Getting started with your Streamvault appliance

2023-08-02

You can deploy your Streamvault™ appliance with Security Center by following a sequence of steps.

Deployment overview


Step	Task	Where to find more information
Understand prerequisites and key issues before deploying
1	Open the required network ports to connect the core systems in Security Center and modules of Streamvault. Connect the peripherals, such as monitor, keyboard, analog encoder card, and devices to inputs and outputs. Connect the appliance to your network.	Default ports used by Streamvault. Connecting Streamvault appliance components. Genetec analog encoder cards. Disabling camera inputs on encoder cards on a Streamvault appliance. Alarm inputs and outputs of a Streamvault appliance.
2	Before deploying your appliance, read the release notes to learn about the new features, known issues, and limitations.	In the Streamvault Release Notes for the image version installed on your appliance, see: What's new Known issues Limitations
3	Log on to Windows as Admin using the password that is printed on your appliance, then change the password.	Logging on to a Streamvault appliance.
Complete the setup wizards
4	Complete the Streamvault Control Panel setup wizard. Note: Remote desktop is disabled by default. To enable remote desktop, turn off the Block remote desktop setting on the Security page of this wizard.	Setting up your appliance in the SV Control Panel. Allowing Remote Desktop connections to a Streamvault appliance.
5	Activate your Security Center license. If the appliance is connected to the internet, activate your license using the Streamvault Control Panel activation wizard. If the appliance is not connected to the internet, activate your license manually from Server Admin.	Activating your Security Center license on an appliance. Activating a license manually from Server Admin.
6	Activate the System Availability Monitor.	Activating System Availability Monitor.
7	Configure the Genetec™ Update Service so that you can get the latest version of Security Center and SV Control Panel. If there are updates, install them.	In the Genetec™ Update Service User Guide, see "Configuring Genetec Update Service".
8	If SV Control Panel indicates that there are more updates available, install them now.	About updating SV software.
9	For an Archiver appliance, create the number of Archiver roles that you need to support the number of cameras and the total network bandwidth planned for your deployment.	For SV-1000E, SV-2000E, SV-4000E series: Adding Archiver roles in the SV Control Panel. For SV-7000E and for All-in-one: Adding partitions and Archiver roles manually.
10	Log on to Config Tool and configure your Security Center video and access control features.	Enabling Security Center video and access control features. Configuring unit enrollment settings.
11	Back up the Security Center configuration.	Backing up your Directory database.