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    Americas Headquarters: Cisco Systems, I nc., 170 West Tas man Drive, San Jose, C A 95134-1706 USA Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Contents This document pro vides the follo wing infor mation and instructions: Installation and Initial Config uration: 1. V erify minimum system requ irements— System Requirements[...]

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    System Requirements 2 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) After installation: 8. (Recommended) Back up the VSMS conf igurat ion— Backing up VSMS, page 10 , and Restoring VSMS, page 11 9. (As needed) Upgrade VSMS to a ne w software release— Upgr ading VSMS, page 12 System Requirements This section describes the[...]

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    3 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installation Notes – A TI or Nvidia Direc tX 9 compatible graphics interface. The graphics interface and Dri vers must suppor t DirectX Acceleration, Direct3D Acceleration, and A GP texture acceleration and hav e at least 128 MB of video memory . • Operating system: – Mic[...]

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    Before You Install 4 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Before you install VSMS, you must co nfigure the vi deo repositories and install all software pre- requisites. Preparing Video Repositories V ideo that is recorded by VSMS is stor ed in repositories on storage v olumes that are dedicated f[...]

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    5 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Step 2 V erify that the v olume is using the correct partition type: linux:~ # parted -- /dev/sdb print Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0kB - 10TB Disk label type: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags Information: Do not forget to update /etc/fstab, i[...]

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    Before You Install 6 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Creating partitions in Red Hat Enterprise 4 Open a shell session and run the follo wing commands to create a repository . The Ext3 f ile system should be used to f ormat the repository . Procedure Step 1 Create ne w partitions: Shell> parted -- /dev/sdb m[...]

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    7 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Software Prerequisites In additional to the default SUSE or Red Hat installati on, the follow ing software packages are required. Unless otherwise indicated, all packages are provided by the operating system, refer to the media fr om the operating system vend[...]

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    Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Lin ux (all platforms) 8 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms) VSMS uses th e Sun Jav a SDK 1.4.2. Follo w these steps to do wnload an d install this package before you install VSMS. Procedure Step 1 Do wnload Ja va 2 SDK, St andard Ed[...]

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    9 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installing V SMS Installing VSMS Copy the do wnloaded .zi p file with the VSMS software to the ser ver and then follo w these st eps: Procedure Step 1 Extract the contents of th e downloaded .zip file. Ci sco r ecommends that you create a directory for the extracted contents. s[...]

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    Configuring VSMS 10 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Configuring VSMS After you install VSMS, perform the f ollowing steps to use the Management Console (VSMC) to set repositories for archi ves, clips and e vents. The VSMC authentic ation infor mation is: Userid: root password: secur4u Procedure Step 1 Open a w[...]

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    11 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Restoring VSMS The VSMS backup f ile is named VSMS_<ServerName>_backup_ timestamp. For exam ple, VSMS_PST_backup_2007032 7153851.tar . Restoring VSMS T o restore the VSMS conf iguration, follow these steps: Note This process is not intended for copying a conf iguration f[...]

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    Upgrading VSMS 12 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Step 6 Restart the serv er .( Shell> /etc/init.d/cisco restart). Step 7 Open the Management Console and en ter the license, and set the storage, PTZ, and other conf iguration i nformation as needed. Upgrading VSMS T o upgrade VSMS, follo w these steps: Proce[...]

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    13 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Upgrading VSMS shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSDocs shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSTools shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSRecorder shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSDrivers shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSMS shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSBase If the Cisco V ideo Surveillan ce Operations Manager (VSOM) is i nstalled yo[...]

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    Upgrading VSMS 14 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)[...]