Milestone XProtect Professional 2014 - Manual (Page 122)

Milestone XProtect ® Professional
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 122 Advanced configuration
Generic event
When you add generic events (see "Test a generic event" on page 114), specify the following
properties:
Name Description
Event name
Specify a name. Names must be unique, and must not contain any
of these special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ]
Some cameras only support event names of a certain length and/or
with a certain structure. Refer to the camera's documentation for
exact details.
Event port
Read-only field displaying the port number on which XProtect
Professional listens for generic events (default is port 1234). The
port number can be changed as part of the general event handling
configuration (see "Configure general event handling" on page
114).
Event substring
Lets you specify the individual items for which XProtect
Professional should look out for when analyzing data packages.
Specify one or more terms, then click the Add button to add the
specified term(s) to the Event message expression field, the content
of which will be used for the actual analysis. Examples:

Single term: User001 (when added to the Event message
expression field, the term will appear as "User001")

Several terms as one item: User001 Door053 Sunday
(when added to the Event message expression field, the
terms will appear as " User001 Door053 Sunday")
When you add several terms as one item (appearing as, for
example, " User001 Door053 Sunday" in the Event message
expression field), everything between the quotation marks must
appear together in the package, in the specified sequence, in order
to match your criterion. If the terms must appear in the package, but
not necessarily in any exact sequence, add the terms one by one
(that is so they will appear as "User001" "Door053" "Sunday" in the
Event message expression field).
Tip: It is OK for TCP and UDP packages used for generic events to
contain special characters, such as @, #, +, 㪠~, etc. within the text
string to be analyzed.