General event properties, Ports and polling – Milestone XProtect Express 2014 User Manual
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Advanced configuration
8. Go to XProtect Smart Client. If the yellow event indicator lights up for the required camera,
your generic event works as intended.:
General event properties
Ports and polling
The General Event Properties window lets you specify network settings to be used in connection with
event handling.
Name
Description
Alert and generic event port
Specify port number to use for handling events. Default port is port
1234.
SMTP event port
Specify port number to use for sending event information from
hardware devices to XProtect Express via SMTP. Default port is
port 25.
FTP event port
Port to use for FTP communication with the hardware device.
Default port is port 21.
Polling interval [1/10] second
For a small number of hardware devices, primarily dedicated
input/output devices (see "About dedicated input/output devices" on
page 57), it is necessary for XProtect Express to regularly check the
state of the hardware devices' input ports in order to detect input.
Such state checking at regular intervals is called polling. You can
specify (in tenths of a second) the interval between state checks.
Default value is 10 tenths of a second (that is one second). For
dedicated input/output devices, it is highly recommended that the
polling frequency is set to the lowest possible value (one tenth of a
second between state checks). For information about which
hardware devices require polling, see the release note.