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6.

 

Type or paste the RamDiskNT password. 

 

 

7.

 

In the RamDisk Configuration Utility (figure 4.4), select drive letter 

R

 and disk size 

32

. 

8.

 

Click

 

Save Settings

, and then click

 

OK

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9.

 

Click 

OK

 to close the Copy/Paste dialog box. 

 

 

10.

 

Finish the Wittwin installation. When prompted to reboot, click 

OK

. 

Figure 4.4  Entering RamDisk drive letter and disk size 

Figure 4.3  Enter RamDisk password 

Summary of Contents for Siqura i-NVR

Page 1: ...Installation Manual Siqura i NVR Version 5 0 Intelligent Networked Video Recorder ...

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Page 3: ... Tool 12 4 2 5 EMX 12 4 2 6 UltraVNC 13 4 2 7 Application Launchpad 14 4 2 8 Witness Multi User Client 14 4 2 9 ffdshow 14 4 3 ARECA RAID AND SNMP 15 4 3 1 SNMP Windows components 15 4 3 2 Areca SNMP configuration 17 4 3 3 RAID console configuration 17 4 3 4 SNMP manager 19 5 CONFIGURATION 21 5 1 CONFIGURING THE OPERATING SYSTEM 21 5 1 1 Naming the i NVR 21 5 1 2 Computer performance 21 5 1 3 Disa...

Page 4: ...g IP addresses in MUEngineer 28 5 3 CONFIGURING VIDEO CAPTURE FUNCTIONALITY 30 5 3 1 Physical and logical cameras 30 5 3 2 Selecting the number of cameras 32 5 3 3 Storage setup 32 5 4 OBTAINING A LICENSE 36 6 UPGRADING YOUR I NVR SOFTWARE 39 6 1 EXISTING RECORDINGS 39 ...

Page 5: ... multiple users anywhere on the network Document scope This document is a guide to installing the i NVR software on your system Configuring and managing an i NVR system is covered in the i NVR Configuration Administration manual For a full description of user interface features please refer to the i NVR Multi User Client 2 2 2 User Manual Target audience This manual aims to provide guidance to sys...

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Page 7: ...d graphics card 2 2 i NVR SOFTWARE An i NVR must have the following software components installed and configured Installation is covered in chapter 4 of this manual and configuration is covered in chapter 5 Application name Function Wittwin Capture Records and stores video images The installer also installs RAMDiskNT to speed up reading and writing of files Multi User Engineer Used to control and ...

Page 8: ...he case of an i NVR Compact system you generally install Witness MU on the i NVR Compact machine itself though you can use client machines as well Using client machines involves installing and configuring additional software on each individual client For details see the i NVR Version 5 Client Software Installation Manual ...

Page 9: ... 1600 family On board video RAID controller Not required 8 or 16 channel Areca PCIx or PCIe External storage One DVD burner and one 1 44MB floppy drive One DVD burner and one 1 44MB floppy drive Table 3 1 Minimum i NVR hardware requirements The i NVR systems have been tested with the following hardware Seagate Barracuda ES ST3500630NS 500GB hard drives Intel Core 2 Duo 2 4GHz processors 3 2 SOFTWA...

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Page 11: ...m the Advanced menu select Power 3 Set the After Power Failure option to Power on 4 Press F10 to Save and Exit 4 1 2 Hard disk configuration This section describes how Optelecom NKF configures its i NVR s Depending on the hardware you select these settings may differ Elite systems Configure RAID settings on Elite systems as follows 1 Employ RAID level 5 using the write back cache mode 2 Set the st...

Page 12: ... system drive It should reside on a separate 80GB physical disk 2 Convert disks E and F to be dynamic and striped 3 Disk E should constitute 6 of the available space and disk F the remaining space as shown in table 4 2 below Total HD C System G B E F etc No Drives Total Storage 500 80 2 500 1000 80 2 1000 1500 80 3 1500 2250 80 3 2250 3000 80 4 3000 Table 4 2 i NVR Compact hard disk configuration ...

Page 13: ...p exe 2 To run Tweak UI open the Start Menu and select Programs PowerToys for Windows XP Tweak UI 3 In the TweakUI window expand Logon and then click Autologon 4 Select the checkbox labelled Log on automatically at system startup 5 Set the User name to the name used to log on Most of the time this will be Administrator 6 Click Set Password 7 In the Set Password dialog box click inside the two boxe...

Page 14: ... wish to replace an existing database configuration 3 In the Backup Replaced Files dialog box click Yes if you wish to create backups of files replaced by the installer This will enable a rollback when uninstalling the software 4 Copy the password gottahaveit to be used for the RamDiskNT setup 5 When prompted to setup RamDisk press Setup if not yet installed 1 New i NVR software versions will be f...

Page 15: ...y figure 4 4 select drive letter R and disk size 32 8 Click Save Settings and then click OK 9 Click OK to close the Copy Paste dialog box 10 Finish the Wittwin installation When prompted to reboot click OK Figure 4 4 Entering RamDisk drive letter and disk size Figure 4 3 Enter RamDisk password ...

Page 16: ...1 exe 2 Set up COMMander by following the wizard 4 2 4 MX Configuration Tool MX Configuration Tool the configuration and monitoring software for Optelecom NKF equipment enables the engineer to establish configure and break connections between the Wittwin Capture program and media sources on the video network Refer to the supplied MX Configuration Tool manual for installation instructions After ins...

Page 17: ... Setup exe 2 In the Select Components dialog box select Server Only from the drop down menu 3 Click Next 4 In the Select Additional Tasks dialog box check the boxes labelled Register UltraVNC Server as a system service and Start or restart UltraVNC service Figure 4 5 Additional UltraVNC tasks 5 If prompted set an appropriate UltraVNC password e g admin Figure 4 6 UltraVNC password still to be set ...

Page 18: ... Client program provides the graphical user interface GUI for the i NVR offering Operator Engineering and Administrator functions You can install MU Client on i NVR Compact systems and on i NVR client machines To install Witness MU 1 From the NKF Package folder double click the file WitnessMUSetup v2 2 2 1 exe 2 Set up Witness MU by following the wizard Accept all default options 4 2 9 ffdshow The...

Page 19: ...nts Before installing the SNMP software you must first install the SNMP Windows components and configure these components please note This operation requires your operating system installation discs To install SNMP Windows Components 1 From the Start menu select Control Panel 2 In the Control Panel double click Add or Remove Programs 3 In the Add or Remove Programs dialog box click Add Remove Wind...

Page 20: ...lic and add the following Trap destination SNMP server PC 9 On the Security tab set community rights to READ or READ WRITE The default setting is READ ONLY READ WRITE is only necessary when MIB variables must be changed with the SNMP Manager Figure 4 9 SNMP Service Properties Startup type Figure 4 10 Trap destination Figure 4 11 Security tab Community rights ...

Page 21: ... the RAID console by pointing a web browser to http 127 0 0 1 81 with username admin and password 0000 On the SNMP Configuration tab you can change the SNMP settings The RAID consoles of the 4 8 port and a 12 16 24 port RAID system differ slightly as shown in figures 4 13 and 4 14 below In the RAID console you must set the community Generally this is set to public In 12 16 24 port environments you...

Page 22: ... 18 Installation Figure 4 13 4 8 port RAID configuration interface Figure 4 14 12 16 24 port RAID configuration interface ...

Page 23: ...4 Click Submit Test Event Generation To produce a trap event which the SNMP manager can monitor Select Generate Test Event from the System Controls and click Submit 4 3 4 SNMP manager In order to use an SNMP manager you must compile the arecaraid mib file into the SNMP MIB description file The Areca SNMP mib files are on the Areca CD in the directory PACKAGES SNMP_MIBs If this file is not on your ...

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Page 25: ...Right click My Computer and select Properties 2 In the System Properties dialog box select the Computer Name tab 3 Enter the computer description e g NVR 123456 in which 123456 is the i NVR s serial number 4 To rename the computer click Change 5 Enter the computer name such as NVR123456 Note that several characters including the space are not generally permitted in Windows computer names but Windo...

Page 26: ...folders Computer Configuration Administrative Templates Windows Components 4 In the Windows Components folder select the Windows Messenger folder figure 5 1 5 In the Details pane double click the policy Do not allow Windows Messenger to be run 6 On the Settings tab click Enabled and then click Next Setting figure 5 1 7 On the Settings tab of the Do not automatically start Windows Messenger initial...

Page 27: ...all Automatic Updates and Virus rotection To disable Error Reporting Remote Desktop and System Restore 1 Right click My Computer and then select Properties from the context menu 2 On the Advanced tab click Error reporting and select Disable error reporting 3 Uncheck the box labelled But notify me when critical errors occur 4 On the Remote tab uncheck the box labelled Allow users to connect remotel...

Page 28: ...oard layout 1 On the Control Panel double click Regional and Language Options 2 On the Regional Options tab select a locale from the upper box to control how dates times and numbers are displayed e g English United States 3 On the Languages tab click Details 4 On the Settings tab of the Text Services and Input Languages dialog select the input language and keyboard layout to be used e g US US To c...

Page 29: ...et mask and then configure the network adapter with these settings To configure the network adapter 1 On the Control Panel double click Network Connections 2 Right click the network connection to be used then choose Properties 3 In the network components list click Internet Protocol TCP IP and then click Properties 4 Click Use the following IP address and enter the appropriate IP address and subne...

Page 30: ... connections that will use this adapter as shown in figure 5 5 below Figure 5 5 i NVR network adapter selection 5 2 3 Selecting the network adapter for MX Configuration Tool If you did not encounter the MX Network Selector dialog or skipped it when setting up MX Configuration Tool you will need to choose an adapter for the MX software at this point To select a network adapter for MX applications 1...

Page 31: ...st 1 In Control Panel double click Network Connections 2 On the Advanced menu click Advanced Settings 3 In the Advanced Settings dialog box use the Up and Down arrow buttons to move the adapter used by the i NVR to the top of the Connections list if necessary important If the i NVR is already licensed changing the first network adapter will require you to re license Figure 5 6 Advanced Settings Co...

Page 32: ...f the other visible cells in the grid to confirm the setting 4 Click Apply and then click Save and Exit 5 If any questions about resetting the i NVR appear click Reset Now 6 In the C Program Files Neurodynamics MUEngineer folder restart MUEngineering exe 7 In the Engineering Settings window verify that the correct IP address is displayed under Selected System The LiveCast address must be set to a ...

Page 33: ...t 4 In the LiveCast IP address box edit the IP address to 225 0 c d 5 Verify the LiveCast Base Port is 40000 6 Click Save and then click Close The Status Broadcast address must be set to a multicast group that is unique in the deployed system One might configure the Status Broadcast group to 225 225 c d 40090 where c d represents the last two quads from the machine s IP address a b c d Figure 5 8 ...

Page 34: ...CONFIGURING VIDEO CAPTURE FUNCTIONALITY 5 3 1 Physical and logical cameras Wittwin the video recording and storage program uses the concept of physical and logical cameras Physical Cameras A physical camera represents an incoming stream originating from a remote camera which is connected to the i NVR system via an IP network figure 5 10 The IP connection between Wittwin and the video source an enc...

Page 35: ...ce you have purchased as shown in table 5 1 below i NVR model Physical cameras Logical cameras 16 camera license up to 48 Compact 32 camera license up to 96 32 camera license up to 96 Elite 64 camera license up to 192 By default the first n logical cameras are set up to record video background recording but this can be configured differently by the user In fact any logical camera can be set to per...

Page 36: ...igure the number of cameras and digital I Os storage size and location and pre event memory size Digital I Os The source of a digital input may be a contact closure somewhere on the MX network e g when a door alarm occurs This signal can be used to trigger image recording as described in section 3 3 of the Configuration and Administration manual Configuring Connections A digital output is a contac...

Page 37: ...Generic settings dialog Images and indexes Wittwin maintains a database of stored video footage Using indexes it keeps track of the location where recorded images are stored Indexes and images are best stored separately ideally to separate partitions on different physical drives The index files will require approximately 5 10 of the space occupied by image storage So if the system is recording 1 T...

Page 38: ...the drive and folder where the image files will be stored You are advised to keep the default path If you add a Storage Disk Path use the following folder structure system1 images d0a 4 In the Storage Area Size MB box enter the storage area size 850000MB for Elite 1250 and 875000MB for Compact 1000 This is the space in MB you allocate to the storing of images in the selected storage area Take into...

Page 39: ... to keep the defaults To configure Wittwin Pre Event memory size and Storage related settings 1 In the Wittwin System Setup dialog box figure 5 12 click Advanced Settings 2 To open the Segment Settings dialog box click Yes 3 Pre event memory size should not exceed available physical memory To view memory information press System Info 4 In the Segment Settings dialog box figure 5 15 edit the amount...

Page 40: ...at there is a licensing error 3 Follow the instructions on the first Software Licensing screen figure 5 16a 4 Complete the form in the adjacent window with the required details and send it to Optelecom NKF A representative will supply you with a license Figure 5 16b Virage license application Figure 5 16a Licensing information ...

Page 41: ...log box 2 Click Start Run and type regedit in the Run window 3 In the Registry Editor expand the hkey_local_machine Software node in the tree 4 Delete the following folders AttributesCN Neurodynamics nCamWittwin where n is the number of cameras in your license 5 Restart the Wittwin application The software licensing windows shown in the preceding figures should display ...

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Page 43: ...rdings from your machine To do this remove the System1 folders from the storage and index disks For instance delete the E System1 and F System1 folders If these disks are solely used for recording and contain no other data you might consider quick formatting the entire disk as described in section 4 1 2 since this is sometimes faster than deleting the individual files ...

Page 44: ... Optelecom NKF B V 2008 Version 1 0 081604 1 i NVRv5 Inst MW03SP3 199925410460 01 www siqura com www optelecom nkf com ...

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