Connecting your Icareus Playout Server

Connecting your Icareus Playout Server

ICAREUS PLAYOUT MANAGEMENT CONSOLE (PMC) 

Icareus Playout Management Console is used to configure and manage all Playout servers. 

 
Please ensure that the used PMC version is compatible with the Playout server that is managed.

CONNECTING TO SERVER 

PMC connects the Server over IP connection. In order to connect the PMC to the server, the following ports should be opened on the server side: 21, 2001, 5555. 

After that open the PMC application by choosing it from Windows Program menu or double clicking the icon on desktop.  

Start using the PMC by first Adding the server. Add a server by clicking the  Add server  -button top tool bar. It opens a pop-up that can be seen in the image right. 

Write the Playout server’s IP address to the Server address field. Server port 2001 (which is as default) should be used. Push OK. That should open a Login pop-up. Insert the username and password to pop-up window. Those have been set on the server side.  

Pushing   OK  will open the connection to the Icareus Playout server and you should be able to see the available Networks and DVB Services/Channels on the left top window. See image on right. Depending on the features installed on the server it may be possible to other trees as well.  

Click  DVB Services  to see available channels in your system. It opens a list of the services like in the image right showing Icareus 1 – Icareus 14 channels.  

If you use several Icareus Playout servers for example EP100, CS100 Carousel Server, CS200 DVB-SSU Server, etc., it is possible to control all of them with single PMC by merelt choosing the server you want to connect from the  Server drop down  -menu. 

 

 

 

CONNECTING TO SERVER WITH NON-DEFAULT PORTS

The Playout services listen to default ports, e.g. Playout Scheduler listens to 2001. If the ports have been changed in the server or there is a port forwarding firewall, PMC has to connect to non-default ports. This can be configured in Playout 4.6.2.1 or later by editing the configuration file .playout/pmc15.xml in the user's home directory. Normally, an entry for a server in this configuration file looks like this, where remote-port is the port of Playout Scheduler service: 
<server remote-host="192.168.1.161" remote-port="2001"/>

To reconfigure the ports, add values for admin-http-port, admin-port, eit-update-port and ssh-port, for example:

<server admin-http-port="8080" admin-port="11455" eit-update-port="11400" remote-host="192.168.1.170" remote-port="11401" ssh-port="11422"/>


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