How to: Configure Aware deployment settings
Last modified: Thursday November 02, 2023.
Keeping your Alta cloud-based video security systems up-to-date is important to ensure you have the latest security patches, bug fixes, and new features installed. Alta Aware automatically updates using the maintenance period you define.
When Avigilon Alta releases new versions of Aware or the Alta camera software, the Dashboard shows a banner for all users with access to the System tool. Clicking the banner opens the update dialog.
Prerequisites
Only Administrator and users with a role assigned the
Task — Open the Deployment settings dialog
- Log in to Alta Aware as an Administrator.
- Click
New tool , then selectSystem . - From
Deployment , select .
Task — Set the language for system generated emails
Set the language used for Aware generated email messages. See How to: Manage language preferences in Aware for more information.
- Choose
General . - Select your
Language for system emails .
Task — Enable or disable automatic password rotation
By default, Aware automatically rotates the passwords for Avigilon Alta cameras and Alta Cloud Connectors. To modify this behavior:
- Select
General . - Enable or disable
Automatic password rotation .
Task — Enable or disable Wi-Fi for the deployment
Some cameras — for example, Avigilon Ava Flex cameras — include the ability to connect using Wi-fi to your network. Ensure Wi-Fi connectivity is enabled for your Aware deployment to use Avigilon Ava Flex cameras connected using Wi-Fi.
Only enable
- Select
General . - From
Allowed Connections , check thatGlobal Wi-Fi & Bluetooth settings is enabled.
Only enable
Task — Set default deployment measurement units
You can choose the default currency format and units of measurement for sensors in the deployment. Individual users can override these settings in the
- Select
Measurement units . - Set the default
Temperature andPressure units. - Configure the default currency formatting.
Task — Check the currently installed firmware version
- The currently installed software version is displayed on the main
Software pane.
To view the full Aware software build number, hover over the three-digit friendly version name. - (Optional) If a software update is available, click
Update available to immediately start a manual upgrade, or wait until the next configuredMaintenance period for an automatic software update.Updates can take several minutes to apply, and your cameras might stop recording for a period during this time.
Task — Configure your preferred Maintenance period
- Click
Maintenance period .
TheMaintenance period dialog is shown.Normally, updates for Alta Aware and Alta cameras are rolled out to customer deployments over the course of a few days. This means that your deployments might not upgrade on the day the software release is announced.
The full roll out for each release can take between one and two weeks to reach all deployments. However, the updates always follow the configured maintenance period for your deployment. For example, if your deployment is configured to update weekly, overnight on a Tuesday, then your deployment will update on either the first or second Tuesday following the release.
- Configure your preferred maintenance schedule using the available options.
Once configured, your deployment uses the schedule to check for new software versions for Aware Cloud and your Alta cameras, and if new versions are available, updates the relevant components. - Click
Done .
Task — Select the Upgrade channel for your Aware Cloud deployment
Avigilon Alta releases fully-tested software to the Stable upgrade channel.
However, for test or proof-of-concept systems, if enabled by your Avigilon Alta sales partner, you can test the newest features being developed by Avigilon Alta. This beta software is released to the Beta upgrade channel.
We recommend that the Beta upgrade channel is only used for test systems — production security systems should update from the
- From
Software , select the required softwareUpgrade channel .
IfStable is the only option available, your deployment does not have the Beta upgrade channel enabled for upgrades to your deployment.
Contact your Avigilon Alta sales partner if you need access to beta features for testing purposes. - If enabled by your Avigilon Alta partner, select your preferred
Upgrade channel , eitherBeta , orStable . - Click
Done .
Task — Configure the use of person attributes per site
Alta Aware can use Face search to find video footage of a specific face, and person attribute recognition to search for people with specific attributes (gender, clothing). The use of these features requires Alta Aware to store biometric data. To comply with regional privacy and data protection laws, you have to specifically enable face and person attribute analytics for sites that are located in geographies that allow the use of such analytics. For more information on where Aware stores data, see Reference: Avigilon Alta data residency.
- Select
General . - From
ANALYTICS , chooseCustom . - Choose the video analytics to use for each site:
- None — Person detection only (no biometric data storage)
- — Use and store person attribute biometric data (age, gender, clothing, accessories, etc).
- + — Use and store facial and person attribute biometric data.