Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 221)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 221 Management Client elements
Event Server tab (options)
On the Event Server tab, you can specify settings for alarms, events and logs.
Name Description
Keep closed alarms for
Select the number of days to keep closed alarms. Closed alarms
are in the states Closed, Ignore, and Reject.
Keep all other alarms for
Select the number of days to keep all other alarms than alarms in
the states Closed, Ignore, and Reject.
Important: Alarms always have timestamps. If the alarm is
triggered by a camera, the timestamp has an image from the time of
the alarm. The alarm information itself is stored on the event server,
while the video recordings corresponding to the attached image are
stored on the relevant surveillance system server.
To be able to see the images of your alarms, keep video recordings
for at least as long as you intend to keep alarms on the event
server.
Keep events for Specify the number of days for which to keep events.
Keep logs for
Specify the number of days for which to keep the Alarms log. You
can define any number up to 99.999 days, server space permitting.
You can use the value 0 to keep closed alarms indefinitely, server
space permitting.
Log server communication
Select the check box if you want to save a separate log of server
communication in addition to the regular log, for the number of days
specified.
Generic Events tab (options)
On the Generic Events tab, you can specify generic events and data source related settings.
For more information about how to configure actual generic events, see About generic events (on
page 167).