Document Outline

• Before you start
  • About minimum system requirements
  • About important port numbers
  • About administrator rights
  • About daylight saving time
  • About time servers
  • About virus scanning
• System overview
  • System overview
  • Clients
    • XProtect Smart Client
      • About XProtect Smart Client
      • Install XProtect Smart Client
        • Install from the management server
        • Install silently
    • Milestone Mobile client
      • About Milestone Mobile client
      • Install Milestone Mobile client
    • XProtect Web Client
      • About XProtect Web Client
      • Access XProtect Web Client
  • Recording Server Manager
  • XProtect Download Manager
  • Licenses
    • About licenses
    • About seeing license information
    • About replacing cameras
• Install and upgrade
  • Install your system software
  • Install silently
  • Install video device drivers
  • Upgrade
    • About upgrading
    • About updates
    • Upgrading from one product version to another product version
      • About upgrading from one product version to another product version
    • Upgrading from one current XProtect Professional VMS product to another current XProtect Professional VMS product
      • About upgrading from one current XProtect Professional VMS product to another current XProtect Professional VMS product
    • About removing system components
• First time use
  • Get your system up and running
  • Best practices
    • About protecting recording databases from corruption
    • About saving changes to the configuration
    • About using the built-in help
    • About restarting services
    • Monitor storage space usage
    • View video from cameras in Management Application
• Getting started
  • About the Getting started page
  • Automatic configuration wizard
    • Automatic configuration wizard: First page
    • Automatic configuration wizard: Scanning options
    • Automatic configuration wizard: Select hardware manufacturers to scan for
    • Automatic configuration wizard: Scanning for hardware devices
    • Automatic configuration wizard: Continue after scan
  • Add hardware wizard
    • Express
      • Hardware detection and verification
      • Overview and names
    • Manual
      • Information, driver selection and verification
      • Import from CSV file
        • Add Hardware Devices wizard - Import from CSV File - example of CSV file
        • Add hardware: Import from CSV file - CSV file format and requirements
  • Configure storage wizard
    • Configure storage: Video settings and preview
    • Configure storage: Online schedule
    • Configure storage: Live and recording settings (motion JPEG cameras)
    • Configure storage: Live and recording settings (MPEG cameras)
    • Configure storage: Drive selection
    • Configure storage: Recording and archiving settings
  • Adjust motion detection wizard
    • Adjust motion detection: Exclude regions
    • Adjust motion detection: Motion detection
  • Manage user access wizard
    • Manage user access: Basic and Windows users
    • Manage user access: Access summary
• Advanced configuration
  • Hardware devices
    • About hardware devices
    • About microphones
    • About recording audio
    • About dedicated input/output devices
    • Show or hide microphones or speakers
    • Configure hardware devices
    • Delete hardware devices
    • About replacing hardware devices
    • About the Replace Hardware Device wizard
      • New hardware device information
      • Camera and database action
    • Hardware properties
      • Hardware name and video channels
      • Network, device type, and license
      • PTZ device (properties)
  • Cameras and storage information
    • About video and recording configuration
    • About database resizing
    • About motion detection
    • About motion detection and PTZ cameras
    • Configure camera-specific schedules
    • Configure when cameras should do what
    • Configure motion detection
    • Disable or delete cameras
    • Move PTZ type 1 and 3 to required positions
    • Recording and storage properties
      • Recording and archiving paths (properties)
      • Dynamic path selection (properties)
      • Video recording (properties)
      • Manual recording
      • Frame rate - MJPEG
        • Template and common properties
        • Regular frame rate properties
        • Speedup frame rate properties
      • Frame Rate - MPEG
      • Audio selection
      • Audio recording
      • Storage information
    • Camera properties
      • General
      • Video
        • If the camera uses the MPEG video format
        • If the camera uses the MJPEG video format
      • Audio
      • Recording
      • Recording and archiving paths
      • Event notification
      • Output
      • Motion detection & exclude regions
      • Privacy masking
      • 360 lens
      • Fisheye
      • PTZ preset positions
      • PTZ on event
  • Microphones
    • About microphones
    • Configure microphones or speakers
    • Show or hide microphones or speakers
    • Microphone (properties)
  • Events and output
    • About input and output
    • About events and output
    • Overview of events and output
    • Add an analytics event
    • Add a hardware input event
    • Add a hardware output
    • Add a manual event
    • Add a generic event
    • Add a timer event
    • Configure general event handling
    • Test a generic event
    • General event properties
      • Ports and polling
    • Events and output properties
      • Analytics event
      • Hardware input event
      • Manual event
      • Timer event
      • Generic event
      • Hardware output
  • Scheduling and archiving
    • About scheduling
    • About archiving
      • About the benefits of archiving
      • About archiving locations
        • About archiving to other locations
        • About dynamic archive paths
          • About archiving audio
      • Storage capacity required for archiving
      • About archiving schedules
      • Automatic response if running out of disk space
      • About viewing archived recordings
    • Configure general scheduling and archiving
    • General scheduling properties
      • Scheduling all cameras
      • Scheduling options
      • Archiving
    • Camera-specific scheduling properties
      • Online period
      • Speedup
      • E-mail notification
  • Logs
    • About logs
    • Configure system, event and audit logging
    • Log properties
  • Notifications
    • Email
      • About email
      • Configure email notifications
      • Message Settings (email)
        • Server Settings (email)
        • Attachment Settings (email)
    • Scheduling
      • About scheduling of notifications
      • Notification Scheduling properties
  • Central
    • About Central
    • Enable XProtect Central
    • Central properties
  • Access control
    • About access control integration
    • Wizard for access control system integration
      • Create access control system integration
      • Connecting to the access control system
      • Associated cameras
      • Final summary
    • Access control properties
      • General Settings tab (Access Control)
      • Associated Cameras tab (Access Control)
      • Access Control Events tab (Access Control)
      • Access Control Actions
      • Cardholders tab (Access Control)
  • Server access
    • About server access
    • About registered services
    • Configure server access
    • Server access properties
      • Server access
      • Local IP ranges
      • Language support and XML encoding
  • Users
    • About users
    • Add basic users
    • Add Windows users
    • Add user groups
    • Configure user and group rights
    • Overview of users and groups
    • User properties
      • User information
      • Group information
      • General access
      • Camera access
      • Access control management
  • Services
    • About services
    • Start and stop services
  • Servers
    • Mobile server
      • About Mobile server
      • About direct streaming
      • About Video push
      • About saving configuration changes in XProtect Enterprise 8.1 and streamlined software versions
      • Add/edit a Mobile server
      • Delete a Mobile server
      • Rename a Mobile server
      • Add a Video push channel
      • Add a Video push driver as a hardware device
      • Add hardware devices settings
      • Mobile server settings
        • General
        • Server Status
        • Video Push
        • Export
          • Auto Export Rule window settings
        • Performance
        • Log Settings
        • Mobile Server Manager
          • About Mobile Server Manager
          • About show status
          • About accessing logs and exports
          • Edit certificate
          • Fill in/edit surveillance server credentials
          • Show/edit port numbers
          • Start, stop and restart Mobile service
  • Alarms
    • About alarms
    • Add an alarm
    • Add a time profile (for alarms)
    • Alarms properties
      • Alarms definition
      • Alarm data settings
      • Sound settings
      • Time profile
  • MIP plug-ins
    • About MIP plug-ins
• Settings
  • About automatic device discovery
  • Disable information collection
  • Change default file paths
  • Options
    • General
    • User Interface
    • Default File Paths
    • Analytics Event Settings
• System maintenance
  • Back up and restore configuration
    • About back up and restore of configuration
    • Back up system configuration
    • Restore system configuration
    • Back up and restore alarm and map configuration
    • Export and import management application configuration
    • Import changes to configuration
    • Restore system configuration from a restore point
• Glossary of Terms
  • 360 degrees panomorph support
  • API
  • Aspect ratio
  • ATM
  • AVI
  • Central
  • Codec
  • CSV
  • Device
  • DirectX
  • DNS
  • Driver
  • DST
  • Dual stream
  • Event Server
  • Fisheye
  • FPS
  • Frame rate
  • GOP
  • Grace period
  • GUID
  • H.264
  • Hardware device
  • Host
  • Hotspot
  • HTTP
  • I/O
  • I-frame
  • Image Server
  • IPIX
  • JPEG
  • Keyframe
  • MAC address
  • Matrix
  • Matrix recipient
  • MJPEG
  • Monitor
  • MPEG
  • NTLM
  • Panomorph
  • P-frame
  • PIN
  • Ping
  • Polling
  • Port
  • POS
  • Post-recording
  • Pre-alarm
  • Pre-buffer
  • Pre-recording
  • Privacy masking
  • PTZ
  • PUK
  • Recording
  • Recording Server service
  • Restore point
  • SCS
  • SDK
  • SIM
  • SLC
  • SMTP
  • Subnet
  • TCP
  • TCP/IP
  • Telnet
  • UDP
  • UPS
  • Video encoder
  • Video server
  • View
  • VMD
• Index