About the OSCam app for Splunk

This OSCam app provides a hands-on way to see what is going on with your OSCam Server.

Now that you've installed the app, you may like to know what the different dashboards gives you.

Definition

• Time frame
  The time windows you are looking at. Often set to last 24 hour
  
  
• Time span
  Defining how often a graph shall be updated. Default 10 min.
  
  
• Host
  This is one OSCam server. Splunk can monitor several OSCam severs (hosts) at the same time.
  
  
• Client
  A client connects to you and gets ecm from your host
  
  
• Reader/Proxy(Server)
  Proxy is a local reader or an emualator. Reader is your host connecting to another host to get ecm.
  Both Proxy and Reader are in the Server section of the config files.
  
  

Dashboards

• 1. OScam Reader activities
  Whats going on with your OSCam servers/proxy/readers? Some panels are hidden if they show no data.
  
  
• 2. OScam Clients activities
  Whats going on with your OSCam clients? Some panels are hidden if they show no data.
  
  
• 3. OSCam Channels Usage Timeline
  What channels are your client looking at? Drill down and you will see.
  If you select one client, you can see what ecm request he makes.
  
  
• 4. OSCam Channels requested
  You see here what channels are decoded by a specific reader/proxy (server) or by Client.
  Have you added a new reader(server) and like to see what channels he give ecm for,
  just select him from the drop down list. If list is blank, he gives nothing.
  You can do the same for a client. Select one and you all request hi has made.
  Add "c@p/i/s/l:h:j" to "ECM log format" to make distance work.
  
  
• 5. OSCam Channels decoded
  Show what channels are decoded or not decoded, sorted by number of hits and by clients.
  You can drill down to host and/or server.
  
  
• 6. OSCam Channels not in oscam.srvid
  Show what channels are not listed in oscam.srvid(2). Update the file exits this list.
  To make most of this dashboards to look nice, you need an oscam.srvid file.
  If a channel is not listed in the file, you see here caid:sid@pvid so you can search or add the id.
  
  
• 7. OSCam Clents ecm requests
  Ecm request sorted by hits of Client and by Reader/Proxy(Server) or Channel.
  
  
• 8. OSCam Live view
  Here you have two view that shows what information OSCam sends out. Its separated in Ecm and Other info view.
  Ecm gives you all Ecm request OSCam host handles
  Other info shows the rest. Like loadbalance statistics saved. Readers/Clients connecting. Errors etc.
  
  
• 9. OSCam Clients map location
  Not all ISP shows city (shows unknown) but all shows country correct. Zoom in to see better location.
  
  
• 10. OSCam Servers map location
  Since this is based on server connect, zoom increase time span to see more serves.
  Not all ISP shows city (shows unknown) but all shows country correct. Zoom in to see better location.
  
  
• 11. OSCam Restarts
  When OSCam restarts, it will create a log entry showing that it starts.
  Second panel shows someone do a soft restart of OSCam from GUI.
  
  
• 12. OSCam Overview
  Show a quick view of all the information as numbers.
  
  
• 13. OSCam config changes
  Show when config files of OSCam has been change. It can be changed editing the files or using Web GUI.
  
  
• 14. OSCam ecm errors
  Show a list of how gives ECM errors. (rejected group,not found,timeout,rejected,invalid_sid.
  
  
• 15. OSCam client last login
  Show when a client last logged in. You can also specify a client name to search for it.
  
  
• 16. OSCam EMM
  Show EMM information. You can here see when and if EMM has been written to your card.
  
  
• 17. OSCam percent channel found in serviceID
  Show how many percent channels is found in your serviceID. Update files to get more information.
  
  
• 18. OSCam Anticascading
  Show information about Anticascading, used to limit a clients ECM usage.
  
  
• 19. OSCam Reader cards
  Experimental information showing number of cards from the clients
  To make this work you need to add this patch http://www.streamboard.tv/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=45651
  You alos need to have webgui up and running (revomedn 60s polling) to get log out from OSCam