Axis M3115-LVE - Network and Access Issues; Video and Streaming Problems

AXISM31NetworkCameraSeries
Troubleshooting
Technicalissues,cluesandsolutions
Ifyoucan’tndwhatyou’relookingforhere,trythetroubleshootingsectionataxis.com/support.
Problemsupgradingthermware
FirmwareupgradefailureIfthermwareupgradefails,thedevicereloadsthepreviousrmware.Themostcommonreason
isthatthewrongrmwarelehasbeenuploaded.Checkthatthenameofthermwarele
correspondstoyourdeviceandtryagain.
ProblemssettingtheIPaddress
Thedeviceislocatedona
differentsubnet
IftheIPaddressintendedforthedeviceandtheIPaddressofthecomputerusedtoaccessthe
devicearelocatedondifferentsubnets,youcannotsettheIPaddress.Contactyournetwork
administratortoobtainanIPaddress.
TheIPaddressisbeingused
byanotherdevice
DisconnecttheAxisdevicefromthenetwork.Runthepingcommand(inaCommand/DOSwindow,
typepingandtheIPaddressofthedevice):
•Ifyoureceive:Replyfrom<IPaddress>:bytes=32;time=10...
thismeansthattheIPaddressmayalreadybeinusebyanotherdeviceonthenetwork.
ObtainanewIPaddressfromthenetworkadministratorandreinstallthedevice.
•Ifyoureceive:Requesttimedout,thismeansthattheIPaddressisavailable
forusewiththeAxisdevice.Checkallcablingandreinstallthedevice.
PossibleIPaddressconict
withanotherdeviceonthe
samesubnet
ThestaticIPaddressintheAxisdeviceisusedbeforetheDHCPserversetsadynamicaddress.
ThismeansthatifthesamedefaultstaticIPaddressisalsousedbyanotherdevice,theremay
beproblemsaccessingthedevice.
Thedevicecannotbeaccessedfromabrowser
Cannotlogin
WhenHTTPSisenabled,ensurethatthecorrectprotocol(HTTPorHTTPS)isusedwhenattempting
tologin.Youmayneedtomanuallytypehttporhttpsinthebrowser’saddresseld.
Ifthepasswordfortheuserrootislost,thedevicemustberesettothefactorydefaultsettings.See.
TheIPaddresshasbeen
changedbyDHCP
IPaddressesobtainedfromaDHCPserveraredynamicandmaychange.IftheIPaddresshasbeen
changed,useAXISIPUtilityorAXISDeviceManagertolocatethedeviceonthenetwork.Identify
thedeviceusingitsmodelorserialnumber,orbytheDNSname(ifthenamehasbeencongured).
Ifrequired,astaticIPaddresscanbeassignedmanually.Forinstructions,gotoaxis.com/support.
Certicateerrorwhenusing
IEEE802.1X
Forauthenticationtoworkproperly,thedateandtimesettingsintheAxisdevicemustbe
synchronizedwithanNTPserver.GotoSettings>System>Dateandtime.
Thedeviceisaccessiblelocallybutnotexternally
Toaccessthedeviceexternally,werecommendusingoneofthefollowingapplicationsforWindows
®
:
•AXISCompanion:freeofcharge,idealforsmallsystemswithbasicsurveillanceneeds.
•AXISCameraStation:30-daytrialversionfreeofcharge,idealforsmalltomid-sizesystems.
Forinstructionsanddownload,gotoaxis.com/vms.
Problemswithstreaming
MulticastH.264only
accessiblebylocalclients
Checkifyourroutersupportsmulticasting,oriftheroutersettingsbetweentheclientandthe
deviceneedtobecongured.TheTTL(TimeToLive)valuemayneedtobeincreased.
NomulticastH.264
displayedintheclient
CheckwithyournetworkadministratorthatthemulticastaddressesusedbytheAxisdevice
arevalidforyournetwork.
Checkwithyournetworkadministratortoseeifthereisarewallpreventingviewing.
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