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What bandwidth does iVMS 4200 consume?

Just some notes on bandwidth used while displaying cams with iVMS 4200 and a remote Hikvision DVR which has a mix of 20 different resolution cams as follows: 5ea 3840x2144 cams connected via ONVIF 15ea 1920x1080p cams connected via HIKVISION protocol Main-Stream 20...

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Windows Environment Reboot Sequence

The environment Reboot sequence - top to bottom First reboot the holder of the FSMO roles TGN-DC01.TOGGEN.INTERNAL (wait till all auto services are running again)     Remote Desktop Licensing TGN-DC03.TOGGEN.INTERNAL (wait till all auto services are running...

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Alternatives to Visio

Draw.io is good https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases On Linux I used dia http://dia-installer.de/ but it seems to not have had a new release and Draw.io has a Linux version.

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Firmware Upgrade Swann NHD-887F

Warning: Updating the firmware on these cams to V14.45.5.0_220713 causes the on screen text to disappear and not be viewable when the cam is connected to a third-party DVR or when directly connected to via the Swann PC app. If you want to maintain OSD of name and...

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How to connect to an older Swann IP Camera

Update: It's easier to just use the Swann Security Windows App instead of installing an insecure years old version of Firefox or other browser. Go here => https://au.swann.com/download-apps/ Problem: Trying to connect to a Swann NHD-887F IP Camera with the latest...

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Online Computer Equipment Sales 2025

Recently been using https://www.centrecom.com.au/ for buying a few things like Unifi WAP's and Synology kit. Pricing seems to be good and they have some good specials Also they have a superstore near me in Nunawading Also had a great experience with purchasing a...

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DHCP to Static Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu Server VM Original DHCP Config /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml # This file is generated from information provided by the datasource. Changes # to it will not persist across an instance reboot. To disable cloud-init's # network configuration capabilities, write...

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N-Able Alert ssh STOPPED

Getting an alert to say ssh daemon has failed on an install of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS MAX RemoteManagement has detected an error, details are below. A fault has been reported at MyCustomer site MySite, device MyDevice-Linux-01 The test Daemon Check - ssh failed. Additional...

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