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Americas Headquarters: Cisco Systems, I nc., 170 West Tas man Drive, San Jose, C A 95134-1706 USA Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Contents This document pro vides the follo wing infor mation and instructions: Installation and Initial Config uration: 1.
System Requirements 2 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) After installation: 8. (Recommended) Back up the VSMS conf igurat ion— Backing up VSMS, page 10 , and Restoring VSMS, page 11 9.
3 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installation Notes – A TI or Nvidia Direc tX 9 compatible graphics interface. The graphics interface and Dri vers must suppor t DirectX Acceleration, Direct3D Acceleration, and A GP texture acceleration and hav e at least 128 MB of video memory .
Before You Install 4 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Before you install VSMS, you must co nfigure the vi deo repositories and install all software pre- requisites.
5 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Step 2 V erify that the v olume is using the correct partition type: linux:~ # parted -- /dev/sdb print Disk .
Before You Install 6 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Creating partitions in Red Hat Enterprise 4 Open a shell session and run the follo wing commands to create a repository . The Ext3 f ile system should be used to f ormat the repository .
7 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Software Prerequisites In additional to the default SUSE or Red Hat installati on, the follow ing software packages are required.
Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Lin ux (all platforms) 8 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms) VSMS uses th e Sun Jav a SDK 1.4.2. Follo w these steps to do wnload an d install this package before you install VSMS.
9 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installing V SMS Installing VSMS Copy the do wnloaded .zi p file with the VSMS software to the ser ver and then follo w these st eps: Procedure Step 1 Extract the contents of th e downloaded .
Configuring VSMS 10 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Configuring VSMS After you install VSMS, perform the f ollowing steps to use the Management Console (VSMC) to set repositories for archi ves, clips and e vents.
11 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Restoring VSMS The VSMS backup f ile is named VSMS_<ServerName>_backup_ timestamp.
Upgrading VSMS 12 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Step 6 Restart the serv er .( Shell> /etc/init.d/cisco restart). Step 7 Open the Management Console and en ter the license, and set the storage, PTZ, and other conf iguration i nformation as needed.
13 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Upgrading VSMS shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSDocs shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSTools shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSRecorder shell> rpm -e .
Upgrading VSMS 14 Installing and Upgrading Cisc o Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS).
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