NXWitness VMS¶
For select customers CVEDIA is providing a pre-release version of our Network Optix integration and it's many different flavors.
This release requires manual activation in order to work, if you're interested, please contact [email protected].
Installation process¶
Windows¶
Using a admin powershell command line:
.\vms_setup.ps1 -u <address>
Eg:
.\vms_setup.ps1 -u https://bin.cvedia.com/path/to/release/file.zip
This will automatically download and install all required components.
The address to the -u parameter will be provided to you by support.
Different NX Flavors
CVEDIA-RT supports the following NX flavors: meta, hanwha, digitalwatchdog and piko, you can select which one to install by sending -f <value>
Example installing Piko as VMS instead of NX (default):
.\vms_setup.ps1 -f piko -u https://bin.cvedia.com/path/to/release/file.zip
You can find other options by calling help:
Get-Help .\vms_setup.ps1 -Full
After the vms setup completes, you will be presented with a device GUID:
Your device ID is: ...
Please send this to our support to receive back a key to activate the device.
If you need to find your device key again:
- Open a admin command prompt
- Go to CVEDIA-RT VMS folder, eg:
C:\Program Files\Network Optix\Nx Witness\MediaServer\plugins\cvedianxplugin. This may depend on the VMS you installed - Run
systeminfo
Key specificity
The provided key will only work on that specific device and it's not transferable.
Windows defender
Some versions of windows may block or flag random .dll files from our install process, if CVEDIA-RT installs and doesn't start we recommend disabling windows defender before installing it.
Linux¶
Download and unpack the .tar.gz file provided.
Call:
./run.sh --nxw -M systeminfo
You will be asked for the credentials to CVEDIA's container registry.
After downloading the image, a GUID will show up in the logs, like this:
GUID = ...
Please send this to our support to receive back a key to activate the device.
Key specificity
The provided key will only work on that specific device and it's not transferable.
After adding the key, you can run CVEDIA-RT with NX integration by calling:
./run.sh --nxw
Different NX Flavors
CVEDIA-RT supports the following NX flavors: meta, hanwha, digitalwatchdog and piko. Please check ./run.sh --help to know how to enable them.
Post install¶
After the installation is completed you'll need to configure NX using their client, it will automatically appear in the network as a new install, which you can then setup.
Once that's done, will find CVEDIA-RT when right clicking a camera then Camera Settings -> Plugins -> CVEDIA-RT.
Events
CVEDIA-RT will produce analytics events that require you to setup a Rule (in Camera Rules) in NX to take action.