Milestone XProtect Enterprise 2014 - Manual (Page 182)

Milestone XProtect ® Enterprise
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 182 Advanced configuration
Time profiles for alarms
Alarms can be based on time profiles (for alarms) (see "Add a time profile (for alarms)" on page 183).
Time profiles for Alarms are periods of time to use when you create alarm definitions. You can, for
example, create a time profile for alarms covering the period from 2.30 PM till 3.30 PM on Mondays
and use that time profile to make sure that certain alarm definitions are only enabled within this period
of time.
Alarms and XProtect Central
To a large extent, the Alarms feature covers the same functionality as XProtect Central.
However, configuration of former XProtect Central functionality is now included in the Alarms feature.
XProtect Central was an independent product consisting of two parts: a dedicated server and a
number of dedicated clients. Alarms, on the other hand, is an integrated part of your system. This
means that much configuration needed in XProtect Central has become redundant with the
introduction of Alarms. Client-wise, the Alarms feature uses XProtect Smart Client. However, you must
still configure the features Alarms, Time Profiles (for Alarms) and General Settings in the Management
Application. These features are very similar to XProtect Central. You cannot reuse old alarm and map
definitions from XProtect Central. You must redefine your alarms and maps definitions in the Alarms
feature.
Alarms appear in the alarm list 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 alarm, change their
status or comment on alarms.
You can integrate alarms with the map functionality (see "About maps" on page 182). The Alarms
feature is a powerful monitoring tool, providing instant overview of alarms and possible technical
problems.
About maps
With maps as an integrated part of alarms, you get a physical overview of your surveillance system:
with the possibility to assign cameras to a map, you can always tell where alarms originate, which
cameras are placed where, and in what direction are they pointing. Also, you can use maps to
navigate from large perspectives to detailed perspectives, and vice versa: for example, a state map
can have hot zones (small icons on the map) that point to more detailed maps of cities,
neighborhoods, streets, floor plans, and so on.
Example: Hierarchy of maps