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Hardware guidelines |
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Dedicated mainly for running this application |
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A 'clean' Windows installation with all the
latest service packs and security upgrades installed |
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Designed for continuous 24/7 operation at high
CPU and hard disk load |
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Located in an environment with sufficient
cooling |
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office computers/laptops are not recommended for 24/7
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Minimum requirements |
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Hardware Client PC |
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Windows Vista Business or higher, XP Professional, Windows 7 Professional or higher |
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CPU: Intel Pentium 4 or higher, 2 GHz
(Intel Core 2 Quad recommended for larger systems) |
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RAM: 1 GB (4 GB recommended for larger
systems) |
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Screen: 1024 x 768 |
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Graphics card with full DirectX 9.0 hardware acceleration and
onboard video memory of 256 MB or more.
Important! Use latest graphics card driver.
Integrated graphics cards on motherboard with shared memory are not supported.
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Microsoft .NET runtime environment (included
in installation package) |
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Hardware Server PC |
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Windows Vista Business or higher, XP Professional, 2003
Server, 2008 Server, Windows 7 Professional or higher |
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CPU: Intel Pentium 4, 2 GHz (Intel Xeon
recommended for larger systems) |
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RAM: 1 GB (4 GB recommended for larger
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Microsoft .NET runtime environment (included
in installation package)
Note: Always use latest sevicepack from Microsoft |
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NTFS formatted hard drives |
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requirements for a full 50 camera system: |
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Intel Xeon Quad processor |
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2 GB Ram |
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1 Gbit network adaptor |
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4 x 7200 rpm Hard drives with NTFS files
system |
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Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista
Business or higher, Windows 7 Professional or higher |
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XVGA (1024x768) graphics card with 512 Mb
memory and DirectX 9.0c compliant |
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Microsoft .NET 3.5 |
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Graphics adapter recommendations |
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For the AXIS Camera Station to work properly, a modern graphics adapter with at least 256 MB RAM memory is necessary. For a system running more than 20 cameras, it is recommended using a modern graphics adapter with 512 MB or more dedicated memory RAM.
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Onboard graphics adapter with shared memory are not supported.
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It is very important that the graphics adapter has the latest drivers from the manufacturer.
To check for the driver date, use your operating system diagnostic tool.
If your drivers are older than 6 months, please visit the graphics adapter manufacturer’s website to obtain the latest driver available.
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To generate information about the DirectX components and drivers, follow these steps:
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From the Start menu, select Run.
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Type dxdiag in the Open box and click OK.
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Navigate to the display tab.
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If a true PC server is used for the AXIS Camera Station, it is recommended that you install the AXIS Camera Station Client on a desktop PC for viewing and playback.
This is because PC servers do not normally have a high performance graphics interface.
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Always use the AXIS Camera Station Client
for viewing live images. Remote desktop solutions are not supported for viewing image material.
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Storage recommendations |
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For best performance and stability, use local
hard drives or a high performance NAS for storage.
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All hard drives, local or NAS, must be NTFS
formatted.
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The hard drive where Windows and the AXIS
Camera Station are installed should have enough disk space
for the AXIS Camera Station log files and backup of the
database. Allow at least 10 GB free disk space for the log
files and database.
Note that this can vary depending on how many days of
database backups you keep (by default 14 days). Databases
can become very large if you have too many events.
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It is highly recommended that you maintain at
least 20% free space on the operating system drive.
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The recordings should be saved on a different
drive letter than that for the operating system, to avoid
fragmentation and maintain general system stability.
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If you use MPEG-4/H.264, recorded data from up to 15 cameras can be stored on each hard drive, since a smaller amount of data is streamed. Using MJPEG, 8 to 10 cameras is the recommendation.
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It is recommend that you configure the AXIS Camera Station so there is always at least 10-20% free space on the recording hard drives.
Software-based RAID systems should not be used; such a solution could result in performance bottlenecks.
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AXIS
Design Tool can be used to estimate the storage space
required for the recordings.
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AXIS Camera Station database best practices |
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Hard drive errors: Check periodically for errors in the AXIS Camera Station installation hard drive, run scandisk or a similar process to check for damaged sectors on the hard drive where the database is located. Errors in the disk can cause database corruption.
In some cases, virus scanners can corrupt a database. Is recommended that you exclude the database from scans and other modifications such external backups. You can run your external backup in the AXIS Camera Station backup folder.
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Power failure: Unexpected
shutdowns can also cause database corruption. Using a UPS is recommended in critical installations.
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Out of space: If the hard drive with the database runs out of space, this might also lead to corruption.
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Corrupted RAM memory: Make periodic checks of the integrity of your RAM memory. Use Windows memory diagnostics tool to scan your memory for errors.
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