Recover camera id with protocol integration

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I have a question regarding plugin integration systeminfo.xml for XProtect Corporate product.

I understand that http://primary_site/rcserver/siteinfo.xml gives me basic information (name, id, server addresses) about the primary_site I’m contacting and the same information about child sites as the sample states in Home > Protocol Integration > Protocols > SiteInfo xml.

But what about the tag engine response of systeminfo.xml (See sample below) ? Does this engine tag only match Recording Server ? If so, is it possible that a single XProtect Server host several Recording Servers ?

My goal is to recover all camera ids on a given XProtect Server. Is it the best way to get them, or the webservice GetConfiguration http://host/ServerAPI/ServerCommandService.asmx?wsdl is an identical or better solution ?

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You can use the above approach, and yes the “Engine” tag defines each recorder owned by a specific Management Server. Corporate can have many recorders for one Management Server, and many Manament Servers (= sites) in the entire system.

The SOAP method GetConfiguration provides more info per camera, and information about other device types.

But the ID inforation will be the same.

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Thank you, it starts to get clearer.

Does a given Site (excluding child sites) could have multiple Management Server ? Because the tag addresses in siteinfo.xml seems to indicate that.

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no, one Managerment Server defines one site. The siteinfo.xml points to other Management Servers as well.