1—Installing Wasabi Surveillance Cloud

Objectives

• 1—Download and install Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.

• 2— Activate the Wasabi Surveillance Cloud software.

• 3—Configure Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.

As a new or existing Wasabi customer, you must create a 30-day free trial account to sign up for WSC, as described below. Once you have created an account, continue to download and install the WSC software. 

Signing Up

1. Create a Wasabi Surveillance account.

   

2. Follow the steps in Signing Up to create a trial Wasabi account. Once complete, return to this page.

3. Continue to Setting up Your New WSC Instance, below.

Setting Up Your New Wasabi Surveillance Cloud Instance

Once you have created your WSC storage account, you will set up your WSC instance in three steps. Begin by downloading and installing the WSC software. Be sure to download and install the software on the the local Windows machine that hosts your recording server.

1. Click Wasabi Surveillance Cloud software. 

   

2. Navigate to the Downloads folder on your machine.

3. Right-click Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.

   

4. Click Run as administrator.

   

5. When the software launches, you will be presented with the Wasabi Surveillance Cloud Setup screen. Click Next.

   

6. Review the Software License Agreement. Check the box to accept the terms and conditions.

   

7. Click Next.          

   

8. To ensure that WSC optimizes to work with your VMS application, select the VMS that you are using (or intend to use) from the list.

   Selecting a VMS does not add, modify, or delete any configuration on your VMS.

9. If you are a Milestone XProtect user, select Milestone - XProtect. This will install the WSC plugin that integrates with Milestone.

   

10. Optionally, if your VMS application is not listed, select Other.

11. If you are are a Milestone XProtect user, WSC offers five software components to install with the WSC software. Click the checkbox(es) to select the appropriate component(s) to install.

    • Management Client module

    • Recording Server module

    • Shell Extension

    • Smart Client module

    • Event Server module

    You can install these components on either one or separate machines. However, if your XProtect elements are installed on different machines, you must install the WSC software on the appropriate server and select the appropriate application, as shown below.

    

12. For all other VMS (except Milestone XProtect), the following standard components are available to install with WSC. Click the checkbox(es) to select the appropriate component(s) to install.

    • Wasabi Surveillance Cloud

    • Wasabi Surveillance Cloud Configuration Utility

    • Shell Extension

    • Service Manager

13. Click Install. The installation may take several minutes and does not require a system reboot.

14. Once the installation completes, click Finish.          

    

15. Continue to 2—Activating the Wasabi Surveillance Cloud software. 

Objectives Met!

Before proceeding to Step 2, you may want to learn more about Uninstalling Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.

• 1—Download and install Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.

• 2—Activate the Wasabi Surveillance Cloud software.

• 3—Configure Wasabi Surveillance Cloud.