Cisco VSVM Instruction Manual

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Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video

Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM)

Contents

This document provides the following information and instructions:

Installation and Initial Configuration:

1. Verify minimum system requirements—System Requirements, page 2

2. Understand general installation information—Installing VSVM, page 4

3. Obtain the VSVM software—Obtaining VSVM Software, page 3

4. Install the VSVM software—Installing VSVM, page 4

5. Configure video repositories for archives and clips—Configuring VSVM,

page 5

After installation:

6. (As needed) Upgrade VSVM to a new software release—Upgrading VSVM,

page 5

System Requirements

Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM)

System Requirements

This section describes the requirements of the server and client systems on which

you install VSVM.

The server must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Hardware

–

Intel Celeron or Pentium, 1.7 GHz

–

1 GB DRAM

–

10 GB hard disk

• Operating System (one of the following):

–

Red Hat Enterprise 4 Update 2 (RHEL4)

–

SuSE Enterprise 9 Service Pack 3 (SLES9-SP3)

–

SuSE Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 (SLES10-SP1)

–

SuSE Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 64-bit (SLES10-SP1-64)

• Software License Key

–

Obtain a VSVM license key by contacting vsm-license@cisco.com

A client PC must meet the following minimum requirements:

• Hardware

–

1.7 GHz Pentium III if running 1 video window

–

1.7 GHz Pentium 4 if running 2 video windows

–

3.2 GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading enabled if running 4 video

windows

–

1 GB DRAM

–

ATI or Nvidia DirectX 9 compatible graphics interface. The graphics

interface and Drivers must support DirectX Acceleration, Direct3D

Acceleration, and AGP texture acceleration and have at least 128 MB of

video memory.

• Operating system:

–

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (32-bit)

Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM)

Installation Notes

• Software:

–

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

–

Microsoft DirectX 9.0c

Installation Notes

• The Pegasus MJPEG video decoder is installed automatically with the VSVM

client.

• Cisco recommends that you use NTP source to maintain the correct time on

the server. Configuring NTP should be done before video recording is

configured. The hardware clock should be set to use UTC time and the

appropriate time zone for the server. If you are using SUSE, you can use YaST

to configure the server time.

• The performance of client devices can vary depending on client configuration

and applications.

Obtaining VSVM Software

The VSVM software is available from

http://tools.cisco.com/support/downloads/pub/Redirect.x?mdfid=281550158

You must log in to the Cisco website to access the software. Select the Cisco

Video Surveillance Operations Manager software version for the appropriate for

your Linux version.

Installing VSVM

Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM)

Installing VSVM

Copy the downloaded .zip file with the VSVM software to the server and then

follow these steps:

Procedure

Step 1 Extract the contents of the downloaded .zip file. Cisco recommends that you

create a directory for the extracted contents.

shell> mkdir vsvm-6.1.0

shell> unzip Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx.zip -d vsvm-6.1.0

Step 2 Verify that all files are present:

shell> cd vsvm-6.1.0

shell> ls -1

Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxx-i586.rpm

Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx.i586.rpm

Cisco_VSTools-6.1.0-noarch.rpm

Step 3 Install each of VSVM .rpm file:

shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm

shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm

shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSTools-6.1.0-noarch.rpm

Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM)

Configuring VSVM

After you install VSVM, perform the following steps to use the Management

Console (VSMC) to set repositories for archives, clips and events. The VSMC

authentication information is:

Userid: root

password: secur4u

Procedure

Step 1 Open a web browser from a Windows PC and enter http://<server name/IP

address>/vsmc.html.

Step 2 Click the Virtual Matrix link to access the VSVM configuration. You are

prompted to authenticate.

Step 3 Enter the license key on the VSVM configuration page.

Step 4 Click Update.

Step 5 Click Restart Server, Restart Now, and Verify.

Upgrading VSVM

To upgrade VSVM, follow these steps:

Procedure

Step 1 Extract the contents of the downloaded .zip file. Cisco recommends that you

create a directory for the extracted contents.

shell> mkdir vsvm-6.1.0

shell> unzip Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-sp1.zip -d vsvm-6.1.0

Upgrading VSVM

Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Virtual Matrix (VSVM)

Step 2 Verify that all files are present:

shell> cd vsvm-6.1.0

shell> ls -1

Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxx-i586.rpm

Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx.i586.rpm

Cisco_VSTools-6.1.0-noarch.rpm

Step 3 Stop the VSVM service:

shell> /etc/init.d/cisco stop

Step 4 VSDrivers must be removed prior to uninstalling Cisco_VSVM. Uninstall all

previous MS modules including some (but not all) of the following based on the

previously installed version:

shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSTools

shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSVM

shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSBase

If the Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager (VSOM) is installed you

may get an error message when uninstalling the Cisco_VSBase package; to

uninstall the Cisco_VSBase package run

shell> rpm -e Cisco_VSBase --nodeps

This will leave the VSOM module installed.

Step 5 Run the following commands in the following order0:

shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm

shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSVM-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm

shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSTools-6.1.0-noarch.rpm

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