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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.
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.

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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-7000EX 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.
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Adding Archiver roles in the SV Control Panel

2024-12-06

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.

Before you begin

Choose the appropriate method for creating Archiver roles and partitions.
Back up the important data on the drive that you plan to partition.
CAUTION: The Archiver Roles and Partitions tool can delete existing data, including the Archiver role configuration and all files on the D: drive.

Procedure

In the SV Control Panel, click the Configuration tab.
Under Archiver roles and partitions, click Configure.

The Archiver Roles and Partitions dialog box opens.
To configure the number of Archiver roles and partitions, select one of the following options:
- To let the tool calculate the number of roles, the number of partitions, and the partition size you need, select Suggested scenario. Enter the number of cameras that you expect to deploy, and the expected throughput of each camera.
- To specify the number of Archiver roles and partitions to create, select Custom scenario. Enter the number of Archiver roles, the number of partitions, and the partition size.
  The number of partitions must be a multiple of the number of Archiver roles.
CAUTION: Files on the drive you partition are deleted.
Click Create partitions and roles.
In the Warning window, select the checkbox to confirm that you want to proceed.
Click OK.
The Result window opens and displays the name and locations of the Archiver roles and partitions. Each Archiver role is automatically assigned a drive letter.