Failover

The Failover view contains two items in the tree view: Manage Camera Failover and Manage Media Source Failover.

The Manage Media Source Failover item contains a list of the configured Media Source Failover Pools. Click the Add Pool button to create a new Media Source Failover Pool. Click the - Delete button to remove the selected Media Source Failover Pool.

Camera Failover Settings

To configure the camera matching, do the following:

1. Select the camera from the primary media source.

2. Select the corresponding camera from the failover media source. A failover media source is a media source that contains cameras with the Is Failover option (refer to Media Channels).

3. Click the Match Cameras button.

4. Select a camera from the list of Primary Media Source and click the Unmatch cameras button to display unmatched cameras.

The Failover Channel ID column in the Primary Media Source list and the Primary Channel ID column in the Failover Media Source list will display the matching cameras.

Media Source Failover Pool Settings

There are three steps to configure a specific Media Source Failover Pool:

1. Create Pool:

   Select failover media source to be added to the Pool. Failover media source is a media source with the Is a Global Spare option selected (refer to Media source Settings).

   → The first selected failover media source in the pool will be marked as Poolmaster.

2. Add primary Media Source to pool:

   Select the primary media sources to be added to the pool.

3. Review Failover Channels:

   The failover channels table contains the cameras of the selected primary media sources. Click Update configuration if there were changes in the media source cameras after the Media Source failover pool was created.