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Once the software has been installed, and the software licences have been activated, the system must be configured. Please refer to
Open the Management Client after installation. This is where you configure and maintain your system and features.
Add hardware devices to your system. When you open your system for the first time, the Advanced configuration wizard help assists you to add hardware devices, such as cameras, to your system and configure them with user names and passwords.
Configure cameras. You can specify a wide variety of settings for each camera connected to your system. Settings include video format, resolution, motion detection sensitivity, where to store and archive recordings, any pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) preset positions, association with microphones, speakers and more.
Configure events, input and output. Use system events, for example based on input from sensors, to automatically trigger actions in your system. For example: starting or stopping recording on cameras, switching to a particular video frame rate, making PTZ cameras move to specific preset positions. Also use events to activate hardware output, such as lights or sirens.
Configure alarms. You can configure alarms to be generated for Milestone system events, but all Witness system events and live events are automatically, dynamically integrated. The Alarms feature also handles general alarms settings and alarm logging. Alarms appear in the alarm manager in XProtect Smart Client. Here, you can view and manage alarms to ease overview and to delegate and handle alarms. You can, for example, reassign alarms, change their status or comment on alarms.
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See the Milestone documentation for further information |
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1. Ensure you have a Witness user and a dedicated Witness Role in the Milestone system.
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2. Ensure that the Witness user has been allocated to the Witness group
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The Milestone Plugin will appear as a node under the Integration Configurations folder within the Configuration Tree.
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Enabled:
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Select to enable the Milestone Plugin.
Name:
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The unique name of the plugin.
Alarm Priority:
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This sets the minimum level of alarm that the plugin will report to the Milestone system.
Generate Alarms:
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Select to enable alarms in the Milestone XProtect Smart Client.
Generate Bookmarks:
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Select to enable bookmarks to be created in the recorded video when an alarm is triggered in the Milestone XProtect Smart Client.
UI Camera:
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The name of the UI Stream in Milestone. Once the UI MJPEG stream has been configured in Milestone you will be able to select it here. This enables Witness to bookmark the UI video recording in the event of an incident.
Bookmark Preamble (s):
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The period of time before an alarm is triggered recorded in a bookmark.
Bookmark Postamble (s):
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The period of time after an alarm is triggered recorded in a bookmark.
Server IP:
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The Milestone server IP address.
Username:
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The username of the User logged into the Milestone services.
Password:
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The password of the User logged into the Milestone services.
Authmode:
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Specifies the security protocol for the User:
a.Basic
b. Windows SSO (Single Sign On)
c. Windows SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
d.Windows
Critical:
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Select to ensure the primary server is connected on the plugin startup and remains connected.
Use TLS:
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Enable TLS for end-to-end communications security between Witness and Milestone.
Adding Additional Servers
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3. Use the Playback tab to review alarms, and search through all recorded video.
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4. Alarms can be managed and reviewed under the Alarm Manager tab.
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