Curator Based Indexing and Searching From Zoom 6.0 onwards, search speeds have enhanced using a dedicated index and search engine that ships with the Zoom Server installation package. This indexing service is called the Curator. Curator was available with earlier Zoom versions too, only in a limited form – it was used for file-content searches […]
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Zoom FSCue app is responsible for mac overlay icons/labels. Please follow the below given steps to disable the FSCue. Open “Terminal.app”. Stopping the currently running FSCue app: launchctl unload -S AQUA /Library/LaunchAgents/com.evolphin.zoom.FSCue.plist If above command doesn’t work then run: launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.evolphin.zoom.FSCue.plist Above command will stop currently running FSCue service. To disable FSCue app permanently and prevent it from
The list of ports required by the Zoom desktop clients is specified here. To test if the ports are open see steps below. Please replace any IP in the example with your Host Name/IP address: Desktop Client In a Web Browser open URL: http:<zoom preview server host/ip>:8873/vab . If you don’t see any errors and the
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If you need to add the ampersand character in a metadata property name or value, adding the “&” character directly as is in the schema xml file would not work. Instead, please use the equivalents as shown below: <field ns=”zoom” name=”ArchiveStatus” label=”Archive& Status”/> OR <field ns=”zoom” name=”ArchiveStatus” label=”Archive& Status”/>
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From Zoom, we can, not just pull the user accounts from the Directory Server but also groups, and the association of the users to those groups. Any group that is marked as a member of the filter group configured in Zoom will automatically get pulled to Zoom, and be created as a child-role under the
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Zoom MAM Server and Preview Server support communication using TLS/SSL. Typically, Zoom users access these servers through the following: – Browsers, to view the Web Management console or to open Zoom Web Client Apps – Desktop Asset Browser, Zoom Client Proxy, Zoom Preview Server, to execute Web APIs The steps to set up
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Target Audience: This article is targeted at system administrator who are comfortable with command line tools. If you are not please ask your system administrator to help you upload bulk metadata in Zoom. Zoom supports import of assets as well as metadata using the command line interface. This will allow you to import either assets
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Problem Can not save Push Settings for remote Hot Folder to a Headless Server When you try to save push settings for remote hot folder via the Z -> Settings menu option, you can get the following error: Issue The user-name for remote hot folder ingest cannot be the same as the user-name used to
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Minimum Zoom version supported: 5.5 Archive module can be configured by following this article: HADR Archive Configuration. Features HADR Archive brings the functionality of Archiving assets in a distributed manner. Multiple OR Single Zoom server can be configured to archive the assets. Multiple OR Single Zoom server can be configured to run the archive/restore scripts. HADR
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How To Find Database Writer? Goto Zoom database redo directory location. Redo directory location can be found in file <zoom_installation_dir>/conf/server.xml inside the dbspec tag.<dbspec>………………………………….<redoLogDir>/Volumes/NAS/ZOOM_HADR/ACME-SERVER/db/redo</redoLogDir> <— Redo directory location ……………… </dbspec> Open file “dlg-data.lck” Peer name mentioned in this file is the database writer. “dlg-data.lck” file is created when Zoom server first starts up. The Zoom server which
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Minimum Zoom version supported: 5.5 All HADR Archive Management changes will be replicated to all Zoom servers. Changes made on one Zoom server will be reflected back on all other Zoom servers.So, enable/disable of Archive in HADR Archive Management will enable/disable it on all Zoom servers. Same of all settings present in it. Enable HADR Archive Login to Zoom
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For some file types like MP4, Embedded metadata is not visible in Asset Browser. Please follow the instruction below to resolve it. Solution Open the metadataspec.xml Add the format under xmpSupportedFormats tag. File types must be valid xmpsupported type Restart the zoom server. Check-in file again.
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Issue From Zoom 5.5 and above, hot folder configurations have been designed to save the Zoom server URLs and never their aliases. So in pre 5.5 deployments which had set up hot folders with Zoom server aliases, the users will now have to either delete the old hot folder settings and re-create or they need to manually edit
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Please ensure the file type (MP4 in this case) is added to the metadataspec.xml file, see this article for more details.
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When Zoom and Preview are running on the same machine. You May see the following error after a fresh install or upgrade in Web/VAB view. This error can ben fixed by following these steps. 1. IP Address in server.xml/preview.xml please make sure to stop the zoom and preview services. change server.xml/preview.xml to reflect server Ip
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Its very easy to assign multiple Keywords to multiple Assets Select the Assets from the Central Panel Select keywords from the Keywords Panel Assign any one of the selected Keyword, and it will assign all the selected keywords to the selected Assets. For more information look inside Keywords
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Zoom Web Management Console allows administrator to configure a set of characters as illegal or disallowed in file or folder name. Import/Ingest with files with such names will fail. This list can be customized however read the caveats that apply. Major consideration for disallowed characters in file is the cross-platform access of files across disparate
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To configure preview cache settings: Log in to your Zoom Web Management portal via browser at http://<yourZoomServerIPAddress>:8443. From the Admin Menu, select Server Control Panel under System Open Review Server settings, then select the Cleanup Settings tab, and then edit the preview cache settings as desired : From Zoom 6.0 and above, Additional cleanup options and Zoom
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For Zoom Server / Preview Server to work properly on non-english locale Linux machines, LC_ALL parameter should be set properly; for this the zoom and preview server init.d script (Linux) should have the line “export LC_ALL=$LANG” and LANG should be defined for the user who is going to run the zoom and preview server services
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Thumbnail generation requires access to the “temp” folders on your server-side disk. Please ensure that the default configured “temp” location on your server is write-accessible to the Zoom Preview server process and the related thumbnail generation tools that Zoom internally uses (such as FFMPEG, IMAGEMAGICK etc.). Add the following line in your preview-server.conf to set up
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