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# Management and Governance

## Self-Service-Console

The Audalaxy [Self-Service-Console](/docs/console/uberblick.md) is a web user interface to manage and control the essential services of Audalaxy. It is possible to request and configure the following components and processes in the Audalaxy platform independently and individually. All activities within the self-service console are executed immediately and fully automatically within the Audalaxy platform.

**Features:**

* Create / edit / delete channel
* Configure channel
* Start / stop and configure Playout
* Configure playout sound processing
* Configure playout advanced automatic crossfading
* Start sequence editor and configure dynamic scheduler
* View / export playout protocol
* Create / delete source mounts
* Create / delete listener mounts with or without transcoding
* Create / edit / delete stream URL and configure StreamRoute
* Use stream URL generator to create stream urls for aggregators
* Start / stop and configure StreamControl
* Configure Adflow
* Configure Authentications
* Configure Metaport & Metaspreader
* Configure Channel Advanced settings & Global Advanced Settings
* Configure Connect your app
* Configure Log processing
* Configure User management

## SpotControl

Audalaxy SpotControl is real-time dashboard for TV, Desktop and mobile devices. This service in combination with notifications results in a perfect monitoring solution to manage and control the advertisement business.

**Features:**

* Forecasts based on historical data
* Revenues per time unit
* Revenues / compare per time unit
* Type (preroll/midroll) per time unit
* Fill rate per time unit
* Spot requests per time unit
* Spot impressions per time unit
* Spot requests with no spot return per time unit
* Count successful beep detections per time unit
* Requested ad-duration and filled ad-duration in race
* Geo map with current spot playouts
* Filter for universal channel combinations and geo locations

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## StreamControl

Audalaxy-Streamcontrol is a service for monitoring and controlling external audio sources with easy-to-use API. The main target is the detection and quick elimination of errors in livestream infrastructures, e.g. connection problems to the audio source for simulcast streams.

**The following performance values are permanently monitored:**

* Streaming connection
* Metadata
* Silence detection

**Output:**

* JSON
* Big Data storage

## Notification Service

Notification Service is a scalable and highly available system service for event-based messaging targeting Slack. Depending on the configuration, it is possible to assign a message or an alert to all events within the Audalaxy platform. This is an essential tool to safely operate the platform.

## Streamrecorder

The Audalaxy Streamrecorder is a web user interface to record your own and third-party channels on the internet. The main target is analysing of quality and content of many audio streams, e.g. foreign and own program monitoring for editors and program managers. Depending on the authorization, you can log in as administrator or normal user. Administrators can edit and configure normal users and the record function.