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Troubleshooting

  1. You can see the role of a node on the Tags tab in the EC2 console instancetags
  2. VERY IMPORTANT: If you have more than one autoscaling environment running, it is essential that the instancecontroller.instanceNamePrefix= property is set to a completely unique value for each environment, or the first stream manager may terminate the nodes belonging to the second group. For example, if you have one environment with instancecontroller.instanceNamePrefix=node and another one with instancecontroller.instanceNamePrefix=node123, the node123 instances will be terminated by the first stream manager. This occurs because it identifies them as starting with node and therefore as instances it should be managing, and which are not present it its database. Find the instancecontroller.instanceNamePrefix= in the {red5pro}/webapps/streammanager/WEB-INF/red5-web.properties, and edit it accordingly.
  3. If you have created a new nodegroup, but adding an Origin server doesn't automatically spin up an accompanying Edge server, check the following on your node image:

  4. Verify that red5pro/conf/autoscale.xml in your Red5Pro server image points to the IP address of your stream manager

    replace 0.0.0.0 in <property name="cloudWatchHost" value="http://0.0.0.0:5080/streammanager/cloudwatch"/>

    make sure that you the change active value from default “false” to “true” (<property name="active" value="true"/>)

  5. Check {red5pro}/conf/cluster.xml - make sure that the password set for <!-- edge/origin link cluster password --> matches the cluster.password= in the stream manager red5-web.properties file.
  6. Make sure that your have your LICENSE.KEY file in the {red5pro} root directory; clustering (and in turn, autoscaling) will not work without a valid license key.
  7. If all of these check out, then start up red5pro service on your ami instance, and tail the Stream Manager {red5pro}/log/red5.log file - you should see messages about an instance pinging the Stream Manager. If you don't, then check for inbound port access to your stream manager (or outbound port access from your node security group).
  8. If you are using an existing AWS VPC that hasn't been created per our instructions, then it is essential that when you create (or modify) the subnets they use a different route table than the VPC AND that their route table includes an internet gateway.