ACTi NVR 3 Corporate - Manual (Page 26)

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NVR 3 Corporate User’s Manual
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Monitor the System
The security monitoring, in surveillance world, involve monitoring or patrolling the whole site,
discovering unusual circumstances or investigating the scene at the earliest time. The said
tasks would require knowledge and skills to make use of NVR server functions. This section
will introduce the essentials of how you achieve the goal with NVR 3.0 server.
Read System Alerts and Channel Status
On NVR Live view screen, it is essential to observe the system status events. As unexpected
environmental factors or human behaviors may take place to influence your surveillance
system like power failure or internet connection interruption, NVR server may lose the
connection with cameras, and hence you might lose the important video evidence.
Channel Status
The title bar of each channel window displays certain status information about this camera.
If this camera is triggered by events such as video motion,
PIR motion or digital input device, the channel title bar would
turn red for a while to alert you that some movements have
been detected.
The indicators
The color of two indicators on top right
channel title bar shows the following
status:
●Right
:Device is connected with video
presence
:Devices is not connected
:Device is connected, video is not
received
●Left
: Performing manual recording
: Taking snapshot
Device Name+ Date & Time