Adding a New Broadcaster Cluster – Manual Scaling

To add a Broadcaster Cluster with manual scaling:

1. In the main navigation, select Broadcasters.
2. Click + Add.
   The Broadcaster Cluster screen is displayed:
   
   
   
3. In the Name field, type a logical name for the Zixi Cluster resource.
4. In the Access Tag field, for the current use case select Default from the drop-down list. To learn more about using Access Tags to control access to resources see Zen Master User Guide.
5. In the DNS Prefix field, enter a unique domain name for sending the streams to/from this cluster.
6. Under Cluster Type, for our use case select Ingest and Channel Processing.
7. In the Scaling Account field, for our use case select Manual.
8. Click Continue.
   The Broadcaster Cluster Authorization Mode window opens:
   
9. In the Authorization Mode field, select the desired authorization mode from the drop-down list. For our use case, verify that ZEN is selected (default). This activates the ZEN authorization mode (see ZEN Master Automated Authorization).
   To learn about alternative authorization modes see ZEN Master User Guide.
10. When using ZEN authorization mode, if you would like to allow the Broadcaster cluster to access inputs and/or outputs that are not configured in ZEN, then select the Push Inputs and/or Pull Outputs checkboxes respectively.
11. Click Save.

After creating a Broadcasting Cluster with manual scaling, you must manually add Broadcasters to the cluster. To add Broadcasters see the following section Adding Broadcasters to the Cluster (for Manual Scaling).