Post Installation

Congratulations!
You are now ready to experience the various parts of the system, to ease your start,
browse to the root of your new KalturaCE installation (at http://localhost/kalturaCE) where you'll find the following:

• Sample Implementation - View and play with a sample website application that uses your newly installed KalturaCE services.
  In this basic Kaltura Application you can use the KCW to upload/import content, use the KSE to easily mash up and remix content images, video and audio create new videos.
• Kaltura Management Console - A partner management console that enables partners to view and manage all their content including moderation control, upload and bulk upload, create playlists as well as manage account information, view usage statistics and administer various integration settings.
• System Tools - Set of administration tools to monitor different aspects of the KalturaCE server including; monitoring of batch processes, view and manage the different content in the system (with root permissions, as oppose to KMC where the access is per partner only), investigate statuses of different aspects of the system such as pending jobs and notifications and change server specific settings such base url and CDN host.
• API Test Console - Interactive browser to view and test the different APIs (api_v3).

You may also want to check out the followings:

• We also recommend to read the API documentation at:
  http://localhost/kalturaCE/kaltura/api_v3/web/testmeDoc/
• Use the php5 client library located on /kalturaCE/kaltura/api_v3/generator/php5 to build applications of your own like the Sample Implementation.
  

  Setting the Drupal Kaltura Module to work with KalturaCE

  Video module for Drupal
  Using Drupal you can start playing with KalturaCE without the need to implement or develop the site architecture and easily experience some of the KalturaCE capabilities.
  To deploy Drupal with Kaltura Module on your KalturaCE server follow the Drupal-Kaltura Integration Guide.

  Working with WordPress

  Using the "All in One Video Pack" you can start experiencing some basic capabilities of KalturaCE without the need to implement or develop anything.
  To deploy the Wordpress Kaltura Plugin to work with your KalturaCE server follow the WordPress-KalturaCE Integration Guide.

  Logs and Investigating Errors

  KalturaCE provides logs and investigation console to monitor and understand what have gone wrong in case of failures.
  The logs in the system are located under the kalturaCE/logs/ folder and are divided as follows:

  • kaltura_api_v3.log - provides a log about the services of api_v3.
  • kaltura_prod.log - provides a log about the services of api_v2 (aka. partnerServices2).
  • kaltura_batch.log - provides general application logs about the batche processes in the system (batch connections to the database).
  • kaltura_install.log - the installation log (not in use after installation is over).
  • Additional logs are provided by each batch process individually:
    
    • {machine_name}-batchBulkUpload.log - the bulk upload batch.
    • {machine_name}-batchDownloadVideoServer.log - addDownload service batch process log.
    • {machine_name}-batchEmailServer.log - email sending batch (according to mail_job table in the database).
    • {machine_name}-batchImportServer.log - importing process (imports files from other online sources).
    • {machine_name}-batchNotificationServer.log - notification batch log.
    • {machine_name}-batchRunner.log - logs the different batch processes execution.
    • {machine_name}-batchWatch.log - logs the different running batch statuses.
    • {machine_name}-newBatchConvertClient.log - batch that prepares files for conversion.
    • {machine_name}-newBatchConvertServer.log - batch that process the file conversion.

  In order to investigate the status of processed entries, use the Investigate panel under the system console at /kalturaCE/api_v3/system/investigate.php .
  The Investigate panel provides information about the processing of single entries (entry = media) in the system, the logs that indicate the action performed on the entry and extended information about the entry versions, conversion profile used to convert the media and current status.
  Use the investigate when an entry fails to upload/import/convert and is not visible in the Content panel on the KMC.

  Batch Watch

  Inside the system console, the Batch Dashboard shows the status of the various batch processes in the system.
  When the KalturaCE installation completes, all the batch processes are started automatically, However, if the system is restarted the batch processes should be started again manually.
  It is highly recommended to create a cron job or adding the script (kalturaCE/alpha/batch/runBatch.sh start) to the init.d in order to configure this operation to run automatically upon reboot.

  Additional resources

  • For submitting bugs, feature requests and ideas use the issues manager on the project home page.
  • For KalturaCE related discussions, look for help and socializing with other KalturaCE developers visit the project forums.

  Version history

  Following list of KalturaCE public release versions. See Changes Log for more information.

  • 05/05/2009 - alpha 1.0 release.
  • 02/06/2009 - alpha 1.01 release.