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Matrox Monarch Configuration

You can import the Matrox Monarch HD configuration on boot up from a web page. Go to:

Command Center > Automatic Configuration.
Type in URL Address starting with https.
Check "Load settings on device reboot."
You can either power off the device or hit reset.
Holding reset for more than 5 seconds does a factory reset.
On next bootup, device will have configuration contained from the remote file.

Parsing Wowza Logs

I’ve been wanting to look at Wowza logs for a very long time. I just spent a couple of hours writing a Bash script that generates a stats report. It parses the Wowza log file for the IP addresses, and runs them and against a site called ipinfo.io to get the viewer’s geo location. The output is filtered, sorted, takes a count, and finally generates a webpage. Here’s the Bash script.

# Can be placed in cron to run.
create-wowza-report.sh wowzastreamingengine_access.log
#!/bin/bash
 
# check for missing argument
if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "No arguments supplied. Format: create-wowza-report.sh wowzastreamingengine_access.log"
    exit 1
fi
 
# get the ips from the wowza log file
awk '{print $17}' $1 > output1.txt
 
# exclude invalid ips 
grep '[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}' output1.txt > output2.txt
 
# sort unique ips
cat output2.txt | sort -u | uniq > ips.txt
 
# pause for 1s
sleep 1s
 
# empty file just in case
> output3.txt
 
# set filename
filename="ips.txt"
 
# read filename and get geo info
while read -r ipaddress; do
  curl ipinfo.io/"$ipaddress" 2>/dev/null | awk -F'"' '$2=="city"{printf("%s, ", $4)}$2=="region"{print $4}' >> output3.txt
done < "$filename"
 
# cleanup empty geo locations
grep -v '^,' output3.txt > output4.txt
 
# sort output alphabetically
cat output4.txt | sort > output5.txt
 
# get a count of connections
count=$(wc -l < output5.txt)
 
# get today's date
filename=$(date +%Y%m%d)
date=`date +'%A %B %d, %Y'`
 
# rename file
mv output5.txt $filename.txt
 
# generate web page
cat <<EOF > $filename.php
<html>
<head>
<title>Wowza Streaming Stats on $date</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Live Streaming Stats</h1>
<p>Number of connections on $date: $count</p>
<?php include('$filename.txt');?>
</body>
</html>
EOF
 
# move files to web directory
cp $filename.* /var/www/html
 
# cleanup files
rm output*.txt
rm ips.txt