Getting Started with RHEL

To get started with OvenMediaEngine Enterprise on RHEL, check the Prerequisites below and then follow the Installation methods.

Prerequisites

OS requirements

To install OvenMediaEngine Enterprise, you need one of the following RHEL versions:

• RHEL 8

• RHEL 9

Location

By default, OvenMediaEngine Enterprise is installed in the following locations:

• Binary&Config: /usr/share/ovenmediaengine

• Log: /var/log/ovenmediaengine

Installation methods

Install using the rpm repository

Before you install OvenMediaEngine Enterprise for the first time on a new server, you need to set up OvenMediaEngine rpm repository. Afterward, you can install and update OvenMediaEngine from the repository.

Set up OvenMediaEngine's rpm repository

⚠️ Migration for Existing Private Repository Users

(This applies only to customers who previously installed OvenMediaEngine using a license key from the Buildkite Private Repository. New users can skip this step and proceed to the next section.)

To prevent package conflicts and authentication errors, you must first remove the legacy YUM/DNF repository configuration. Run the commands below to clean up the old settings and cache.

# Remove legacy Buildkite repository configuration file
sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/ovenmediaengine.repo

# Clean up DNF cache
sudo dnf clean all

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/ovenmediaengine.repo
[ovenmediaengine]
name=OvenMediaEngine Enterprise Repository
baseurl=https://packages.ovenmediaengine.cloud/linux/rhel/stable/\$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.ovenmediaengine.cloud/linux/rhel/gpg
EOF

Install the OvenMediaEngine Enterprise packages.

Latest

To install the latest version, run:

sudo dnf makecache
sudo dnf install ovenmediaengine

Specific version

After the installation is completed, follow the Post-installation steps.

Uninstall OvenMediaEngine Enterprise

To uninstall, use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ovenmediaengine

Install from a package

Download

OvenMediaEngine Enterprise is available as a rpm package. If you have received a link to download the RPM file from the OME Enterprise team, please download the file and follow the guide below to install and run it.

Install from a package

Move to the directory where the package was downloaded, and then install OvenMediaEngine Enterprise:

sudo rpm -Uvh <ovenmediaengine-enterprise-package>.rpm
Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:ovenmediaengine-<version>        ################################# [100%]

# If you are upgrading, please run "systemctl daemon-reload"
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

If OvenMediaEngine is already installed in the /usr/share/ovenmediaengine directory, it will be automatically upgraded, retaining the existing configuration files.

After the installation is completed, follow the Post-installation steps.

Uninstall OvenMediaEngine Enterprise

To uninstall, use the following command:

sudo rpm -e ovenmediaengine

You have to delete any edited configuration files manually.

Post-installation steps

License Registration

Before running OvenMediaEngine, you must register a valid License Key:

echo 'Your.License.Key' | sudo tee /usr/share/ovenmediaengine/conf/License

Host IP Configuration

To use the Web Console (OvenStudio) smoothly, you need to configure the host IP of the server.

Please check here for detailed configuration instructions.

echo -e '\nOME_HOST_IP=Your.HOST.IP.Address' | sudo tee -a /usr/share/ovenmediaengine/ovenstudio/system.env

Start OvenMediaEngine Enterprise

Start the services with the following commands:

# Start OvenMediaEngine
sudo systemctl start ovenmediaengine
# Start Web Console (OvenStudio)
sudo systemctl start ovenstudio
# Start OvenMediaEngine Delivery Module
sudo systemctl start ovenmediaengine-delivery

# If you want to auto-start on boot
sudo systemctl enable ovenmediaengine
sudo systemctl enable ovenstudio
sudo systemctl enable ovenmediaengine-delivery

Ports used by default

The default configuration uses the following ports, so you need to open it in your firewall settings:

OvenMediaEngine

Port	Purpose
1935/TCP	RTMP Input
9999/UDP	SRT Input
4000/UDP	MPEG-2 TS Input
9000/TCP	Origin Server (OVT)
80/TCP 443/TLS	Low Latency HLS (LLHLS) Streaming * Streaming over non-TLS is not allowed with modern browsers.
80/TCP 443/TLS	WebRTC Signaling (both ingest and streaming)
3478/TCP	WebRTC TCP relay (TURN Server, both ingest and streaming)
10000 - 10009/UDP	WebRTC Ice candidate (both ingest and streaming)
80/TCP 443/TLS	Thumbnail Extraction

Web Console (OvenStudio)

Port	Purpose
8080/TCP	Running Web Console

Example Firewall Commands

You can open firewall ports as in the following example:

$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=443/tcp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=1935/tcp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=9999/udp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=4000/udp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=3478/tcp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=9000/tcp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=10000-10009/udp --permanent
$ sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=8080/tcp --permanent