Security: Video

This attached document describes how Bosch Building Technologies handles the life-cycle of the BVMS, BIS, AMS, and APE, and in which state a specific release can reside.

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

This article contains the list of Security Advisories (SA) to inform you about identified security vulnerabilities in our product or service and proposed solutions.

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!

Regular BVMS 12.1 installer will not run on any DIVAR IP all-in-one platform. The upgrade shall be performed via DIVAR IP System Manager application.

This document is specifically for DIP-71xx as it's the DIP which supports certain versions of BVMS (regular BVMS installer) and must be updated in a certain order. The document details how to upgrade from BVMS v8 to BVMS v12.0.1.

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.