Surveillance

    Thumbnails view This view shows all of the cameras assigned to a selected device group. Each thumbnail shows a low frame-rate, real-time feed from a camera. When a thumbnail receives a new frame, it is highlighted to show any activity that happened for that camera for that frame.  Note If a NetBotz Appliance is mapped to an external share drive, a Store Data on NetBotz Appliance option is available in the "Surveillance Settings" display for each camera associated with that appliance. If that option is selected for a camera, its Thumbnail view cannot update, as thumbnail data cannot be sent to the Data Center Expert server. However, its Camera View will still provide real-time video, and its clip data, which is stored at the external share drive at the NetBotz Appliance, can still be accessed by the Data Center Expert server. All surveillance features, including all configuration settings that affect surveillance, can be accessed from this view using its thumbnails, right-click options, and button icons. Note Which thumbnails are displayed depends on which group is selected in the Device Groups view. In addition, an unlicensed camera will have a grayed out image showing where the camera is pointing, with a prohibited symbol that indicates the camera will not function until it is licensed, and when the Data Center Expert server has lost communication with a camera, the thumbnail will be black with a grey x. Access the "Surveillance Settings" display to configure one or more cameras (select Surveillance Settings in a right-click menu for a selected camera's thumbnail). Note  Surveillance Settings in the Device menu allows you to configure cameras for all device groups; Surveillance Settings in the Device Groups view allows you to configure cameras for a selected device group; Surveillance Settings in the Camera view allows you to configure one camera for a selected device group. Access the "Camera Settings" display to configure the cameras at the monitored NetBotz Appliances (select NetBotz Appliance Camera Settings in a right-click menu for a selected camera's thumbnail). Access the "Recorded Camera Clips" display to retrieve, view, and tag clips for a selected camera (select Retrieve Clips in the thumbnail's right-click menu, or use the 92307513_360038797354.png icon). Double-click a thumbnail to access its Camera view (or select Open Camera View in the thumbnail's right-click menu). Use the Change Resolution icons ( 92307559_360038797354.png) to select to display small (160x120) or large (320x240) thumbnails. Use the Toggle Extra Thumbnail Borders ( 92307558_360038797354.png) to select whether the thumbnails include a border. Use the Configure Thumbnail Details icon ( 92307557_360038797354.png) to define what information is included with the thumbnails. Sort the thumbnails by the type of information that can be provided with the thumbnails (use the 92307556_360038797354.png icon to access the "Sort Surveillance Thumbnails" display}. Use the Search and Clear elements to filter the Thumbnails view to display only the thumbnails that include your typed text. Access the "Device Launch Settings" display to define the settings used to access the web interface at a selected camera's NetBotz Appliance (select Device Launch Settings in the thumbnail's right-click menu). Launch to the web interface at a selected camera's NetBotz Appliance (select Launch to Device in the thumbnail's right-click menu). View the Device View listing for a selected camera in the Monitoring perspective (select Show in Monitoring Perspective in the thumbnail's right-click menu). Log on to the Advanced View interface at a selected camera's NetBotz Appliance (select Launch Advanced View in the thumbnail's right-click menu). Note This option is enabled by Advanced View Settings, a Client Preferences option in the File menu.    

  You can define the specific periods of time, for each day of the week, during which an associated activity will be disabled (by default, scheduling is enabled 24 hours a day, seven days a week). You can schedule when an alert action will be enabled and disabled, using the action's settings display, or to schedule when a camera is enabled or disabled, using the "Surveillance Settings" display. The table provides cells for 15-minute increments, and columns for every day of the week.  Note The NetBotz Appliance also can schedule a camera's surveillance activity. The camera will not capture data when either the Data Center Expert server or the NetBotz Appliance has surveillance disabled; both must have surveillance enabled, to capture data.  

    Surveillance perspective This perspective in DCE provides ready access to the surveillance views, features, and configuration settings. It is accessed by clicking the Surveillance button located directly below the Alarm Configuration menu.   Note All surveillance functions can be performed from the Monitoring perspective, by adding the Thumbnails view to that perspective (select Thumbnails, the Surveillance option in the Window menu). By default, two views appear in the Surveillance perspective. These views, along with Surveillance Settings, a Device menu option, allow you to perform all Data Center Expert server surveillance functions. Device Groups view: used to select which group will have information about its associated NetBotz Appliance cameras displayed in the Thumbnails view. Thumbnails view: displays live-feed views for all cameras associated with the selected device group. Note Each thumbnail can access a Camera view that displays a live-feed view for the selected thumbnail's camera only. Device Groups view in the Surveillance perspective This view in the Surveillance perspective operates a little different than it does in the Monitoring perspective. You can use it to manage the location of cameras only, by dragging their thumbnails from the Thumbnails view for one group into a different group in the Device Groups view. Note   You can hold the Ctrl key down to drag a copy of a camera from the Thumbnails view for one group into another group in the Device Groups view without removing the camera from the group displayed in the Thumbnails view. This view in the Surveillance perspective has two right-click menu options that are not available in the Monitoring perspective. Note Some right-click menu options in the Monitoring perspective (Enter/Exit Maintenance Mode, Create Thresholds, and Show Alarm History), are not available in the Surveillance perspective. Surveillance Settings: allows you to configure settings for the cameras in a selected device group. Note Surveillance Settings in the Device menu allows you to configure the settings for cameras in all device groups; Surveillance Settings in the Thumbnails view allows you to configure the settings for cameras selected in that view. Retrieve Clips: accesses the "Recorded Camera Clips" display for all cameras in a selected device group.  

    Surveillance feature Surveillance is a license key-based upgrade designed for use with the Data Center Expert server. This feature enhances your ability to use the Camera Pods and CCTV Adapter Pods associated with monitored NetBotz Appliances for surveillance purposes. Note  The help for this feature assumes a Surveillance license is registered with the Data Center Expert server, and the license has been enabled for each camera. Users must be assigned Device Group Monitoring View Access or higher to view NetBotz Appliance camera images and clips in active and historical alarms. Users must be assigned Device Group Surveillance View Access or higher to view and export surveillance clips. With the Surveillance feature and cameras licensed, you can do the following: View live feeds in the Thumbnails view for all cameras associated with the NetBotz Appliances in a group selected in the Device Groups view. View live feeds in a Camera view for a camera selected in the Thumbnails view. Retrieve, view, and export recorded clips. Configure the capturing and recording of clips. Stream audio to and from properly configured cameras.  

The number of cameras licensed for surveillance, and the surveillance settings for those cameras, can affect server performance. The Camera Resolution and Target Image Capture Rate (frames per second) you specify in the Surveillance Activation Settings section of the "Surveillance Settings" display determine the amount of data generated. To support a large volume of surveillance data, the maximum recommended number of cameras licensed for surveillance, and their surveillance activation settings, are the following: Basic server: A maximum of 15 cameras at 10 frames per second (150 fps total for all cameras) and a resolution of 640x480. Standard server: A maximum of 125 cameras at 2 frames per second (250 fps total for all cameras) and a resolution of 640x480. Enterprise server: A maximum of 250 cameras at 2 frames per second (500 fps total for all cameras) and a resolution of 640x480. With the maximum recommended number of cameras licensed, Data Center Expert server performance can be affected when: SNMP or Modbus devices are also monitored by the Data Center Expert server. The Data Center Expert server connects to the camera using SSL, specified in the Server Settings section of the "Surveillance Settings" display. System activity, such as performing a server backup or purge, or exporting a large report, is occurring. For more information about planning Data Center Expert surveillance deployments, see Application Note #135, Data Center Expert Surveillance: Performance Tuning and Remote Storage, available at the APC Application Notes web page for the Data Center Expert product: http://www.apc.com/prod_docs/results.cfm?DocType=App%20Note&Query_Type=10 See DCE sizing guide

    Surveillance clips Surveillance clips are generated as a result of detected motion, alarm, or motion and alarm, depending on how surveillance for each camera is set up. Surveillance clips have the ability to be much longer in length, and larger in size, than camera capture clips for alarms: surveillance clip settings (such as resolution and frame rate) are independent of the camera capture settings for alarms. Inactivity (no motion) of 10 seconds or more will cause a new clip to be created the next time motion is detected. Inactivity of less than 10 seconds, will add new frames to the current surveillance clip. The settings that control the generation of surveillance clips are located in the "Surveillance Settings" display accessed by the Surveillance Settings options in the Device menu, right-click menu in the Device Groups view, or right-click menu in the Thumbnails view. Note The settings that control the generation of alarm clips are controlled by the Alarm Capture Data option in the "Capture Settings" display, a display accessed by Camera Settings, a NetBotz Appliance Configuration option in the Device menu and the Device Groups view right-click menu, or by NetBotz Appliance Camera Settings, a right-click menu option in the Thumbnails view. Surveillance clips are stored on the Data Center Expert server and can be tagged with metadata that allows users to search for specific clips. The location where the server stores clips is defined using Storage Settings, a ServerAdministration Settings option in the System menu. The size of a surveillance clip is based on the resolution and frame rate of the camera that generated it. These settings are controlled by a camera's "Surveillance Settings" display settings. You may export clips in AVI, Signed AVI, or MPEG-1 formats. You can also export the currently viewed image as a JPG file. If audio data for a clip exists, it must be exported to a separate file. Digital signatures NetBotz devices provide the capability to attach a digital signature to the generated clip. This signature is used by the verification utility to determine if any tampering with the clip occurred. If a clip has a digital signature attached to it, the Is Signed column in the clip listing pane of the "Recorded Camera Clips" display reports Yes, and the "Clip Viewer" display will show the digital signature icon ( 92307567_360038797274.png) in color. Data Center Expert ships with a Windows batch file and a Linux script located at the root directory of the Data Center Expert application that can authenticate the existence of a clip's digital signature. Both are run using the same syntax structure: Windows: avivrfy.bat avi1 avi2 avi3 Linux: avi-verify avi1 avi2 avi3 This syntax allows you to check multiple AVI files by including each file's name in the command line, with a space separating each name. When the verification utility is run, it returns a message for each file that states whether the digital signature is valid. Audio support Audio can be captured from camera devices equipped with audio sensors. Audio data is stored in the OGG Vorbis codec file format, with an.ogg file extension. You need an audio player that supports this file format in order to play back the exported file. Note: If your media player cannot play the.ogg file format, you may need to download an additional codec to support the audio file format. Consult your media player help or documentation for details on installing additional codecs.  

    Surveillance access Five selections are available for a user or user group's surveillance access at a selected device group.  Note Users assigned the Data Center ExpertAdministrator role, or assigned to a user group that has this role, have full monitoring and surveillance access, as well as access to all server functions. In addition to the surveillance functions identified in the following table, a user can perform all functions for the monitoring access associated with a device group: any Surveillance setting other than No Access for a device group requires at least View Access for that group's monitoring access setting. Surveillance Access Description No Access No surveillance access is provided. View Live Feed Only (No camera clips) A user with this access setting for a device group can perform the following functions for that group's camera devices: Access the Camera view for a licensed camera in the Thumbnails view. Change the state of a sensor in the Camera view, when available, when the user is also assigned View and Control monitoring access. View Access A user with this access setting for a device group can perform the following functions for that group's camera devices: View and export surveillance clips. Access the Camera view for a licensed camera in the Thumbnails view. Change the state of a sensor in the Camera view, when available, when the user is also assigned View and Control monitoring access. View and Tag Access A user with this access setting at a device group can perform all functions View Access provides, but with the added ability to tag surveillance clips. Administration Access A user with this access setting at a device group can perform all functions View and Tag Access provides, but with the added ability to configure the Surveillance Settings for all camera devices, and delete surveillance clips.  

    Surveillance Settings options Four options are available to access a "Surveillance Settings" display used to configure how the DCE server affects and responds to cameras at monitored NetBotz Appliances. Select Surveillance Settings in a right-click menu for a selected camera's thumbnail when only that thumbnail is selected in the Thumbnails view. Select Surveillance Settings in the right-click menu for a selected camera's thumbnail, when multiple thumbnails are selected in the Thumbnails view, to configure those cameras. Select Surveillance Settings in a device group's right-click menu to configure cameras for that device group. Select Surveillance Settings in the Device menu to configure cameras for all device groups.  

    Surveillance Activation Settings These settings control how the DCE server responds to motion detected at the selected camera or cameras. Element Description Post Mode Select when clip images (and, optionally, audio) from the camera will be stored on the server. Send on Motion Detected the camera will send clips to be archived whenever its motion sensor is activated (the default selection). Send Continuously During Alerts: the camera will send clip images to be stored whenever an alert triggers the camera. Send on Motion Detected During Alerts: the camera will send clip images to be archived if motion is detected during an alert. Disabled: no surveillance data will be automatically stored. Note When using a post mode that requires a camera to be triggered by an alert, that camera must be selected by an alert threshold's Cameras to Trigger option in the Advanced tab of the threshold's "Configure Settings" display. For more information, see Alert Settings option (NetBotz Appliance Configuration option). Event Send Retry (seconds) Specify how many seconds the camera will wait before it attempts to post again, if it receives no response when attempting to send a clip to the Data Center Expert server (a minimum of 5, the default, and a maximum of 60). Camera Resolution Select the resolution used for the images captured by the camera. Note The available sizes depend on the capabilities of the selected camera, with larger image resolutions requiring increased amounts of storage space. Target Image Capture Rate Set the number of frames per second to be recorded when a clip is captured (1 frame per second, by default). Event Duration Trigger (seconds) Set the amount of delay between the start of an event and the beginning of a clip's capture. Surveillance Scheduling Click to use the "Surveillance Scheduling" display to specify when the camera is enabled and disabled (always enabled, by default).  

  Sort the thumbnails in the Thumbnails view. Based on the chosen sorting category, displayed thumbnails are sorted alphanumerically. Select the radio button next to the criteria you want to use to sort the displayed thumbnails. Category Description Pod Label Sort by Pod Label. Location Sort by Location. Status Sort by Status. Camera Label Sort by Camera Label. Model Sort by model number of the camera's NetBotz Appliance. Hostname Sort by IP address or hostname. Last Motion Sort by which cameras are detecting motion, and for how long. For example, three cameras (X, Y, and Z) are detecting motion, Camera X for five seconds, Y for four seconds, and Z for three seconds: Camera X is in the first position of the Thumbnails view, Y in the second, and Z in the third; if Camera X stops detecting motion, it moves to the last position, Y moves to the first position, and X moves to the second. Note This option, which is the default option, is helpful if you want to focus your attention on cameras that are currently showing activity. Licensed Sort by license status. Device Groups Sort by the device groups to which the cameras are assigned. If a camera is assigned to multiple groups, the camera is sorted according to the first device group listed.  

  These settings are used to identify the DCE server (the current server, by default) to which data from a selected camera or cameras will be sent, and to define Port and SSL Options used to communicate with that server. Note A "Server settings unavailable when cameras are on both the Public Network (LAN1) and the Private Network (LAN2)" appears in this section when configuring multiple cameras using "Surveillance Settings" display, and some of those cameras are on the Private LAN, and some on the Public LAN. You cannot assign Private LAN server settings to a Public LAN camera, and vice versa. Element Description Data Center Expert server Identify the name of the Data Center Expert server where data from the selected camera will be sent. Note By default, the name of the current Data Center Expert server is provided. Port Identify the port used by the server to connect with the selected camera. 80 is the default value for HTTP communication when the Connect using SSL Option is disabled. 443 is the default value for HTTPS communication when the Connect using SSL Option is enabled. Note  The port number must match the port number defined in the identified Data Center Expert server's Web Server tab for Server Access, a Server Administration Settings option in the System menu. Otherwise a NetBotz Appliance associated with the selected camera or cameras cannot send surveillance data to the server successfully. Connect Using SSL Select to have the server use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol when communicating with the selected camera (not selected, by default). SSL Options Select the method of verification to be used when licensed cameras attempt to connect to the server using the SSL protocol. No Verification: requires SSL support on the server (do not send data without it), but accepts any certificate provided by the server (i.e. self signed certificates will be allowed). This is the default setting. Verify Certificate: requires SSL support on the server (do not send data without it), and only accepts certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority (i.e. self signed certificates will not be allowed, but Verisign and the like certificates will be accepted even if the hostname does not match the host in the certificate). Verify Certificate and Hostname: requires SSL support on the server (do not send data without it), and only accepts certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority and which contain a hostname matching that used to contact the server (i.e. only certificates issued by trusted sources and which contain the same hostname as used to access the server are allowed). Note Disabled when Connect using SSL is not selected.  

  NetBotz Appliance Camera Settings option Use this right-click menu option in the Thumbnails view to access the "Camera Settings" display associated with Camera Settings, a NetBotz Appliance Configuration option in the Device menu, and with Camera Settings, a right-click NetBotz Appliance Configuration menu option in the Device Groups view. The NetBotz Appliance Camera Settings option has two displays: "Select Camera" display: accessed by the NetBotz Appliance Camera Settings option when multiple cameras are selected in the Thumbnails view, this display is used to choose which camera you want to configure. "Camera Settings" display: accessed either from the Configure Selected Camera button, when multiple cameras have been selected, or directly, when a single camera is selected in the Thumbnails view. This display has three configuration options, two of which affect how cameras operate during surveillance activities: Alarm Capture Data: settings that affect the capture of images for alarms only. Image Settings: settings that affect the image quality, and other settings, used for alarm and surveillance activities. Masking: specify user-specified masks used to ignore motion in areas of an image, and to prevent regions of the image from being seen, during alarm and surveillance activities. Note The camera settings, which are set at the NetBotz Appliance associated with a selected camera, are independent from the surveillance feature: Camera Settings, the NetBotz Appliance Configuration option in the Device menu and Device Groups view, is available with or without a surveillance license. For more information about these settings, see Camera Settings option under NetBotz Appliance Configuration (Device menu).  

    Licensing Surveillance and cameras A Surveillance license must be registered at the server before you can use the Surveillance feature. In addition, each camera must be licensed before its Surveillance features can be used.  Note If you do not have enough Surveillance licenses available for the cameras at monitored NetBotz Appliances, a message is displayed at the top of the Surveillance Settings display. Each Data Center Expert server comes with a one-node Surveillance license that allows you to evaluate the Surveillance features before purchasing additional licenses. The one-node Surveillance license does not expire. When any additional Surveillance license expires, the following will occur: Previously recorded clips are preserved but can be viewed only when a surveillance license is registered. No new clips can be generated. No live camera feeds will be available. Registering the Surveillance license Select License Keys, a Server Administration Settings option in the System menu. Click Add License Key. In the "Add License Key" display, type in your Surveillance license key, and click OK. Enabling the license for the cameras The license can be enabled and disabled (the default condition) for each camera. Note You can use this procedure to configure any of the Surveillance Settings for one or more cameras. Select Surveillance Settings in the Device menu to enable multiple cameras at the same time, or select this same option in the right-click menu for a thumbnail, to enable that camera only. In the "Surveillance Settings" display, to enable multiple cameras at the same time, select the cameras to be licensed. Enable the License Camera option at the top of the display.  

    General Surveillance Settings These settings are used by the server to manage the selected camera or cameras. They configure the server's behavior with regards to a camera. Element Description License Camera Select this option to apply an available Surveillance license to each selected camera. If you deselect this option, the selected camera's surveillance is disabled, and its license can be used to enable surveillance for a different camera. Note A status message appears when there are not enough surveillance licenses available for the selected cameras. Thumbnail Activity Timeout (seconds) Define how long a selected camera's thumbnail will be highlighted before returning to normal when a motion is detected: the minimum is 10, the maximum is 120, and the default is 30. Include Audio Select to include the audio stream from a camera saved with that stream's relevant image clips (not selected, by default). Note The camera must be configured to send audio; otherwise, this option is not available. If the camera is not configured to always send audio, only white noise will be recorded if Include Audio is selected. The camera setting can be accessed through the APC NetBotz Advanced View application.   Generate Digital Signature Select to generate a digital signature when a surveillance clip is archived. Note Digital signatures are designed to ensure that the signed media has not been altered in any way. Store Data on NetBotz Appliance Select to have camera data stored at the share drive mapped at the camera's NetBotz Appliance, instead of at the Data Center Expert server. When selected, the Camera View, which provides a real-time feed, will continue to operate properly, and clip data, which is stored at the external share drive at the NetBotz Appliance, can still be accessed by the Data Center Expert server; however, the Thumbnail view for the camera cannot update while this option is selected. Note This option is available only when a NetBotz Appliance that supports using an external share drive for storage is mapped to a such a drive.

  Export the selected clip in an MPEG-1, AVI, Signed AVI (if the digital signature option is enabled), Current Image, or Audio format. Note Access the "Export Clip" display from the "Clip Viewer" display, or from the Clip option in the "View Alarm Details" display available for the Active Alarms and Alarm History views, using the Export Clip icon ( 92307570_360038793174.png). Element Description Data Format Use to select the desired format as the output type. MPEG-1 Note Disabled when a clip consists of a single frame. AVI Signed AVI (see below) Current Image Audio The Signed AVI format is only available if the clip was captured by a camera with the Generate digital signature option in the "Surveillance Settings" display enabled. Note: The Signed AVI option is only available if the NetBotz Appliance has the optional Premium Software Module installed. If the Current Image option is selected, the currently displayed frame will be saved as a JPG file. When clips are recorded, the images and audio are saved as separate files. Therefore, an exported clip cannot contain both image and audio data. The audio can be saved to a separate file by selecting the Audio option. Note: If a clip contains audio data, but the audio capture option on the remote device was not activated, only white noise will be recorded. Filename Use to set the location and the filename of the exported clip.    

    Camera view Displays a real-time view of the camera feed along with information about the selected NetBotz Appliance. The Camera view consists of two areas, the displayed real-time feed from the selected device, and a Camera Information area.The Camera Information area contains Pod Label, Camera Label, Hostname, Location, Status, Licensed, Model, and Device Groups information for the camera.The following icons are located on the upper right-hand side of the view: Icon Description 92307555_360038795394.png Click this Listen icon to hear the accompanying audio stream for the selected device. Note   Disabled when no audio is available. 92307554_360038795394.png Click this Talk icon to send audio to be played at the device. Note   This feature is only available on certain models and requires a microphone on the user's side, and a set of external speakers on the device side. 92307553_360038795394.png Click the chevron associated with this Change Resolution icon to select the resolution you want to use to display the real-time feed for the selected camera. 92307552_360038795394.png Click this Retrieve Clips icon to view, tag, export, and delete existing surveillance clips. You can use the right-click menu in the real-time feed area to do the following: Access the "Recorded Camera Clips" display to retrieve, view, and tag clips for the camera (Retrieve Clips option, or use the 92307552_360038795394.png icon). Access the "Surveillance Settings" display to configure the camera (Surveillance Settings option). Note Surveillance Settings in the Device menu allows you to configure cameras for all device groups; Surveillance Settings in the Device Groups view allows you to configure cameras for a selected device group; Surveillance Settings in the Thumbnails view allows you to configure selected cameras for a selected device group. Access the "Device Launch Settings" display to define the settings used to access the web interface at the camera's NetBotz Appliance (Device Launch Settings option). Launch to the web interface at the camera's NetBotz Appliance (Launch to Device option). Log on to the Advanced View interface at the camera's NetBotz Appliance (Launch Advanced View option). Note This option is enabled by Advanced View Settings, a Client Preferences option in the File menu. View the Device View listing for the camera in the Monitoring perspective (Show in Monitoring Perspective option). Access the "Camera Settings" display to configure the camera at the monitored NetBotz Appliance (NetBotz Appliance Camera Settings option). Two-Way Audio When connected to a device capable of capturing and broadcasting sound, you can transmit sounds to and from the device through the server. You can use the Camera view controls to stream audio from camera pods that have microphones, and to use a microphone connected to your system to send audio to camera pods that have connected speakers. Note For two-way audio to work, the camera must be able to connect directly to the client on a public accessible network. To listen to streaming audio from the currently selected Camera Pod (if available) click the 92307555_360038795394.pngbutton. Note More than one client can listen to the audio stream simultaneously. To transmit audio from your system to speakers that are connected to the selected Camera Pod, click the 92307554_360038795394.png button while speaking into your system's microphone. Audio is transmitted only while the 92307554_360038795394.png button is depressed. While the 92307554_360038795394.png button is depressed you will not be able to hear audio that is streaming from the target Camera Pod. While the 92307554_360038795394.png button is depressed it will lock the audio transmission so only your client can send audio to the selected camera pod.  

    Button icons (Thumbnails view) In addition to standard minimize and maximize icons, five icons are available to perform specific Thumbnails view and surveillance functions. Icon Description 92307512_360038794094.png Click the chevron associated with this icon to select to display small (160x120) or large (320x240) thumbnails. 92307501_360038794094.png Click this Toggle Extra Thumbnail Borders icon to select whether the thumbnails include a border. 92307514_360038794094.png Click this Sort By icon to access the "Sort Surveillance Thumbnails" display, which allows the user to choose the criteria for sorting the displayed thumbnails. 92307511_360038794094.png Click this Retrieve Clips icon to access the "Recorded Camera Clips" display for the selected cameras. 92307508_360038794094.png Click this Configure Thumbnail Labels icon to select the camera-associated data to display under each thumbnail. Pod Label Hostname Location Status Licensed Model Device Groups Camera Label    

    Using post mode Use the four Post Mode setting options to determine what conditions will trigger the capture of data from the camera. Note: When using a post mode that requires a camera to be triggered by an alert, the camera must be selected by the Camera to Trigger option for the alert threshold that the alert is responding. Right-click the device in the Device or Map View and use an Alert Thresholds option to edit an existing threshold or add a new one. Disabled The Disabled option prevents data from the camera from being archived, even during an alert. You may want to set a camera to Disabled if you need to temporarily disable capture on a camera for a non-repeating interval of time. Note: If you want to disable capturing for a repeating interval of time, you should use the Surveillance Scheduling option on the "Surveillance Settings" display. Send Continuously During Alerts Choose this option if you need to create a complete auditable record of all activity (and non-activity) that occurs for the duration of an alert configured to trigger the camera. Note An alert can result in a camera's surveillance data being continuously sent only when that alert is in response to an alert threshold which has that camera selected by that threshold's Camera to Trigger option. Surveillance events created using the Send Continuously During Alerts mode do not rely on detected movement to determine whether an image should be captured and added to the surveillance clip. Therefore, the resulting clip may be more consistent in terms of time continuity, enabling you to more easily judge the amount of time that passes between movement that occurs in view of the camera. Note: You may not want to use this setting with alerts that are set to Return to normal requires user input. If a delay occurs before the alert is resolved, this setting can generate very large clips. You can use the Send Continuously During Alerts mode under the following circumstances: You are in a high security environment where you are required to have a complete audit record of all time-stamped images (including those with no detectable changes) while sensors, such as the door switch, camera motion sensor, or external dry contacts are triggered. You need to monitor for situations in which the rate or size of the changes in the images may be too small to be detected reliably by the motion sensor capabilities of the device camera (i.e. the blinking of a small light, a person moving very slowly at a distance from the camera). You prefer the time interval between frames to be approximately steady (more "real-time"), as opposed to variable (as is the case with motion based), without the frame count limitations of the alerts being an issue. Send on Motion Detected Choose this option if you need to create records of any movement that occurs in the installation location, but a visual record of the time that passes between detected motion is not needed. You can use the Send on Motion Detected setting if: You want to create a visual record of all personnel that access an equipment room. You want to create a visual record of all personnel that enter or exit through a specific door. Send on Motion Detected During Alerts Choose this option if you need to create records of any movement that occurs in the installation location for the duration of an alert configured to trigger the camera, but a visual record of the time that passes between detected motion is not needed. Note An alert can result in a camera's surveillance data being sent when motion is detected only when that alert is in response to an alert threshold which has that camera selected by that threshold's Camera to Trigger option. Unlike surveillance events generated by devices set to Send on Motion Detected mode, devices set to this mode will ignore movement unless it occurs while an alert is being reported by the device. You could use the Send on Motion Detected During Alerts mode if: You want to create a visual record of all personnel that open a specific door and enter or leave a room during specific hours. Using the Surveillance Scheduling option, you could create a record of people entering and leaving a facility between the hours of 8:00PM and 6:00AM, for example, while ignoring entries and exits that occur during normal business hours. You want to create a visual record of a room that has been entered illegally, such as by breaking a window that has a dry contact glass break sensor attached to it or by opening a door that is supposed to be used for emergency exits only. You want to record images while a transparent rack or equipment room door is open (thereby triggering the Door sensor alert), but do not want to record movement seen though the door while it is closed.