Milestone XProtect Enterprise 2014 - Manual (Page 170)

Milestone XProtect ® Enterprise
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 170 Advanced configuration
Start and stop services
On an system server, several services by default run in the background. If you need to, you can start
and stop each service separately:
1. Expand Advanced Configuration and select Services. This displays the status of each
service.
2. You can now stop each service by clicking the Stop button. When a service is stopped, the
button changes to Start, allowing you to start the service again when required.
Servers
Mobile server
About Mobile server
A Mobile server handles log-ins to the system from Milestone Mobile client from a mobile device or
XProtect Web Client.
Upon correct login, the Mobile server distributes video streams from relevant recording servers to
Milestone Mobile client. This offers an extremely secure setup, where recording servers are never
connected to the Internet. When a Mobile server receives video streams from recording servers, it also
handles the complex conversion of codecs and formats allowing streaming of video on the mobile
device.
You must install the Mobile server on any computer from which you want to access recording servers.
Before you begin the installation of the Mobile server, make sure you are logged in with an account
that has administrator rights. Installation cannot be successful if you use a standard user account.
About direct streaming
By default, when your system transfers video from cameras to your system, the Milestone Mobile
server decodes video images from the codec used on the camera into JPEG files. This decoding
process is somewhat resource-intense for the Milestone Mobile server. Direct streaming allows the
Milestone Mobile server to transfer the images to XProtect Web Client in the original codec format,
and, thereby, reduce the strain on the Milestone Mobile server as no decoding is necessary.
Under the Milestone Mobile server's General Settings, you can enable direct streaming on the
Milestone Mobile server to enable the use of direct streaming for users of the XProtect Web Client.
However, administrators can also select to make it mandatory for all users to use direct streaming in
XProtect Web Client. If administrators enable this setting, all users will always use direct streaming. If
you enable mandatory direct streaming, all instances of Milestone Mobile client will no longer be able
to connect, so administrators should only use this setting if users strictly use the Milestone Mobile
server to connect to XProtect Web Client.
To use direct streaming, you must install a plug-in on the PC on which you access XProtect Web
Client. XProtect Web Client automatically asks users if they wish to install this plug-in (if they connect
through a supported browser).