Imaging the E4000 Series PSA

Requirements

• Technician PC with:
  • Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 or newer
  • A drive with at least 8GB free
• USB flash drive with 8GB or larger capacity

Create Factory Recovery USB Stick

1. Download a USB stick image from Aimetis to the Technician PC - the file will be a zip archive
2. Create or locate a temporary folder on the Technician PC on a drive with at least 8GB of free space
3. Extract the zip archive to the temporary folder
4. Insert a USB flash drive
   Note: The USB drive will be formatted. All its contents will be lost.
5. Open Command Prompt as Administrator inside the temporary folder (or cd into the temporary folder)
   • Browse to the temporary folder in File Explorer
   • Select File > Open command prompt > Open command prompt as administrator
6. Run:
   MakeFactoryRecoveryUSB.cmd X:
   (where X is the drive letter of the USB drive)
   Note: This script may take a long time to complete as it will be writing a lot of data to the USB drive.
7. Eject the USB drive in File Explorer
   • Select the USB drive
   • Select Manage > Eject

Load Image onto E4000 Series PSA

1. Connect the PSA to a network with internet access - an internet connection is needed to obtain a license file
2. Insert the USB drive into the PSA
3. Power-on the PSA
4. Wait for WinPE to boot and start running the Setup tool
5. The Setup tool will automatically prepare and image the system drives
6. After the Setup tool completes the system will shutdown
7. Remove the USB drive
8. Power-on the PSA, it will boot into Windows and run part one of it's initialization script.
9. Wait while the system automatically reboots and runs part two initialization script.
10. Wait for the initialization script to complete and restart the system a second time.
11. Open Start > Aimetis Symphony > Symphony Client
12. Open Server Configuration
13. Login with Username/Password: Admin/Admin
14. Select tab: Licenses
15. Verify the number of licenses for Per Camera Licenses is correct