On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.
NetDVR 6.5
Administration
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Devices & DLKs
How to Import Device License Keys
You must have a Device License Key (DLK) for every device (IP network camera or IP video server) installed on your
NetDVR surveillance system.
Remember that you are allowed to install and use only the number of cameras listed on your organization's license
sheet; regardless of you number of available DLKs. For example, a fully used four-port video encoder counts as four
cameras even though the cameras are connected through a single device—therefore a fully used four-port video
encoder will use four licenses.
System administrators obtain DLKs as part of the software registration process.
You are able to specify each DLK manually when
through the
Device Setup Wizard
, available by clicking
the
Add Device..
. button in the
. However, you can avoid having to specify each DLK manually by
using the following procedure to import all received DLKs into NetDVR in one go:
Prerequisites:
The DLKs, received in a .dlk file, must have been saved at a location accessible by the surveillance
server, for example on a network drive or on a USB stick.
1. Open
2. In
the
Administrator
window, click the
Import DLKs...
button.
3. Browse to the location at which you have saved the received .dlk file.
Select the file, and click
Open
.
All DLKs are now automatically imported, and the relevant DLK will automatically appear when you
through the
Device Setup Wizard
.
How to Add a Device
In NetDVR you add devices (IP video camera devices, IP video encoder devices or digital video recorder (DVR)
devices) rather than actual cameras. This is because devices have their own IP addresses or host names. Being IP-
based, NetDVR primarily identifies units on the surveillance system based on their IP addresses or host names.
You are able to add up to 64 cameras. If using video encoder devices on your system, bear in mind that many video
encoder devices have more than one camera connected to them. For example, a fully used four-port video encoder
will count as four cameras.
Even though each device has its own IP address or host name, several cameras can be attached to a single device
and thus share the same IP address or host name. This is typically the case with cameras attached to video encoder
devices. You can of course configure and use each camera individually, even when several cameras are attached to
a single device.
When such I/O devices are added, they can be used in events-based system setup in the same way as a camera. For
more information about using I/O devices, see
. For information about which I/O devices
are supported, refer to the release note.
Once a device is added in NetDVR, any cameras attached to the device are automatically recognized by the software,
and listed in the
Administrator
window's
Device Manager
section:
