Milestone Central 3.7 - Manual (Page 9)

Milestone XProtect 3.7; Administrator’s Manual
Product Overview
XProtect Central provides a central overview of any number of XProtect Corporate, XProtect
Enterprise or XProtect Professional installations throughout your organization—whether near or far.
XProtect Central is thus a powerful monitoring solution, providing you with an instant overview of
alarms and possible technical problems through a flexible and intuitive user interface. XProtect
Central ...
• Provides graphical hierarchical overviews of XProtect Corporate, XProtect Enterprise or
XProtect Professional installations and their status
• Provides overview of all incoming alarms, including filtering possibilities
• Allows for multiple operators handling the same pool of alarms
• Provides dynamic role-based setup of alarm handling: operators can see and handle alarms
in different ways
• Provides a central technical overview of all components: servers, cameras, and external
units
• Allows central logging of all incoming alarms and system information
• Supports plugins, allowing customized integration of other systems, for example access
control systems
XProtect Central is a significant addition to any multi-site environment because it delivers central
overview, control, and scalability.
Role of Central Server
The XProtect Central Server receives event and status information from XProtect Corporate,
XProtect Enterprise or XProtect Professional installations, and presents it for operators connected to
the server through XProtect Central Clients.
Video is fed straight from surveillance systems to XProtect Central Clients.
Once installed, XProtect
Central Server primarily
runs as a service in the
background. No
administration is required
on the XProtect Central
Server itself, unless you
want to access log files,
server definition in XML
format, or similar (see
Server: File Locations on
page 23).
The vast majority of
administration takes place
through the XProtect
Central Client, using an
Administrator role (see
page 44). This way you are
able to configure which
XProtect Corporate, XProtect Enterprise or XProtect Professional installations XProtect Central
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