Security: Video

To guarantee high quality imaging through the entire range of products, Bosch Security Systems uses a Common Product Platform (CPP).

This article contains 2 options describing the way you can find the Firmware version of your DSA unit, in case the Central Technical Support team is asking you about it or if you simply want to find it by yourself. Check out this article!

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?

Load balancing is provided with respect to the bandwidth and the number of iSCSI connections and is configurable per IP address (iSCSI target).

This article explains how to set an Unconfigured Bad Drive to Unconfigured Good on a DIVAR IP 6000/ 7000. This step is required if the new drive is not listed under Unconfigured Drives. A possible reason for the Unconfigured Bad status is when a device that has not been removed properly is reconnected to the controller.

The URL for RTSP stream (for example in VLC Media Player) should have the format as described in this article

"Remote Portal is not reachable. Please check your network settings, maybe no valid gateway and DNS is configured" Follow the steps from this article and find out how you can register and connect your camera to the Bosch Remote Portal.

Question Why I cannot see my camera in the Logical Tree from Operator Client? Answer Please make sure that you have done all the steps below accordingly. Normally, to be able to view a camera in the Operator Client, you need to: Go to the Maps and Structure tab from Configuration Client. Drag and drop the camera in question from the Device Tree to the Logical Tree. Save and Activate the changes. This step is very important because otherwise, you will not be able to see the changes in Operator Client, even though the first 2 steps were carried out in Configuration Client.

In the past (prior to Windows Server 2012 R2), in order to perform NIC Teaming, we would have needed two adapters which were from the same vendor, and a third-party software that would make the teaming possible and present the OS with just one “virtual” network card.Now from Windows Server 2012 R2 and up, this is built-in and its hardware agnostic. This means you can use whatever network cards you want and the teaming will work like a charm.

Use the CTFID tool (Configuration Tool for Imaging Devices) for configuring the camera. Find in this article the download link and the release note.

Privacy masking is used to block a specific area of a scene from being viewed. Eight privacy mask areas can be defined.

The haneWIN DHCP server software implements a DHCP and BOOTP server based on RFC 2131. The DHCP Server is implemented as a native service for background operation, A Control Panel applet provides interactive access to the service. The server supports automatic DNS updates for DHCP configured clients. The latest version is available and can be downloaded from here. According to the Installation Manual of the DIVAR IP 7000/ 6000: All DIVAR IP systems are preconfigured with default network, user and iSCSI settings. By default, the virtual network adapter (the two physical NIC ports are teamed by default) is configured to obtain a valid network address from a DHCP server in the local network. The haneWIN DHCP server software supports multiple address pools for dynamic IP address assignment as well as fixed IP address assignment to clients.

Strange behaviors of the Divar IP 6000/7000 R2 start from a root cause that need to be found. Log files are the most comprehensive and help the Central Technical Support team to find it and provide you further assistance. This article provides you a step-by-step guide on how you can collect MegaRAID logs for DIVAR IP 6000/7000 R2.

In this article, you will find such an automation process between Bosch Cameras and Advantech Adam I/O devices.

Supermicro SuperDoctor® 5 (SD5) monitors the hardware health or availability of the target node systems in data centers real-time and provide alerts to administrators. Please follow the steps from this article and learn how you can collect the Support Data of DIP 6000/ 7000 with SuperDoctor 5 (SD5) software.

This article helps you to solve the situation where the "No Config" error message appears when you try to authenticate in Operator Client. This error can be persistent, no matter what central server you attempt to login to and no matter what user account or credentials you are trying to use. This means that you have a corrupt cache .dat file on your system. Follow the steps from this article if you attempt to login into BVMS Operator Client and encounter the message below and you want to fix it: "Please enter your credentials... No config..."

If you forgot the service level password for you Bosch IP camera and you want to reset its password, the Central Support Team can help you.

The "storage state failure" alarm doesn't always mean a recording error unless there is a gap at the time of the error for that camera that reported it. It is an error of the iSCSI protocol; it means that when the camera releases the connection for a certain block it has not received a response back from the iSCSI target in a certain time.

First recommendation would be to configure the mode for IVA as a trigger, setting IVA as Profile 1 for “trigger off” and IVA as silent for “trigger on”.

To access the "Reset" options of a DIVAR IP 2000 Recording Appliance, you have to open the Appliance's "Dashboard".