Milestone Basis+ 6.5 - Manual (Page 19)

Milestone XProtect Basis+ 6.5; Administrator’s Manual
www.milestonesys.com Page 19 Requirements and Prerequisites
You configure scheduling in the Administrator application’s Camera/Alert Scheduler
window, described in detail on page 64.
Configure Archiving. By default, video received from cameras is stored by XProtect
Basis+ in a database for each camera. However, the camera databases are each capable of
containing a maximum of 40 GB or 600,000 records before the oldest records are deleted.
By using XProtect Basis+’s archiving feature, you are able to overcome these limitations by
automatically moving the contents of camera databases to specified archiving locations one
or more times every day. With archiving the amount of records you will be able to store will
thus be limited only by your available hardware storage capacity.
By using archiving, you will also be able to back up archived records on backup media of
your choice, using your preferred backup software.
Archiving is described in detail on page 101.
Configure the Image Server. The Image Server is the service handling Remote Client
and Smart Client access to the XProtect Basis+ system.
Remote Clients (see separate manual) and Smart Clients (see separate manual) are
included in your XProtect Basis+ license, and provide flexible, client/server
based, remote access to the XProtect Basis+ system, with viewing live or recordings
from multiple servers simultaneously. If you are going to use Remote Clients or Smart
Clients, configuring the Image Server is a prerequisite. Configuration includes specifying
whether the Image Server should be accessible from the internet, specifying user rights,
etc.
You configure the Image Server through the Image Server Administrator window,
described in detail on page 109.
Configure the Download Manager. The Download Manager lets you manage which
XProtect Basis+-related features your organization’s users will be able to access from a
user-targeted welcome page on the surveillance system server. Such features include the
highly important access clients, additional language versions, etc.
Tip: The Download Manager comes with a default configuration ensuring that users get
access to Smart Clients (see page 140) and Remote Clients (see page 142) on the welcome
page without you having to configure anything.
Read more about the Download Manager, the welcome page, users’ language options, etc.
on page 118.