sap

The sap command is used to manage Session Announcement Protocol (SAP) multicast advertising settings.

Note

To display the list of advertised sessions, use the stream get all command. See stream.

sap get
sap enable
sap disable
sap start
sap stop
sap set

Action	Description
get	Displays SAP configuration information.
enable	Enables the SAP service and starts listening for session advertisements.
disable	Disables the SAP service, stopping the listening for session advertisements and deleting any discovered streams.
start	Starts listening for SAP advertisements; service must be enabled.
stop	Stops listening for SAP advertisements and deletes any discovered streams.
set	Configures SAP settings. See Parameters below. A series of one or more `parameter=value` pairs can be specified at once.

Parameter	Default	Description/Values
address	n/a	The multicast IPv4 address to listen on for IPv4 session announcements. Use `0.0.0.0` to listen on the standard IPv4 scoped address. Important For IPv4, the decoder listens for SAP on three different addresses when automatic is selected: 224.2.127.254 (IPv4 global scope announcement multicast address) 239.255.255.255 (IPv4 local scope announcement multicast address) 239.195.255.255 (IPv4 organization local scope announcement multicast address) The standard IP addresses and ports for multicast SAP announcements are defined in RFC 2974.
v6address		The multicast IPv6 address to listen on for IPv6 session announcements. Use `::` to listen on the standard IPv6 scoped addresses. Important For IPv6, the decoder listens to FF0X::2:7FFE where X is the 4-bit scope value.
port	n/a	The UDP port to listen on for SAP messages.

# sap get

Returns sap configuration information for the decoder, such as:

Configuration:
  Address           : 224.2.127.254
  UDP Port          : 9875

# sap enable v6address=::

Returns the following confirmation:

SAP enabled successfully.

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