You can import changes to a configuration. This can be relevant if you install many similar systems, for example in a chain of shops where the same types of server, hardware devices, and cameras are used in each shop. In such cases, you can use an existing configuration as a template for the other installations.
Since such installations are not exactly the same, as the hardware devices and cameras are of the same type, but they are not physically the same, and therefore they have different MAC addresses, there is an easy way of importing changes to the template configuration. You can import changes about hardware devices and cameras as comma-separated values (CSV) from a file.
See Import changes to configuration for a step-by-step guide and About required fields for CSV files when you import changes to configurations for which fields you must include in the CSV files.
When you import changes, no hardware detection takes place nor does the software change the camera's hardware capabilities. For example, if you replace a PTZ camera with a non-PTZ camera, the software continues to show the replaced camera as a PTZ camera.
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