Periodic and background operations are executed internally by Vidispine VidiCore services. These resources are meant for system administrators or developers that need to troubleshoot or monitor a server. For a list of available services, see GET /vidispine-service . The available Vidispine VidiCore services may vary from version to version and should not be considered to be part of the stable API.
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Only used by VidiXplore
More on Vidispine VidiCore services and how to enable/disable specific ones;
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