Milestone M50 - Manual (Page 63)

Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 63 Advanced configuration
two channels you want to enable. Contact your Milestone vendor if you need to change your number
of licenses.
Network, device type, and license
When you configure hardware devices (on page 59), specify the following properties:
Name Description
IP Address IP address or host name of the hardware device.
HTTP Port
Port to use for HTTP communication with the hardware device.
Default is port 80. To use the default port, select Use default HTTP
port.
FTP port
Port to use for FTP communication with the hardware device.
Default port is port 21. To use the default port, select Use default
FTP port.
User name
Only relevant when you have selected Server requires login.
Specify the user name required for using the SMTP server.
User Name
User name for the hardware device's administrator account. Many
organizations use the hardware device manufacturer's default user
names for their hardware devices. If that is the case in your
organization, select <default> (do not type a manufacturer's default
user name as this can be a source of error
—trust that your system
knows the manufacturer's default user name).
You can also select other typical user names, such as admin or
root, from the list. Type a new user name if you want a user name
which is not on the list.
Password
Password for the hardware device's administrator account, a.k.a.
the root password.
Hardware type
Read-only field displaying the type of video device driver used for
communication with the hardware device.
Serial number (MAC address)
Read-only field displaying the serial number of device. The serial
number is usually identical to the 12-character hexadecimal MAC
address of the hardware device (example: 0123456789AF).
License information The current license status for the hardware.
Replace Hardware Device
Opens a wizard (see "Replace Hardware Device wizard" on page
60), with which you can replace the selected hardware device with
another one if you need to. This can be relevant if you replace a
physical camera on your network. The wizard helps you take all
relevant issues into account: for example, deciding what to do with
recordings from cameras attached to the old hardware device, etc.
PTZ device
The PTZ Device tab is only available if you configure (see "Configure hardware devices" on page 59)
video encoder hardware devices on which the use of PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras is possible: