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Americas Headquarters: Cisco Syst ems, Inc., 170 W est Tasman D rive, San Jose, C A 95134 -1706 USA Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Contents This document pr ovid es the follo wing infor mation and instru ctions: Installation and Init ial Conf iguratio n: 1.
System Requirements 2 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (VSMS) After installat ion: 8. (Recommended) Back up the VSMS con fi guration— Backing up VSMS, page 10 , and Restoring VSMS, page 11 9.
3 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSM S) Installation Notes – A TI or Nvidia D irectX 9 compatible graphics interface. The graphics interface and Dri vers must suppor t DirectX Acceleration, Direct3D Acceleration, and A GP te xture acceleration and have at least 128 MB of video memory .
Before You Insta ll 4 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (VSMS) Before You Install Before you install VSMS, you must confi gure the video reposito ries and install all software pr e-requisites.
5 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSM S) Before You Install Step 2 V erify that the v olume is using the correct partition typ e: linux:~ # parted -- /dev/sdb print Dis.
Before You Insta ll 6 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (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 format the reposi tory .
7 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSM S) Before You Install Software Prerequisites In additional to the defau lt SUSE or Red Hat installation, the follo wing software packages are required.
Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms) 8 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (VSMS) Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms) VSMS uses th e Sun Ja va SDK 1 .4.2. F ollo w these steps t o do wnload and insta ll this package before you install VSMS.
9 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSM S) Installing VSMS Installing VSMS Copy the do wnloaded .zip f ile with the VSMS softw are to the serv er and then follo w these step s: Procedure Step 1 Extract the contents of th e downloaded .
Configuring VSMS 10 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (VSMS) Configuring VSMS After you install VSMS, perform th e follo wing 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 (VSM S) Restoring VSMS The VSMS backup f ile is named VSMS_<ServerName>_backup_timestamp.
Upgrading VSMS 12 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (VSMS) Step 6 Restart the serv er .( Shell> /etc/init.d/cisco restart). Step 7 Open the Management Console and enter the license, and set the storage, PTZ, and other conf iguration infor mation as needed.
13 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSM S) Upgrading VSMS shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSDocs shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSTools shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSDrivers shell> rpm -e .
Upgrading VSMS 14 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Se rver (VSMS).
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