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This chapter explains the steps you need to take to configure Flumotion.
Depending on how you installed Flumotion, it will or will not be integrated with your distribution.
In this section we will cover configuring Flumotion on both types of systems. First we will explain how to start and run Flumotion when it's not integrated with your distribution. These instructions also work on systems where it's integrated, but it's preferable to use the distribution-specific way of starting the server.
We also provide an example of running Flumotion on a system where it is integrated with the distribution through service scripts.
If you have received Flumotion packages from either Fluendo or your distribution, this type of integration should be available.
The instructions as explained in Chapter 2, A first encounter work on a system where Flumotion is not integrated. You are repsonsible yourself for providing a working configuration file, and starting the binaries.
Alternatively, we have also provided a service-like script called flumotion that provides some basic integration, much like a standard service script. This script is installed in your sbin directory. You can list managers and workers configured, and start and stop them.
In a well-configured system, Flumotion is integrated into the system using Unix service scripts. In this section, we use the Fedora Core installation of Flumotion as an example. Depending on your distribution, these instructions might slightly vary.
To start flumotion with the service scripts, you start it like any other service, by typing as root:
service flumotion start
which results in:
Starting manager default: [ OK ] Starting worker default: [ OK ]
Configuration files for flumotion are stored under /etc/flumotion/. In that directory, there is one subdirectory for managers and one for workers. Under each of these, there is one directory with the name of the manager or worker, containing the relevant configuration information.
Typically, the managers directory contains a planet.xml file detailing general configuration for the manager, and a flows subdirectory containing all flows that should be loaded onto this manager.
By default, the installation of Flumotion only allows connections from the local host, for security reasons. If you want to allow other hosts to log in workers or administration clients, you should change the authentication settings and remove the host entries from planet.xml.