Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 227)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 227 Feature configuration
failover groups. A failover group must contain at least one failover recording server, but you
can add as many failover recording servers as needed. Provided a failover group contains
more than one failover recording server, more than one failover recording server can take
over. In a hot standby setup, you cannot set up a failover recording servers or hot standby
servers for a hot standby server.
Install a failover recording server
Important: During the installation process, you are asked to specify a user account under which the
Failover Server service should run. This user account must have administrator rights in the system.
Note also that if you run workgroups, you should ignore the normal installation guidelines for installing
recording servers and use the alternative installation method for workgroups.
Once you have installed the management server using the common installer, download the separate
recording server installer from the management server's web page. As part of this installer, specify if
you want to install a standard recording server or a failover recording server.
1. Go to the Management server's download web page and select the Recording Server installer.
Save the installer somewhere appropriate and run it from here or run it directly from the web
page.
2. Select the Language you want to use during the installation. Click Continue.
3. From the selection list, select Failover to install a recording server as a failover recording
server.
4. Specify failover recording server properties. Click Continue.
5. When installing a failover recording server you must use the particular user account labeled
This account. If needed, enter a password and confirm this. Click Continue.
6. Select Files location for the program file. In Product language, select the language in which
to install your system. Click Install.
7. The software now installs. When done, you see a list of successfully installed components.
Click Close.
When you have installed the failover recording server, you can check its state from the
Failover Server service icon.
Setup and enable failover recording servers
Important: If you have disabled the failover recording server, you must enable it before it can take
over from the standard recording servers.
Do the following to enable a failover recording server and edit its basic properties:
1. In the Site Navigation pane, select Servers > Failover Servers. This opens a list of installed
failover recording servers and failover groups.
2. In the Overview pane, select the required failover recording server.
3. Right-click and select Enabled. The failover recording server is now enabled.