HikCentral Professional on Amazon Web Services

Deployment Guide
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................1
What are AWS and Amazon EC2? ..................................................................................................................................2
How to Use Amazon EC2? .............................................................................................................................................3
How to Download, Install, and Use HikCentral Professional .......................................................................................11
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Introduction
This manual mainly introduces what is Amazon Web Services (hereinafter “AWS”), how to use AWS, and how to
install and use the HikCentral Professional platform (hereinafter “HCP”) on AWS.
The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only and is subject to change without notice.

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What are AWS and Amazon EC2?

AWS is the cloud computing IaaS and PaaS platform services of Amazon. AWS provides users with a complete set
of cloud computing services including elastic computing, storage, databases, and applications, which can help
companies reduce costs on IT investment and maintenance.
AWS provides a complete set of infrastructure and application services that can run almost everything in the cloud:
from enterprise applications and big data projects, to games and mobile applications.
Reference: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/?nc1=h_ls
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS Cloud. By adopting
Amazon EC2, you can reduce the upfront investment in hardware and facilitate the development and deployment
of your applications. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many virtual servers as you need, configure security
and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 allows you to scale up or down to cope with changes in
demand or peak usage, thereby reducing the need for forecasting traffic.
Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/concepts.html

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How to Use Amazon EC2?

1. If you are not registered yet, sign up for a new AWS account first:
https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html
2. If you already have an AWS account, log into your account. Enter Amazon Web Services Management
Console and select Launch a virtual machine.

3. Create an EC2 instance with the guidance of the "Quick Start" wizards.
a. Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
Note: Choose the Windows version that you are most familiar with.

b. Choose an Instance Type.

4. Recommended:
Low High
Amazon AWS EC2 Amazon AWS EC2
Instance: c5.xlarge Instance: m5.xlarge
CPU: Intel® Xeon® Cascade Lake @ 3.60 GHz CPU: Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8175M @ 3.10
vCPU Count: 4 GHz
RAM: 8 GB vCPU Count: 4
Storage: EBS RAM: 16 GB
NIC: 10 Gbps Storage: EBS
NIC: 10 Gbps

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a. Configure Instance Details.

Note:
Launch your instance into an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You can create a VPC and select your
own IP address range, create subnets, configure route tables, and configure network gateways.
If you do not have a VPC, you need to create one. It is recommended that you create a "VPC with a Single
Public Subnet".

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b. Add Storage.

c. Add Tags.

d. Configure Security Group.

The security group acts as a virtual firewall that controls the traffic of one or more instances. When
launching an instance, you can specify one or more security groups. You can modify the rules of the
security group at any time. The new rules are automatically applied to all instances associated with the

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security group. When we decide whether to allow traffic to reach an instance, we evaluate the rules from
all security groups associated with the instance.
When you launch an instance in a VPC, you must specify a security group for the VPC. After the instance is
launched, you can change its security group. The security group is associated with the network interface.
Changing the security group of the instance also changes the security group associated with the primary
network interface (eth0). For more information, see Change the security groups for an instance in the
Amazon VPC User Guide. You can also change the security group associated with any other network
interface.
Recommendation:
Configure the corresponding security group rules according to the external ports provided by the HCP
platform.

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e. Review Instance Launch.

The Key pairs page lists all of your key pairs in the currently selected AWS Region.
You can change which columns are visible in the table. Choose the settings icon in the top-right corner of
the page, and select the columns to display.
You can manage a key pair’s tags and delete a key pair. Select a key pair by selecting its check box, and
then choose an action from the Actions menu.
You can have Amazon EC2 create a new key pair for you. You can also use a third-party tool to create a
new key pair and import the key pair to Amazon EC2. To have Amazon EC2 create a key pair, choose
Create key pair. To import a key pair that was created using a third-party tool, choose Import key pair
from the Actions menu.
Note:
If you are creating a new key pair, please download the corresponding key pair file to the local PC. The file
will be needed later to obtain the password of the Windows system administrator.

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5. Connect to the EC2 instance.

a. The provided public IP address. The assigned IP address may change every time the instance restarts. It is
recommended to purchase a fixed IP or DNS service from AWS.

b. You can get the password of the Windows system here.

If a key pair is used when creating the instance, you need to upload the corresponding key pair file x.pem
when obtaining the password.

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c. Download RDP, a tool for remotely connecting to EC2 instances. After downloading and installing, you can
use the following information to connect. Or, you can use Windows Remote Desktop to log in.

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Note:
 It is recommended to refer to Chapter 2 in the System Requirements & Performance of HikCentral
Professional when applying for the configuration of the virtual machine. The download address of the
document: https://www.hikvision.com/en/support/download/software/hikcentral-professional-v2-
0.1/
 Amazon disabled ports 80 and 443. Therefore, after installing HCP, you need to change the 80 and
443 in the public network configuration of the SYS to other ports such as 81 and 444.

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How to Download, Install, and Use HikCentral

Professional
 Download HCP.
https://www.hikvision.com/en/support/download/software/hikcentral-professional-v2-1/
 Install HCP.
For installation, refer to the Quick Start Guide of HikCentral Professional, which can be downloaded from:
https://www.hikvision.com/en/support/download/software/hikcentral-professional-v2-0.1
 Start using HCP.
Refer to the User Manual of Control Client or User Manual of Web Client, which can be downloaded from:
https://www.hikvision.com/en/support/download/software/hikcentral-professional-v2-0.1
 For more information on HCP. See https://www.hikvision.com/en/products/software/.

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