Cisco Systems Release 4.2 manual Introducing the Cisco Video Surveillance System

Chapter 1 Overview

Introducing the Cisco Video Surveillance System

Table 1-4 Overview of Basic VSM Configuration Tasks (continued)

Configuration Task	Required Information
Adding analog cameras—	Obtain the following information for each analog
Configure information about	camera:
each analog camera in your	• Video encoder that it connects to.
VSM deployment.
	• Video encoder input port that it connects to
	• VSMS that is to manage the camera.
	In addition, determine the video encoding type,
	video format, video resolution, transport
	protocol, bit rate, frame rate, and quality that you
	want for the video stream from the camera.
Adding IP	Obtain the following information for each analog
cameras—Configure	camera:
information about each	• Model.
analog camera in your VSM
	• IP address or host name.
deployment.
	• User name required to access the device (if
	applicable).
	• Password required to access the device (if
	applicable).
	In addition, determine the video encoding type,
	video format, video resolution, transport
	protocol, bit rate, frame rate, and quality that you
	want for the video stream from the camera.
Configuring archives—	Decide when you want to record video. You can
Configure schedules for	choose to record at certain times, on a weekly
surveillance recording.	schedule, or constantly.

Introducing the Cisco Video Surveillance System

A VSM-based video surveillance system operates on an IP network and consists of a variety of hardware components. Table 1-5lists the more common video surveillance components that may be included in a deployment and provides a brief description of each one. This table also includes references to sections that

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