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Milestone XProtect ® Essential 2014 Administrator's Manual
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For each camera, you can initially select between two online schedules:

Always on: The camera is always online.

Always off: The camera is never online.
If these two options are too simple for your needs, use the Create / Edit... button to specify online
schedules according to your needs, and then select these schedules for your cameras. This way, you
can specify whether cameras should be online within specific periods of time, or whether they should
start and stop transferring video when specific events occur within specific periods of time.
The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. For example, if you have 20 cameras
and you want a particular frame rate on all of them, you can enter it once in the template, and then
apply the template to the 20 cameras.
Name Description
Apply Template
Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one
of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template.
Select All Click button to select all cameras in the Apply Template column.
Clear All Click button to clear all selections in the Apply Template column.
Apply template on selected
cameras
Apply the value from the template to selected cameras.
Configure storage: Drive selection
Specify which drives you want to store cameras' recordings on. You can specify separate drives/paths
for recording and archiving (see "About archiving" on page 118).
Properties available for all XProtect software versions:
Name Description
Drive Letter representing the drive in question, for example C:.
Purpose
Select what you want to use the drive for:
Not in use: Do not use the drive.
Recording: Only available if the drive is a local drive on the
XProtect Essential server. Network drives cannot be used for
recording. Use the drive for storing recordings in the regular
database for XProtect Essential.
Archiving: Use the drive for archiving. For archiving, it is generally
a good idea to use a drive which has plenty of space. With dynamic
path selection for archives (see description in the following), you do
not have to worry about drive space.
Rec. & Archiving: Only available if the drive is a local drive on the
XProtect Essential server. Network drives cannot be used for
recording. Use the drive for storing recordings in the regular
database for XProtect Essential as well as for archiving.