Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 4)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com Contents
Upgrade prerequisites ....................................................................................................... 46
Alternative upgrade for workgroup .................................................................................. 46
FIRST TIME USE ............................................................................. 47
B EST PRACTICES .............................................................................................. 47
Protect recording databases from corruption ................................................................ 47
About daylight saving time ............................................................................................... 48
About time servers ............................................................................................................. 48
M ANAGEMENT C LIENT OVERVIEW ...................................................................... 49
About login authorization .................................................................................................. 49
Management Client window .............................................................................................. 49
Panes overview .................................................................................................................. 51
Menu overview .................................................................................................................... 52
MANAGEMENT CLIENT ELEMENTS ............................................. 54
B ASICS ............................................................................................................ 54
License information ........................................................................................................... 54
Site information .................................................................................................................. 58
S ERVERS AND HARDWARE ................................................................................. 60
Recording servers .............................................................................................................. 60
Hardware and remote servers ........................................................................................... 74
Remove a recording server ............................................................................................... 83
Delete all hardware on a recording server ...................................................................... 84
D EVICES .......................................................................................................... 84
Working with device groups ............................................................................................. 84
Working with devices......................................................................................................... 87
C LIENT .......................................................................................................... 124
About clients ..................................................................................................................... 124
View groups ...................................................................................................................... 125
Smart Client profiles ........................................................................................................ 126