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Using alarm load filters – Milestone Central 3.7 User Manual

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Client straight away.

However, if there are many alarms to load for a selected item (such as a camera, a server, all

servers, or similar), the loading process may take some time. When this is the case, your Client will
display a small dialog informing you that there are many alarms to load:

The dialog’s progress bar will give you an indication of the amount of time remaining before all the

alarms are loaded.

Tip: The latest alarms are loaded first. If you do not want to wait until all alarms have been

loaded, click the dialog’s Cancel button. In that case, alarms loaded until you clicked Cancel will be
displayed in your Client.

Using Alarm Load Filters

You are able to specify which alarm states (i.e. New alarms, Assigned alarms, Resolved alarms,

etc.) you want to load from the Milestone XProtect Central Server.

Limiting which alarm states to load from the Server will often provide you with a less complex list

of alarms in your Client.

IMPORTANT: Consult your Milestone XProtect Central administrator and other relevant colleagues

before changing which alarm states to load in your Client. You risk missing out on important
information if you do not load all relevant alarm states in your Client.

To specify which types of alarms to load, do the following:

1. Click the Alarm Overview list’s Load Filter button.


This will open the Alarm Load Filter window:

2. In the Alarm Load Filter window, you have two ways of limiting which alarm states to load:

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