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    Americas Headquarters: Cisco Syst ems, Inc., 170 W est Tasman D rive, San Jose, C A 95134 -1706 USA Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Virtua l Matrix (VSVM) Contents This document pr ovid es the follo wing infor mation and instru ctions: Installation and Init ial Conf iguratio n: 1. V erify minimum sy stem requirements— System Req[...]

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    System Requirements 2 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Vide o Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM) System Requirements This section describes the requirements of the server and clie nt systems on which you instal l VSVM . The server must meet t he follo wing minimum requirements: • Hardware – Intel Celeron or Pent ium, 1.7 GHz – 1 GB DRAM – 10 [...]

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    3 Installing and Upgra ding Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM) Installation Notes • Software: – Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 – Microsoft DirectX 9.0c Installation Notes • The Peg asus MJPEG video decoder is instal led automatically with the VSVM client. • Cisco recommends that you us e NTP source to maintain the co rrect ti[...]

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    Installing VSVM 4 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Vide o Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM) Installing VSVM Copy the do wnloaded .zip f ile with the VSVM softw are to the server and then follo w these step s: Procedure Step 1 Extract the contents of th e downloaded .zip f ile. Ci sco recommends that you create a directory for the extracted contents.[...]

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    5 Installing and Upgra ding Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM) Configuring VSVM Configuring VSVM After you install VSVM, perf orm the follo wing steps to use the Management Console (VSMC) to set repositories for archi ves, clips and e vents. The VSMC authent ication i nformat ion is: Userid: root password: secur4u Procedure Step 1 Open [...]

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    Upgrading VSVM 6 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Vide o Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM) Step 2 V erify that al l f iles are present: shell> cd vsvm-6.1.0 shell> ls -1 Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxx-i586.rpm Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx.i586.rpm Cisco_VSTools-6.1.0-noarch.rpm Step 3 Stop the V SVM servic e: shell> /etc/init.d/cisco stop Step 4 VSDri v[...]