IWMSServerCurrentCounters Object (Visual Basic .NET)

You can use the IWMSServerCurrentCounters object to retrieve real-time information about the number of connections to the server and the amount of bandwidth allocated to those connections.

The IWMSServerCurrentCounters object exposes the following properties.

Property	Description
AllCounters	Retrieves an array that contains all of the counters supported by the object.
CacheDownloads	Retrieves the number of streams being sent to a cache.
ConnectedPlayers	Retrieves the number of players connected to the server.
ConnectionQueue	Retrieves the current number of players in the queue to connect to the server.
ConnectionRate	Retrieves the number of players connecting per second.
FileReadRate	Retrieves the current bandwidth consumed by file read operations.
IncomingBandwidth	Retrieves the current bandwidth allocated for incoming connections.
LateReadRate	Retrieves the number of late read operations per second.
LateSendRate	Retrieves the number of late send operations per second.
OutgoingDistributionAllocatedBandwidth	Retrieves the bandwidth that has been allocated for distribution connections.
OutgoingDistributionConnections	Retrieves the number of server distribution connections.
OutgoingDistributionSendRate	Retrieves the rate, in Kbps, at which content is being sent to distribution connections.
PlayerAllocatedBandwidth	Retrieves the bandwidth allocated for player connections.
PlayerSendRate	Retrieves the rate, in Kbps, at which content is being sent to players.
StreamErrorRate	Retrieves the number of dropped packets per second.
StreamingHTTPPlayers	Retrieves the total number of players receiving streamed content using the HTTP protocol.
StreamingMMSPlayers	Retrieves the total number of players receiving streamed content using the MMS protocol. (The MMS protocol is not supported in Windows Server 2008 operating systems.)
StreamingPlayers	Retrieves the number of players receiving streamed content.
StreamingRTSPPlayers	Retrieves the number of players receiving streamed content using the RTSP protocol.
StreamingUDPPlayers	Retrieves the number of players receiving streamed content using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
UDPResendRequestsRate	Retrieves the number of UDP resend requests received by the server.
UDPResendsSentRate	Retrieves the number of UDP resend requests processed by the server.

Example

The following example illustrates how to retrieve an IWMSServerCurrentCounters object.

Imports Microsoft.WindowsMediaServices.Interop
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

Private Sub RetrieveObj()

    ' Declare variables.
    Dim Server As WMSServer
    Dim CurrentCounters As IWMSServerCurrentCounters

Try
    ' Create the WMSServer object.
    Server = New WMSServer()

    ' Retrieve a list of current statistics
    ' for the server.
    CurrentCounters = Server.CurrentCounters

Catch excCom As COMException
    ' TODO: Handle COM exceptions.
Catch exc As Exception
    ' TODO: Handle errors.
Finally
    ' TODO: Clean-up code goes here.
End Try

End Sub

See Also

Reference

IWMSServer Object (Visual Basic .NET)

Concepts

Server Object Model (Visual Basic .NET)