Deployment Manual
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5
Getting Started
Initialize your devices and then modify their IP addresses before you can use them.
5.1 Initializing NVR
You can initialize NVR either by following the on-screen instructions after you power it on for the
first time, or by using ConfigTool.
Here we introduce how to initialize NVR with ConfigTool.
5.1.1 Initializing NVR with ConfigTool
Initialize your NVR with ConfigTool for first-time use. To acquire the tool, go to Dahua official
website, and then select
Support
>
Download Center
>
ToolBox
, follow the on-screen
instructions to download and install the tool.
Device initialization is available only when the IP addresses of the device (192.168.1.108
by default) and the PC stay in the same network segment.
Plan useable network segment properly to connect the device to the network.
The following figures and interfaces are for reference only, and the actual product shall
prevail.
Step 1 Double-click ConfigTool.exe to open the tool.
Step 2 Click
.
Step 3 Click
Search Setting
.
Step 4 Enter the start IP address and end IP address of the network segment in which you
want to search for devices, and then click
OK
.
All the devices found in the network segment are listed.
Step 5 Select one or several uninitialized NVRs, and then click
Initialize
.
