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Cisco Video Surveillance 8020/8030 IP Camera Reference Guide
Chapter 5 Configuration
Network > General settings
- Secondary WINS server—The secondary WINS server that maintains the database of
computer names and IP addresses.
–
Enable UPnP presentation—Select this option to enable UPnP presentation for your camera so
that whenever a camera is presented to the LAN, the shortcuts to connected cameras will be
listed in My Network Places. You can click the shortcut to link to the web browser. Currently,
UPnP is supported by Windows XP or later. To utilize this feature, make sure the UPnP
component is installed on your computer.
–
Enable UPnP port forwarding—To access the camera from the Internet, select this option to
allow the camera to open ports automatically on the router so that video streams can be sent out
from a LAN. To utilize of this feature, make sure that your router supports UPnP and it is
activated.
•
PPPoE (Point-to-point over Ethernet)—Select this option to configure your camera to make it
accessible from anywhere as long as there is an Internet connection. To utilize this feature, it
requires an account provided by your ISP.
To acquire your camera’s public IP address, follow these steps:
1.
Set up the camera on the LAN.
2.
Go to
Configuration > Event > Event settings > Add server
) to add a new email or FTP server.
3.
Go to
Configuration > Event > Event settings > Add media
Select System log so that you will receive the system log in TXT file format that contains the
camera’s public IP address in your email or on the FTP server.
4.
Go to
Configuration > Network > General settings > Network type
. Select
PPPoE
and enter
the user name and password provided by your ISP. Click Save to enable the setting.
The camera will reboot.
5.
Disconnect the power to the camera; remove it from the LAN environment.
If the default ports are already used by other devices connected to the same router, the camera will
select other ports for the camera.
If UPnP is not supported by your router, you will see the following message: “Error: Router does
not support UPnP port forwarding.”
To enable the UPnP user interface on your computer, follow these steps (you must log on to the
computer as a system administrator to install the UPn components):
1.
From the Start menu, click
Control Panel
, then click
Add or Remove Programs
.
2.
In the Add or Remove Programs dialog box, click
Add/Remove Windows Components
.
3.
In the Windows Components Wizard dialog box, select Networking Services and click
Details
.
4.
In the Networking Services dialog box, select
Universal Plug and Play
and click
OK
.
5.
Click
Next
in the following window
6.
Click
Finish
. UPnP is enabled.
UPnP networking technology provides automatic IP configuration and dynamic discovery of devices
added to a network. Services and capabilities offered by networked devices, such as printing and file
sharing, are available among each other without the need for cumbersome network configuration. In
the case of cameras, you will see camera shortcuts under My Network Places.
