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Summary of Contents for Milestone Husky IVO 150D
- Page 1 Milestone Systems Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Getting started and maintenance guide June 2021...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Contents Copyright, trademarks, and disclaimer Safety About this guide Front view Back view Service tag Link to detailed hardware documentation Getting started checklist Before you install Prepare network and devices... - Page 3 Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Recovery XProtect Upgrade System scaling 3 | Contents...
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Page 4: Copyright, Trademarks, And Disclaimer
Any risk arising from the use of this information rests with the recipient, and nothing herein should be construed as constituting any kind of warranty. Milestone Systems A/S reserves the right to make adjustments without prior notification. All names of people and organizations used in the examples in this text are fictitious. Any resemblance to any actual organization or person, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintended. -
Page 5: Safety
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Safety Warning! Risk of explosion if battery is replaced by incorrect battery type. Dispose of used batteries according to the instructions. Caution Replacement of a BATTERY with an incorrect type that can defeat a SAFEGUARD (for example, in the case of some lithium BATTERY types). -
Page 6: About This Guide
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D About this guide This getting started and maintenance guide for Milestone Husky IVO is a point of reference to the Milestone Husky software and Milestone Husky hardware. This guide describes Husky Assistant, an application that helps you install, maintain, and reconfigure your system. -
Page 7: Front View
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Front view 1. Universal audio jack 4. Power button 2. USB 2.0 Type-A 5. Hard drive activity 3. USB 3.2 Type-A Gen1 (5Gbps) 6. USB 2.0 Type-A with power share 7. -
Page 8: Back View
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Back view 1. Audio line out 7. DB9 serial com port 2. PS2 keyboard connector 8. VGA port 3. PS2 mouse connector 9. Main board RJ-45 port 10/100/1000 Mbps 4. 2 x Display Port 1.4 10. -
Page 9: Service Tag
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Service tag You can identify your system by the service tag. Find the service tag on the cover of the unit to view the unique express service code and service tag. -
Page 10: Link To Detailed Hardware Documentation
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Link to detailed hardware documentation For more information on the specific features and functionality or your unit, see Installation and service manual. The documentation provided can have slightly different specifications or configurations compared to your Milestone Husky IVO unit. -
Page 11: Getting Started Checklist
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Getting started checklist This guide applies to all models of the Milestone Husky IVO. Follow the checklist below to ensure that you carry out the steps of your installation in the right order. -
Page 12: Before You Install
Care™ coverage on the Milestone website to find out which product matches your needs. The SLC is printed on your order confirmation, and the software license file is named after your SLC. Milestone recommends that you register your SLC on the Milestone website (https://online.milestonesys.com/) before installation. -
Page 13: Prepare Your Unit
SLC on the Basics > License Information node in the Management Client. Milestone recommends that you activate your licenses before you make the final adjustments. For online activation, log in to the Software Registration page with your My Milestone account on the Milestone website (https://online.milestonesys.com/). -
Page 14: Turn On The Unit
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Turn on the unit Turn on your Milestone Husky unit and wait for Windows to boot for the first time. Windows first run Configure the country, language, keyboard, and account information: 1. - Page 15 Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D 8. Get the latest Windows updates or click Skip for now. 9. Accept the license agreements. 10. Complete the services selection and wait for the Windows desktop to appear. 15 | Turn on the unit...
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Page 16: Complete The Husky Assistant Wizard
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Complete the Husky Assistant Wizard Husky Assistant now starts automatically. This wizard helps you check, select, and configure your Milestone Husky IVO with: Computer name and domain or workgroup Data storage drive detection... - Page 17 Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D 1. Select your preferred Husky Assistant language and click Next. 2. Click Computer name / Domain changes to configure computer name and domain or workgroup settings. When completed, Windows will require a restart to apply the changes.
- Page 18 Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D 5. Make sure that all the hard drives are detected and click Next. 6. Select Format and configure data drives and click Next. When performing a recovery of your Husky unit, select the Only configure data drives option to keep your data.
- Page 19 Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D 7. You have different options when selecting the Milestone XProtect version to install. Select one of these options: Check if the pre-loaded XProtect version is the version that you want to install. If yes, select Install pre-loaded Milestone XProtect and click Next.
- Page 20 After you have completed the Husky Assistant wizard, the application changes and Husky Assistant serve as an application that helps you configure, maintain, and see the status of your Milestone Husky system. Find the Husky Assistant shortcut on the Windows desktop.
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Page 21: Post-Installation Tasks
A device pack is a set of drivers that is installed with your XProtect system to interact with your devices. A device pack is installed on the recording server. Milestone adds support for new devices and firmware versions on an ongoing basis, and releases device packs every two months on average. -
Page 22: Husky Assistant
Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Husky Assistant Husky Assistant is an application that helps you configure, maintain, and see the status of your Milestone Husky system. Find the Husky Assistant shortcut on the Windows desktop. -
Page 23: Storage Management
Storage management On this tab you can see information about and the status of data hard drives. You can also identify a faulty hard drive and prepare new hard drives for use with Milestone XProtect VMS. Check data hard drive status... -
Page 24: Prepare Hard Drives
For more information, see Prepare hard drives. The hard drive is faulty. Get the hard drive replaced. Failed After replacement, see Prepare hard drives. Prepare hard drives How to prepare a disk for use in Milestone XProtect VMS: 24 | Husky Assistant... -
Page 25: Apply Optimizations
Husky Assistant can help you to optimize Windows for running XProtect software and to optimize XProtect software for running on your Husky unit. If you have installed Milestone XProtect VMS without using Husky Assistant, you need to apply the available optimizations. To check if any optimizations are available:... -
Page 26: Support
5. Check that the optimization is applied. Support If you have a problem and need support, contact your Milestone reseller that you bought the unit from. Create a diagnostics file To help your Milestone reseller get logs and details about your system, create a Milestone diagnostics .zip file... - Page 27 5. When finished, the diagnostics .zip file is saved on the Windows desktop. You can now move or transfer the file to any preferred location. 6. Close Milestone Diagnostics Tool. 7. Provide your Milestone reseller with the diagnostics .zip file when they assist you in troubleshooting a problem. 27 | Husky Assistant...
- Page 28 Getting started and maintenance guide | Milestone Husky IVO™ 150D Recovery You can do a recovery on your Milestone Husky unit, which resets your unit to the factory default state and lets you start over and reconfigure your unit from scratch.
- Page 29 Software License Code (SLC). Your Milestone Husky unit has a preloaded XProtect VMS version ready to be installed, but you can always download and install a newer or older version of Milestone XProtect VMS that matches your license.
- Page 30 To be able to scale to thousands of cameras across multiple sites, the system consists of components that handle specific tasks. If you have installed all components on a standalone Milestone Husky IVO unit, you can expand your system by installing the components on separate dedicated servers in a distributed system to scale and distribute the load.
- Page 31 150,000 sites worldwide. Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is a stand-alone company in the Canon Group. For more information, visit https://www.milestonesys.com/.
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