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Windows Forum / Windows Media / General Topics / March 2007Experiences on Windows Media Monitoring Solutions
We're looking for monitoring solutions, there's a few online that ranges from sharewares to services that do it for you. Does anyone have any real life experience with any of them? Thanks. Might help if you state your requirements. > We're looking for monitoring solutions, there's a few online that ranges from > sharewares to services that do it for you. > > Does anyone have any real life experience with any of them? > > Thanks. Note: After I posted this message here in the general section - I saw the server section and reposted there. Didn't mean to double post. Requirements is essentially to monitor both audio/wma and video/wmv streams if they are available to the end user. Microsoft DRM support will be a big plus; and the ability to monitor geographically (have a monitoring station in Asia, Europe, America, etc) that can ensure that the streams are available will be helpful. Ability to test various protocols RTSP/MMS/HTTP-ASX would be needed. Does anyone provide this service, or does wms/win2k3 provide this ability thru snmp? Thoughts, experience? Thanks! > Might help if you state your requirements. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > > > Thanks. SNMP can be used to monitor the network packets/bandwidth as well as some integration with WMS (somewhere there is information that documents this, maybe in WMS Help?) Note that SNMP will not tell you whether the audio/video is acceptable. Only someone looking at/listening to the streams can determine that. > Note: After I posted this message here in the general section - I saw the > server section and reposted there. Didn't mean to double post. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> > >> > Thanks. Thanks Mike. I spent an hour tonight and browsed thru the entire net and here is the result of my research - just in case anyone else will need it. Essentially, there's 2 ways of doing monitoring of windows media streams, either you run a 'software' product or you outsource it to 3rd party. I have yet to get some pricing comparison on this next week. *** PRODUCTS *** * Merucry (HP) - URL: http://www.mercury.com/us/products/performance-center/loadrunner/monitors/media- server.html - Client side monitor seems to do extensive stats report on quality. * StreamPatrol.com - URL: http://www.streampatrol.com - Software to monitor windows media streams (unlimited streams) with email notifications and UI. * Streaming Media Monitor - URL: http://www.lightspeedcomm.com/software/streamMonDocs/ - Used for monitoring IP *multicast* streaming media (fit for broadcasters & webcasters). * StreamTest.com (no longer available) * StreamGuard.net (no longer available) *** SERVICES *** * StreamCheck.com (now keynote.com) - URL: http://www.keynote.com/products/voip_and_streaming/streaming_performance/streami ng_perspective.html - Provides a 'monitoring service'; screenshot suggests ability to support flash, windows media and quicktime. * Seeuhome.com - Provides a 'monitoring service'; $10/month/stream - 5 mins frequency. * WebMetrics.com - URL: http://www.webmetrics.com/streamoverview.html - Service oriented monitoring; supports windows media, flash with email alerts notification. *** GOOD ARTICLE *** * Measuring and Monitoring Streaming Media Quality - URL: http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=8816 > SNMP can be used to monitor the network packets/bandwidth as well as some > integration with WMS (somewhere there is information that documents this, maybe [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > >> > > >> > Thanks. In looking at some of these products they appear to be nothing more than bandwidth monitoring software. One claims that it can detect frozen video or dead audio, but doesn't show any screens displaying media info so I think this too might just be b/w detection (static images or loss of audio results in lower bandwidth, hence their claim.) But static images and audio drop-outs are sometimes common in video streams which may cause false alarms. Also, static air (white noise) video produces very high bandwidth levels so it's not likely to detect that condition. I actually wrote a program that does multicast bandwidth monitoring and alerting like this. It can also restart the publishing point when there's a problem. > Thanks Mike. I spent an hour tonight and browsed thru the entire net and > here is the result of my research - just in case anyone else will need it. [quoted text clipped - 76 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Thanks. Thanks for the info! I have finally started my own blog and use this as my first topic (work in progress) - Is your program available publicly? I can add it in if you wish. http://ericjones.iblog.com/ > In looking at some of these products they appear to be nothing more than > bandwidth monitoring software. One claims that it can detect frozen video or [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks. No it's not, although I have a few others that are: http://shootingstarbbs.kicks-ass.net/wmcontroller http://shootingstarbbs.kicks-ass.net/wmsmonitor/about.htm http://shootingstarbbs.kicks-ass.net/wmewebsite/about.htm > Thanks for the info! I have finally started my own blog and use this as my > first topic (work in progress) - Is your program available publicly? I can [quoted text clipped - 108 lines] >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Thanks. I am trying to simply place a graphic on my page to display when my church's live stream is on air. The graphic will be one image when the publishing point is started and another when the publishing point is stopped. I was looking at your wmsmonitor program. How do you tie the displayed status to the state of the publishing point. Are there instructions on the web for doing this, in an SDK or what? Justin > No it's not, although I have a few others that are: > http://shootingstarbbs.kicks-ass.net/wmcontroller [quoted text clipped - 113 lines] > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > Thanks. Thanks so much for putting up this list. We are a small company (literally small, since there’s only 1 IT person – me) and had been looking for an economical solution to monitor our windows media streams/servers. After around a week of looking at various options and evaluating them, we have finally decided on StreamPatrol -- the ability to monitor unlimited streams without additional cost, and the ability to run this on multiple locations to test for geographical redundancy is really nice. > > >> > Thanks Mike. I spent an hour tonight and browsed thru the entire net and > > >> > here is the result of my research - just in case anyone else will need it. [quoted text clipped - 86 lines] > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Thanks. |
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