Documentation for Monitoring 13.0. Documentation for other versions of Monitoring is available too.

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The list of cameras specified in the configuration panel for the Partition Of Control object defines the cameras whose archives can be accessed through the Search in Archive interface object (see the document Monitoring Software Package: Operator's Guide). In addition, this list defines the cameras whose state and archives are monitored by Agent of Control.

Depending on whether the list of cameras has been specified or not, the following situations are possible:

  1. If cameras are specified in the list, Agent of Control works in normal mode: it monitors the state of cameras and their archives. Server of Control receives information about the number of cameras, disks, disk volume, etc.
  2. If no cameras are specified in the list, Agent of Control checks for the presence of a Backup archive object in the system and gets information about disks from this object. In this case, Server of Control will receive information only for the disks marked in the Backup archive object. Access to the archive is not performed from the Search in Archive interface object during this process.
  3. If no cameras are indicated in Agent of Control settings and there is no Backup archive object in the configuration, information about disks is taken from the Computer object; the disks indicated for storage of the main archive are taken into account. Access to the archive is not performed from the Search in Archive interface object during this process.

In the second and third cases, monitoring is performed of the state of the system (network functioning, restarts, etc.) and disks (their number and free space). The state of cameras and their archives is not available for monitoring.

Note.

Creation and configuration of the Backup archive object is described in the document Intellect Software Package: Administrator's Guide.

To configure the list of cameras in use:

  1. Go to the configuration panel for the Partition Of Control object.
  2. Click the Cameras... button. The Add/edit cameras window opens.
  3. Configure the necessary cameras by clicking the  and  buttons to move cameras from the left list to the one on the right (1).
  4. Select cameras in the list on the right.
  5. In the Keep archive for (days) field, specify the storage time of the video archive in days (2).

  6. In the Gaps in the archive (days) field, specify the number of days on which the video archive is not recorded, because non-working days are taken into account in the working schedule (3).

  7. In the Camera connection date field, specify the date the camera was connected to the system (4).

  8. Click the Set for selected cameras listed on the right button (5).

  9. Click the Apply changes and close button (6). The selected cameras will be added to the list on the configuration panel of the Partition of Control object.
  10. Click the Apply button on the configuration panel of the Partition of Control object.

Note.

The ID numbers of cameras and captioners must be whole numbers.

Note

Cameras will be automatically removed from the list in the following cases:

  • The Camera object or its parent Video Capture Device object is removed from the Intellect hardware list;
  • The Camera object or its parent Video Capture Device object is set to Disabled mode;
  • In a distributed configuration, the Camera object is moved to a Video Capture Device object located on another computer;
  • In a distributed configuration, the Video Capture Device object, which the Camera object belongs to, is moved to another computer.

 Configuration of the camera list is now complete.