Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 15)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 15 System overview
A distributed system setup
Example of a system setup. The number of cameras, recording servers, and connected clients, can be as high as you require.
Legend:
1. Management Client(s)
2. Event server
3. Microsoft cluster
4. Management server
5. Failover management server
6. SQL server
7. Failover recording server
8. Recording server(s)
9. XProtect Smart Client(s)
10. IP video cameras
11. Video server
12. Analog cameras
13. PTZ IP camera
14. Camera network
15. Server network
System components
Management server
The management server stores the configuration of the surveillance system in a relational database,
either on the management server computer itself or on a separate SQL Server on the network. It also
handles user authentication, user rights, the rule system and more. To improve system performance,