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Question   How can I protect my security system from an IT security perspective?   Answer   The attached documents explain how the security system can be hardened. Additionally the BVMS - Network Design Guide includes best practices for designing a secure network.    Note For the latest info in relation to BVMS version 12 or above, please contact the Central Technical Support team: Bosch VIDEO Security Systems request and Central Technical Support Team ... View more

Question   What is the decoding performance of BVMS? How many cameras can I open on the screen before the systems is overloaded (and frames are being dropped)?   Answer   The BVMS client performance overview is attached to this article and shows, based on several workstation configurations and a specific BVMS version, how many cameras can be opened before the workstation is overloaded. BVMS - Decoding details.pdf BVMS 10.1 - Performance overview.xlsm BVMS 11.0 - Performance overview.xlsm BVMS 11.1.1 - Performance overview_2022.xlsm BVMS 12.1 - Decoding Performance.xlsm      Note For the latest info in relation to BVMS version 12 or above, please contact the Central Technical Support team: Bosch VIDEO Security Systems request and Central Technical Support Team ... View more

Question   How can I migrate the full configuration (including server configuration and user settings) of a BVMS system from one server to another? (BVMS Version 10.0: please note that, currently, the export mechanisms provided in the BVMS Configuration Client do not export the user-data. This is a known problem and being worked on. Until then this work-around should be applied).   Answer   Stop the BVMS Central Server service on the existing server from the Windows task manager or Services overview. Stop the BVMS Central Server service on the new server from the Windows task manager or Services overview. Copy the contents of the directory C:\programdata\Bosch\VMS\UserData on the existing server to the same directory on the new server (via the network or other media). Copy the "elements.bvms" file located in the directory C:\programdata\Bosch\VMS\ on the existing server to the same location on the new server (via the network or other media). Start the BVMS Central Server service on the new server from the Windows task manager or Services overview. Refer also to this documentation: BVMS - Upgrade and Migration guides (boschsecurity.com) ... View more

Question   How can I find the source (details of the workstation) and credentials that are used to attempt to login into BVMS (when the attempt has failed)?   Answer   The username that is used to login is saved into the BVMS logbook and can be found by searching the logbook from the Operator Client (username of login is "blabla").   The details of the workstation (mainly the IP address) is logged into the BVMS client log files. These can be found on the workstations in the directory: C:\ProgramData\Bosch\VMS\Log (Hint: for log file analysis a lot of free / open source tools are available. Snaketail is one of these tools, and can be found here.) Open the BVMSClientLog.txt (there could be multiple files which are all related to a different timeframe) and search for the phrase "InvalidCredentialException". If an user has tried to login to the system the following log lines should be present in the log file: 2019-03-17 18:31:53,668 75516 [GUI Thread] INFO Bosch.Vms.Frontend.OpClient.Wcf.DataAccessServiceClient ConnectAndAuthenticate - Call failed with InvalidCredentialException 2019-03-17 18:31:53,670 75518 [GUI Thread] INFO Bosch.Vms.Frontend.OpClient.ServerManagement.CentralServerManager AuthenticateAtMainServer - Main-Server 192.168.20.190: WCF online authentication result is WrongUserOrPassword This needs to be checked for every workstation which runs the BVMS Operator Client.   ... View more

Question   What does the BVMS - installation package contain?   Answer   The entire BVMS installation package, available on the downloadstore, contains the client as well as the server components. When a BVMS client needs to be deployed, all of this data (over 2.5GB) needs to be copied to the target workstation, which can be quite a challenge in some environments. Once the BVMS Management Server is set-up, it creates a client installation package (mainly used for the auto-upgrade functionality). This client installation package is a lot smaller compared to the full installation package and is located on the BVMS Management Server (assuming the default installation directory is used): C:\Program Files\Bosch\VMS\Update In order to use the client installation package: copy all the files in this directory from the management server to the new workstation and start BVMS.msi (please note Setup.exe will trigger the auto update mechanism, which will not work as there are no existing components to be updated). The MSI will start the installation process and will allow you to select Operator Client, Configuration client and/or SDK. Please note: The correct version of the .NET framework will need to be installed manually before this procedure is used. This can be found in the zip file available in the product catalogue: “zip file extraction location”\ISSetupPrerequisites\Microsoft .NET Framework x.x. ... View more