Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 60)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 60 Management Client elements
Servers and hardware
Recording servers
About recording servers
You use recording servers for recording video feeds, and for communicating with cameras and other
devices. A surveillance system typically contains several recording servers, even though you only
need a single recording server for the system to work.
Recording servers on your system, that is computers with the recording server software installed, and
configured to communicate with a management server, are listed in the Overview pane when you
expand the Servers folder and then select Recording Servers.
Recording server listed in Overview pane
Backward compatibility with recording servers from product versions older than this current version is
limited. You can still access recordings on such older recording servers, but if you want to change their
configuration, make sure they match the current version. Milestone recommends that you upgrade all
recording servers in your system to the same version as your management server.
Important: When the Recording Server service is running, it is very important that Windows Explorer
or other programs do not access Media Database files or folders associated with your system setup. If
they do, the recording server might not be able to rename or move relevant media files, which might
bring the recording server to a halt. If this situation has already occurred, stop the Recording Server
service, close the program accessing the relevant media file(s) or folder(s)n, and restart the Recording
Server service.
Authorize a recording server
When you first use the system, or when you have added new recording servers to the system, you
must authorize the new recording servers.
When you authorize a recording server, you configure it to connect to your management server.
1. Right-click the required recording server in the Overview pane.