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Click on the RC-Server tab on left navigation pane for information about the VUE servers and the existing redundancy clusters. If there are no redundancy clusters, this screen provides information on the existing VUE servers.
RC-Server window. It lists the Redundancy Clusters and VUE servers in a VUE system

Redundancy Cluster

ParameterDescription
RC Name

Specifies the name of the redundancy cluster.

Server Name

Lists the VUE servers that are part of the redundancy cluster.

Management IP

IP address of the desired VUE server.

RC Initial Role

Indicates the configured initial role of the server in a redundancy cluster (Initial active or Initial standby). The initial role cannot change once configured. The Initial active server is the server that you configure for setting up streams and mappings while the VUE syncs all configuration to the Initial standby server.

RC Current Role

Indicates the current role of the server in a redundancy cluster.

RC Type

Indicates the type of redundancy cluster.

Hot_Hot – Indicates the RC is a 1:1 cluster.

Hot_Cold – Indicates the RC is an N:1 cluster.

RC Status

Indicates the status of the redundancy cluster. The status can be OK or Error.

OK – Cluster is up and properly reporting status.

Error – Indicates HA is unavailable. This can be due to an HA alarm on standby or standby server is down/unavailable.

Suspend Failover

Indicates if redundancy is suspended for the desired redundancy cluster. Force failover continues to work; however, a standby server will not take over for a failed active server when redundancy is suspended.

true – When redundancy is suspended.

false – When redundancy is un-suspended.

More optionsProvides options to modify, delete, status, Force Failover, and Suspend/Un-suspend the cluster. For more information, see VUE system maintenance.

Servers

ParameterDescription
RC Name

Specifies the name of the RC the desired VUE server is part of.

Server Name

Specifies the name of the VUE server.

Click on the Server Name to view more detailed information about a specific server. This includes information about CPU topology, server up time, VAMS up time, VUE pipes in use, CPU usage, and CPU utilization
Management IP

IP address of the desired VUE server.

Max TS Pipes

The maximum number of pipes that is supported on this VUE Server instance. The maximum supported pipes are based on the amount of memory and available cores in the system.

MPEG Bandwidth (Mbps)

Max – Maximum output MPEG BW supported by this server. This is based on the maximum number of pipes supported. This value can be calculated by adding the BW for In Use, Available, and Reserved together.

In Use – Current output stream BW configured on the server. This is not the actual output rate but is the configured output rate based on the output information rate assigned to each TS.

Available – Current remaining output TS BW available.

Reserved – Amount of output TS BW reserved for non-TS usage. This includes BW reserved for VEDS (SDV), ACCP, and OOBM. For all 3 of these services, cores are reserved on the server when these services are configured. This reduces the cores available for video pipes (MPTS output).

Ethernet Bandwidth (Mbps)

In Use Output – The amount of egress bandwidth (in Mbps) in use by the server, that is the aggregate output bandwidth of each interface.

Ingress – The amount of ingress bandwidth (in Mbps) in use by the server, that is, the aggregate input bandwidth.

Cores

Max – Maximum number of physical CPU cores on the VUE server.

In Use – Number of CPU cores in use by the VUE server. Clicking on this count opens another tab indicating how each core is in use. Note that in use means the core is reserved based on configuration of the system (number of TS pipes, SDV, ACCP, OOBM, overhead). Cores in use are based on user configuration of the VUE server as follows:
  • 1 core for VUE/Linux overhead (monitoring service, logging, general Linux processing)
  • 1 core is reserved for every 25 MPTS/pipes configured
  • 1 core is reserved if SDV configured (VEDS container)
  • 1 core is reserved if ACCP configured on VUE server
  • 1 core is reserved for every 30 OOBM TS/pipes configured
Memory Gbytes

Available – Total amount of the memory available in GB for the VUE server.

In Use – This includes 4 GB reserved for overhead, 200 MB for every pipe in use and 100 MB for every 5 OOBM pipes in use.

Counts

TS – Total TS count:

Broadcast (MPTS, SCTE55-1) + Narrowcast (SDV + VOD) + OOBM + VARPD

Mappings – Total mapping counts:

PassThru + PID + OOBM PID + UDP (Manual + RTSP + RPC + VOD) + VARPD

Click on the number to view details of Enabled, OK, and Error count of each mappings.

NOTE: All OOB and OOBM TS and mappings are reported with an Idle status to indicate that the TS and mapping is configured in an idle state while on standby.

Alarms – Current number of alarms on VUE server.

Status

Indicates the status of the VUE server.

  • OK – Server is up and properly reporting status.
  • Error – Server is either down or communication fault with application server. Could also possibly mean server is up but the VUE Monitoring service (VAMS) is down.
More optionsProvides interface information and SW version of VUE server.
  • I/F Detail – Opens a dialog that lists the Ethernet interfaces associated with desired VUE server.

    This displays a window with the all information of all the interfaces such as I/F Name, IPv4 Address, IPv6 Address, MAC Address, Speed (G), Link, Input BW (Mbps), Output BW (Mbps), VIPs.

    This window also provides total input and output bandwidth in use. For more information, see Monitor IP address interface in a VUE server.

    Click Refresh to refresh the interface information.

    Click Close to close the interfaces window.

  • Software Version Detail – Opens a dialog with the software version and related information of the desired server.