User manual

AXIS Camera Station
AXIS Camera Station S ervice Administration
AXIS Camera Station Service Administration
AXIS Camera Station Se rvice Administration is a console application that has the same functions as AXIS Camera Station Service
Control. It can be used from the command p rompt or from a batch scripttostartandstoptheserviceorbackupthedatabase,etc.,
which allows for automating and scheduling of administrative tasks.
The default location of the cons ole application is
"C:/Program Files/Axis Comm unications/AXIS Camera Station 3/AcsAdminConsole.exe”
Note
AcsAdminConsole.exe must be run as administrator.
Supported Operations
Command
Description
AcsAdminConsole --help
List a summary of the supported operations
AcsAdminConsole --backup
Back up the database. Each backup generates
two timestamped files named
acs_system_<date_time>.fdb and license_<date_time>.fdb
Note: AcsAdminConsole backs up configurations and metadata but not
recordings.
For information on how to restore the database, see Lost data, on page 66.
AcsAdminConsole
--backupcount=<number>
--backupdir=<path>
Specify the number of backups to keep (this number affects the automatically
generated backups discussed on page 59, not the ones generated by the
--backup comm and).
Specify the folder where the backups will be stored.
AcsA
dminConsole --start
Start service
AcsAdminConsole --stop
Stop service
AcsAdminConsole --restart
Restart service
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