This workshop guides the user through basic understanding of MSAM including installation, configuration, tuning, and resource monitoring.
- Overview of Media Services Application Mapper
- Install MSAM into your AWS account using CloudFormation
- MSAM browser application
- Content cache tuning
- First run!
- Review navigation, diagram layout, searching
- Channel tiles
- CloudWatch Integration
- Understand monitoring, alarms, alerts
- Create a pipeline alert
- Learn the two main uses for MSAM (visualization, monitoring)
- Learn how MSAM represents Media resources in the cloud, and how sets of resources are presented
- Learn how resources are monitored with MSAM using CloudWatch
Review README
- MSAM uses CloudFormation for installation and updates
- Install all four MSAM templates into the same region
- Be aware of the Input Parameters and Output subsections for each template
After installing the DynamoDB stack (Template 1), you can install the remaining stacks (Templates 2, 3, and 4) concurrently. There is no need to wait for each to finish before starting the next.
- Use the same region where your Media Services workflow is running
- Retrieve the API key for browser access
Navigate to the Install document and follow the instructions to install all four MSAM CloudFormation templates into your AWS account.
- Navigate to the Usage document
- Read and follow the First Run instructions
- Practice navigation, layout, and search
- Create one or more channel tiles
MSAM integrates with CloudWatch alarms and MediaLive pipeline alerts, and can visually indicate alarm or alert conditions on diagram nodes.
- Navigate to the Usage document
- Review and configure CloudWatch alert and alarm subscriptions
- Learn about MediaLive pipeline alerts
- Stop your MediaLive Channel
- Edit your MediaLive Input
- Edit one input URL to make it invalid
- Save the MediaLive Input
- Start the MediaLive Channel
- Wait for Channel to start
- Find the MediaLive Channel in MSAM
- Wait for the pipeline alert to show on the MediaLive node
- Select the channel and click the monitor tab to view the alert
- Done? Go back and fix your input URL
When you are finished using MSAM and will no longer need it, proceed to the Uninstall document and follow the instructions.