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Getting started with SV Control Panel
Configure your Streamvault appliance to work with Security Center access control and video surveillance.
Choosing the method for creating Archiver roles and partitions
To set up your appliance for the expected number of cameras and bandwidth usage, you need to create enough Archiver roles. Depending on the type and state of your appliance, you can choose between two methods.

Introduction to your Streamvault appliance
Learn how to deploy your Streamvault appliance.
Getting started with SV Control Panel
Configure your Streamvault appliance to work with Security Center access control and video surveillance.
- About the SV Control Panel
  The SV Control Panel is a user interface application that you can use to configure your Streamvault™ appliance to work with Security Center access control and video surveillance.
- Activating your Security Center license on an appliance
  The Streamvault Control Panel activation wizard helps you activate your Security Center license on your Streamvault™ appliance.
- Activating a license manually from Server Admin
  If your Streamvault™ appliance doesn’t have internet access, you must activate your Security Center license manually from Server Admin.
- Activating System Availability Monitor
  To monitor your system availability and health issues on GTAP, you can set System Availability Monitor to collect data about your appliance, and send it to Health Monitoring Services.
- Enabling Security Center video and access control features
  The Security Center installer assistant wizard guides you through setting up the main features of video management and access control.
- About the Unit enrollment tool
  Unit enrollment is a tool that you can use to discover IP units (video and access control) connected to your network, based on their manufacturer and network properties (discovery port, IP address range, password, and so on). After you discovered a unit, you can add it to your system.
- Configuring default camera settings
  From the Camera default settings, you can modify the default recording and video quality settings applied to all cameras controlled by the Archiver. Initially, these settings are configured on the Camera quality settings page in the Security Center installer assistant.
- Creating custom recording schedules
  Create custom recording schedules from the Security Center installer assistant to have cameras record in different recording modes for a specific time range.
- About backup and restore
  Using the SV Control Panel, you can securely back up your Directory database and configuration files. Later, you can restore them to the same System ID in the event of a system failure or hardware upgrade.
- Choosing the method for creating Archiver roles and partitions
  To set up your appliance for the expected number of cameras and bandwidth usage, you need to create enough Archiver roles. Depending on the type and state of your appliance, you can choose between two methods.
  - Adding Archiver roles in the SV Control Panel
    Use the Archiver Roles and Partitions tool to add enough Archiver roles to support the expected video traffic. This tool is available on Archiver appliances from the Streamvault™ 1000, 2000, and 4000 series.
  - Adding partitions and Archiver roles manually
    To set up your Streamvault™ SV-7000E or SV-300E All-in-One appliance for the first time, you must manually create partitions. You can also manually add Archiver roles to an appliance that already has data on it, so the data is not lost.
Getting started with Streamvault Maintenance plugin
Configure your Streamvault Maintenance plugin to work with Security Center.
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Choosing the method for creating Archiver roles and partitions

2024-06-06

To set up your appliance for the expected number of cameras and bandwidth usage, you need to create enough Archiver roles. Depending on the type and state of your appliance, you can choose between two methods.

Choosing the method for your situation

Use the following decision tree to help you decide which method to use:

About the Archiver Roles and Partitions tool

You can access the Archiver Roles and Partitions tool in the SV Control Panel. The tool calculates how many Archiver roles you need based on the number of cameras that you plan to deploy and their expected bandwidth.

This tool is only available on Streamvault™ models that have an internal hard drive. If you’re setting up an external storage device, such as SAN on a Streamvault™ SV-7000E series appliance, follow the steps in Adding partitions and Archiver roles manually.

When the tool creates partitions, all local volumes except C: are erased and existing Archiver roles and enrolled cameras are removed from Security Center. So, if your appliance has cameras and recorded video that you want to keep, manually add the partitions and Archiver roles.