Milestone XProtect Professional 2014 - Manual (Page 33)

Milestone XProtect ® Professional
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 33 First time use
First time use
Get your system up and running
This checklist outlines the tasks typically involved when you set up a working system.
Note that although the information is presented as a checklist, a completed checklist does not in itself
guarantee that the system matches your exact needs. To make the system match the needs of your
organization, Milestone highly recommends that you monitor and adjust the system once it is running.
For example, it is often a good idea to spend time on testing and adjusting the motion detection
sensitivity settings for individual cameras under different physical conditions (such as day or night,
windy or calm wather). Do this once the system is running. The setup of events and associated actions
typically also depends on your organization's needs.
You can print and use this checklist as you go along.
Install your system
See Install surveillance server software (see "Install your system software" on page 27). If
you are upgrading an existing version of your system, see Upgrade from a previous version
(see "Upgrading from one product version to another product version" on page 30).
Register your software
You may not need to go through this step as your vendor often takes care of the process for
you. You must first register your software and next activate your licenses.
Open the Management Application
Open the Management Application after installation to begin setting up your system
features.
Verify initial configuration of cameras and other hardware devices
When you open your system for the first time, the Getting Started wizard assists you with a
quick way to add hardware devices (cameras, video encoders and more) to your system
and configure them with proper user names and passwords. See Getting started wizard
(see "Automatic configuration wizard" on page 39).
Configure cameras
You can specify a wide variety of settings for each camera connected to your system.
Settings include video format, resolution, motion detection sensitivity, where to store and
archive recordings, any pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) preset positions, association with microphones,
speakers and more. See About video and recording configuration (on page 64).
Configure events, input and output
If required, use system events, for example based on input from sensors, to automatically
trigger actions in your system.
Examples of actions: starting or stopping recording on cameras, switching to a particular
video frame rate, making PTZ cameras move to specific preset positions. Also use events to
activate hardware output, such as lights or sirens. See Overview of events.