VR-N100U USERS MANUAL
4.MANAGING VR-N100U WITH VDRVIEW
Overview: This chapter describes the features of the VDRView enterprise video application and how it can be used to manage thousands of VR-N100U security appliances and cameras.
VDRView is one of those extremely useful tools that makes any administrator, as well as user’s life so much easier. Whether you’re trying to get your VR-N100U online, reflash the VR-N100U firmware, setup all of the cameras or troubleshoot a problem, VDRView is probably going to end up being your first line of defense and favorite administrative tool.
In Chapter Two - Installing VR-N100U, you were shown several different ways of manually acquiring an IP address for a VR- N100U that comes up tens (10.10.10.10). VDRView, by far, is the easiest way of manually acquiring an IP address.
We keep working to improve VR-N100U and add new features. That means that every once in a while, you are going to have the opportunity to update your VR-N100U’s firmware by reflashing the unit. You can choose to update the firmware using an FTP client to transfer the new image to the VR-N100U (described in section 6 Technical Tips and Troubleshooting), or you can take the easy way by executing VDRView’s Reflash option.
When you start up VDRView, it discovers all the VR-N100Us on your subnet segment. It displays the VR-N100U’s name, its type (VR-N100U, etc.), its IP Address, by what means the IP address was acquired, the Default Name of the VR-N100U (the last six characters of the Ethernet address preceded by a Z), and the location of the VR-N100U (e.g. Same segment).
VDRView is a powerful enterprise application that allows users to view thousands of cameras connected to hundreds of VR- N100U appliances and to administer all of them from a single Windows interface. Its Status Bar also provides you with your workstation’s IP address and the current date and time information.
4.1.System Requirements
VDRView is a 32-bit Windows-based enterprise application software designed to manage VR-N100U and cameras. Nearly any computer that meets the requirements to effectively run the Microsoft Windows operating system can utilize VDRView. However, the more powerful the workstation, the better performance you will encounter as the product will be dealing with motion video. Therefore, we have outlined both minimum and recommended system requirements. In addition to the standard hardware specifications, VDRView and VR-N100U require Java to be loaded onto the system to enable viewing the video streams live from the cameras as well as from the archived video.
4.1.1. Recommended Configuration
The following specifications are outlined for a recommended VDRView workstation. As mentioned above, the more power the workstation and faster the connectivity, the better overall video performance you will be able to achieve.
Operating System | Windows 2000/XP with latest Service Pack |
Processor | Intel Pentium IV 3.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 512Kb Cache (or faster) |
Memory | 512MB DDR (or higher) |
Hard Disk Drive | 250GB PATA/133 7200rpm 8MB Cache (or larger/faster) |
CD/DVD Drive | DVD-ROM Drive (or better) |
Video Card | AGP 4X 256MB 256-bit (or faster) |
Monitor | 21” @ 24-bit True Color (or larger) |
Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x with latest Service Pack (or higher) |
Java | Sun Microsystems JRE 1.4.2_xx (or higher) |
Network | 100Mbit (or faster) |
ISP | T1-Broadband (or faster) |
