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users, and provide an extremely flexible rule system driven by schedules and events.
Your system consists of the following main components:
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The management server - the center of your installation, consists of multiple servers
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One or more recording servers
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One or more installations of XProtect Management Client
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XProtect Download Manager
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One or more installations of XProtect® Smart Client
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One or more uses of XProtect Web Client and/or installations of XProtect Mobile client if needed
Your system also includes fully integrated Matrix functionality for distributed viewing of video from any camera
on your surveillance system to any computer with XProtect Smart Client installed.
You can install your system on virtualized servers or on multiple physical servers in a distributed setup. See
also A distributed system setup on page 83.
The system also offers the possibility of including the standalone XProtect® Smart Client – Player when you
export video evidence from the XProtect Smart Client. XProtect Smart Client – Player allows recipients of video
evidence (such as police officers, internal or external investigators and more) to browse and play back the
exported recordings without having to install any software on their computers.
With the most feature-rich products installed (see Product comparison on page 107), your system can handle
an unrestricted number of cameras, servers, and users and across multiple sites if required. Your system can
handle IPv4 as well as IPv6.
System components
Management server (explained)
The management server is the central component of the VMS system. It stores the configuration of the
surveillance system in an SQL database, either on a SQL Server on the management server computer itself or
on a separate SQL Server on the network. It also handles user authentication, user permissions, the rule
system and more. To improve system performance, you can run several management servers as a Milestone
Federated Architecture™. The management server runs as a service and is typically installed on a dedicated
server.
Users connect to the management server for initial authentication, then transparently to the recording servers
for access to for video recordings, etc.
SQL Server installations and databases (explained)
The management server, the event server and the log server store, for example, the system configuration,
alarms, events and log messages in SQL databases on one or more SQL Server installations. The management
server and the event server share the same SQL database while the log server, XProtect Incident Manager, and
Administrator manual | XProtect® VMS 2023 R1
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