Cisco Systems Release 4.2 manual Configuration Task Required Information

Chapter 1 Overview

Planning for Your Installation

Table 1-4 Overview of Basic VSM Configuration Tasks

Configuration Task	Required Information
Adding servers—Configure	Obtain the IP address or host name of each server
information about each	that you are adding.
Multi Services Platform that	All VSOM clients that access a Multi Services
will run VSMS and each	Platform that runs VSMS must use same IP
Multi Services Platform that
	address to access that Multi Services Platform.
will run VSVM	You must configure a host name rather than an IP
	address for access to VSMS if clients will access
	VSMS through a system that translates the VSMS
	IP address, such through another network or
	through a firewall that performs network address
	translation (NAT). In this case, make sure that
	each client can resolve the host name. For
	example, you could configure DNS or edit the
	Windows Hosts file on each VSOM client (see
	your DNS or Windows documentation for
	details).
Adding video encoders—If	Obtain the following information for each video
your deployment includes	encoder:
analog cameras, configure	• Model number.
information about video
	• IP address or host name.
encoders, which convert
analog video into digital	• User name required to access the device (if
video that can be used by
	applicable).
VSM.
	• Password required to access the device (if
	applicable).

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