Security: Video

This article explains why the Live view shows ‘Authentication failed’ in Video Security App.

Aside from configuring the camera using its own browser, there are other tools you can use to setup the camera. The choice when using which tool will come down to the individual installer. Their experience and know-how of the tool will dictate which one they will use. 

Bosch recommends that the operating systems used by the video surveillance system are constantly updated, with a maximum update cycle of 6 months. Windows updates often include fixes for recently discovered security vulnerabilities, such as the Heartbleed SSL vulnerability, which affected millions of computers worldwide.

The Cameo SDK is only backwards compatible, same as the Operator Client. According to the BVMS - Upgrade and Migration guides (boschsecurity.com)

The BVMS Logbook database can be moved to another SQL Server. This article describes the steps that are necessary to migrate the database and describes how to confirm if the migration was successful.   BVMS is using Microsoft SQL Server Express to store its logbook. Based on the information provided by Microsoft (Compare SQL Server 2017 editions), SQL Server Express is limited to a 10GB database size. This could be insufficient for larger installations or installations that require a very long logbook retention time. Additionally, some organizations have a dedicated SQL server environment which should be utilized by all applications. The BVMS Logbook database can be moved to another SQL Server. This guide describes the steps that are necessary to migrate the database and describes how to confirm if the migration was successful.

If you are still using BVMS version <9.0 and you want to replace a faulty device without loosing recording, please follow the steps below.

What happens when you upgrade the SW of your Management Server form e.g. BVMS 10.0 to BVMS 10.1 and you have not prepared a BVMS 10.1 activation key beforehand?

Operator Client helps you display the original full image circle of a panoramic camera, its image dewarped or you can select a point of interest of the image.

Be sure that the MIC-7100i camera is configured in BVMS Configuration Client with "Bosch-AutoDome Bilinx" protocol and not with "Bosch-AutoDome" protocol or other options from the list.

This article presents what are the limitations of Privacy overlay in BVMS 12 (Pano cameras, h.263 & MPEG, decoder, VSC).

Find out from this article which Bosch encoders and decoders are compatible with BVMS

BVMS Version 10.0: please note that the export mechanisms provided in the BVMS Configuration Client might not export the user-data. Check this article for more details!

License expansions missing after upgrade to BVMS 11 in Remote Portal. Only 1 x MBV-XCHANPLU license activated instead of 16 x MBV-XCHANPLU. What to do?

This article describes how to configure a generic Microsoft Windows Server (2012 R2, 2016 or 2019) based server to serve as an iSCSI target for a Bosch video surveillance environment. SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is most commonly used for the communication between computers and peripheral devices, such as hard drives. iSCSI enables devices to use SCSI over a network interface, therefore it makes a lot of sense for cameras to use iSCSI to record video. The camera is a small computer that needs a (network) connection to a "hard drive" to store video footage. In other systems this job is performed by the network video recorder (NVR).

There might be problems when you are trying to use the Forensic search function for FLEXIDOME Multi 7000i cameras (FW 8.71.0066) after upgrading from BVMS 10.1 to BVMS 11.1.1.65. The message is saying that “Forensic search must be configured for this workstation”

This article explains how to enable and collect Video SDK Logs for VSDK based applications.

This article lists the scenarios in which technical support normally request dump file from a BVMS system.

The information regarding the ports can be found in BVMS – Configuration Manual (page 366), should the customer use BVMS as a VMS.

Starting with BVMS 12.2, new OpenID Connect (OIDC) login options have been introduced. When closing the Operator Client, the user can decide to completely log off or stay logged-in.

OPC server is installed on the BVMS server OPC client software is installed (the client used in this article is Softing OPC Toolbox Demo Client), and the user can connect to OPC server that is running on BVMS server, but the user cannot send any command from 3rd party OPC client to BVMS system, for example changing the status of virtual inputs. There are no events coming from OPC to BVMS and the OPC client is not present in the list for third party integrations with BVMS