Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 229)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 229 Feature configuration
Group failover recording servers
1. Select Servers > Failover Servers. This opens a list of installed failover recording servers
and failover groups.
2. In the Overview pane, right-click the top-node Failover Groups and select Add Group.
3. Specify a name (in this example Failover Group 1) for and a description (optional) of your new
group. Click OK.
4. Right-click the group (Failover Group 1) you just created. Select Edit Group Members. This
opens the Select Group Members window.
5. Drag and drop or use the buttons to move the selected failover recording server(s) from the left
side to the right side. Click OK. The selected failover recording server(s) now belongs to the
group (Failover Group 1) you just created.
6. Go to the Sequence tab. Click Up and Down to set the internal sequence of the regular
failover recordings servers in the group.
Read failover recording server status icons
The following icons represent the status of failover recording servers (icons are visible in the
Overview pane):
Icon Description
The failover recording server is either waiting or "watching". When waiting, the failover
recording server is not configured to take over from any recording server yet. When
"watching", the failover recording server is configured to watch one or more recording
servers.
The failover recording server has taken over from the designated recording server. If you
place your cursor over the server icon, you see a tooltip. Use the tooltip to see which
recording server the failover recording server has taken over from.
Connection to the failover recording server is broken.
Failover recording server properties
Specify the following failover recording server properties:
Name Description
Name
The name of the failover recording server as it appears in the
Management Client, logs and more.
Description
An optional field that you can use to describe the failover recording
server, for example which recording server it takes over from.
Host name
Displays the network address of the failover recording server. You
cannot change this.