User Manual

Siveillance Video 2019 R3
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Servers and hardware
This section describes how to install and configure recording servers and failover recording servers.
You also learn how to add new hardware to the system and interconnect other sites.
Recording servers
Recording servers (explained)
The system uses recording servers for recording of video feeds, and for communicating with cameras
and other devices. A surveillance system typically consists of several recording servers.
Recording servers are computers where you have installed the Recording Server software, and
configured it to communicate with the management server. You can see your recording servers in the
Overview pane when you expand the Servers folder and then select Recording Servers.
Backward compatibility with recording server versions older than this version of the management
server is limited. You can still access recordings on recording servers with older versions, but if you
want to change their configuration, make sure they match this version of the management server.
Siemens recommends that you upgrade all recording servers in your system to the same version as
your management server.
The recording server supports encryption of data streams to the clients and services. For more
information, see Recording server data encryption (explained) on page 55:
• Enable encryption to clients and servers on page 122
• View encryption status to clients on page 124
The recording server also supports encryption of the connection with the management server. For
more information, see Management server encryption (explained) on page 53:
• Enable encryption to the management server on page 125
• Enable encryption from the management server on page 126
You have several options related to management of your recording servers: