Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 237)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 237 Feature configuration
Milestone Federated Architecture
About selecting Milestone Interconnect or Milestone Federated
Architecture
In a physically distributed Advanced VMS where users on the central site need to access the video
directly on the remote site, you can choose between Milestone Interconnect or Milestone Federated
Architecture.
Milestone recommends Milestone Federated Architecture when:
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The network connection between the central and remote sites is a stable.
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The network uses the same domain.
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There are fewer larger sites.
Milestone recommends Milestone Interconnect when:
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The network connection between the central and remote sites is unstable.
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You or your organization want to use another XProtect product on the remote sites.
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The network uses different domains or workgroups.
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There are many smaller sites.
About Milestone Federated Architecture
XProtect Expert cannot run as a central site.
Milestone Federated Architecture™ (MFA) links multiple individual standard systems into a
parent/child hierarchy of sites. With MFA, client users with sufficient rights have seamless access to
video, audio and other resources across individual sites. Through a single login, administrators can
centrally manage all sites within the federated hierarchy, based on administrator rights for the
individual sites.
Important: You can only centrally manage an MFA hierarchy if all sites use the same version of your
XProtect product.
You install and configure each site in a federated hierarchy as a normal standalone system with
standard system components, settings, rules, schedules, administrators, users, and user rights. Once
you have installed each site, you connect these by requesting an MFA link from one site (the parent
site) to another (the child site). When the link is established, the two sites automatically create an MFA
hierarchy to which you can add more sites to grow the federated hierarchy. Once you have created an
MFA hierarchy, it allows users and administrators logged into a site to access that site and any child or
sub-child sites it may have. Access to child sites depend on the user rights.
Important: You can only add sites that use the same version of your XProtect product as the site you
are adding to.