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Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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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 Essential 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 61), it is necessary for XProtect Essential 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.
Events and output properties
Analytics event
When you configure analytics events (see "Add an analytics event" on page 108), specify the
following:
Name Description
Name Type a name for the event.
Description Enter a description (optional).
Test Event
Test the validity of the event by clicking this button (optional).
Tip: You can carry out this test at any step of the analytics event
creation/editing process and as many times as you wish.
When you click Test Event, a window opens which goes through a number of conditions that must be
met for analytics events to work. The window consists of two tabs: Tasks and Errors.
The Tasks tab lists the conditions that are tested and mark them failed: or success: . The Errors
tab shows a list of errors corresponding to any failed conditions.
Remember to save any changes made during the test.
When done, check the presence of your test event in the XProtect Smart Client Alarm list. Sort by
type Test Alarm to make your test event appear at the top of the Alarm list. See the XProtect Smart
Client documentation for more details.