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Getting started with SV Control Panel
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.

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
  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 does not 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 the 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 surveillance 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.
Getting started with Streamvault Maintenance plugin
Configure your Streamvault Maintenance plugin to work with Security Center.
SV Control Panel reference
These reference pages help you understand the SV Control Panel.
Additional resources
Get more insight on your appliance.
Troubleshooting
Troubleshoot common issues that can occur.
Technical support
Genetec™ Technical Assistance Center (GTAC) assists customers with Streamvault issues related to software and hardware.
Glossary
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Activating your Security Center license on an appliance

2021-10-05

The Streamvault Control Panel activation wizard helps you activate your Security Center license on your Streamvault™ appliance.

Before you begin

Connect your appliance to the internet.
Make sure you have the System ID and password that was sent to you after you purchased your license.

What you should know

This task only applies to appliances with an internet connection. For an appliance without internet, manually activate your Security Center license from Server Admin.
You only need to activate the Security Center license on the appliance that hosts the Directory role, not on appliances that are expansion servers or workstations.

Procedure

From the SV Control Panel, click The system is not activated. Click here to activate.
The Streamvault Control Panel activation wizard opens.
Note: If you see the message Internet access is required for activation, your appliance is not currently connected to the internet. Either connect your appliance now, or manually activate your license from Server Admin.
On the Activation page, click System ID and click Next.
On the System ID page, enter your System ID and password and click Next.
On the Summary page, verify that the System ID is correct and click Activate.
The Result page opens and indicates that activation was successful.
Click Next.
(Optional) On the Updates page, do one of the following:
- If no updates are available, click Open Security Center installer assistant.
- If updates are available, click View updates to open the Genetec™ Update Service and install the updates.
- If the update check failed because the Directory is unresponsive, click Open Server Admin and make sure that the Directory is ready.
Note: If the Genetec Update Service was not ready at the moment, the update check might fail with the message Unable to check for updates at this time. We'll try again later.
On the Additional features page, enable or disable Synergis™ Softwire and Genetec™ Mobile.
These features are only displayed if they are installed on your appliance. The Genetec Mobile feature is only available for Security Center 5.8 and earlier.
Close the Streamvault Control Panel activation wizard.

After you finish