Server admin

Automatically or manually start and stop Wowza Streaming Engine and Wowza Streaming Engine Manager.

Add, update, and delete users with the Wowza Streaming Engine CLI password tool.

Learn how to add a custom property in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager or with the Wowza Streaming Engine XML configuration files as a server administrator.

Optimize Java, thread pool, Media Cache, and virtual host performance settings in Wowza Streaming Engine.

Use Wowza Streaming Engine Manager to monitor server connections, bandwidth, and streaming applications.

Connect to a remote (non-localhost) instance of Wowza Streaming Engine from your computer.

Try these troubleshooting techniques if you have installation or startup problems with Wowza Streaming Engine.

Install a different version of Java and determine and control which version of Java is being used by Wowza Streaming Engine.

Create a Java heap dump file to help troubleshoot your Wowza Streaming Engine media server.

Create a Java stack trace file to help troubleshoot your Wowza Streaming Engine Support ticket.

Try these troubleshooting steps to resolve errors that occur when Wowza Streaming Engine can't connect to the license server.

Configure Wowza Streaming Engine to use a proxy server to communicate with Wowza license server.

Migrate Wowza Streaming Engine from one server instance to another.

Change the port used by Wowza Streaming Engine Manager.

Instruct Wowza Streaming Engine to run in a mode where Datagram (UDP unicast and multicast) ports can be shared between incoming streams.

Create a new user and configure Wowza Streaming Engine to run as that new user on Linux.

Change the init system services for Wowza Streaming Engine 4.4.0 installations running as a service on Linux.

Enter a URL into a browser to see the version of Wowza Streaming Engine that's running on the computer, and disable the function if desired.

Enable the JMX interface for Wowza Streaming Engine and manage it using JConsole.

Configure and use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) functionality in Wowza Streaming Engine.

Enable and configure date headers for responses from HTTP providers to synchronize across services in Wowza Streaming Engine.

Configure Wowza Streaming Engine to support XFF headers in HTTP streaming requests.

Gather information about the number of connections in a process to help debug Wowza Streaming Engine connection count problems.

Configure IPv6 networking on Wowza Streaming Engine software.

Create compressed zip files to send to Wowza Support for analysis and troubleshooting.

Disable JMV signals that may be preventing Wowza Streaming Engine from functioning.

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Use the silent installation process to install Wowza Streaming Engine without any manual interaction.