Milestone XProtect Enterprise 2014 - Manual (Page 25)

Milestone XProtect ® Enterprise
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 25 System overview
Note that if your system is connected to the Internet, your licenses are automatically activated as you
add devices to system. You do not need to specify any user name or password. The system checks
every fifteen minutes if the license file corresponds to the number of installed cameras. If you have
added cameras within that time frame, the system automatically adds the license for these cameras as
well.
For a step-by-step guide of how to license your device channels as well as your system software, see
the separate licensing guides for the 2013 and 2014 versions of the XProtect Professional VMS
products, available on the Milestone website at
www.milestonesys.com .
* XProtect Professional VMS Products cover the following products: XProtect Enterprise, XProtect
Professional, XProtect Express, XProtect Essential and XProtect Go.
About seeing license information
You can get an overview of your licenses by expanding Advanced Configuration > Hardware
Devices. This presents you with the Hardware Device Summary table.
Name Description
Hardware Device Name
Hardware devices (typically cameras but could also be dedicated
input/output boxes).
License
Licensing status of your hardware devices. The following statuses
can be shown: Licensed, [number of] day(s) grace, Trial, or
Expired.
Video Channels Number of available video channels on your hardware devices.
Licensed Channels
Number of video channels on each of your hardware devices for
which you have a license.
Speaker Channels Number of available speaker channels on your hardware devices.
Microphone Channels
Number of available microphone channels on your hardware
devices.
Address http addresses of your hardware devices.
WWW Links to http addresses of your hardware devices.
Port Port used by your hardware devices.
Device Driver Names of device drivers associated with your hardware devices.
Cameras (or dedicated input/output boxes) for which you are missing a license do not send data to the
surveillance system. Cameras added after all available licenses are used are unavailable.
About replacing cameras
If you remove a camera from a recording server, you also free a license. You can replace a licensed
camera and activate and license a new camera instead. The total number of purchased device
channels corresponds to the total number of cameras that can run on the surveillance system
simultaneously.