Milestone Systems Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Contents INTRODUCTION................................................................................5 PRODUCT OVERVIEW .....................................................................6 A TYPICAL SYSTEM SETUP ................................................................................... 6 MANAGEMENT SERVER........................................................................................
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide ACCESS DURING MIGRATION ......................................................18 INDEX ..............................................................................................22 www.milestonesys.
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Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Introduction Milestone’s premium IP video platform, XProtect® Advanced VMS, raises system operation for large installations to new heights of flexibility and ease-of-use.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Product overview This system is a fully distributed solution, designed for large multi-site and multiple server installations requiring 24/7 surveillance, with support for devices from different vendors. The solution offers centralized management of all devices, servers, and users, and empowers an extremely flexible rule system driven by schedules and events.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS 5. Management failover server 6. SQL server 7. Failover recording server 8. Recording server(s) 9. XProtect Smart Client System Migration Guide 10. IP video cameras 11. Video server 12. Analog cameras 13. PTZ IP camera 14. Camera network 15.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Recording server What? Used for recording video and for communicating with cameras and other devices. In large installations, more than one recording server is often used on the surveillance system. Failover recording servers can be set up to take over if a recording server becomes temporarily unavailable.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide How? Users access XProtect Web Client via a URL (using the IP-address of the Milestone Mobile server) and may monitor the XProtect system from any computer or tablet connected to the Internet. Milestone Mobile client What? Milestone Mobile client is a mobile application which allows you to view live video from one or multiple cameras, use Video push, play back video recordings, and more.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Integrate XProtect Enterprise In addition to the elements in the illustration in Access during migration (on page 18), it is also possible to add existing XProtect Enterprise servers to an XProtect Advanced VMS system. When this is the case, the XProtect Enterprise servers will run as slave servers on the XProtect Advanced VMS system.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide What to consider before migrating Before migrating, ask yourself the following questions: Reuse existing servers? XProtect Advanced VMS is a fully distributed system. As many recording servers as required can run under an XProtect Advanced VMS management server. And each of the recording servers can run as many cameras as required. The same applies for failover servers.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Microsoft® Windows® 8 Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (32 bit or 64 bit) Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64 bit): Standard and Datacenter.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Microsoft® Windows® 8 Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (32 bit or 64 bit) Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64 bit): Standard and Datacenter.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Microsoft® Windows® 8 Professional (32 bit or 64 bit*) Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit*) Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (32 bit or 64 bit*) Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit*) Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (32 bit or 64 bit*) Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (64 bit): Standard and Datacenter.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Reuse existing system configuration? XProtect Advanced VMS is an altogether different system. You cannot import your existing XProtect Enterprise configuration for reuse in XProtect Advanced VMS. Cameras’ recording settings, scheduling, etc. must be configured anew in XProtect Advanced VMS.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Important differences and more A few other things to consider before migrating: Recording frame rate By default, XProtect Advanced VMS uses a recording frame rate of 5 frames per second. If you are used to a higher recording frame rate in your XProtect Enterprise setup (for example, XProtect Enterprise versions earlier than 7.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide As XProtect Advanced VMS supports multi-stage archive the grooming can be done as many times as there are archives, reducing the frame rate again and again over time. For JPEG recordings it is possible to groom to any frame rate lower than the frame rate currently recorded in the database, but for MPEG and H.264 recordings, grooming can only be done to key-frames and below (e.g. a key-frame every 1 second or less).
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Access during migration One strategy/key issue when migrating is the ability to provide access to recordings from both the old and the new system. XProtect Advanced VMS allows full integration of existing XProtect Enterprise (6.0 or later) setups, thus allowing you to provide access to recordings from both old and new systems for as long as required.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide How to add roles: In the Management Client’s navigation pane, expand Security, right-click Roles, then select Add Role… How to specify roles’ rights: In the Management Client’s navigation pane, expand Security, select Roles, and select the required role from the list in the overview pane. Specify required rights on the tabs in the properties pane.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide If installing the XProtect Advanced VMS recording server on the same physical server as the existing XProtect Enterprise server, note that some of the required updates (such as .NET and the latest patches from Microsoft) are likely to require restart of the server.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide recording server—remove the XProtect Enterprise software using Windows’ Add/Remove Programs feature. Tip: If removing the XProtect Enterprise software, manually delete the XProtect Enterprise installation folder, database folders and archive folders after using Windows’ Add/Remove Programs feature. Also remember to remove the XProtect Enterprise slave server setting from XProtect Advanced VMS.
Migrating from XProtect® Enterprise to XProtect® Advanced VMS System Migration Guide Recording server • 8 Index Reuse existing cameras? • 14 A Reuse existing servers? • 11 A typical system setup • 6 Reuse existing system configuration? • 15 Access clients • 8 V Access during migration • 10, 15, 19 Virus scanning • 18 Archiving • 17 W What to consider before migrating • 11 C Computer running management server • 11 Computer running recording server or failover recording server • 12 Computer run
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