Locking and Unlocking Media Components

When you lock a Media Component, the Cluster Manager stops allocating new transcoding sessions to it. You can lock the Media Component "gracefully", whereby the Cluster Manager allows the Media Component to continue processing currently active transcoding sessions for a user-defined time (graceful timeout). For more information on graceful timeout, see Configuring Graceful Timeout. Unlocking a Media Component takes the Media Component out of locked state and allows the Cluster Manager to start allocating new transcoding sessions to the Media Component.

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To lock or unlock a Media Component:

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Open the Media Components table (see Step 6: Adding Media Component to Cluster Manager).

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Select the required Media Component, and then from the Action button on the table's toolbar, choose one of the following:

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Lock: The Media Component locks and the 'Admin State' read-only field displays "Locked".

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UnLock: The Media Component unlocks and the 'Admin State' read-only field displays "Unlocked".