How to: Migrate your Ava Appliances to Alta Cloud Connectors

Last modified: Thursday April 27, 2023.

To gain the benefits of cloud-connecting all your cameras, migrate your Ava Appliances to become Alta Cloud Connectors.

The migration process takes your existing Alta Aware video management system off-line for some time, as Ava Appliance firmware is updated, the system is reconfigured, and your cloud deployment is set up.

We recommend you schedule the migration for a time where you system is least used.

Prerequisites

  • Schedule a suitable time for your cameras to be offline.
  • Ensure that all nodes in your Alta Aware deployment are online before starting the migration of your Ava Appliances.
  • The names for your Alta Cloud Connectors must be unique (You will see a message in the user interface if you choose a name that is already taken.)

Task — Migrate your Ava Appliances

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Appliances Appliances.
  2. Click Cluster Cluster.
  3. Click Convert to Cloud deployment.
    This converts your Ava Appliances to Alta Cloud Connectors and creates a new Alta Aware® deployment.
  4. Take notice of the dialog warning you that the system will become unavailable while the migration takes place.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Type the name to be applied to your Cloud deployment.

    Deployment names are limited to:

    • A maximum of 24 characters
    • Allowable characters include:
      • A-Z
      • a-z
      • 0-9
      • "-" (but the deployment name must not start or end with the hyphen "-" character)
  7. Select your closest region.
  8. Click Convert.
    Your Ava Appliances are migrated to Alta Cloud Connectors and joined to your Alta Aware deployment.
  9. When the migration completes, click Go to sign in.
  10. When the Alta Aware login page is shown, enter your user credentials.

    Use the same credentials you used to access your Ava Appliance.

    You are directed to your new Alta Aware deployment.