Service configuration

The vidispine service user

The post-installation script in the packages will create the vidispine user and group if they do not exist.

If you want to make sure that the vidispine user has a specific UID and GID, then create the vidispine user and group manually before installing any packages.

Service dependencies

If you’re running all components on the same server, then it can be beneficial to make sure that the transcoder and Solr is started before Vidispine. Note that this is only possible on systems running systemd.

$ vi /etc/systemd/system/vidispine.service.d/local.conf
[Unit]
Wants=transcoder.service solr.service

$ systemctl daemon-reload
$ systemctl enable vidispine

Setting JVM options

On Debian, edit the /etc/default/vidispine file:

$ vi /etc/default/vidispine
JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx8192m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

Or on CentOS 6, the file /etc/sysconfig/vidispine:

$ vi /etc/sysconfig/vidispine
JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx8192m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"

On systems running systemd, create a file such as /etc/systemd/system/vidispine.service.d/local.conf and override the default JAVA_OPTS:

$ vi /etc/systemd/system/vidispine.service.d/local.conf
[Service]
Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx8192m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m"