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Best Practices with Branches
These items apply to Ocularis ENT and ULT:
- For installations in a single physical location, the recommendation is to use one master core and one slave core.
- For multiple locations connected over a WAN:
i. If there is a good connection between each site, the recommendation is to use one master core and DM. Additional physical locations should have one slave core installed along with one or more DMs in branches.
ii. If there is poor connection between each site, the recommendation is to use one master core on each Device Manager (DM) server. Additional master core licenses are available at no charge.
- In situations where NAT is used between sites, it is recommended to install separate master cores at each remote site.
- If there is no connectivity between sites, each site is an independent system requiring its own Ocularis Base and recorder (and corresponding SLCs).
- NAT is not supported between a core and a DM.
- If you distribute administration of the system to multiple people, create a user account in their branch. Be sure to grant them access rights to the devices and objects in the branch.
- For maximum redundancy and performance, for each physical location, install a branch with a slave core alongside one or more Device Managers.
- You should also associate Device Manager (DM) cameras with the DM branch. This will help with understanding the configuration layout and is useful if you are using multiple administrators to configure individual branches.
- If you are using server side motion detection, for each branch with a DM, associate corresponding VA MD modules with that branch.
- For cameras, folders may be used as another level of organization. Folders help you organize your objects further especially if you have a long list of items. Folders only serve the purpose to help you visually. For instance: for each branch you may decide to organize cameras by Indoor vs. Outdoor, PTZ vs. Fixed.
- Install a slave core at the top level.
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