
Flash Communication Server Management Tools 97
APPENDIX
Flash Communication Server
Management Tools
As an application developer, one of your most important tasks is to monitor and debug your
applications while they are in use. Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX provides three
windows that display a variety of details and statistics regarding your running applications.
• The Administration Console lets you view a variety of information about server responsiveness.
It also lets you start and shut down the server, virtual hosts, and applications. To open the
Administration Console, from the Windows Start menu choose Programs > Macromedia Flash
Communication Server MX > Server Administrator. For more information, see Managing
Flash Communication Server.
• The Communication App inspector lets you unload or reload individual application instances.
It also displays information about an application instance that is currently running, including
log messages, stream data, and application usage statistics. For more information, see “Using
the Communication App inspector” below.
• The NetConnection Debugger lets you monitor debugging events that are related to
NetConnection objects. For more information, see “Using the NetConnection Debugger” on
page 105.
Using the Communication App inspector
The Communication App inspector displays a list of the application instances currently running
on the server. For any instance that you select, you can view detailed information about its status,
including the following:
• A running list of log messages that are generated by the application instance on the server
• Information about the streams and shared objects associated with the instance
• Information about the overall state of the selected application instance, such as total uptime,
number of users, and so on
You can also use the App inspector to load and unload application instances.
To open the App inspector, choose Window > Communication App Inspector from within
Macromedia Flash MX. On a server machine that doesn’t have Flash MX installed, open the
app_inspector.html file located in the admin subdirectory of the flashcom application directory.
To use the App inspector, you must have full server administator privileges or vhost
administrator privileges.
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