Prerequisites for installing a recording server on the primary or secondary computer

The installation of the recording server on the primary or secondary computer requires additional steps. To learn about the general prerequisites for the failover cluster configuration, see Before you configure .

You can have a recording server or failover recording server on the primary or secondary computer, or on both.

If you configure a failover recording server on the primary or secondary computer, you must use it in a Hot standby setup.

XProtect Management Server Failover can work with failover recording server in a domain environment only.

To learn more about the configuration of the failover recording server, see the XProtect VMS administrator manual.

Prerequisite	Description
VMS components	Install the XProtect Recording Server component on the primary or secondary computer. You can install the component as part of a new VMS installation or install the component only.
(For encrypted connections only) Certificates	To encrypt the connection between the VMS components, you must install the SSL certificate for the recording server on the recording server computer. Then, enable encryption for the recording server from the recording server's Server Configurator.
(For encrypted connection only) Services	Before you configure the failover cluster, stop the Milestone XProtect Recording Server service. See Start or stop a VMS service. Once you have configured the failover cluster, start the Recording Server service.