Knox Media Hub With Wasabi

Wasabi has been validated to work with Knox Media Hub.  Knox Media Hub seamlessly integrates its media asset management, distribution portals, and transcoding services with Wasabi S3 storage, offering enhanced efficiency and reliability for managing, distributing, and transcoding media assets.

Prerequisites

• Active Wasabi Cloud Storage Account

• Wasabi Bucket - See our Bucket Creation Guide

• Access & Secret Key Pair - See our Access Keys Guide

• Active KnoxMediaHub Account

Architecture Diagram

Configuration

1. Log into the Wasabi Console and navigate to "Users"

2. Click on "Create User" to create an IAM user in the Wasabi console

3. Select the "Programmatic (create API key)"  and click Next.

4. Download the generated Wasabi Access & Secret Key and store it in a secure location. 

5. Provide the Wasabi Keys to the KnoxMediaHub onboarding team using a secure channel.

6. In the Wasabi Console navigate to "Policies" and create a new policy with the following permissions. Replace the "<INSERT-BUCKET-HERE>" tag with your bucket ARN:

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{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:*",
"Resource": "<INSERT-BUCKET-HERE>"
}
]
}

7. Attach the newly created policy to the user that was created earlier.

8. In the Wasabi Console go to "Buckets" and either create a new bucket or open an existing bucket you want to connect with KnoxMediaHub.

Note: This example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this article.

9. Go to "Settings" > "Permissions" and add the following permissions policy to your bucket. 

Replace <INSERT-BUCKET-HERE> with your bucket ARN and <INSERT-IAM-USER-ARN-HERE> with your IAM user ARN:

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{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "AllowAPIAccess",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "<INSERT-IAM-USER-ARN-HERE>"
},
"Action": "s3:*",
"Resource": [
"<INSERT-BUCKET-HERE>/*",
"<INSERT-BUCKET-HERE>"
]
}
]
}

10. In the Wasabi Console, navigate to "Settings" > "Event Notifications" and click on "Configure New AWS Credentials." 

Note - The KnoxMediaHub team will provide you with the Region and Access Keys you need to register.

11. Return to "Buckets" > "Your Bucket" > "Settings" > "Properties" > "Event Notifications" and click on "Create Event Notification".

12. Leave the "Prefix" and "Suffix" fields empty, then click "Next."

13. Enable ObjectCreated notifications:

14. Enter the SNS topic that will receive the notifications. The KnoxMediaHub team will provide you with the details on the topic to use.

15. Once the setup is complete you can login into KnoxMediaHub dashboard with the provided URL given by the KnoxMediaHub team once your environment is ready.

16. Click on the "Library" icon.

17. Once in “Library” go to “Storage” and you will see the wasabi bucket.

18. In order to create a hotfolder expand the desired bucket and press on "+ Create Hotfolder":

19. Fill in the hotfolder name and the path to monitor. Optionally you can define.

20. The new hotfolder will be created and you will be able to start ingesting content into KnoxMediaHub and Wasabi.

You can either place a file directly in the wasabi bucket or upload the file into KnoxMediaHub directly.

Replication of Buckets

Wasabi’s Object replication feature enables you to replicate or copy your data between Wasabi regions to protect against ransomware attacks, malicious data manipulation, natural disasters, or even accidental deletion. Object replication enables you to replicate/copy objects from an active storage bucket (source) to one or more different buckets (destination).

1. Create a new Wasabi bucket and connect it with KnoxMediahub and connect the ingestion lambda. See the Configuration section steps or refer to the KnoxMediaHub S3 Bucket Guide. 

2. Notify KnoxMediaHub and provide the access keys to connect the bucket. KnoxMediaHub team will create the bucket and will be available in storages UI.

3. Create a hotfolder in the replicated bucket with the prefix of the path to monitor, if you need to detect replicated files in the whole bucket path will be “/”.

4. If you want that replicated objects are attached as “Versions” instead of new objects go to the created hotfolder and mark “Check Ingested Files Exists in Another Storage".

5. In the Wasabi console. Go to the Bucket > Configuration > Object Replication and create a new replication rule:

6. Files will start being replicated:

7. When uploading a new file it will be replicated by Wasabi. You will be able to check the ingestion of both copies in the ingestion panel.

8. The file will be available in the library, in case you checked the “Check Ingested Files Exists in Another Storage” the new version will be created as a location of the file in the main bucket.