Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 169)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 169 Management Client elements
Create the scenario
1. Expand Rules and Events, right-click Generic Events, and select Add New:
o In the Name: field enter, for example, RecCam1.
o In the Expression: field enter RecordCamera1.
o In the Data source: field select International.
2. Save your changes. Add a rule defining that when the generic event RecCam1 is triggered,
recording should start on Camera1.
Test scenario
1. Expand Rules and Events, select Generic Events.
2. In the Overview pane, select the top-node Generic Event.
3. In the Properties pane:
o In String to send as generic event: enter Please RecordCamera1 that would be nice.
o In Data source to send event string to: select International.
4. Click Send.
If you did not change default echo settings, you should get the following response in Echo from event
server and local error message: 1,39,1,RecCam1. This means that request number 1 had 39
characters and that there was 1 match with a generic event named RecCam1.
To try out the event from a non-XProtect application, start a DOS box, enter telnet localhost 1235
and press Enter. Next, type RecordCamera1 that would be nice and press Enter. You should get
the same response.
Generic event (properties)
Component Requirement
Name
Unique name for the generic event. Name must be unique among
all types of events. such as user defined events, analytics events,
and so on.
Enabled
Generic events are by default enabled. Clear the check box to
disable the event.