# Welcome

The Micro Focus Media Server Reference contains information about the actions and configuration parameters that you can use in Media Server.

## Contents

The Contents tab lists the files that you can view. These are split into the following sections:

Actions | Describes the actions you can send to Media Server. Actions allow you to query Media Server and to instruct it to perform a variety of operations.
Configuration Parameters | Describes the parameters that determine how the Media Server operates. Configuration parameters are set in the Media Server configuration file.
Rolling Buffer Configuration Parameters | Describes the parameters that determine how video is archived in the rolling buffer. These configuration parameters are set in the rolling buffer configuration file.
Session Configuration Parameters | Describes the parameters that determine how media is processed. These parameters are set in a configuration that you pass to the `process` action, when you begin processing.
Service Actions | Describes service actions. Service actions allow you to return data about the Media Server service and to control Media Server.
Lua Functions | Describes the Lua functions that you can use when you write scripts to customize Media Server.

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