Generic web service profiles

A generic web service profile contains connection and recovery settings for a communication channel to an external service accessed via web service calls.

All other web services profiles are based on this generic profile.

Note:

To access a Media Management repository, you should use a Media Management connection profile, see Media Management connection profiles.

 

Settings	Description
Name	The name of the web service profile.
URI	The URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that identifies the profile.
Profile sub-type	The type of web service profile (Web service).
URL	The address of the web service. For secure web services, use the https prefix.
Port	The port to use.
Attempt recovery	Specifies whether StreamServe software should try to reconnect to the web service if the web service does not respond. Never StreamServe software will not try to reconnect. Limited times StreamServe software will try to reconnect a limited number of times. Forever StreamServe software will try to reconnect forever.
Number of retries	Applicable if Attempt recovery = Limited times. The number of times StreamServe software should try to reconnect if the web service does not respond.
Retry interval (seconds)	Applicable if Attempt recovery = Limited times or Forever. The interval (seconds) between retries.
Recovery action	Applicable if Attempt recovery = Limited times or Never. N/A – For future use.
Authentication profile	Optional. Used to select an authentication profile to be used for the connection. See Authentication profiles.
Secure channel profile	Optional. Used to establish a secure channel between StreamServe software and the web service. See Secure channel profiles.
Secondary connection profile	Optional. Used to add a secondary web service profile, to be used if the primary web service profile fails all recovery attempts.
Custom properties	Optional. Used to add any custom properties (Property name and Property value) that are not part of the standard connection configuration above.