HPE Media Server can ingest live video from Milestone XProtect Enterprise and Milestone XProtect Corporate.
HPE Media Server connects to the Milestone XProtect recording server to obtain video. The recording server requires user authentication, so you must specify a user name and password in the HPE Media Server configuration. HPE recommends that you encrypt passwords before entering them into the configuration file. For information on how to do this, see Encrypt Passwords.
To ingest video from Milestone XProtect
Create a new configuration to send to HPE Media Server with the process
action, or open an existing configuration that you want to modify.
In the [Ingest]
section, create an ingest task by setting the IngestEngine
parameter.
[Ingest] IngestEngine=XProtect
Create a configuration section to contain the task settings. Type the task name inside square brackets, and then set the following parameters:
Type
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The ingest engine to use. Set this parameter to milestone . |
RecorderHost
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The host name or IP address of the XProtect recording server. |
RecorderPort
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The port of the XProtect recording server. |
For example:
[XProtect] Type=milestone RecorderHost=XProtect RecorderPort=7563
Configure how the ingest engine should authenticate with the Milestone XProtect system.
To ingest video from Milestone XProtect Corporate, you must use NTLM authentication against the Milestone XProtect authentication server. To ingest video from Milestone XProtect Enterprise, you can use any of the following options.
To use NTLM authentication against a Milestone authentication server, set the following parameters:
SOAPAuthentication
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Set this parameter to true . The engine authenticates against the XProtect authentication server. |
NTLMUsername
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The NT user name to use to retrieve video. |
NTLMPassword
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The NT password to use to retrieve video. |
AuthenticationHost
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The host name or IP address of the XProtect authentication server. |
AuthenticationPort
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The port of the XProtect authentication server. |
To use Milestone credentials (Basic authentication) against a Milestone authentication server, set the following parameters:
SOAPAuthentication
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Set this parameter to true . The engine authenticates against the XProtect authentication server. |
BasicUsername
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The user name to use to retrieve video. |
BasicPassword
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The password to use to retrieve video. |
AuthenticationHost
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The host name or IP address of the XProtect authentication server. |
AuthenticationPort
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The port of the XProtect authentication server. |
To use Milestone credentials (Basic authentication) against the Milestone recording server, set the following parameters:
SOAPAuthentication
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Set this parameter to false . The engine sends credentials to the recording server. |
BasicUsername
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The user name to use to retrieve video. |
BasicPassword
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The password to use to retrieve video. |
Save and close the configuration file. HPE recommends that you save your configuration files in the location specified by the ConfigDirectory
parameter.
You can now start ingesting video. When you use the process
action, you must set the source
parameter to a Milestone camera GUID. For information about how to find the GUID, refer to the Milestone documentation. Unless you are using SOAP authentication, you can specify the camera ID instead. For more information about how to start processing, see Start Processing.
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