About required fields for CSV files when you import changes to configurations

The CSV file must have a header line (determining what each value on the following lines is about), and the following lines must each contain information about one hardware device only. The field names are case sensitive, so you should ensure that you have written the fields exactly as shown below.

For each hardware device, the following information is required:

HardwareOldMacAddress	Used to find the device that is going to have its properties changed. This is a mandatory field that you must enter in order to be able to import changes to the configuration from a CSV file.
HardwareNewMacAddress	The new IP address for the hardware device.
HardwareAddress	The IP address of the hardware device.
HardwarePort	The port for the hardware device.
HardwareUserName	The user name for hardware device's administrator account.
HardwarePassword	The password for hardware device's administrator account.
HardwareDriverID	If cameras and server are offline: specify a HardwareDriverID for each hardware device you want to add. Example: ACTi ACD-2100 105 indicates that you should use 105 as the ID if adding an ACTi ACD-2100 hardware device.

When you import changes, no hardware detection takes place and no hardware functionality is changed. For example, if you replace a PTZ device with a device that does not have PTZ functionality, the new device still lists as a PTZ device.

The following applies for the information present in CSV files:

The first line of the CSV file must contain the headers, and following lines must contain information about one hardware device each
Separators can be commas, semicolons or tabs, but you cannot mix them
All lines must contain valid values. All camera names, user names and similar items must be unique, and cannot contain any of the following special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ]
There is no fixed order of values, and you can omit optional parameters entirely