Milestone XProtect Express 2014 - Manual (Page 58)

Milestone XProtect ® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
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Delete hardware devices
IMPORTANT: If you delete a hardware device, you not only delete all cameras, speakers and
microphones attached to the hardware device. You also delete any recordings from cameras on the
hardware device.
1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Hardware Devices, right-click the hardware
device you want to delete, and select Delete Hardware device.
2. Confirm that you want to delete the hardware device and all its recordings.
3. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upper-
right corner of the Management Application.
4. Restart (see "Start and stop services" on page 156) the Recording Server service.
Alternately, you can also consider disabling the individual cameras, speakers or microphones
connected to the hardware device:
1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Hardware Devices, and expand the relevant
hardware device.
2. Right-click the camera, microphone or speaker that you want to disable, and select Disable.
3. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upper-
right corner of the Management Application.
4. Restart (see "Start and stop services" on page 156) the Recording Server service.
About replacing hardware devices
If you need to, you can replace a hardware device that you have added and configured on your
system with a new one, for example to replace a physical camera on your network.
Open the Replace Hardware Device wizard (see "About the Replace Hardware Device wizard" on
page 58), which helps you through the entire replacement process on the surveillance system server,
including:
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Detecting the new hardware device
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Specifying license for the new hardware device
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Deciding what to do with existing recordings from the old hardware device
About the Replace Hardware Device wizard
Use the Replace Hardware Device wizard to replace a hardware device that you have previously
added to and configured on your surveillance system. To open the Replace Hardware Device wizard,
right-click the device that you want to replace and select Replace Hardware Device. The wizard is
divided into the New hardware device information page and the database action page.