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refer to the online help or to the Administrator’s Guide, which you can download from the Cisco.com website.)
•IP Camera Options: The following wizards let you set up the NSS to store videos from IP surveillance cameras. The type of wizard you should choose depends on the way the camera transfers the video clips. Note that you only need to run the wizard once and then you must configure each the camera to output the video to the configured share.
-FTP: Run this wizard if the cameras are set up to transfer motion- triggered clips via FTP. Running the wizard creates a single user and FTP share for the cameras. The videos are then saved within the FTP share which contains a subfolder for each camera.
-CIFS: Run this wizard if the cameras have a Windows utility program that lets you save the streaming video to a local drive (or in this case, the NSS) and then view the video from its saved location. The wizard creates a single user and share for all cameras that are configured to stream video to the Windows camera utility program. After you run the wizard, you must map the network drive from the PC that runs the Windows utility program to the CIFS share and then set up the utility to save the mapped network drive.
Step 4 — Save the Current Configuration
You can save a copy of the NSS configuration that can be used should you need to restore the settings at a later time. When you save the configuration file, it saves a
To save the current configuration:
STEP 1 If you are saving the configuration file to a USB flash device, insert a USB flash device into the
STEP 2 From the Manager Menu, click Admin > Configuration.
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