Check Network Status

To check the status of your client network, click on the Network Status icon in the toolbar. Please ensure you have a client selected in the tree menu.

 

 

This will open the Network Status dialogue that has all the players in the chosen client’s network. Choose a Player and click the ‘Check’ button and wait for the results. If you do not select any Player, Mediacaster will select All by default.

 

 

There are various columns that are important to note:

1.  ‘Ping Result’ – if this reports a ‘Success’ then the Player is responding. If this is a ‘Timeout’ then the Player could be down or the internet / WAN / LAN connection could be faulty.

2.  ‘Uploaded’ – this reports on the last successful upload and;

3.  ‘Job Number’ – tells you what Job Number was successfully uploaded.

4.  ‘Media Playlist’ / ‘Overlay’ – report on what is presently playing on the Player.

 

The following buttons are available:

1.  ‘System Info’ – this reports on the system information of the Player such as memory, CPU, disk space etc.

2.  ‘View’ – this allows you to see a local player view on what is playing on the non-local player.

3.  ‘Set Time’ – you can set the date and time on the individual Players.

4.  ‘Restart’ – you can send a restart commend to the Player PC.

5.  ‘Download’ – enables you to download the media and playlist files directly down to a player.

6.  ‘Upload Logs’ – instructs a Player to download of all the Log files to the FTP server. The Server then downloads the Log files for reporting purposes.