Install and Setup IVMS-4200 Client software (Windows PC)

INSTALLING IVMS-4200

If you haven’t already downloaded the IVMS-4200 Client Software you can do so via the link below. When you visit the link below you will see a few IVMS-4200 versions, make sure you download the latest version (which ever the highest numbers showing after the “v” example: v2.x.x.x) and hence this tutorial is for windows, ensure you download the windows version and not the MAC.

Hikvision IVMS-4200 (Windows) download: https://www.hikvision.com/en/Support/Downloads/Client-Software

SETUP IVMS-4200

IVMS-4200 Software user login

The software should now be installed, open it. If you’re using the software for the first time it will prompt you with a box requesting the following: Super User, Password, Confirm Password – This is the login details for the software ONLY, NOT for your recorder. Enter any username and password, enter the password again. If you don’t want the software to keep asking you for the password every time the software is opened then check the Enable Auto-login box.

Adding recorder to IVMS-4200 software

On the top right corner of the IVMS-4200 software, click Control Panel, then on the Control Panel click Device Management. If the computer is connected to the same network and your recorder, on the bottom under Online Devices you will see your recorder listed, simply select the recorder and click Add to Client.

You will now be prompted with a dialogue box, use the following settings:

Nickname: (Any nickname, i.e John’s CCTV)
Address: This is the recorder’s IP address, the IP address will already be there, do not change it.
Port: This is the recorder’s port, by default it should be 8000, do not change it.
User Name: This is the user name that you use to login to your recorder, unless another user has been added, by default you will have admin.
Password: This is the password associated to the user on the recorder, if you are using the admin account, this will be the password that it’s been entered when the recorder was powered up for the first time.

Click Add to add the recorder to IVMS-4200.