Milestone System Watch - Manual (Page 4)

Milestone System Watch Manual
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About Milestone System Watch
Milestone System Watch is a utility intended for security personnel to monitor and detect hardware or
software failures. In order to use System Watch, you must install it on a separate computer from the
computer running the XProtect
® software you want to monitor. One System Watch installation can
watch a single XProtect server.
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In a setup with a single XProtect server, you need a single installation of System Watch on a
PC separate from the XProtect ® server. (scenario 1)
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In a setup with a multi-server system running XProtect Enterprise or XProtect Professional,
you can have System Watch on Server A monitor Server B, while Server B can run System
Watch to monitor Server C, etc. (scenario 2)
Once installed, System Watch checks if software and/or hardware on the computer than runs your
XProtect system is running correctly. If failures are detected, System Watch triggers outputs to an
attached ADAM 6060 box (if you have such an ADAM box installed). This takes place when System
Watch has registered a number of failures.
System Watch can detect:
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Hard drive failures. If a hard drive fails on which recordings are stored (before archiving), you
can configure System Watch to trigger an output on an I/O device.
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Recording system failures, including power failures. If the recording server fails (for example a
crash, network interface card failure, motherboard failure, power failure), you can trigger an
output on an I/O device.