Windows Media Services

29 Aug 2006 12:35 PM

FCosta

Given that some updates cannot be applied without server restart, what would
happen to windows media encoders pushing the content to my windows media
server when I reboot it?

Do they keep trying until it comes back online? Is there a timeout period?
Do I have to go to each of the encoders and restart the push process?

I am looking for a reliable uniterruptable streaming but cannot afford two
streaming servers, hence this doubt

Thank you.
Regards,
Francisco

29 Aug 2006 12:50 PM

Freaky

FCosta wrote:

> Given that some updates cannot be applied without server restart, what would
> happen to windows media encoders pushing the content to my windows media
> server when I reboot it?
>
> Do they keep trying until it comes back online? Is there a timeout period?
> Do I have to go to each of the encoders and restart the push process?
>
> I am looking for a reliable uniterruptable streaming but cannot afford two
> streaming servers, hence this doubt
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Francisco

Hmm then you'll always have a problem when the update is on the
streaming server software... In that case it will always have to go down.

Don't have much options for you but a 2nd server.

regards

29 Aug 2006 2:08 PM

FCosta

Thanks Freaky, but if im running a single streaming server and it reboots
(voluntarily or not), will the stream sources/encoding PCÂ´s stop streaming to
my server, thus requiring manual reconnect.

This has the obvious impact that if there are 10 encoding sources and my
server goes down, then I have to connect to each of those PCÂ´s and force a
reconnect

Question: does windows media encoder keep pushing the stream until my server
comes back online, avoiding the need to force a reconnect?

Thank you.

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"Freaky" wrote:

> FCosta wrote:
> > Given that some updates cannot be applied without server restart, what would
> > happen to windows media encoders pushing the content to my windows media
> > server when I reboot it?
> >
> > Do they keep trying until it comes back online? Is there a timeout period?
> > Do I have to go to each of the encoders and restart the push process?
> >
> > I am looking for a reliable uniterruptable streaming but cannot afford two
> > streaming servers, hence this doubt
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Regards,
> > Francisco
>
> Hmm then you'll always have a problem when the update is on the
> streaming server software... In that case it will always have to go down.
>
> Don't have much options for you but a 2nd server.
>
> regards
>

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