Teradek Sputnik - Manual (Page 2)

Version 2.0 May „12 © Teradek, LLC 2012. All rights reserved.
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2 Introduction
Sputnik is Teradek‟s interface between Bond and your streaming destination. Sputnik is designed to run
on a Linux computer either in the cloud (using Amazon‟s EC2 services) or on a local server with a single,
publically addressable TCP port. For Amazon EC2 configuration, start with Creating an Amazon EC2
instance for Sputnik, page 3.
3 Installing Sputnik (Local Linux Machine)
1. Download the Sputnik RPM file. This package contains the Sputnik binaries and configuration
files.
2. Open your file browser and navigate to the directory containing the Sputnik RPM.
3. Double click to open your package manager and follow prompts to install Sputnik.
4. You will be prompted for an administrator password to complete the installation.
Note: As of Sputnik version 1.0, the following Linux distributions have been tested:
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Fedora 13
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Fedora 14
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Fedora 15
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Amazon Linux 2011
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Enterprise Linux 6 (CentOS 6)
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Debian (Stable)
4 Sputnik Operation
1. To start Sputnik: sudo service sputnik start
2. To stop Sputnik: sudo service sputnik stop
3. To restart Sputnik: sudo service sputnik restart
4. Sputnik Dashboard: Access the sputnik dashboard by entering Sputnik‟s IP address (or host
name) and web server port in your browser. For example, if Sputnik‟s IP address is
192.168.1.200 and it is using the default web server port (1957), access the dashboard by
entering „http://192.168.1.200:1957‟ in your web
browser.
The Sputnik Dashboard displays statistics and
information about connected modems‟ throughput, round
trip delay, and data usage. In addition, Sputnik‟s buffer
statistics and uptime are displayed. A restart button is
also present on the Dashboard.