Installing the VMS Server

Scenario: The Video Management System (VMS) server can be installed on the same computer as the Desigo CC server, or on a separate computer. For details, see Video Architectures and Limits. Complete one of the below procedures, depending on where the VMS server will be installed.

 

Prerequisites:

  • You have the VMS server installer file.

 

Option 1: Install VMS Server on a Separate Computer from the Management Platform Server

Do these steps on the separate computer that will host the VMS server.

  1. Install the VMS server following its separate installation instructions. In the VMS software setup, you can select the Single-Server (recommended) or the Custom installation variant.
    NOTE: Do not use the Distributed-Servers variant. This is referred to architectures with multiple VMS servers.

Option 2: Install VMS Server on the Same Computer as the Management Platform Server

Do these steps on the Desigo CC server computer.

Information

NOTE:
The VMS uses default website ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) for its client stations. This setting cannot be changed. When installing VMS on the same computer as the Desigo CC server, you must check in SMC that these ports are not already used by a Desigo CC website (for example, to support Web Clients or Web Services), and if necessary switch the Desigo CC website to use different ports (for instance, 8080 and 8443, respectively). In addition, if the default IIS website was removed during the Desigo CC installation, you must re-create it before installing VMS.

  1. In the SMC Websites, do not use the ports 80 and 443, which will be used by VMS.
  1. If the default IIS default web site was removed (for example to replace it with a Desigo CC website), you must create it again before installing the VMS server.
    a. Run the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager (refer to Microsoft documentation)
    b. In the Sites node, re-create the default web site.
    c. In the Add Web Site dialog box, enter the following settings:
  • Site name: enter Default Web Site
  • Application Pool: click Select... and choose DefaultAppPool
  • Physical path: enter %SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot
  • Binding options: use the default settings
  1. Install the VMS server.
    In the setup wizard, after selecting the installation language and the license file (valid licenses are listed in Milestone / Siveillance VMS Reference), you can:
  • Choose the Single Server installation variant, which is largely predefined and very easy (you can only select the file location and the product language).
  • Choose the Custom installation variant (recommended to optimize the SQL database functions). In the subsequent custom installation steps, proceed as follows:
    a. In the SQL section, select the GMS_HDB_Express SQL server instance.
    b. Use the default settings for all other installation options.

You can also install the VMS software before Desigo CC, and you can share the SQL Server installed by the VMS with Desigo CC.

NOTICE
Disable recording server encryption

Starting from Milestone / Siveillance 2019 R1, recording server encryption is enabled by default, and must be manually disabled.

During installation, in the Specify recording server encryption screen:

- Clear the check box Encrypt connections from clients and services that retrieve data streams from the recording server.