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Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video
Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)

Contents

This document provides the following information and instructions:

Installation and Initial Configuration:

Verify minimum system requirements—

System Requirements, page 2

Understand general installation information—

Before You Install, page 4

Obtain the VSMS software—

Obtaining VSMS Software, page 3

Perform pre-installation procedures—

Before You Install, page 4

Install J2SDK—

Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms), page 8

Install the VSMS software—

Installing VSMS, page 9

Configure video repositories for archives and clips—

Configuring VSMS,

page 10

Summary of Contents for Surveillance Media Server

Page 1: ...ation 1 Verify minimum system requirements System Requirements page 2 2 Understand general installation information Before You Install page 4 3 Obtain the VSMS software Obtaining VSMS Software page 3 4 Perform pre installation procedures Before You Install page 4 5 Install J2SDK Installing J2SE 1 4 2 SDK for Linux all platforms page 8 6 Install the VSMS software Installing VSMS page 9 7 Configure ...

Page 2: ...ng minimum requirements Hardware Intel Celeron or Pentium 1 7 GHz 1 GB DRAM 10 GB hard disk Operating System one of the following Red Hat Enterprise 4 Update 2 RHEL4 SuSE Enterprise 9 Service Pack 3 SLES9 SP3 SuSE Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 SLES10 SP1 SuSE Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 64 bit SLES10 SP1 64 Software License Key Obtain a VSMS license key by contacting vsm license cisco com A client...

Page 3: ... Cisco recommends that you use NTP source to maintain the correct time on the server Configuring NTP should be done before video recording is configured The hardware clock should be set to use UTC time and the appropriate time zone for the server If you are using SUSE you can use YaST to configure the server time The performance of client devices can vary depending on client configuration and appl...

Page 4: ...rtition Each repository has a mount point to specify the path through which the files are accessed The common convention for naming repositories is media with media0 used for a repository on the operating system volume and media1 mediaN used for additional storage volumes Repository Greater than 2 TiB To create partitions greater than 2 TiB the volume must use a GPT partition table and must be a d...

Page 5: ...ns Creating partitions in SLES9 SP3 SLES10 SP1 Use the SUSE YaST to partition format and configure repositories If any of the volumes are greater than 2TiB you must first follow the steps above to create a GPT partition table on each volume Cisco recommends using the XFS file system for optimal video recording performance Procedure Step 1 Open the YaST Control Center Step 2 Navigate to System Part...

Page 6: ...ry ext3 0 0 Step 2 Use mkfs to make the partitions Shell mkfs t ext3 dev sdb1 Note This command destroys all data that resides on that partition Step 3 Create a new directory shell mkdir media1 Note Each volume needs a unique directory for a mount point Step 4 Add a new line to etc fstab substituting the appropriate device name and mount point dev sdb1 media1 ext3 defaults 1 2 Step 5 Mount the new...

Page 7: ...nless otherwise indicated all packages are provided by the operating system refer to the media from the operating system vendor to locate the necessary files All platforms Sun J2SE 1 4 2 SDK db1 libelf sysstat SLES10 SP1 64 libelf 32 bit RHEL4 perl Digest SHA1 perl Digest HMAC perl Net SNMP1 perl Crypt DES 1 perl Socket6 1 1 These packages are not provided by Red Hat Compatible versions can be fou...

Page 8: ... to j2sdk 1_4_2_19 linux i586 rpm bin adjust the commands in the following steps if your file name is different Step 2 Copy the downloaded file to the VSMS server Step 3 On the VSMS server extract the J2SDK rpm file with the command shell sh filename This process creates a new file Step 4 Agree to the license as applicable Step 5 Install the extracted J2SDK rpm file with the command shell rpm ivh ...

Page 9: ...1 Cisco_VSBase 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSBWT 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSDocs 6 1 0 xx noarch rpm Cisco_VSDrivers 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSMS 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSRecorder 6 1 0 xxxxx sp3 i686 rpm Cisco_VSVM 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i586 rpm Cisco_VSTools 6 0 0 noarch rpm Step 3 Install each of VSMS rpm file shell rpm ivh Cisco_VSBase 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i586 rpm shell rpm ivh Cisco_V...

Page 10: ...dress vsmc html Step 2 Click the Media Server link to access the VSMS configuration You are prompted to authenticate Step 3 Enter the license key on the VSMS configuration page Step 4 Check the Local Archives Repositories check box Step 5 Click Update Step 6 Click Restart Server Restart Now and Verify Backing up VSMS After configuring VSMS you can back up the VSMS configuration Procedure Step 1 In...

Page 11: ...are com Step 2 Enter the following command to stop the server shell etc init d cisco stop Step 3 Uninstall the VSMS packages Step 4 Reinstall the VSMS packages Step 5 Perform the following steps to extract the backed up VSMS configuration data to the new server This process extracts all necessary configuration files including proxy archive and event data a Locate the VSMS backup file that was crea...

Page 12: ...shell unzip Cisco_VSMS 6 1 0 xx xxxxx zip d vsms 6 1 0 Step 2 Verify that all files are present shell cd vsms 6 1 0 shell ls 1 Cisco_VSBase 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSBWT 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSDocs 6 1 0 xx noarch rpm Cisco_VSDrivers 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSMS 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i686 rpm Cisco_VSRecorder 6 1 0 xxxxx sp3 i686 rpm Cisco_VSVM 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i586 rpm Cisco_VSTools 6...

Page 13: ...co_VSBase package to uninstall the Cisco_VSBase package run shell rpm e Cisco_VSBase nodeps This will leave the VSOM module installed Step 5 Run the following commands in the following order to install VSMS 6 1 0 shell rpm ivh Cisco_VSBase 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i586 rpm shell rpm ivh Cisco_VSRecorder 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i586 rpm shell rpm ivh Cisco_VSMS 6 1 0 xx xxxxx i586 rpm shell rpm ivh Cisco_VSDrivers 6 ...

Page 14: ...Upgrading VSMS 14 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server VSMS ...

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