Milestone Paxton Integration Component - Manual (Page 23)

XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide
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Configuration on XProtect Corporate
This section contains a detailed guide on how to configure the Milestone Paxton Integration component installed
on XProtect Corporate. Go through the “Initial configuration steps” section before proceeding with this part of the
configuration.
This guide is divided into the following tasks:
1) Configure XProtect Corporate Rules to act on Net2 events
2) Configure Access Control Profiling
To perform these tasks, start a Management client and connect it to the target server.
Configure XProtect Corporate Rules to act on Net2 events
XProtect Corporate offers a more advanced scheme for mapping events to camera operations based on rules.
By means of a single generic rule, it is possible to define the appropriate behavior for all the cameras to a specific
type of Net2 events.
When the Milestone Paxton Integration component maps a Net2 event to a Milestone event, it also includes the
cameras related to the source (i.e. the door as set up in “Define mappings between doors and cameras”) as so-
called metadata. Milestone therefore recommends that events mapped are associated with rules where the
devices are taken from metadata. This is not a requirement though, so a rule can be hardwired to use a specific
camera.
To setup up a rule based camera control to act on Net2 Events, go through the following steps:
1) Configure Mapping of Net2 events to User Defined events
2) Set up a rule
Configure Mapping of Net2 events to User Defined events
Take the scenario, that a camera associated with a specific door should be moved to point at the door using a
preset PTZ position when the door is opened.
First step is to define a user defined event.
Select the User-define events option in the tree view:
Figure 21: Location of the User-defined Events
Right- click the item and select “Add user-defined event”. Select a name for the event, like “Door opened”.
To map one or more Net2 events to this User Defined event, locate the Paxton node in the MIP Plugins tree, as
indicated below. Click the “Event Mapping” panel to open then event mapping dialog.
Select one or more Net2 event (keep the shift key down while doing it) and then select a Milestone event in the
“Milestone events” panel. Finally click the ‘>’ button. This will create an entry in the “Event map” panel.
Hit the diskette button in the tool bar to save what you have done until now.