Milestone XProtect Enterprise 2014 - Manual (Page 114)

Milestone XProtect ® Enterprise
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 114 Advanced configuration
Configure general event handling
Before configuring events of any type, configure general event handling, such as which ports XProtect
Enterprise should use for event data. Normally, you can just use the default values, but it is a good
idea to verify that your organization is not already using the ports for other purposes.
1. Expand Advanced Configuration, right-click Events and Output, and select Properties.
2. Specify required properties (see "Ports and polling" on page 116). Your system comes with
two simple schedule profiles, Always on and Always off, which you cannot edit or delete. If
these do not meet your needs, you can create any number of customized schedule profiles for
each camera. You can reuse a customized schedule profile for more than one purpose if you
want to.
3. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upper-
right corner of the Management Application.
Generate alarms based on analytics events
Generating alarms based on analytics events is normally a three-step process:
1. Enable the analytics events feature and set up its security. A list of allowed addresses can be
used to control who can send event data to the system and on which port the server listens.
2. Create the analytics event, possibly with a description of the event, and test it.
3. Use the analytics event as the source of an alarm definition (see "Alarms definition" on page
184).
As indicated, to use VCA-based events, most often a third-party VCA tool is required for supplying
data to your system. Which VCA tool to use is entirely up to you, as long as the data supplied by the
tool adheres to the applied formatting rules described in the Milestone Analytics Events Developers
Manual. Contact Milestone for more details.
Test a generic event
If you have added a generic event, a quick and easy way to test your generic event is to first set up an
event notification and then use Telnet to send a small amount of data which triggers the generic event
and in turn the event notification.
For this example, we have created a generic event called Video. Our generic event specifies that if the
term video appears in a received TCP data package, this should trigger the generic event. Your
generic event may be different, but you can still use the principles outlined in the following:
1. In the Management Application navigation pane, expand Advanced Configurations, then
expand Cameras and Storage Information, right-click a camera to which you have access in
XProtect Smart Client, and select Properties.
2. Select Event Notification and select the required generic event. Make sure that your generic
event is the only event appearing in the Selected Events list while you are performing the
test, otherwise you cannot be sure that it is your generic event which triggers the event
notification. Once you are done testing, you can move any temporarily removed events back to
the Selected Events list.