Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 164)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 164 XProtect Smart Client – Player
WARNING: Do not attempt to open a live database or live archive —this can damage your system.
Select the folder containing the relevant files. When you select a database, the name of the device
appears next to the Camera, Microphone, or Speaker field. If the system cannot identify a camera,
for example, if you open archived recordings, the name will be Unknown and all three types of
devices will be added as Unknown devices (even if they don't exist) with the database file name
assigned. If there is no device, the field contains N/A.
You can also see whether or not the database contains signatures. You can verify the database when
it is added to the project (see the following section).
If the database you are trying to open is corrupted, the wizard can repair it.
Verify signatures
If the exported material you are viewing has a signature assigned to it, you can verify this manually.
1. On the XProtect Smart Client – Player toolbar, click the Verify Signatures button to open the
Manual verification window. Here you can see the devices and whether they have been
modified (tampered with) on the recording server and/or after the export process. A database
can be verified, partially verified (if some of the files have not had signatures attached), or not
signed.
2. Click Verify to start the verification process, in which all the files are checked and verified.
There are two scenarios where digital signatures are excluded during the export process:
- If a privacy mask has been added, no digital signatures for the recording server will be included in
the export.
- If the data you are exporting is very close to the current date and time, the digital signature for the
recording server might not be included for the whole sequence. In this case, only part of the export will
have digital signatures added.
The export process will complete, but when you verify the signatures, you will see that the
digital signatures for the recording server were removed or partially OK.