Installation Guide - Media Server & Video Streaming Server | Wowza

Wowza Media Server® Pro for Riverbed® Steelhead®

Installation Guide

Wowza Media Server Pro for Riverbed Steelhead

Installation Guide

Version 2.0 Wowza Media Systems, Inc. 1153 Bergen Parkway, #181

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Copyright Notices Installation Guide: © 2009 Wowza Media Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Ubuntu 7.10: © 2007 Canonical Ltd.

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Table of Contents

Overview .............................................................................................................................5 Before You Begin...................................................................................................................................................5 Steelhead Model Compatibility ..............................................................................................................................5

Installing the Wowza Pro RSP Package .............................................................................6 Configuring the Wowza Pro RSP Package........................................................................11

Assigning an IP Address to the Wowza Pro RSP Package.................................................................................. 11 Configuring the DNS in the Wowza Pro RSP Package ........................................................................................ 13 Configuring the Host File in the Wowza Pro RSP Package.................................................................................. 14 Changing the Time Zone on the Wowza Pro RSP Package ................................................................................ 15

Configuring the Wowza Pro RSP Package Data Flow ......................................................15 Entering the Wowza Pro RSP License Key.......................................................................18

W O W Z A P R O U N L I M I T E D F O R R S P

Overview owza Media Server Pro for Riverbed® Steelhead® (Wowza Pro RSP) provides efficient streaming of live and on-demand Flash video in the enterprise while reducing WAN traffic associated with video delivery. Wowza Pro server software is installed on

Steelhead appliances in a protected partition in Riverbed’s RiOS® Service Platform (RSP).

WThe Wowza Pro software download package for RSP includes the following:

Wowza Media Server Pro software

Ubuntu Linux OS

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

VMWare Tools from VMWare Workstation

Deploy the Wowza Media Server Pro with these four steps:

Installing the Wowza Pro RSP package

Configuring the Wowza Pro RSP package

Configuring the Wowza Pro RSP data flow

Entering the Wowza Pro RSP license key

Note: Wowza Pro RSP is pre-loaded with a 3-connection license key. For commercial operation, a paid Wowza Pro RSP Unlimited edition license key is required.

Before You Begin

The RSP Installation Image and license needs to be installed and started prior to installing Wowza Pro RSP Package. Contact Riverbed for instructions on how to obtain and install a RSP license. You also need to install and start the RSP Installation image. See section “Installing the RSP Installation Image” in the “Riverbed Services Platform Installation Guide.”

Steelhead Model Compatibility

Wowza Pro RSP is only compatible with the following Riverbed Steelhead:

The 250, 520, 550, 1020, 1520, 2020 use the 32-bit Wowza Pro RSP package

The 1050, 2050, 5050, 6050 can use the 32-bit OR 64-bit Wowza Pro RSP package

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Installing the Wowza Pro RSP Package Prior to the installation procedure, you must request a Wowza Pro RSP package download URL from the following web site: http://www.wowzamedia.com/riverbed.html. You need the download URL to upload the Wowza Pro RSP package to the Steelhead.

To begin:

1. Place the Wowza Pro RSP package on the Steelhead.

a. Log on to the Riverbed Steelhead UI.

b. Select Configure>Branch Services>RSP Package. The RSP Package page opens.

c. Click the “Add Package” tab (Figure 1).

Figure 1

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http://www.wowzamedia.com/riverbed.html


d. Add the Wowza Pro RSP package via URL, or upload a file already on the local machine.

e. Click “Add”. You receive a confirmation message when it completes (Figure 2).

Figure 2

Click “Local Name” for package specifics. You can enter a new name for the package when uploading it to the Steelhead for the first time.

2. Install the Wowza Pro RSP package in an available slot (Figure 3).

Note: If desired, you can change the name of the slot in the “Slot Name” field and click “Update Slot.” Proceed with the following instructions. Once the slot is filled, then slot name cannot be changed without first uninstalling the package from the slot.

a. From an available slot, select the Wowza Pro RSP package from the “Package File Name” drop-down menu.

b. Click “Update Slot.” The package decompresses into the slot. This can take five to ten minutes.

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The original package is still available on the Steelhead. You receive confirmation when it is complete.

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3. Configure and enable (power on) the package (Figure 4).

a. In the “Memory Footprint” field, change the memory if needed.

b. Leave default “not watching” in “Watchdog” field. (Figure 4).

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Figure 4

c. Optionally, check “Optimization Network Interfaces” to associate the network interface of the package to a VLAN. (Figure 5).

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Figure 5

d. If you have changed any information click “Update Slot.” Allow the slot to update and then click “Enable Slot.” If you have not changed any of the defaults only click “Enable Slot.”

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Configuring the Wowza Pro RSP Package There are three steps to configure the Wowza Pro RSP package:

1. Assign the RSP Pro Package an IP address

2. Configure the DNS in the RSP Pro Package

3. Configure the Host File in the RSP Pro Package

Optionally, you can change the time zone for the RSP Pro package.

Assigning an IP Address to the Wowza Pro RSP Package

To assign the Wowza Pro RSP package an IP address:

1. From the RSP Packages page, click “Launch VM Console” in the slot details. The VMWare Infrastructure Web access Login dialog opens.

2. Login to the VMware Infrastructure Web Access dialog: Use the same login and password you used to log into the Steelhead UI.

Note: The VMware remote console plugin needs to be installed. See the “Riverbed Services Platform Installation Guide.”

3. From the VMware Infrastructure Web Access Page, click any where in the window to open the virtual machine. The Wowza Package console opens (Figure 6).

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Figure 6

4. Login to the Wowza Pro RSP package. Login: wowza Password: password

5. At the Wowza package prompt type: sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces (Figure 7). Important: It is not recommended to use DHCP with the Wowza Pro RSP Package, because transparency (DNAT) needs a single IP to redirect traffic to.

a. Enter password again. You are now in the interface file.

b. To assign an IP address to the package, change the line “iface eth0 inet dhcp” to ”iface eth0 inet static”.

c. Next line type : address [your ip address]

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d. Next line type: netmask [your subnet mask]

e. You can optionally add three lines for Gateway, Network and Broadcast.

Figure 7

6. Type CTRL X to exit

7. Press Y to save the file

8. At “File Name to Write” press return.

Configuring the DNS in the Wowza Pro RSP Package

To configure the DNS in the Wowza RSP Pro Package (Figure 8).

1. At the Wowza prompt, type: sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

2. Change “search localdomain” to “search [your domain]”

3. Change “nameserver” to “nameserver [your dns server]”

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Figure 8




Configuring the Host File in the Wowza Pro RSP Package

Finally, to configure the Host File in the RSP Pro Package:

1. At the Wowza prompt type: sudo nano /etc/hosts

2. On the second line change “127.0.1.1” to the static IP address you assigned the package.

3. Replace “localdomain” with “[your domain]”.


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Changing the Time Zone on the Wowza Pro RSP Package

Please note that the default time zone for the RSP Pro package is EST. To change the time zone, at the Wowza prompt type “dpkg-reconfigure tzdata” and follow the prompts.

To have the changes take affect we need to reboot. Complete the following steps:

1. From the VMware remote console window, press Ctrl Alt. This releases the focus off this window.

2. Close the VMware remote console.

3. Close the VMware Infrastructure Web Access Page.

4. Go back to the RSP Package page.

5. To restart the package, disable and re-enable the slot.

a. Click “Disable Slot.”

b. Wait a two minutes.

c. Open the slot.

d. Click “Enable Slot.”

Configuring the Wowza Pro RSP Package Data Flow Once the Wowza Pro RSP package has an IP address, you are ready to begin configuration:

1. Place the Wowza Pro RSP package in the data flow (Figure 9).

2. Select the appropriate position from the dropdown, select the “wowzaopt vni” and click “Add.”

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Figure 9

3. Configure the dataflow rules and transparent proxy behavior (Figure 10).

a. Click the “VNI’

b. Create appropriate LAN to WAN rule to redirect Flash requests into local instance (refer to the “Riverbed Console Management Guide” on adding rules).

i. Enter the destination IP: typically the datacenter Wowza Pro Server IP address – optional

ii. Enter Flash destination port: 1935

iii. Select redirect traffic to slot.

iv. Click “Add.” The wowzaopt vni is configured with the set rules.

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Figure 10

4. Configure the transparent proxy behavior (Figure 11).

a. Click “Enable DNAT.”

b. Enter the Wowza Pro RSP package IP address.

c. Click “Apply.”

Note: If desired, you can create a WAN to LAN rule.

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Figure 11

Entering the Wowza Pro RSP License Key To install the Wowza Pro license key:

1. Log into the Wowza Pro RSP package.

a. Log on to the Riverbed Steelhead UI.

b. Select Configure>Branch Services>RSP Package. The RSP Package page opens.

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c. Click the Wowza Pro RSP slot.

d. Click “Launch VM Console” in the slot details. The VMWare Infrastructure Web access Login dialog opens.

e. Login to the VMware Infrastructure Web Access dialog: Use the same login and password you used to log into the Steelhead UI.

Note: The VMware remote console plugin needs to be installed. See the “Riverbed Services Platform Installation Guide.”

f. From the VMware Infrastructure Web Access Page, click any where in the window to open the virtual machine. The Wowza Package console opens.

g. Login to the Wowza Pro RSP package. Login: wowza Password: password ***

2. Change directories to /usr/local/WowzaMediaPro/conf

3. Type: Sudo nano server.licence

4. Replace the entire contents of the file with the Wowza Pro license key.

5. Type CTRL X to exit.

6. Press Y to save the file.


8. Restart the Wowza Pro Server, type: /etc/init.d/WowzaMediaPro restart

Make sure you can see the network and can ping the necessary servers.

9. Optional step: change the Wowza user password to something more secure.

a. At the Wowza RSP Package prompt, type: passwd

b. Follow the prompts on the screen.

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