User manual CAMTRACE CAMTRACE V5.9.4 INSTALLATION

[. . . ] CamTrace® Network video surveillance server Installation from V. 3. 9. 4 01/03/2010 English 2 For additional information: www. camtrace. com Copyright 2000-2010, Camtrace SAS Camtrace SAS, 92150 Suresnes, France 3 1 INSTALLATION - CONFIGURATION_______________________________ 6 1. 1 Startup - connection - Shutdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. 1. 1 Standard start-up and shutdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. 1. 2 Startup and shutdown without screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. 2. 1 Data collection for connection to an existing network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1. 2. 2 Server TCP/IP installation (with menucam). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1. 2. 3 Adjusting system parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1. 2 IP Configuration of CamTrace server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The memory is always occupied at more than 90%, which is normal. 20 However, the swap (use of the hard disk by the system to overcome insufficient memory) must be equal to 0. Another more complete utility is available with versions 5. x. x of CamTrace on the console or with ssh access with putty. Connect to the system (quit the Menucam if you are in it), and at the command prompt (# or $) enter the command: htop followed by Enter. The tasks that take up the most resources are: - Low bandwidth mode (groups with low bandwidth), - Motion detection performed by CamTrace, - The indexing of movements in the recordings, - Camera display on the console 1. 5 CONFIGURING REMOTE ACCESS Purpose: To use your CamTrace server from a client station via the Internet or a private remote link. We recommend that your local network be permanently connected to the Internet. Your Internet access provider will give you with a fixed public IP address. You can also use a dynamic DNS service (to be configured on the router). 1. 5. 1 Router/firewall configuration The only IP address that Internet users can reach is the public IP address of your router provided by your access provider. All requests sent by Internet user browsers to your CamTrace server will reach the public IP address of your router, which has to redirect these requests to the CamTrace server. 21 The router located on the same local network as CamTrace must be configured to trigger the following incoming routing: Translation of TCP ports 80, 8000, 8001 and 8002 from the router public IP address (e. g. : 62. 4. 20. 103) to the CamTrace private IP address on the local network (e. g. : 192. 168. 1. 100). Refer to the documentation for the router used. On the remote surveillance side, if your router (not represented in the schema) has an integrated firewall, it must be configured to enable the output of the TCP ports 8000, 8001 and 8002. Port 80 is generally open in output. 1. 5. 2 CamTrace server configuration The CamTrace server can be reached via the Internet by entering its public IP address or its full name provided by your access provider. The 'nslookup' command is used to find the name associated with an IP address or vice versa. It can be run from any UNIX, Linux, MacOsX, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP host connected to the Internet and configured to query a DNS server. If you do not have one of these configurations, contact your provider's technical support and ask them to resolve the name associated with your public IP address. With "Menucam", go to the "Network configuration " menu, then to the "Set host name, name server, gateway, " and validate. The "network name " field is the name given to the CamTrace server on the local network, refer to §1. 2. 1. The "Enter the IP Address of the name server: " field is either empty, or filled in with the IP address of the DNS, internal or external, of the company; refer to section 1. 2. 1. 22 In the "Enter the IP address of the gateway" field, enter the private IP address of your gateway which can be any of the CamTrace networks. In our example, this will be the private IP address of the router located on the company network, that is: 192. 168. 1. 111 1. 5. 3 Limiting the bandwidth to the outbound gateway You can limit the bandwidth to the outbound gateway. In Menucam, go to Network Configuration, then to Network Name, Server Name, Gateway. When you see: Enter the maximum rate on the gateway in Kbits/s, enter the value selected: for ex. 200 for a limit of 200 Kbits/s on a line with 256 Kbits/s in uplink mode. This limit is indispensable if you want to use the Internet access for other functions than video. 1. 6 SUPERVISOR CONFIGURATION A CamTrace Supervisor is a CamTrace server on which you redeclare all cameras located on a number of remote sites. The CamTrace Supervisor can group together several hundred cameras that are in fact physically linked to remote CamTraces. [. . . ] This assignment of a camera to a hard drive can be done either in the web interface, manage/camera in the "Records" tab, (as shown here). Or in Menucam, in "camera configuration " then "detect and add new cameras". With Menucam, you can detect and add (or not) all the cameras present on the network. Detection can take a few moments. Certain camera models cannot be detected. In the column to the left, Menucam suggests by default the disk with the most capacity. [. . . ]