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NAME

       flumotion-manager - streaming media server central management

SYNOPSIS

       flumotion-manager  [  - ] [ --debug debug configuration ] [ -L logdir ] [ -R rundir ] [ -H host ] [ -P port ] [ -T protocol ] [ -C certifi-
       cate ] [ -n name ] [ -s servicename ] [ -D ] [ --daemonize-to=directory ] manager.xml [flow1.xml flow2.xml ...]

DESCRIPTION

       flumotion-manager is the central management component of the flumotion streaming server.  flumotion-manager does not actually  perform  any
       streaming  or encoding itself, it simply acts as a central point for flumotion-worker instances and flumotion-admin administration consoles
       to connect to. You need to start it before any other flumotion component. When starting flumotion-manager, you need only specify  a  planet
       configuration file , but it is frequently helpful to set other options from the command line.

       flumotion-manager  can  load  other configuration files as well, if more than one is specified. These additional configuration files define
       flows that the manager will run on the workers. This allows you to define your manager configuration in the first configuration	file,  and
       your streaming configuration or configurations in one or more additional configurations files.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show a brief help message, then exit.

       --version
	      Show the version number.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose in console output. This is equivalent to setting the debug level to 3, and will override any debug specifiers.

       -dDEBUG, --debug=DEBUG
	      Set the debug configuration to the specified debug string. See the Debugging section for details of this.

       -L LOGDIR, --logdir=LOGDIR
	      Specify the directory for logging output from the manager.

       -R RUNDIR, --rundir=RUNDIR
	      Specify the directory for runtime files created by the manager.

       -HHOST, --hostname=HOST
	      Specify the interface to bind to, either as a hostname or a numeric address.  Usually, unless you have multiple network connections,
	      you won't want to set this at all. Defaults to binding to all interfaces.

       -PPORT, --port=PORT
	      Set the port the manager should listen on. Default is 7531 if SSL is being used, or 8642 otherwise.

       -TTRANSPORT, --transport=TRANSPORT
	      Set the transport protocol to use, either 'tcp' or 'ssl'. Default is 'ssl'.

       -CCERTIFICATE, --certificate=CERTIFICATE
	      Specify the PEM certificate file to use. This is required if you use SSL.

       -nNAME, --name=NAME
	      Set the manager name.

       -sSERVICENAME, --service-name=SERVICENAME
	      Set the name used for naming log and pid files when running as a daemon.

       -D, --daemonize
	      Run in the background as a daemon.

       --daemonize-to=DAEMONIZETO
	      Specify what directory to run from when daemonizing.

DEBUGGING

       In the unlikely event of something in flumotion not working, you might want to debug it. The flumotion tools (  flumotion-worker  ,  flumo-
       tion-admin , and flumotion-manager ) all allow you to turn on debugging output in two different ways.

       Firstly,  you can use an environment variable, FLU_DEBUG. Secondly, you can launch the program with a -d or --debug switch. Either approach
       allows you to specify a debug configuration string with the following syntax:

	      name1:n1,name2:n2,name3:n3

       In this syntax, the 'name' variables can be replaced with the name of a particular module within flumotion  (such  as  'admin',	'twisted',
       etc.). You can also use '*' to specify all modules. The 'n' variables are numbers from 1 to 5, larger numbers corresponding to more verbose
       output (ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, and LOG). At level 4, full debugging information is emitted.

       You can also use an abbreviated form where you just supply a single number, thisuses that debug level for all modules.  Thus  the  simplest
       way to enable full debug output for all modules is to use '-d 4' on the command line.

       A more complex example would be '-d *:3,admin:4' to set the logging level for the admin module to DEBUG, and for all other modules to INFO.

EXAMPLES

       Simple example, starting flumotion-manager using TCP, in verbose mode:

	      flumotion-manager -v -T tcp conf/managers/default/planet.xml

       A slightly more complex example, using two different configuration files and running in the background:

	      flumotion-manager -T tcp -D conf/managers/default/planet.xml conf/managers/mystream.xml

BUGS

       Hopefully none. If you find any bugs, please report them at https://core.fluendo.com/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi

SEE ALSO

       flumotion(1),flumotion-worker(1),flumotion-admin(1)

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