AXIS Camera Station With Wasabi

How do I use AXIS Camera Station with the WSC?

AXIS Camera Station  is validated for use with the WSC. AXIS Camera Station is a video and access management software developed to fit surveillance use cases.

Prerequisites

• AXIS Camera Station 5, AXIS S-Series Server (or 3rd party server that meets guidelines)
• Active Wasabi Surveillance Cloud storage account
• Wasabi Bucket - See our Bucket Creation Guide.
• Access & Secret Key Pair - See our Access Keys Guide

WSC Installation

For activation and installation of WSC software instructions, refer to the following Knowledge Base article. After installing WSC, you need to edit a registry key to virtually extend the volume size of your recording volume so that ACS recognizes the overall size requirement.

1. Open the Windows registry editor and type "regedit" in the Start Menu, Run, or CMD
2. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\tierflt
3. Create a REG_DWORD and name it "VirtualExtensionSize"
4. Update the newly created DWORD and change its value to the desired volume size in GB (decimal) as needed. For example, putting "500" would extend the volume to 500 GB. Of course, this is only a virtual extension and not a real one. In reality, the volume will retain its original size, but Windows will report it as 500 GB to any application that may want to access it
5. Restart the machine for the changes to reflect. If you want to avoid restarting the machine, you can run the following command lines in an administrative CMD:

   net stop tiersvc net stop tierflt net start tierflt net start tiersvc

   These command lines will restart WSC's main service as well as the tiering filter driver in the correct order. Your registry entry should look like the following:

   

AXIS Camera Staton Cconfiguration

1. Install, configure, and activate your AXIS Camera product.
2. After creating a bucket on Wasabi, go to your AXIS Camera Station client and look for the main recording drives by navigating to configuration>management. Here you can adjust allocated capacity.

   

3. Under configuration selection make sure the cameras you wish to store in the cloud are storing the drive you plan to replicate.

   

Wasabi Surveillance Cloud Configuraiton

1. Launch the WSC app.
2. Using the Add Source button, select the same drive/folder as shown in AXIS Camera Station as the source to be replicated.

   

3. Click the down arrow next to Targets and select the existing 'Wasabi' profile, to auto-fill the access and secret keys. You can optionally enter the keys manually.

   

4. Select the appropriate region where you want to store the video recordings.
5. Click on Create Bucket to create a new bucket in your WSC account. Use the bucket naming conventions specified here. Click OK when done.

   

6. Click Apply to apply the configuration changes.

   

7. The Surveillance Cloud software is now set to begin replicating all the data in the source folder to the Wasabi bucket. After all configuration steps have been performed, click the “Resume” button (first click on WSC at the top left) to start the service. The data replication to the cloud begins immediately.

   

8. Log on to the Wasabi console to confirm the data is being written to the bucket with the same directory structure as the source.

Additional Configuration Information

DR Policy: Copies the customer data to the cloud from the local folders. Both data sets are identical (the one on-premise, and one in the cloud). The bridge makes a full copy of data from the local directory to the cloud for redundancy.

Storage Extension Settings: This setting extends the capability of local storage to the cloud. The older data is in the cloud, while the newest data sits locally. After X number of days, the data is deleted from the local drive to free up on-premise capacity, but data is still in the cloud and accessible anytime it is needed.

DR + Storage Extension: If both options are enabled, data gets replicated to the cloud when the data is added to the disk. Data is only deleted from the local drive based on the specified retention period. Data won't be available on the local drive but an still be retrieved instantly from the cloud.