Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 28)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Getting
Started Guide
www.milestonesys.com 28 Failover recording servers
(regular and hot standby)
3. Right-click and select Enabled. The failover recording server is now enabled.
4. To edit failover recording server properties, go to the Info tab.
5. When done, go to the Network tab. Here you can define the failover recording server's public
IP address and more. This is relevant if you use NAT (Network Address Translation) and port
forwarding. See the standard recording server's Network tab for more information.
To see the status of a failover recording server, hold your mouse of the icon in the system tray. A
tooltip appears containing the text entered in the Description field of the failover recording server. This
may help you determine which recording server the failover recording server is configured to take over
from.
Important: The failover recording server pings the management server on a regular basis to verify
that it is online and able to request and receive the configuration of the standard recording servers
when needed. If you block the pinging, the failover recording server is not able to take over from the
standard recording servers.
Assign failover recording servers
On the Failover tab of a recording server, you can choose between 3 different types of failover setups:
a No failover setup
b A primary/secondary failover setup
c A hot standby setup.
If you select b and c, you must select the specific server/groups. With b, you can also select a
secondary failover group. If the recording server becomes unavailable, a failover recording server from
the primary failover group takes over. If you have also selected a secondary failover group, a failover
recording server from the secondary group takes over in case all failover recording servers in the
primary failover group are busy. This way you only risk not having a failover solution in the rare case
when all failover recording servers in the primary, as well as in the secondary, failover group are busy.
1. In the Site Navigation pane, select Servers > Recording Servers. This opens a list of
recording servers.
2. In the Overview pane, select the wanted recording server, go to the Failover tab.
3. To choose failover setup type, select either None, Primary failover server group/Secondary
failover sever group or Hot standby server. You cannot select the same failover group as
both primary and secondary failover group nor select regular failover servers already part of a
failover group as hot standby servers.
4. Next, click Advanced failover settings. This opens the Advanced Failover Settings window,
listing all devices attached to the selected recording server. If you selected None, Advanced
failover settings are available. Any selections are kept for later failover setups.
5. To specify the level of failover support, select Full Support, Live Only or Disabled for each
device in the list. Click OK.
6. In the Failover service communication port (TCP) field, edit the port number if needed.