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Dahua EVS50 Series Quick Start Manual

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Embedded Video Storage Server
(EVS50,EVS70 Series)
Quick Start Guide
V2.0.1

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  • Page 1 Embedded Video Storage Server (EVS50,EVS70 Series) Quick Start Guide V2.0.1...

  • Page 2: Cybersecurity Recommendations

    Cybersecurity Recommendations Mandatory actions to be taken towards cybersecurity 1. Change Passwords and Use Strong Passwords: The number one reason systems get “hacked” is due to having weak or default passwords. It is recommended to change default passwords immediately and choose a strong password whenever possible.
  • Page 3 In the event that your social media, bank, email, etc. account is compromised, you would not want someone collecting those passwords and trying them out on your video surveillance system. Using a different username and password for your security system will make it more difficult for someone to guess their way into your system.

  • Page 4: Foreword

    Foreword General This document introduces the functions and operations of the EVS series devices (hereinafter referred to be "the Device"). Models Series Model Middle-Class Middle-Class 16-HDD single-controller, Middle-Class 24-HDD single-controller, Middle-Class 36-HDD single-controller, Middle-Class 48-HDD single-controller High-End High-End 24-HDD single-controller, High-End 48-HDD single-controller Safety Instructions The following categorized signal words with defined meaning might appear in the Manual.
  • Page 5 Privacy Protection Notice As the device user or data controller, you might collect personal data of others' such as face, fingerprints, car plate number, Email address, phone number, GPS and so on. You need to be in compliance with the local privacy protection laws and regulations to protect the legitimate rights and interests of other people by implementing measures include but not limited to: Providing clear and visible identification to inform data subject the existence of surveillance area and providing related contact.

  • Page 6: Important Safeguards And Warnings

    Important Safeguards and Warnings Electrical safety All installation and operation here should conform to your local electrical safety codes.  The product must be grounded to reduce the risk of electric shock.  We assume no liability or responsibility for all the fires or electrical shock caused by improper handling or installation.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Cybersecurity Recommendations ......................I Foreword ..............................III Important Safeguards and Warnings ..................... V 1 Overview ..............................1 1.1 Overview ............................1 1.2 Front Panel ............................ 1 1.3 Rear Panel ............................. 2 2 Installing and Powering the Device ..................... 5 2.1 Installing Hard Disk Drive (HDD) ....................

  • Page 8: Overview

    Overview Overview This product positions in the management, storage and application of high-definition video data. It uses Linux operation system and professional customized hardware platform, owns multiple Hard Disk Drive (HDD) management system, front-end HD device management system, HD video analysis system and large capacity video storage system. It adopts high-traffic data network transmission &...

  • Page 9: Rear Panel

    Indicator Description Light/Button Press the power button to execute operations of device start-up and shutdown. Power button Press this button to boot the device when it is shutdown. Hold down this button for 5 seconds to force a device shutdown. HDD status light.
  • Page 10 Rear panel (7 Ethernet ports) Rear panel (9 Ethernet ports) Description of interfaces on rear panel Interface Description Used for case cooling. Power Connect AC power. interface Master control For description of the interfaces and indicator lights, see Table 1-3. module Description of interfaces on the master control module Interface...
  • Page 11 Interface Description RS232 RS232 interface. 10 gigabit port. 10G-1, 10G-2 Devices of different models have different numbers of Ethernet ports and 10 gigabit ports. See the actual device situation. Link/ACT Status light of the 10 gigabit port. Overview 4...

  • Page 12: Installing And Powering The Device

    Installing and Powering the Device Installing Hard Disk Drive (HDD) The hard disk is not installed by default on factory delivery. You need to install it by yourself. Some devices are heavy. Carry them with others to avoid any personnel injury. 2.1.1 Middle-Class 16-HDD Single-Controller Series The below contents only apply to Middle-Class 16-HDD Single-Controller devices.
  • Page 13 Hard disk box Put the hard disk into the disk box and lock the screws on both sides of the box. See Figure 2-3. Locking the screws Insert the hard disk box into the hard disk slot, push it to the bottom, and then close the handle.

  • Page 14: Other Series

    2.1.2 Other Series The below contents apply to devices other than the Middle-Class 16-HDD Single-Controller series. Press the red button on the hard disk box in the front panel and open the handle. See Figure 2-4. Opening the handle Pull out to take the empty hard disk box. See Figure 2-5. Hard disk box Put the hard disk into the disk box and lock the screws at the bottom of the box.

  • Page 15: Powering The Device

    Locking the screws Insert the hard disk box into the hard disk slot, push it to the bottom and close the handle. Do not close the handle if the hard disk box has not been pushed to the bottom to avoid any damage to the slot.
  • Page 16 Press the power button on the front panel. See Figure 2-7. Front panel See Table 1-1 to check if the indicator lights are normally displayed. When the indicator lights are normal, the device is powered up successfully.  If the indicator lights are abnormal, remove the abnormalities according to the ...

  • Page 17: Web Basic Operations

    Web Basic Operations The system supports device access and management through Web on Personal Computer (PC). The Web client system provides functions such as information viewing, storage management, system configuration and monitoring playback. The following contents are only for your reference. Different models have different functions. You need to refer to that displayed actually.
  • Page 18 Single-control device: Default IP is 192.168.1.108.  Dual-control device: Default IP is 192.168.0.108.  Press Enter key. The Password Setting interface is displayed. See Figure 3-1. Password setting In the New Password box, enter the new password. The password consists of 8 to 32 characters containing letter(s), number(s) and symbol(s).
  • Page 19 Password protection Enter the Assigned Email. After entering the assigned email, you can reset the admin password through the email. For details, see User’s Manual. If you do not need to set the password protection, you can clear the Assigned ...

  • Page 20: Logging In Web

    Device initialization succeeded Click OK to complete the device initialization. Logging in Web You can access and manage the device remotely by logging in Web through the browser. Open the browser and enter the IP address in the address bar. Press Enter key. Install the control.
  • Page 21 WEB login interface Enter the user name and password. Select connection type. The default user name of the administrator is admin, and the password is the one you set in device initialization. To ensure security, it is recommended that you change the password regularly and keep it properly.

  • Page 22: Initial Configuration

    Name Description Display the current login user name. Click on the right side of the user name and you can perform quick User guide configuration and user logout. name Quick guide: You can configure video/image direct storage and IPSAN according to different application scenarios. Exit: Log out the current user.
  • Page 23 TCP/IP settings (dual-control device) Description of TCP/IP setting parameters Parameter Description Enable Enter the virtual IP address of the dual-control device. For details, see User’s Manual. IP Address Subnet Mask The main control board and sub control board of dual-control device have their respective physical IP.
  • Page 24 Editing Select/Enter the parameters. For details, see Table 3-3. Description of NIC editing parameters Parameter Description Ethernet Display the current NIC name. Card Web Basic Operations 17...
  • Page 25 Parameter Description Select the network mode of the EVS device. Single NIC: The Network card can be used alone. You can select one Network card to provide the HTTP or RTSP service. You need to set one default network card (default is eth1) to request the network service started by Email and FTP.

  • Page 26: Adding Remote Device

    Parameter Description Enter the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value of the NIC. The default value is 1,500 bytes. The suggested value is 1,500 or 1,492. 1,500: The maximum and default value of the Ethernet packet. It is the typical network connection setting without PPPoE and VPN. It is the default setting of some routers, network adapters and switches.
  • Page 27 Remote device Add remote device. You can use searching add, single add or batch add. Searching add  Click on the right side of Auto Search. The Auto Search interface is displayed. See Figure 3-10. Web Basic Operations 20...
  • Page 28 Automatic search Click Device Search. The results are displayed. See Figure 3-11. For details, see Table 3-4. When the obtained IP address and port number is the same as that of the remote device you have already added, this device will not appear in the result list. Search results Web Basic Operations 21...
  • Page 29 Description of auto search icons Icon/Parameter Description Screen out the remote devices you need to add through IP address or MAC address. Steps see below: Click to select IP Address or MAC Address. Enter the IP address or MAC address of the remote device in the text box on the right of Click Search.
  • Page 30 Single add Select/Enter the parameters. For details, see Table 3-5. Parameter description of adding Parameter Description Select the manufacturer in the drop-down box according to the actual situation. Manufacturer Different models support different manufacturer protocols. You need to refer to the actual situation. P Address Set the IP address of the remote device.
  • Page 31 Parameter Description User Enter the user name and password to log in the remote device. Name/Password Enter the Channel No. or click Connect to get the total channel number of the front-end device. Channel No. It is recommended to obtain the channel number of the front-end device by clicking Connect.
  • Page 32 Batch add Enter the search range for the fourth segment of the IP address. Batch add only supports devices of which the first three segments of the IP address are the same. Enter the search range of the fourth segment. For example: 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.255.

  • Page 33: Record Plan Settings

    3.4.3 Record Plan Settings The system performs the corresponding video recording according to the set record plan. For example, when you set the time period of alarm videos to 6:00-18:00, the system automatically takes records if any alarm occurs during this period. The factory default plan is 24-hour continuous ordinary record for all the channels.
  • Page 34 Parameter Description When multiple disks are available in the EVS device, select one disk to be the redundancy to realize the double backup of records. The records are stored in different disks at the same time to guarantee the data security. Set a redundant disk.

  • Page 35: Enabling Record Function

     Select the All check box and you can synchronously edit or draw the periods for all the weekdays.  You can select multiple weekdays to edit at the same time. Hold down the left button of the mouse and move the mouse in the period bar to draw the period.
  • Page 36 Record includes auto record and manual record. You can select different record modes for the main stream and sub streams. Auto record: The system automatically takes records according to the set record type and  record time. Manual record: The system takes 24-hour continuous records in the channel. ...

  • Page 37: Video Direct Storage

    Parameter Description channels start regular recording after enabling the Manual. Auto: Taking records according to the set record plan (regular, MD and Stream alarm). For details, see "3.4.3 ." Record Plan Settings Stop: All the channels stop recording. Select single or multiple channels and open/close the snapshot of the Snapshot corresponding channel.
  • Page 38 RAID management Create RAID. For details, see "3.8.1 Creating RAID" Click Next. The Add remote device interface is displayed. See Figure 3-21. Registering remote device Add remote device. For details, see "3.4.2 Adding Remote Device." Click Finished to save the configuration. Web Basic Operations 31...

  • Page 39: Image Direct Storage

    Image Direct Storage Image direct storage refers to the automatic storage of images snapped in the intelligent events into the direct memory disk, which can reduce the intermediate forwarding links of the system and make the system more efficient, stable and reliable. For the procedure to configure image direct storage, see Figure 3-22.
  • Page 40 RAID management Create RAID. For details, see "3.8.1 Creating RAID" Click Next. The Set image direct storage HDD + Special HDD group interface is displayed. See Figure 3-24. Setting image direct storage HDD and special HDD group Set the image direct storage HDD and HDD group. Set the HDD Operation of one or several disks to Image Direct Storage.
  • Page 41 The Startup picture interface is displayed. See Figure 3-25. Picture startup Enable the Picture Storage of the channels and click OK to save the configuration. Click Next. The Add remote device interface is displayed. See Figure 3-26. Registering remote device Add remote device.

  • Page 42: Ipsan

    IPSAN Internet Protocol Storage Area Network (IPSAN) is a kind of network storage technology based on IP network. It builds disks and RAID into a virtual logical device (i.e. storage pool) and shares the storage path with other devices through NFS, iSCSI, FTP and SAMBA to enable other devices to store data into the shared path.
  • Page 43 Storage pool Click The Add interface is displayed. See Figure 3-29. Adding storage pool Enter the Pool Name and select the disk or RAID group. Web Basic Operations 36...

  • Page 44: Shared Account Management

    By default, sdx (x ranges from a to z) refers to disk, such as /dev/sda. Mdx (x is a number) refers to RAID group, such as /dev/md0. Click OK to save the configuration. A dialogue box pops up. See Figure 3-30. Prompt Click Yes.

  • Page 45: Shared Folder Settings

    Adding shared user Select/Enter the parameters. For details, see Table 3-8. Description of adding user parameters Parameter Description User Name Enter the name of the shared account. Server Select the corresponding service type of the shared account: iSCSI, FTP/SAMBA or Type iSCSI/FTP/SAMBA.
  • Page 46 Shared folder Click The Add interface is displayed. See Figure 3-34 or Figure 3-35. Adding shared folder (NFS) Web Basic Operations 39...
  • Page 47 Adding shared folder (iSCSI) Select/Enter the parameters. For details, see Table 3-9. Description of shared folder parameters Parameter Description Directory Enter the name of the shared folder. Name Select the pool in which you need to create the shared folder. Pool Name Free capability refers to the max available volume of the storage pool.

  • Page 48: Ftp Parameter Settings

    Parameter Description Set the IP address and subnet mask of the hosts allowed to access this shared folder. For example: When the valid IP is 192.168.10.108/24, it means the IP address is 192.168.10.108 and the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. All the IP hosts in this Valid IP segment can access the shared folder.

  • Page 49: Opening Shared Services

    You need to set the FTP parameters when the share type is set to FTP. Select IPSAN > FTP Server. The FTP Server interface is displayed. See Figure 3-36. FTP Parameters Enter the parameters. For details, see Table 3-10. Description of FTP server parameters Parameter Description Transfer Speed...

  • Page 50: Raid Management

    Share control Boot up or stop the shared service according to actual needs. Click OK to save the configuration. RAID Management RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) organizes multiple independent physical disks to a logical disk group, so that it can provide higher storage performance and data redundancy technology.
  • Page 51 Raid management Click The Create interface is displayed. See Figure 3-39. Web Basic Operations 44...
  • Page 52 Creating RAID Select the parameters. For details, see Table 3-11. Description of RAID creation parameters Parameter Description Select the RAID creation type, including manual and one-click. Type When you choose the one-click RAID creation, the system automatically creates RAID 5 according to the one-click RAID creation strategy. For details, see Table 3-12.

  • Page 53: Hotspare Management

    Parameter Description Select the sync mode of the business resources allocation. Self-adaption: Automatically adjust the RAID sync speed according to the current business loads. When there is no external business, sync is performed at a high speed. Sync Type When there is external business, sync is performed at a low speed. Sync priority: Resource priority is assigned to RAID sync.
  • Page 54 Raid management Click The Hotspare interface is displayed. See Figure 3-41. Hotspare management Double-click the corresponding Type to set the disk to general HDD, private hotspare or general hotspare. General HDD: A general disk member in the RAID.  Web Basic Operations 47...
  • Page 55 Private hotspare: Double-click the corresponding Name, select the RAID group,  and then this HDD is used as a hotspare only for the corresponding group. General hotspare: It is used as a hotspare for all the RAID groups.  Click OK to save the configuration. Web Basic Operations 48...

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