XProtect VMS prerequisites

Install two identical VMS products under a common user account with administrator permissions. To learn more about the general prerequisites for installing XProtect VMS, see the XProtect VMS administrator manual.

When working in a domain environment, select AD users for the service accounts and only give them the permissions required to run the relevant services.

On both nodes, install the following system components:

• XProtect Management Server

• XProtect Event Server

• XProtect Log Server

• XProtect Management Server Failover

• XProtect API Gateway

• XProtect Recording Server (optional), see Prerequisites for running a recording server or failover recording server on the cluster nodes.

Milestone recommends that you install all other server components not mentioned above on different computers.

Depending on your system configuration, consider the following:

• System configuration password - To assign a system configuration password, use the same password for the VMS installations on both nodes.