Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 135)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 135 Management Client elements
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Generic events: Generic events allow you to trigger actions in the XProtect event server by
sending simple strings via the IP network to your system.
See Events overview for a list of events.
About actions and stop actions
When you add rules in the Manage Rule wizard, you can select between different actions:
Example: Selecting actions
Some of the actions require a stop action. Example: If you select the action Start recording,
recording starts and potentially continues indefinitely. As a result, the action Start recording has a
mandatory stop action called Stop recording.
The Manage Rule wizard makes sure you specify stop actions when necessary:
Selecting stop actions. In the example, note the mandatory stop action (selected, dimmed), the non-relevant stop actions
(dimmed) and the optional stop actions (selectable).
Each type of action from your XProtect system is described. You may have more actions available if
your system installation uses add-on products or vendor-specific plug-ins. For each type of action,
stop action information is listed if relevant:
Action Description
Start recording on
<devices> Start recording and saving data in the database from the selected devices.
When your select this type of action, the Manage Rule wizard prompts you to
specify:
When recording should start. This happens either immediately or a number of
seconds before the triggering event/beginning of the triggering time interval
and on which devices the action should take place.
This type of action requires that you have enabled recording on the devices to
which the action are linked. You can only save data from before an event or
time interval if you have enabled pre-buffering for the relevant devices. You
enable recording and specify pre-buffering settings for a device on the
Record tab.
Stop action required: This type of action requires one or more stop actions.
In one of the following steps, the wizard automatically prompts you to specify
the stop action: Stop recording.