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Cisco Video Surveillance Manager Getting Started Guide, Release 4.2/6.2
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Overview
This chapter explains how to use this manual and how to plan for an installation.
It also provides overviews of the components that make up a Cisco Video
Surveillance Manager (VSM)-based video surveillance system and describes
common options for deploying such a system. After reviewing this information,
you will be ready to install and configure your system.
This chapter includes these topics:
• How to Use this Manual, page 1-1
• Planning for Your Installation, page 1-2
• Introducing the Cisco Video Surveillance System, page 1-7
• Deployment Scenarios, page 1-11
How to Use this Manual
This manual introduces you to the Cisco VSM environment and guides you
through the installation and initial configuration of the Cisco VSM software and
the Cisco Multi Services Platform hardware. It also provides reference
information for ongoing administration and operation of the system.
Table 1-1 suggests how to use this manual. It describes how to obtain overview
information and summarizes the activities that you perform when you first deploy
VSM and its associated hardware and devices. It also provides information about
performing ongoing system administration, management, and operation activities.