Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 277)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
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4. In the wizard, in the Address field (marked by red arrow in the image), enter the IP address of
the new hardware. If known, select the relevant driver from the Hardware Driver drop-down
list. Otherwise select Auto Detect. If port, user name or password data is different for the new
hardware, correct this before starting the auto detect process (if needed).
The wizard is prefilled with data from the existing hardware. If you replace it with a similar
hardware device, you can reuse some of this data - for example, port and driver information.
5. Do one of the following:
o If you selected the required hardware device driver directly from the list, click Next.
o If you selected Auto Detect in the list, click Auto Detect, wait for this process to be
successful (marked by a
to the far left), click Next.
This step is designed to help you map devices and their databases, depending on the number
of individual cameras, microphones, inputs, outputs and so on attached to the old hardware
device and the new respectively.
It is important to consider how to map databases from the old hardware device to databases
of the new hardware device. You do the actual mapping of individual devices by selecting a
corresponding camera, microphone, input, output or None in the right-side column.