Digital Watchdog DW Spectrum VMS With Wasabi

How do I use Digital Watchdog DW Spectrum VMS with WSC?

DW Spectrum is validated for use with the WSC. DW Spectrum is an open-platform video management solution.

Prerequisites

• DW Spectrum VMS 
• Active Wasabi Surveillance Cloud storage account
• Wasabi Surveillance Cloud software
• Active Wasabi Surveillance Cloud storage account
• Wasabi Bucket - See our Bucket Creation Guide.
• Access & Secret Key Pair - See our Access Keys Guide

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Configuration

Note: The Configuration Wizard steps explained on the installation article above will serve the same purpose as the steps explained below.

1. Launch the WSC app.
2. Click on Global Settings and then select "Digital Watchdog - Spectrum" profile from the VMS Profile drop-down options, as shown below.

   

3. Click on WSC to expose the Add Source button. Using the Add Source button, select the drive/folder with the DW video recordings as the source to be replicated.

   

4. Click on 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.

   

5. Select the appropriate region in which you want to store the video recordings. 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. At this point, the Surveillance Cloud software is setup to begin replicating all the data in the source folder to the Wasabi bucket. After all configurations steps have been performed, click the “Resume” button (first click on Wasabi Surveillance Cloud at the top left) to start the service. Replication of data to the cloud will commence immediately.

   

8. You can login to the Wasabi console and confirm if the data is being written to the bucket with the same directory structure as seen on the local storage.

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 can still be retrieved instantly from the cloud.