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Chapter 2 Acvaon
In order to protect personal security and privacy and improve the network security level, you
should
acvate the device the rst me you connect the device to a network.
2.1 Acvate Device via Client Soware
Before You Start
Get the iVMS-4200 client soware from the supplied disk or the ocial website hp://
www.hikvision.com/en/ . Install the soware by following the prompts.
The device and the PC that runs the
soware should be in the same subnet.
Steps
1. Run the client soware.
2. Enter Device Management or Online Device.
3. Check the device status from the device list, and select an inacve device.
4. Click
Acvate.
5. Create and conrm the admin password of the device.
Cauon
STRONG PASSWORD RECOMMENDED-We highly recommend you create a strong password of
your own choosing (using a minimum of 8 characters, including upper case leers, lower case
leers, numbers, and special characters) in order to increase the security of your product. And
we recommend you reset your password regularly, especially in the high security system,
reseng the password monthly or weekly can beer protect your product.
6.
Click OK to start acvaon.
Device status will change to Acve aer successful acvaon.
7. Edit IP address of the device.
1) Select a device and click Modify Nenfo at Online Device.
2) Change the device IP address to the same subnet with your computer by either modifying
the IP address manually or checking DHCP.
3) Input the admin password of the device and click OK to complete
modicaon.
2.2
Acvate via SADP
SADP is a tool to detect, acvate and modify the IP address of the device over the LAN.
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