Milesight DeviceHub Management Platform User Guide
- June 4, 2024
- Milesight
Table of Contents
Milesight DeviceHub Management Platform
Preface
This guide teaches you how to install Milesight on-premises DeviceHub platform.
Readers
This guide is intended for the following users:
- Distributors
- Network Planners
- On-site technical support and maintenance personnel
- Network administrators responsible for network configuration and maintenance
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Revision History
| Date | Doc Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 29, 2018 | V 1.0 | Initial version |
| Mar. 18, 2021 | V 2.0 | Brand Replace and add features |
Introduction
Milesight DeviceHub provides a high-efficency, low maintenance solution to easily deploy Milesight IoT devices across multiple locations, reducing complexity and increasing productivity. Milesight offers cloud and on-premises version according to customer requirements. This guide will describe how to install on-premises DeviceHub. For cloud version please contact Milesight IoT sales or click here to apply for DeviceHub Cloud platform account.
System Requirements
Hardware
It’ s suggested to use the server which suit following requirements: For 500
devices
- CPU: 2 Cores, 2.0 GHz
- RAM: 16 GB
- Disk: 512 GB
- Bandwidth: ≥100MBps For 1000 devices
- CPU: 8 Cores, 3.2 GHz
- RAM: 32 GB
- Disk: 1 TB
- Bandwidth: ≥100MBps
Software
- Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04
- Browser: Chrome, Firefox
Installation
Requirements
- Ubuntu Server
- DeviceHub Software Package
- WinSCP
- Putty (or other SSH tool)
Package Upload
Following steps are based on WinSCP tool. You can also use other tools to
upload packages.
- Download the DeviceHub package from Milesight IoT website，then extract and check files:
- Open WinSCP and set up a session between WinSCP and server.
- Select the DeviceHub folder and click “Upload”, select the server path and click “OK” to upload.
DeviceHub Installation
- Log in the server via Putty. You can also use other SSH tools.
- Run following commands under DeviceHub directory. chmod +x depend_install_devicehub.sh ./depend_install_devicehub.sh
- Install DeviceHub software. Take the 2.1.3 version as example, please type following command: dpkg -i devicehub 2.1.3 amd64.deb
- The network interface of this server will show. Select and type the main interface name, then click Enter to start the installation.
- It will take about 30 minutes to complete the installation and there will show following message when the installation complete.
Registration
After installation, open the browser and type the IP address to open the registration page. Fill in the following information and click “Install” to complete the registration.
- Administrator Account(Required)
- Admin Email: the email address working as root account of the DeviceHub
- Password: define the password of the root account
- Outgoing Mail Server(Option)
- SMTP Email: Email address used for sending alarm emails or sub-account activation emails Password: Password of the email address
- Server: SMTP server address for email service
- Port: SMTP server port for email service
- Security: encryption mode for email service
- After completing all information, click “TEST” to check if your outgoing mail server is valid. If yes, a SUCCESS prompt will show and DeviceHub will save the email settings.
- Otherwise there is error message “Authentication failed”.
- Note:
- Outgoing mail server information is option and you can click “Install” to skip the configurations.
- You can also log in the DeviceHub via administrator account and go to “Settings > Email” to configure or change the outgoing mail server settings.
- If the outgoing mail server is not verified by “TEST” button, it will not be saved.
- After registration, you can log in the DeviceHub via administrator account.
Services and Ports
In order to ensure the security and unblocked communication, here are ports for services:
| Port | Protocol | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | TCP | SSH Service |
| 80 | TCP | NGINX Agent(Non-encrypted) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 443 | TCP | NGINX Agent(Encrypted) |
| 3478 | UDP | STUND Service |
| 3479 | UDP | STUND Service |
| 6379 | TCP | Message Broker |
| 8080 | TCP | TR069 Service(Non-encrypted) |
| 8443 | TCP | TR069 Service(Encrypted) |
| 10000-10100 | TCP | Remote Access Service |
| 20000-20100 | TCP | Remote Access Service |
Expand Manage Devices
The number of available managing devices can be checked in “Settings > General” tab. Maximum number of managing devices is 25 by default for on- premises version. Please refer to following steps to expand manage devices.
- Log in DeviceHub with root account and go to “Settings > General” tab, then click “Create&Download” to download license info file.
- Contact Milesight sales or technical support and send the license info file.
- Get expand license from Milesight and click “Browse” to import the license.
- Click “save” to save the settings and the max manageable devices will change.
