How do I merge separate servers to a global configuration?

If you want to merge several separate Intellect Servers with separate license keys and separate databases to a global configuration, you have to:

1. Update all Servers and Clients in the distributed system to the same Intellect version.

2. Make sure that your network or firewall settings do not restrict any ports required for Intellect operation on any Server. See the list of ports by the following link:

   Full article: The list of TCP ports used in INTELLECT™

3. Make a single license key to put on all the Servers. Please contact your AxxonSoft manager to combine the separate license keys to one. Please note that the maximum allowed number of Clients is only limited by the license. Please ask your AxxonSoft manager for details.
4. Create the global configuration as follows:
   1. Select a Server to be the main Server in the distributed system. Put the single license file you received from manager to the Intellect installation folder on this main Server. If you don't have the license file yet, enable the Demo mode as follows:
      1. Shut Intellect down.
      2. Remove the intellect.sec license file from the Intellect installation folder to any other folder (e.g. to the Desktop).
      3. Pull out the Guardant USB dongle.
      4. Run Intellect.

   2. Configure the distributed system on the Hardware tab: add all the Servers, Video capture devices and other objects.

      Full article: Configuration of hardware

   3. Configure connections on the Architecture tab: specify all the IP addresses and/or DNS names.

      Full article: Configuration of distributed architecture

   4. Having configured the above, distribute the license file between all Servers and enable database synchronization on each Server. Synchronize each secondary Server with the main Server. The SQL database of the main Server must be the source of synchronization.

      Full article: Database synchronization setup

   5. If the above configuration was performed in Demo mode, proceed as follows:

   6. Create a backup copy of the database.

      Full article: Creating the database backup copy

   7. Restore this backup on each Server.

      Full article: Restoring database from backup copy

   8. Put the single intellect.sec license file to the Intellect installation folder on each Server.

The merging according to these instructions will help you to start using Intellect immediately after completing all the actions described. If everything is configured correctly, Intellect will launch in a single distributed system.

The Intellect archive will be only available for the main Server cameras. The rest Servers archive is viewable in the Axxon Player utility only. This is due to the fact that the camera unique IDs are changed when merging, so the archive becomes unavailable.

However, if cameras are numbered "continuously" on all the Servers so that their IDs and names are not repeated, the archive will be available on all the cameras give that they are added to the new DB with the same old IDs.