CCTV Server

[Supermanpunch786]

Hi,

 

This post may sound a bit all over the place due to me not having much knowledge on this at present. Apologies in advance.

 

Our IT is across 2 sites. We have got a new CCTV server which is on a subnet and each IP camera is currently running through a separate vlan.

 

When I change the switch port config to the vlan at the main site and connect to the CCTV, it picks up the camera without any issues. But when I try the same at the other site, it doesn't pick up the camera.

 

I am configuring a switch which is uplinked to the main site.

 

Any suggestions what could be causing this?

[Rob_D]

The first thing I'd check is that the uplink/trunk connection between the two sites is configured to carry the CCTV vlan. (well, after I've double checked I haven't missed something in the switch config, but I assume you've done a like-for-like with a working port)

[Davit2005]

This could be potentially lots of different things. How are the 2 sites joined, Is it a LES circuit, site to site VPN, etc.

 

If you plug a laptop into the port configured on the CCTV vlan at the non-working site, is the experience the same as the main site i.e. do you get an IP address from a DHCP server if one is configured on the CCTV vlan?

Edited August 10, 2022 by Davit2005

[FN-GM]

Are you not changing the IP address when taking it to the other site?

[Supermanpunch786]

This could be potentially lots of different things. How are the 2 sites joined, Is it a LES circuit, site to site VPN, etc.

 

If you plug a laptop into the port configured on the CCTV vlan at the non-working site, is the experience the same as the main site i.e. do you get an IP address from a DHCP server if one is configured on the CCTV vlan?

Hi,

 

When I plug in a laptop at the non working site in to the port which is configured to the cctv vlan, it returns with a 169 IP...........the switch I am using at the 6th form for the CCTV vlan has VOIP phones connected to it and they are configured on a VLAN too and connect to the main school without any problems.

 

After doing some trouble shooting, I picked something up. I can ping the IP of a switch from the main school site at the 6th form site, yet I cannot ping the IP of a 6th form switch at the main school site. But all the other devices at the 6th form I can ping their IP at the main school site i.e. printers and computers, it is only the switches.

Not sure whether that is causing the problem.

 

I contacted the ISP and they said everything is configured for the CCTV vlan to communicate to the 6th form and vice versa.