Milestone M50 - Manual (Page 27)

Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
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About saving changes to the configuration
As you set up your system, you must save any changes you make to the configuration in order for
these to be applied to the system. When you change the configuration in the Management Application,
for example in the Camera Summary or Users Properties, a yellow notification bar informs you that
you have made changes to the configuration. The bar appears in order to make sure that your
changes are applied to the system. If you want to apply the changes, click Save. If you do not want to
save your changes, click Discard.
Once you have made changes to the configuration of your Management Application and saved these,
your system contacts the system services (such as the Recording Server service and the Image
Server service). If you make changes to your configuration, for example if you change the name of a
camera or change motion detection settings, the relevant system services load the new configuration
and the changes appear in your client immediately. In contrast, more resource-demanding
configuration changes, for example if you add a new event, require that you restart the relevant
services before they work properly. If a restart of services is necessary, your system carries out the
restart automatically once you have saved the changes. If you make changes to settings in the
Milestone Mobile server, your system applies all changes when you click Save, without restarting the
Milestone Mobile server service.
IMPORTANT: While your system restarts services, you cannot view or record video. Restarting
services typically only takes a few seconds, but in order to minimize disruption, you may want to
restart services at a time when you do not expect that any important incidents take place. Users
connected to your system through clients can remain logged in during the restart of services, but may
experience a short video outage.
Note that the system stores changes in a restore point (see "Restore system configuration from a
restore point" on page 192) (so that you can return to a working configuration if something goes
wrong).
About the built-in help
To use your system's built-in help, click the Help button in the Management Application's toolbar or
press the F1 key on your keyboard.