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Boot up in safe mode and see if you can see what other accounts are on there.

Hmm HDMI out. Will it do 1920 x 1080?

Residential doesn't require conduit. unless it's exposed and below 7 feet high.

Use an analog with an encoder.

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Well just as a reference I did a job with 25 Avigilon 5MP box cameras in heater/blower enclosures. The engineering department of the Hospital was responsible for the 18/2 and power supplies for the Heater/Blower. That was a year ago and they have yet to hook up a single one to 24v and there hasn't been one problem down here in this swamp.

The lens has to be megapixel rated. (Higher quality optics)

Are you saying it's 500' from the IDF to each camera? Being that it's a parking lot fiber would be the preferred method for lightening protection. If it's a parking deck where lightening threats are minimal and the cameras are clustered in proximity of each other I wouldn't hesitate to run 1 cat6 and a 14-2 out to a common area and throw an industrial switch in and power it from the IDF with a 48 volt power supply. I have done some parking decks where some of the cameras are 500' to 600' feet from the IDF and put a switch in a junction box at a half way point. They make little 5 port switches with a gbic slot. I'll see if I can get the brand and model tomorrow.

I think the IS guys were having a little fun today.

Just wanted to throw some eye candy in the mix.

It ushally is. Amazing how many switches out there won't even give the backplane spec. When it doesn't show it in the spec it's probably not going to work for video. Had a friend put 16 D1 cameras on a Intellinet POE switch. Cameras were dropping like flys even at 1FPS. Put a real switch in there and the problem went away.

My main concern with the ISCSI on the same port was bandwidth. If you have 250Mb of incoming data and all your cameras see motion at once you also have 250Mb going out to the ISCSI. Not including the client data. Sure is a lot easier to throw in a second NIC and segregate the ISCSI data. Or in the case of an Avigilon server you have 4 NICs and you team 2 for incoming camera data and team 2 for outgoing ISCSI. Or in our case scrap that idea and go HBA. which are 4Gb minimum.

How many cameras and what type on this system? I'm just curious of the load. Also, how many clients are connected to the server?

And I do believe ISCSI requires a dedicated Ethernet port.

It has to show up in Windows as a Drive Letter. What kind of NAS?

Your going to get all the Avigilon haters stirred up.

You can use a ipscanner tool to scan the network and look for devices on the network. http://www.angryip.org/w/Download

Most DVR's already have a spot out for each camera.

Wouldn't the camera or Encoder have the alarm input?

You didn't mention how it was mounted and how the wires penetrate the housing.

I need to get a shot with the covers off.

We have 3 servers writing to a EMC Celerra NS-480 over HBA cards with 50TB on the NS480. Each server has 5TB of onboard RAID 5 storage and Windows sees the NAS as just another drive letter. Those three servers have an incoming data stream of 180 to 250mbps 24/7/365 Monday we start testing a Virtual Server with 100% NAS storage and for the first part of the test there will be 24 One MP cameras at 30 FPS. 10 of them being pulled across town on the 20gig fiber connection.

If the network in a hospital goes down they have much bigger problems than video. I have a 3 hospital campus with servers in the data centers at each location. But some of the buildings are off site with no servers in place. They have a 10-20 gig pipe to each location. Is the hospital going to provide the infrastructure?