Distributing Finished Media - Final Cut Server 1.5 - page 205

If necessary, return to the Final Cut Server pane in System Preferences. 1

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In the General pane, note the default setting for Max Running Jobs. It's currently
set to 10, which is a good value for running a contained Final Cut Server system that
does the transcoding locally. If you were integrating Final Cut Server with an Apple
Qmaster cluster, you could safely bump up this number based on the number of
nodes (your mileage may vary depending on system specs) in increments of five jobs
until you reach a satisfactory threshold.

For Retry Count, enter 5 ; and for Retry Timeout, enter 60 . These values tell Final
Cut Server to retry a failed job five times, pausing 60 seconds between each try (most
modern servers should power cycle in 5 minutes). You can modify these values based
on your infrastructure, taking into account the time it takes your destination servers
to go through a power cycle (one of the more likely causes of a failed job). When fin-
ished, quit System Preferences.

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Open the client application and log in as the administrator. Open the Administration
window from the Server pop-up menu.

Choose Response from the menu on the left, and click the Create button to make a
new response. Choose Email from the Response Action pop-up menu. For Name,
enter Failed Job Email Notification , and for description, enter Email notification sent
when a job fails .

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Choose Email in the menu on the left and enter the following values (they will differ
based on your email infrastructure): For To, enter the email address you want to have the
notifications sent to (such as [e-mail] ); for Sender, enter fcsvr@pretendco.
com ; and for Subject, enter Job [Job ID] Failed . For Message, enter the following:

Job [Job ID] [Title] needs attention. Please login ASAP and attempt to troubleshoot.
The error that occurred was:
“[Error].”