In this appendix you'll find a quick reference to the menus and panels in the Castanet Transmitter and Castanet Publish, as well as the options for the command-line versions of these programs.
The transmitter itself doesn't have any menus, but it does have screens for setting up the configuration.
Transmitter Channels Directory: The directory on the transmitter's system where channel files and logging information is stored.
Transmitter Host and Port: The name of the host and the port on which the transmitter runs. By default, the port number is 80. Make sure that there isn't a Web server already running on that port, and if there is, use another port. (5282 is a common substitute.)
Transmitter Access: The hosts that will be allowed to publish channels on this host and the password they must use to do so. If no hosts are specified, any host can publish channels.
Publish Notifications: The e-mail address of the announcement service at Marimba for new channels. (Leave blank to avoid announcing channels.) The value of SMTP host is the default mail server.
After the basic configuration is complete, you have the following options:
Advanced: View the advanced configuration properties.
Back: Return to the basic configuration.
Launch: Start the transmitter.
Start/Stop: Start or stop the transmitter.
Help: View the online help for the transmitter (requires a Web browser).
Exit: Exit the transmitter.
Advanced Configuration
Transmitter Concurrency: Set the total number of processes and the number of initial threads per process. The total number of concurrent connections equals the number of processes times the number of threads; increase these numbers to allow more concurrent connections. Use the value of Max threads to limit the number of concurrent connections.
Transmitter Cache: A memory cache for storing channels. The optimum size of this cache should be the total size of all the channels you publish on the transmitter.
Command-Line Transmitter (Solaris Only)
After you've configured the transmitter at least once, you can start it from the command line using the transmitter command and the name of the transmitter's channel directory:
% transmitter /usr/local/channels
The Castanet Publish tool is used to publish channels to a transmitter. This section describes the various properties and buttons available in the Castanet Publish tool, and the options for the command-line version of Publish.
Channels Under Development Screen
The main Castanet Publish screen shows a list of local channels being developed and ready for publishing.
Proxy: Set the proxy information for accessing the transmitter.
Add: Add a local channel directory to the list.
Remove: Remove a local channel directory from the list.
Edit: Edit the properties for that channel. (See "Properties," below.)
Quit: Quit the publish tool.
Help: Display the online help for channel configuration (requires a Web browser).
Properties
The properties screens allow you to set or change the properties for the channel and to publish it.
Publish: Publish the channel to the transmitter listed in the transmitter properties.
Delete: Delete the channel from the transmitter listed in the transmitter properties. This command does not delete the channel from the local disk.
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