Monitoring IP/TV Servers

[b.harrison]

Is there a way to see who many people are actually watching a specific program? or how many people in total are viewing all streams.

[sachon]

Cisco offers a software package called StreamWatch that tracks IPTV viewer usage for individual programs. License cost is $1k

[b.harrison]

What kind of reports does it provide, my CIO requires to know who, and how many etc..

Thanks for the reply

[sachon]

On a per program basis, StreamWatch will log usage data by viewer name (or IP address), tune-in time, tune-off time, and basic QoS data for the program per viewer. Many enterprises use this info for "nielsen"-like data to measure viewership or to bill for bandwidth consumption or per program viewership.

[mhanderson]

That was what my question was about. Is there any SNMP MIB access to the IP/TV Servers so we don't have to use StreamWatch?

Mark

[sachon]

There is no SNMP MIB. Only StreamWatch

[smowat]

StreamWatch is for realtime broadcast stream(s)....it also adds overhead from each viewer (who is also a transmitter using multicast back to the Streamwatch device)

There is a ' journaling ' function on the IPTV Content Server for each ' video-on-demand ' . The data is stored in a runtime version of Mircossoft Access in a database called c:\JavaWebServer\iptvcm\database\odjournal.mdb.

so to get 'all' the Neilsen reports...both have to be used...