Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 240)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 240 Feature configuration
Set up your system to run federated sites
To prepare your system for MFA, you must make certain choices when you install the management
server. Depending on how your system is set up, choose between three different alternatives.
Alternative 1: Connect sites from the same domain (with a common domain user) and
customize the installation of the management server to MFA
Before you install the management server, you should create a common domain user and use this as
the administrator on all computers involved in the MFA.
Custom installation
1. Start the management server installation and select Custom.
2. Select to install the Management Server service using a user account. The selected user
account must be the administrator on all management servers and you must also use this
when you install the other management servers in the MFA setup.
3. Finish the installation. Repeat steps 1-3 to install any other systems you want to connect in the
MFA.
Single Server or Distributed Installation - set up network service on all servers
1. Start the management server installation and select Single Server or Distributed. This
installs the management server as a network service. Repeat step 1 to install any other
systems you want to connect with the MFA.
2. Connect to the management server you want to have as your parent site in the Management
Client.
3. Expand Security > Roles > Administrator.
4. Add the child computer to this parent server's Administrator role.
5. Log out of the parent management server and connect to the management server that you just
added as a child.
6. In the Overview pane, click Administrator.
7. Add the parent computer to this servers Administrator role.
8. Log out of the management server and connect to the parent management server.
Alternative 2: Connecting sites from different domains
To connect to sites across domains, make sure that these domains are trusted by each other. Setting
up domains to trust each other has nothing to do with MFA, but has to do with Microsoft Windows
Domain configuration. When you have established trust between the domains on which the sites you
want to connect to each other in an MFA, follow the same description as seen in Alternative 1. For
more information about how to set up trusted domains, see the Microsoft website.
Milestone recommends Milestone Interconnect for creating multi-site systems when your system
works with multiple domains.