Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 - Manual (Page 38)

Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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Static electricity (make sure you ground yourself if you are going to handle a hard disk drive).
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Fire, water and more (avoid).
Monitor storage space usage
To view how much storage space you have on your system —and not least how much of it is free—do
the following:
1. Expand Advanced Configuration, and select Cameras and Storage Information.
2. View the Storage Usage Summary for information about, which drives are available, what
drives are used for, the size of each drive, as well as how much video data, other data, and
free space there is in each drive.
View video from cameras in Management Application
You can view live video from single cameras directly in the Management Application:
1. Expand Advanced Configuration, and expand Cameras and Storage Information.
2. Select the relevant camera to view live video from that camera. Above the live video, you find
a summary of the most important properties for the selected camera. Below the live video, you
find information about the camera's resolution and average image file size. For cameras using
MPEG or H.264, you also see the bit rate in Mbit/second.
IMPORTANT: Viewing of live video in the Management Application may under certain circumstances
affect any simultaneous recording from the relevant camera. Especially three scenarios are important
to consider:
- Some cameras supporting multistreaming may halve their frame rate or respond with other negative
effects if you open a second stream.
- If a camera delivers live video in a very high quality, de-coding of images may increase the load on
the Recording Server service, which may in turn affect ongoing recordings negatively.
- Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance
server and the Management Application at the same time. Therefore, Milestone recommends that you
stop the Recording Server service when you configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ.
See also View video from cameras in Management Application (on page 38).