Install and configure a management server on Node 1

1. On Node 1, run the Milestone XProtect VMS Products System Installer file.

   The installation files unpack. Depending on your security settings, one or more Windows® security warnings appear. Accept these and the unpacking continues.

2. After specifying the location of the license file and accepting the license terms, select Custom.

   A list of components to be installed appears. Apart from the management server, all elements in the list are optional.

3. Select all components EXCEPT XProtect Recording Server and XProtect Smart Client. Click Continue.

4. In the Select Microsoft SQL Server window, select Use an existing SQL Server on the network and select the location of the Central SQL Server that you installed in Install new SQL Server failover cluster installation (see "Install a SQL Server failover cluster instance "). Click Continue.

5. Select Create new database and click Continue.

6. In the Select Service Account window, select This account and enter the domain Administrator credentials. Click Continue and then click Install.

   The management server must be installed with a specific user and not as a network service. This requires that you use the Custom install option. Also, the specific user must have access to the shared network drive and preferably a non-expiry password.

7. After the installation is complete, open the XProtect Management Client using the domain Administrator credentials.

8. From the Tools menu, select Registered Services.

9. In the Add/Remove Registered Services window, select each service in the list and click Edit.

   In the Edit Registered Service window, modify the URL address to use the Cluster Name.

   Update all of the services listed in the Add/Remove Registered Services window including the Service Channel http and https fields. The new URLs should look something like this:

   • Event Server: http://ClusterName.host:22331/

   • Log Server: http://ClusterName.host:80/LogServer/soapext.dll?logserver

   • Report Server: http://ClusterName.host/Reporting/

   • Service Channel: http://ClusterName.host:80/ and https://ClusterName.host:443/

   • Api Gateway: http://ClusterName.host:80/API/

10. In the Add/Remove Registered Services window, click Network and in the Service address (LAN) field, modify the URL address to use the cluster service address and then click OK.

11. In the Add/Remove Registered Services window, click Close and exit the XProtect Management Client.

12. On Node 1, stop the management server service and the IIS service.

    To stop IIS, launch the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and navigate to the Web server node in the tree.

    In the Actions pane, click Stop.