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Dahua EVS50 Series Quick Start Manual

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Embedded Video Storage Server
(EVS50, EVS70 Series)
Quick Start Guide
V2.1.1

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  • Page 1 Embedded Video Storage Server (EVS50, EVS70 Series) Quick Start Guide V2.1.1...

  • Page 2: Foreword

    Foreword General This Quick Start Guide (hereinafter referred to as "the Guide") introduces the functions and operations of the EVS series devices (hereinafter referred to as "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...
  • Page 3 Revision History Version Revision Content Release Time V2.1.1 Update the manual according to the latest template. May 2019 Update information about GDPR V2.1.0 Add AI playback and routing functions October 2018 Update user management and playback functions V2.0.2 Add FCC information September 2018 V2.0.1 Add privacy protection notice...

  • Page 4: Important Safeguards And Warnings

    Important Safeguards and Warnings Operation Requirement Do not place or install the Device in a place exposed to sunlight or near the heat source.  Keep the Device away from dampness, dust or soot.  Keep the Device installed horizontally on the stable place to prevent it from falling. ...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Foreword ..............................II Important Safeguards and Warnings ....................IV 1 Overview ..............................1 Introduction ........................... 1 Front Panel ............................ 1 Rear Panel ............................ 2 2 Installation and Power Up ........................4 Installing HDD ..........................4 2.1.1 Middle-class 16-HDD Single-controller Series ..............4 2.1.2 Other Series ........................

  • Page 6: Overview

    Overview Introduction The Device is designed for the management, storage and application of high-definition video data. It uses Linux operation system and professional customized hardware platform. It also owns multiple Hard Disk Drive (HDD) management system, front-end HD device management system, HD video analysis system and large capacity video storage system.

  • Page 7: Rear Panel

    Indicator/Button Description The light is out when the Device is running properly.  Alarm status The red light keeps on when the power, temperature or  indicator fan is abnormal. Network status The blue light keeps on if there is a network failure, IP conflict indicator or MAC conflict.
  • Page 8 Figure 1-4 Rear panel (9 Ethernet ports) Table 1-2 Rear panel interfaces Interface Description Used for case cooling. Power Connect AC power. interface Master control For description of the interfaces and indicators, see Table 1-3. module Table 1-3 Master control module interfaces Port/Indicator Description 1-4/5-8...

  • Page 9: Installation And Power Up

    Installation and Power Up Installing HDD The HDD is not installed by default on factory delivery. You need to install it by yourself. Some devices are heavy and should be carried jointly by several persons to avoid injury. 2.1.1 Middle-class 16-HDD Single-controller Series Step 1 Press the red button on the HDD box in the front panel to unlock the handle.

  • Page 10: Other Series

    Figure 2-3 Fastening the screws To avoid any damage to the slot, do not lock the handle if the HDD box has not been pushed to the bottom. Step 4 Insert the HDD box into the HDD slot, push it to the bottom, and then close the handle. 2.1.2 Other Series The contents below apply to devices other than the middle-class 16-HDD single-controller series.

  • Page 11: Powering Up

    Figure 2-5 HDD box Step 3 Put the HDD into the disk box and fasten the screws at the bottom of the box. See Figure 2-6. Figure 2-6 Fastening the screws To avoid any damage to the slot, do not close the handle if the HDD box has not been pushed to the bottom.

  • Page 12: Powering Up The Device

     Make sure that GND is connected correctly.  Different models of devices need different sources of power supplies. Make sure that all power lines are connected correctly.  Check whether the supplied power voltage complies with device requirements.  Check whether the network cables and SAS cables are connected correctly.

  • Page 13: 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. See the actual models for the functions you need.
  • Page 14  Dual-control device: Default IP is 192.168.0.108. Step 2 Press Enter key. The Password Setting interface is displayed. See Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1 Password setting Step 3 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 15: Logging In Web

    If you do not need to set the password protection, you can clear the Assigned  Email check box.  If you have not entered the assigned email, you can enter Setup > Account > User to set it after the initialization is completed. For details, see User’s Manual. Step 6 Click Next.
  • Page 16 Figure 3-4 Web login interface Step 3 Enter the user name and password, and then select the network 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 17: Initial Configuration

    Name Description Display the current login user name. Click at the right side of the user name and you can perform quickly User set and logout. name Quickly set: You can configure video, AI playback and IP SAN  according to different applications. Logout: Log out the current user.
  • Page 18 Figure 3-7 Setting TCP/IP (dual-control device) Table 3-2 TCP/IP setting parameters Parameter Description Enter the virtual IP address of the dual-control device. For details, see User’s Enable Manual. IP Address Subnet Mask The main control board and sub control board of dual-control device have Default Gateway their respective physical IP.
  • Page 19 Figure 3-8 Editing Step 3 Configure the parameters. For details, see Table 3-3. Table 3-3 NIC editing parameters Parameter Description Ethernet Displays the current NIC name. Card Web Basic Operations 14...
  • Page 20 Parameter Description Displays the network mode of the Device. Single NIC: The NIC can be used alone. You can select one NIC to  provide HTTP or RTSP service. You need to set one default NIC (default is Network Card1) to request the network service started by Email and FTP. Once the card is offline, the system triggers a disconnection alarm.

  • Page 21: 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 22 Figure 3-9 Remote device Step 2 Add remote device. You can use adding by search, adding one device, batch add or importing from template.  Adding by search Click at the right side of Auto Search. The Auto Search interface is displayed. See Figure 3-10. Figure 3-10 Automatic search Click Device Search.
  • Page 23 Figure 3-11 Search results Table 3-4 Auto search icons Icon/Parameter Description Select the remote devices you need to add through IP address or MAC address. Click to select IP Address or MAC Address. Enter the IP address or MAC address of the remote device in the text box at the right side of Click Search.
  • Page 24 The Add interface is displayed. See Figure 3-12. Figure 3-12 Adding one device Configure the parameters. For details, see Table 3-5. Table 3-5 Description of adding device Parameter Description Select the manufacturer in the drop-down list according to the actual situation.
  • Page 25 Parameter Description Set the HTTP port of the remote device. The default is 80. HTTP Port You do not need to configure it when the Manufacturer is set as Private or Custom. HTTPS communication port. It can be set according to your actual needs. The default is 443.
  • Page 26 Batch add only supports to add the remote devices in the same network segment. Click in the Manual Add area, and then select Batch Add. The Add interface is displayed. See Figure 3-13. Figure 3-13 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.

  • Page 27: Configuring Record Plan

    Click Open to add the remote device. After adding, if the Status shows , the connection is successful. If the Status shows , the connection fails. Check the reason. 3.4.3 Configuring Record Plan 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.
  • Page 28 Parameter Description Select the check box to enable the function. When the network connection between the Device and IPC is broken,  IPC keeps on recording. After the network recovery, the Device downloads the records during the disconnection period from IPC, so as to keep the record integrity.
  • Page 29 Figure 3-16 Time period setting Drawing:  Select the weekday.  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 30: Enabling Record Function

    Select the weekday, record type and period. Click OK to save the configuration. The system returns to the Record Control interface. Step 5 Click OK to save the configuration. The record plan comes into effect after enabling the auto record function. For details of enabling auto record, see "3.4.4 Enabling Record Function."...

  • Page 31: Video Direct Storage

    Parameter Description Display all the channels with remote devices added. Channel You can select a single channel or multiple channels or select All for all the channels. Display the current status of the corresponding channel. : Not selected.  Status : Selected.
  • Page 32 The steps to quick configure the video direct storage scenario are displayed at the top right corner of the screen. Figure 3-20 RAID management Step 2 Create RAID. For details, see "3.8.1 Creating RAID." Step 3 Click Next. The Add remote device interface is displayed. See Figure 3-21. Figure 3-21 Adding remote device Step 4...

  • Page 33: Ai Playback

    AI Playback AI playback is an intelligent function for you to check and play back the results of general behavior analysis, vehicle detection, face detection and face matching. For the procedure to configure AI playback, see Figure 3-22. Figure 3-22 AI playback Step 1 Click...
  • Page 34 Step 2 Create RAID. For details, see "3.8.1 Creating RAID" Step 3 Click Next. The Set AI PlayBack disk + Special HDD group interface is displayed. See Figure 3-24. Figure 3-24 Setting AI playback HDD and special HDD group Step 4 Set AI playback HDD and HDD group.

  • Page 35: Ip San

    The Add remote device interface is displayed. See Figure 3-26. Figure 3-26 Adding remote device Step 8 Add remote device. For details, see "3.4.2 Adding Remote Device." Step 9 Click OK to save the configuration. After the configuration, you can search the direct stored images. For details, see User’s Manual.

  • Page 36: Creating Storage Pool

    Figure 3-27 Configuring IP SAN 3.7.1 Creating Storage Pool Storage pool is a logical device that is virtualized by the storage devices, which is managed by the system and can be composed of multiple actual disks or RAID. It is one of the main means to realize virtual storage.
  • Page 37 Figure 3-28 Storage pool Step 2 Click The Add interface is displayed. See Figure 3-29. Figure 3-29 Adding storage pool Step 3 Enter the Pool Name and select the disk or RAID group. 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.

  • Page 38: Managing Share Account

    The system starts to create the storage pool. After the creation, the system returns to the Storage Pool interface. You can view the new pool information here. 3.7.2 Managing Share Account You need to access and manage the share folder with a share account. Step 1 Select IP SAN >...

  • Page 39: Setting Share Folder

    Parameter Description User Name Enter the name of the share account. Server Select the corresponding service type of the share account: iSCSI, FTP/SAMBA or Type iSCSI/FTP/SAMBA. Enter and confirm the password of the share account. Password Confirm When you select iSCSI or iSCSI/FTP/SAMBA for the server type, the password Password shall consist of 12 characters.
  • Page 40 Figure 3-33 Adding share folder (NFS) Figure 3-34 Adding share folder (iSCSI) Step 3 Configure the parameters. For details, see Table 3-9. Web Basic Operations 35...
  • Page 41 Table 3-9 Share folder parameters Parameter Description Directory Enter the name of the share folder. Name Select the pool in which you need to create the share folder. Pool Name Free capability refers to the max available volume of the storage pool. Share Enter the available space of the share folder.

  • Page 42: Setting Ftp Parameters

    Parameter Description It includes Direct and Indirect. Direct: Store the data directly into the disk and update the data in cache.  When you have little data but high integrity request, direct strategy is recommended. Indirect: Store data in the cache first and transfer it to the disk when the ...

  • Page 43: Opening Share Services

    Figure 3-35 FTP Parameters Step 2 Configure the parameters. For details, see Table 3-10. Table 3-10 FTP server parameters Parameter Description Transfer Speed Enter the max transfer speed during single transmission. Enter the max connection number for each user (taking IP as a reference Link Number unit) to access FTP share at the same time.

  • Page 44: Raid Management

    Figure 3-36 Share control Step 2 Boot up or stop the share service according to actual needs. Step 3 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 45 Figure 3-37 Raid management Step 2 Click The Create interface is displayed. See Figure 3-38. Figure 3-38 Creating RAID Step 3 Configure the parameters. For details, see Table 3-11. Web Basic Operations 40...
  • Page 46 Table 3-11 RAID creation parameters Parameter Description Select the RAID creation type, including manual, shortcut and Raid2.0. When you choose shortcut RAID creation, the system automatically creates Type RAID 5 according to the shortcut RAID creation strategy. For details, see Table 3-12.
  • Page 47 Parameter Description Select the sync mode of the business resources allocation. Self Adapt: 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. When there is external business, sync is performed at a low speed. Sync Type Sync First: Resource priority is assigned to RAID sync.

  • Page 48: Hot Spare Management

    3.8.2 Hot Spare Management When a member disk of the RAID group is fault or abnormal, the hot spare disk replaces it to work, so as to avoid data loss and guarantee the reliability of the storage system. Step 1 Select Storage >...
  • Page 49 Private hot spare: Double-click the corresponding Name, select the RAID group,  and then this HDD is used as a hot spare only for the corresponding group.  General hot spare: It is used as a hot spare for all the RAID groups. Step 4 Click OK to save the configuration.

  • Page 50: Appendix 1 Cybersecurity Recommendations

    Appendix 1 Cybersecurity Recommendations Cybersecurity is more than just a buzzword: it’s something that pertains to every device that is connected to the internet. IP video surveillance is not immune to cyber risks, but taking basic steps toward protecting and strengthening networks and networked appliances will make them less susceptible to attacks.
  • Page 51 Change Default HTTP and Other Service Ports We suggest you to change default HTTP and other service ports into any set of numbers between 1024~65535, reducing the risk of outsiders being able to guess which ports you are using. Enable HTTPS We suggest you to enable HTTPS, so that you visit Web service through a secure communication channel.
  • Page 52  The network should be partitioned and isolated according to the actual network needs. If there are no communication requirements between two sub networks, it is suggested to use VLAN, network GAP and other technologies to partition the network, so as to achieve the network isolation effect. ...

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