Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 140)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 140 Management Client elements
Action Description
You can also create more rules to the same event and send different
notifications to each of the notification profiles. You can copy and re-use the
content of rules by right-clicking a rule in the Rules list.
This type of action requires that you have defined at least one notification
profile. Pre-alarm images are only included if you have enabled the Include
images option for the relevant notification profile.
No mandatory stop action: This type of action does not require a stop
action. You can specify optional stop actions to be performed on either an
event or after a period of time.
Make new <log
entry> Generates an entry in the rule log. When selecting this type of action, the
Manage Rule wizard prompts you to specify a text for the log entry. When
you specify the log text, you can insert variables, such as $DeviceName$,
$EventName$, into the log message.
No mandatory stop action: This type of action does not require a stop
action. You can specify optional stop actions to be performed on either an
event or after a period of time.
Start plug-in on
<devices> Starts one or more plug-ins. When you select this type of action, the Manage
Rule wizard prompts you to select required plug-ins, and on which devices to
start the plug-ins.
This type of action requires that you have at least one or more plug-ins
installed on your system.
No mandatory stop action: This type of action does not require a stop
action. You can specify optional stop actions to be performed on either an
event or after a period of time.
Stop plug-in on
<devices> Stops one or more plug-ins. When you select this type of action, the Manage
Rule wizard prompts you to select required plug-ins, and on which devices to
stop the plug-ins.
This type of action requires that you have at least one or more plug-ins
installed on your system.
No mandatory stop action: This type of action does not require a stop
action. You can specify optional stop actions to be performed on either an
event or after a period of time.
Apply new settings
on <devices> Changes device settings on one or more devices. When you select this type
of action, the Manage Rule wizard prompts you to select relevant devices,
and you can define the relevant settings on the devices you have specified.
If you define settings for more than one device, you can only change settings
that are available for all of the specified devices.
Example: You specify that the action should be linked to Device 1 and Device
2. Device 1 has the settings A, B and C, and Device 2 has the settings B, C
and D. In this case, you can only change the settings that are available for
both devices, namely settings B and C.
No mandatory stop action: This type of action does not require a stop
action. You can specify optional stop actions to be performed on either an