Adding a New Broadcaster Cluster – Manual

To add a Manual Broadcaster Cluster:

1. In the main navigation, select Broadcasters.
2. Click + Add.
   The Create New Broadcaster Cluster screen is displayed:
   
   
   
3. In the Name field, type a logical name for the Zixi Broadcaster Cluster resource.
4. In the Access Tags 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 Configuring Tags in 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 Management Type field, for our use case select Manual.
   The manual configuration fields are shown:
   
8. In the Authorization Mode field, select the desired authorization mode from the drop-down list. For our use case, verify that ZEN Master is selected (default). This activates the ZEN Master authorization mode (see ZEN Master Automated Authorization).
   To learn about alternative authorization modes see Creating a New Broadcaster Cluster in ZEN Master User Guide.
9. When using ZEN Master authorization mode, if you would like to allow the Broadcaster cluster to access inputs and/or outputs that are not configured in ZEN Master, then select the Push Inputs and/or Pull Outputs checkboxes respectively.
10. 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).