NVR Software - SeeTec Administration
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Adding zones to the MultimediaDatabase (network storage)
Complete the following steps to add network storage (SAN, NAS etc.) as zones to
the MultimediaDatabase:
1. Click on
Add zone
.
2. In the
Path
field, enter the full UNC path, e.g.:
\\192.168.2.20\path\to\share
.
3. In the
Maximum size [GB]
field, enter a size in GB for the
MultimediaDatabase zone. To use all physically available space on the
partition, enable the
Unlimited
option and confirm with
OK
.
The
SeeTec5_MDB
service also requires authorization data for the network drive
i.e. log on information.
4. In the network authorization, enable the
User name and password are
required
option.
5. In the
User name
and
Password
fields, enter the user name and the
password. Note that the user must be available on the local machine and the
domain must be specified, e.g.: DOMAIN\first_name.last_name
The user name and the password are stored in the
SeeTec5_MDB
service as login
information. You can only specify one user. In case of multiple network storage
units, ensure that it is always the same user that accesses the network storage
units.
Important
If the storage space assigned to the connected cameras exceeds the
available space of the integrated zones and/or the hard disk, the
database will terminate the recording process.
The cluster size of the zone of MultimediaDatabase should be 64 KB.
We recommend not to install a hard disk as zone of the
MultimediaDatabase that is connected to USB or FireWire, as the
performance of SeeTec 5 is strongly affected by it.
For reasons of performance, you should outsource the
MultimediaDatabase to another hard disk or a RAID system, for
instance.
When creating or modifying MultimediaDatabase zones, you can
enable the
Unlimited
checkbox instead of specifying an explicit
zone size. If the
Unlimited
checkbox is enabled, the entire physical
space of the selected partition is used for the MultimediaDatabase.
