Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 58)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 58 Management Client elements
Get additional licenses
If you want to add or if you have already added more hardware devices, Milestone Interconnect
systems, or doors than you currently have licenses for, you must buy additional licenses to enable the
devices to send data to your system.
1. To get additional licenses for your system, contact your XProtect product reseller.
2. When you have received an updated license file (.lic) with the new licenses, you must activate
your licenses.
Licenses and hardware device replacement
You can replace a hardware device, such as camera, licensed in your system with a new device, and
have the new device activated and licensed instead.
If you remove a hardware device from a recording server, you free a license.
If you, for example, replace a camera with a similar camera (manufacturer, brand, and model), and
give the new camera the same IP address, you maintain full access to all the camera's databases. In
this case, you move the network cable from the old camera to the new one without changing any
settings in the Management Client, and then activate the license.
If you replace a hardware device with a different model, you must use the Replace Hardware wizard
(see Replace hardware (on page 276)) to map all relevant databases of cameras, microphones,
inputs, outputs, and settings. When done, remember to activate the license.
Over time, there is a limit to the number of hardware devices you can replace depending on the
number of hardware devices in your system. You receive a message from the system to contact
Support, when you try to active a license online that exceeds the maximum number of allowed
replacements.
Site information
You can add additional information to a site for an easier identification of each site, for example, in a
large Milestone Federated Architecture setup. Apart from the site name, you can describe:
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Address/location
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Administrator(s)
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Additional information