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Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video
Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)
This document provides the following information and instructions:
Installation and Initial Configuration:
Verify minimum system
1.
2.
Understand general installation
Obtain the VSMS
3.
Perform pre-installation
4.
Install
J2SDK—Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms), page 8
5.
Install the VSMS
6.
Configure video repositories for archives and
7.
page 10
Americas Headquarters:
Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA
requirements—System Requirements, page 2
information—Before You Install, page 4
software—Obtaining VSMS Software, page 3
procedures—Before You Install, page 4
software—Installing VSMS, page 9
clips—Configuring VSMS,

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  • Page 1 Install the VSMS Configure video repositories for archives and page 10 Americas Headquarters: Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA requirements—System Requirements, page 2 information—Before You Install, page 4 software—Obtaining VSMS Software, page 3 procedures—Before You Install, page 4 J2SDK—Installing J2SE 1.4.2 SDK for Linux (all platforms), page 8...

  • Page 2: System Requirements

    • Hardware – – – – Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) 10, and Restoring VSMS, page 11 Intel Celeron or Pentium, 1.7 GHz 1 GB DRAM 10 GB hard disk Red Hat Enterprise 4 Update 2 (RHEL4)

  • Page 3: Installation Notes

    You must log in to the Cisco website to access the software. Select the Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server Software software version for the appropriate for your Linux version. ATI or Nvidia DirectX 9 compatible graphics interface. The graphics...

  • Page 4: Before You Install

    Login to the VSMS server and follow these steps to create a partition GPT table Step 1 on the volume: linux:~ # parted -- /dev/<device> mklabel gpt Replace <device> with the volume device name, such as /dev/sdb.V Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)

  • Page 5: Creating Partitions

    Choose Apply, Finish, Quit, and Quit. Step 5 Change ownership of the mounted partitions to nobody.nobody. Step 6 shell> chown nobody.nobody /media1 Start Size File system Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install Name Flags...
  • Page 6 Step 4 point: dev/sdb1 Mount the newly created partitions. (Usage: mount /dev/sdb1 /media1.) Step 5 Step 6 Change ownership of the mounted partitions to nobody.nobody: shell> chown nobody: /media1 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) /media1 ext3 defaults...

  • Page 7: Software Prerequisites

    1. These packages are not provided by Red Hat. Compatible versions can be found on the Internet. Sun J2SE 1.4.2 SDK libelf sysstat libelf-32-bit perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-Digest-HMAC perl-Net-SNMP perl-Crypt-DES perl-Socket6 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Before You Install...
  • Page 8 Verify the symbolic link with the command: Step 7 shell> ls -l /usr/java/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 376 Sep 26 10:15 j2sdk1.4.2_19 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) 13 Sep 26 10:16 java -> j2sdk1.4.2_19...
  • Page 9 Step 3 shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSRecorder-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSMS-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSDrivers-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSBWT-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSDocs-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSTools-6.0.0-noarch.rpm Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Installing VSMS...
  • Page 10 In a web browser, open http://<Server HostName>/vsmc.html and navigate to the Step 1 Encoding Server Backup on the Console page. Click Download. Step 2 When prompted, save the .tar file to a secure directory. Step 3 Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)
  • Page 11 Copy the VSMS backup file from its current location to the VSMS server. From the SSH command line, enter: shell> tar -Pxvf <filename>.tar Example: shell> tar -Pxvf VSMS_PST_backup_20070327153851.tar /etc/init.d/cisco stop Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Restoring VSMS...
  • Page 12 VSDrivers must be removed prior to uninstalling Cisco_VSMS. Uninstall all Step 4 previous MS modules including some (but not all) of the following based on the previously installed version: shell> Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) rpm -e Cisco_VSBWT...
  • Page 13 Step 5 shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSBase-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSRecorder-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSMS-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSDrivers-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSBWT-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSDocs-6.1.0-xx-xxxxx-i586.rpm shell> rpm -ivh Cisco_VSTools-6.1.0-noarch.rpm Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS) Upgrading VSMS...
  • Page 14 Upgrading VSMS Installing and Upgrading Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server (VSMS)

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