Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 63)

Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 63 Advanced configuration
Open the Replace Hardware Device wizard (see "About the Replace Hardware Device wizard" on
page 59), which helps you through the entire replacement process on the surveillance system server,
including:

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
Show or hide microphones or speakers
If you have added more microphones or speakers to your system than you need, you can hide the
ones you do not need by right-clicking the relevant microphone or speaker and select Hide. If you
need the hidden microphone/speaker again, you can right-click the overall microphone or speaker icon
and select Show Hidden Items.
Hardware properties
Hardware name and video channels
When you configure hardware devices, specify the following properties:
Name Description
Hardware name
The name as it appears in the Management Application as well as
in clients. You can overwrite the existing name with a new one.
Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special
characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ]
Video channel # enabled
Enable/disable each of the selected hardware device's video
channels. Many hardware devices only have a single video
channel, in which case only one channel will be listed. Other
hardware devices
—typically video encoder devices—have several
video channels.
If some of the channels are unavailable, this is because you are not licensed to use all of a video
encoder device's channels.
Example: You have a video encoder device with four channels, but your license for the device only
allows you to use two of them. In that case, you can only have two channels enabled at a time, while
the two other channels are disabled. Note that you are free to select which 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 62), specify the following properties:
Name Description
IP Address IP address or host name of the hardware device.