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Frame colors of camera number and Surveillance window
Attention!
This section describes the default parameters of the color indication of the Surveillance window border. They can be changed during the system configuration—see Configuring the interface of the Surveillance window.
The color of the Surveillance window border indicates the current camera status.
Color of the Surveillance window border | Camera status |
Green | Camera disarmed |
Yellow | Camera armed |
Red | Camera is armed, alarm event occurred on camera. OR Camera is disarmed, but one or more detection areas are alarmed and an alarm event is detected in them—see also Indication of detection tool status |
The color of the camera number indicator border in the Surveillance window indicates the current status of the video recording from the camera.
Color of the camera number border | Camera status |
Green | No video recording, camera is disarmed |
Yellow | No video recording, camera is armed |
Red | Video recording |
The combinations of the Surveillance window border color and the color of the camera number border are described in the following table.
Color of the Surveillance window border | Color of the camera number border | Camera status |
Yellow | Yellow | Camera is armed, no video recording is performed |
Red | Red | Alarm event occurred on the camera or in the alarmed detection area. Video recording is started by an alarm event, or the recording, started by Operator's command before the alarm event, continues |
Green | Red | Camera is disarmed, but there is recording by Operator's command or post-alarm recording |
Yellow | Red | Camera is armed, recording by Operator's command or post-alarm recording is done |
Green | Green | Camera is disarmed, no video recording is performed |
Red | Yellow | Alarm event occurred on camera or in the alarmed detection area, but no video recording by alarm is done |
Note
If the auxiliary camera detector zone has been armed or disarmed, the border around the Surveillance window retains its color, but after an alarm event in the auxiliary zone the Surveillance window border becomes red. So, there is no indication of auxiliary detector zone arming and disarming for the camera by the frame of the Surveillance window. See also Indication of detection tool status.
Icons next to the camera number
The icon of video signal absence 
appears below the icon of "video camera number" only when there is no video signal. It can be in two cases: video camera is not connected or there is camera restart.
Note
The last video frame or blue screen (depending on the video capture card) is displayed in the Surveillance window if there is no video signal.
The icon of the selected disk absence 
appears above the icon of "video camera number" if disk for archive storing is not selected (see Selecting the disks for video archive storage).
The icon of the overloaded disk 
appears above the icon of "video camera number" if there are frames skipped during archive recording (it means, the FRAME_SKIPPED events are received, see CAM Camera). You can enable the indication of frames skipping with the ShowFrameSkippedStatus key, see Registry keys reference guide.
When incorrect camera type is given, the icon of disconnect with the camera 
appears above the icon of "video camera number" and the frame of Surveillance window turns black.
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