About Virtual HW and Channels

All Recording channels in VSLogger server grouped by HW type , e.g. recording boards from specific manufacturer.
Some HW types don't have actual  corresponding hardware, e.g. VOIP HW and  channels 

New Hardware type (Virtual HW and channels) was introduced to  manage recordings generated by special sources , such as:

1. Recordings replicated from some other recorder (let's call  it a source recorder or  a Satellite Recorder) 
2. Screen capture  recordings from the PCs  which is not associated with any phone line

Virtual HW Trunks

Virtual channels  managed  through VSLogger UI,  Setup Panel , HW section (see picture below).  





Virtual channels added in groups (we call the Virtual trunks).  Each trunk corresponds to  specific source (satellite)  recorder, replicating recordings to configured virtual channels.
Also, single trunk can be configured to accept screen capture recordings from the PCs running Versadial Desktop assistant software, but not associated with any phone  recording channels.

Configure Virtual channels  used for screen capture

In Hardware Virtual (Versadial) panel, press  Add Button .
New Virtual Trunk dialog will open, with following fields available:

• ID - type trunk ID, e.g. SCREENS
• Protocol -  select DTA (Desk Top Assistant)
• Number of channels - specify number of PCs you plan to configure for screen capture without associated phone line.

Press submit to add new trunk to configuration (it is not saved yet).  
Important : Press  "Save and Reload" on the top for the Hardware Panel. UI will be closed and recorder service reloaded to initialize your changes 
Reopen User interface . From this point virtual channels are available for selection  in  "Desktop Assistant" section of the Setup

Note: Virtual channel is not needed  if Desktop assitant is associated some with phone recording channel. In such case screen capture recordings will be saved along with audio only recordings under the same channel number.   Even more, screen capture recordings initiated by call audio recording start will be merged with audio recording into Video with Audio  recording

Configure Virtual channels to hold recordings  replicated  from other recorder

Let's assume that you need to replicate recordings from some  4 channel recorder (e.g. from remote office recorder) to current recorder 
In Hardware Virtual (Versadial) panel, press  Add Button .
New Virtual Trunk dialog will open, with following fields available:

• ID - type trunk ID, e.g. RECORDER1. It should match to  HTTP diskset settings of the  remote (source) recorder.
• Protocol -  select SATELLITE (Satellite recorder)
• Number of channels - specify number of replicated channels from the remote PC (4 channels in this example)
• Hash Algorithm - SHA-256, SHA-1 or SIMPLE. Select desired option. It should match to  HTTP diskset settings of the  remote (source) recorder.
• Salt  -  Enter secret phrase of some kind , e.g. qwerqwe5r32ef23qftr2345t.  It should match to  HTTP diskset settings of the  remote (source) recorder.

Press submit to add new trunk to configuration (it is not saved yet).  
Important : Press  "Save and Reload" on the top for the Hardware Panel. UI will be closed and recorder service reloaded to initialize your changes .

Note:  Remote recorder have to be configured for replication to these virtual channels.  Replication is configured in config storage section of CLI,  HTTP diskset.
satellite_id, hash type and sallt  should be set to the same values as corresponding values in virtual trunk.
url  to url of the destination recorder, e.g. url http://recorder2:22443/api/satellite