu the cpu utilization rate ram the memory utilization rate hdd the hard drive utilization rate in bitrate the inbound bitrate out bitrate the outbound bitrate inputs the number of inputs adaptive the number of adaptive streams outputs the number of outputs uptime the time period that the broadcaster has been online public ip the public ip address of the broadcaster click the copy icon to copy the details version the software version of the broadcaster click the copy icon to copy the details agentz indicates whether agentz has been installed for this broadcaster agent z is a sidecar tool that sits on a zixi broadcaster, it acquires the system health data and other statistics locally and pushes it to zen master by enabling this option, zen master will automatically install agentz on any existing and future broadcasters connected to the cluster the feature is off by default due to agentz installation requiring a restart, zen master will not auto install agentz on a broadcaster that already contains any inputs to avoid disturbing active streams open click to access the zixi broadcaster ui location the location of the broadcaster by default, the location is determined automatically based on the broadcaster's ip however it is possible to specify another location during configuration network the network in which the broadcaster is located the networks are discovered automatically by zen master using ip to location method a network is defined as an asn from a specific country and region/state the following is a brief description of the sections that are shown history shows a graphical representation of the system usage over time if you see an issue and want to open an incident for further examination, click the open incident button and follow the instructions in creating an incident manually docid\ aomjabsyzylzy3gq4zh8o the following graphs are shown system shows system performance metrics over time for broadcasters that are using nvidia gpu for transcoding, the history graph shows the gpu usage of the encoder pipeline, decoder pipeline and cuda pipeline the gpu memory consumption is also shown network – shows the send and receive bitrates over time udp statistics shows a graphical representation of the udp receive errors that occurred over time (this is helpful for isolating errors that occurred on the broadcaster itself from errors that occurred in the network) active objects – lists the objects that are related to the broadcaster with their statuses click on the object’s name to view the object’s details details shows details about the broadcaster (e g ip, host id, version etc ) as well as its status and license status it also shows details about the protocol and ports used by the broadcaster if there is a configuration error then click the update configuration button to automatically update the configuration settings this may require a restart of the broadcaster events – shows all events related to this broadcaster that have been generated by the system, such as connections, errors, warnings and disconnections to learn about the data that is displayed in the events tab see events docid\ bgowcwcc5rmvqdkmlbttq click quick report to generate a report of events related to this channel and download the xls file changes – displays the history of changes that were made to the object configuration incidents – displays a list of the incidents concerning this broadcaster incidents groups together errors relating to the source into incidents to simplify the process of identifying the common root cause incidents can be manually created or automatically generated notes – free form text can be added with pertinent information about this broadcaster viewing broadcaster details docid 3znlwtlz5djboiyba6h20 viewing broadcaster active objects docid\ yfrwmx4j 4vr1yki0estb broadcaster history docid\ d75ifw fozxfd pptvxdw actions on broadcasters docid\ b1y6nshfzcuwcd0 gspg