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Grass Valley Xmedia Server Vertigo Suite v.5.0 User Manual

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XMS Configuration Guide

19-5

Setting and monitoring the XMS publishing activities

Monitoring and managing publish requests in the queue

The Publishing page’s P

UBLISH

R

EQUEST

list and its controls (figure

19-4

) allow you to manage

and monitor (in real-time) the items that are waiting to be published by the Xmedia Server.

Figure 19-4. A real-time view of the Publish Requests that are in the Publish Queue

N

OTE

Xplorer’s P

UBLISH

Q

UEUE

M

ONITOR

and Xstudio’s P

UBLISH

P

ROGRESS

window offer a more

comprehensive interface for monitoring the status of items that are to be published by the
Xmedia Server.

The Publish Request list is automatically created when a publish request is launched by an
Vertigo Suite application (i.e. Xplorer, Xstudio...etc.) and the items are waiting in the publish
queue. Enabling the R

ELOAD

PUBLISH

QUEUES

ON

STARTUP

setting on the Publishing page

also allows the list to be populated with the current publish queue items when the XMS
service is started.

Clicking the R

EFRESH

button updates the list with the most current list of items in the queue.

While the N

UMBER

OF

OUTSTANDING

PUBLISH

REQUESTS

field (lower portion of the pane)

reports the exact number of publish requests that have not been serviced yet by the Xmedia
Server. This field is updated every 5 seconds.