Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 7)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Getting
Started Guide
www.milestonesys.com 7 About licenses
About licenses
When you purchase the system, you also purchase a certain number of licenses for the number of
hardware devices, for example video encoders or cameras, that you want to run on the system. One
hardware device license enables you to run as many camera, speaker, microphone, input, output and
metadata devices that the hardware device consists of. It also enables you to run the hardware device
multiple times on one site or multiple times on multiple sites.
You need a camera license for each enabled interconnected camera in a Milestone Interconnect
setup.
If you purchase XProtect Access Control Module, you need a license for each door you want to
configure for access control.
At first, when you have installed the various system components, configured the system, and added
recording servers and cameras through the Management Client, the surveillance system runs on
temporary licenses which need to be activated before a certain period ends. This is known as the
grace period. You also need to activate licenses if you later add more cameras to the system.
When the new surveillance system is working, Milestone recommends that you activate your licenses
before you make the final adjustments. If you do not activate your licenses before the grace period
expires, all recording servers and cameras without activated licenses stop sending data to the
surveillance system.