Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 210)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 210 Management Client elements
About alarm configuration
Alarm configuration includes:
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Dynamic role-based setup of alarm handling
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Central technical overview of all components: servers, cameras, and external units
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Setup of central logging of all incoming alarms and system information
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Handling of plug-ins, allowing customized integration of other systems, for example external
access control or VCA-based systems.
In general, alarms are controlled by the visibility of the object causing the alarm. This means that four
possible aspects can play a role with regards to alarms and who can control/manage them and to what
degree:
Name Description
Source/device visibility
If the device causing the alarm is not set to be visible to the user's
role, the user cannot see the alarm in the alarm list in XProtect
Smart Client.
The right to trigger user-
defined events This right determines if the user's role can trigger selected user-
defined events in XProtect Smart Client.
External plug-ins
If any external plug-ins are set up in your system, these might
control users rights to handle alarms.
General role rights
Determine whether the user is allowed to only view or also to
manage alarms.
What a user of Alarms can do with alarms depends on the user's
role and on settings configured for that particular role.
On the Event Server tab in Options, you can specify settings for alarms, events and logs.
Alarm Definitions
When your system registers an event on your system, you can configure the system to generate an
alarm in XProtect Smart Client. You must define alarms before you can use them, and alarms are
defined based on events registered in your system servers. You can also use user-defined events for
triggering alarms and use the same event to trigger several different alarms.
Alarms can register and handle events from both your system and any other XProtect systems running
as Milestone Federated Architecture or as XProtect Enterprise servers.
Alarm Definitions settings
You can set a number of alarm-related settings when you select Alarms, right-click Alarm Definitions
> Add New: