User manual

AXIS Camera Station

Workspaces

When connected to multiple AXIS Camera Station Servers, devices on all servers are displayed in the Camera Management

workspace’s main window . With the exception of assigning IP addresses, tasks can be performed on different servers at the same time.

Tags

For efﬁcient management, devices can be organized using tags. A device can have more than one tag. You can for example create

tags for managing different camera mo dels and tags for cameras in different locations.

Created tags are listed in the Device Tags pane on the left-hand side of the Camera Management workspace. All Devices lists all

connected devices. If there is a warning or error associated with a p articular device, the device is also listed under Warnings/Errors.

To display all devices associated with a tag , select the tag unde r Tags. The devices will be liste d in the main window along with their

IP address, host name, connection status, serial number, model, ﬁrmware version being used, if the device was conﬁgured using DHCP,

the names of the cameras associated with the device and the server the device is connected to.

From the toolbar you can:

Create a new tag

Rename the selected tag

Delete selected tags

Once tags have been created you can:

Addatagtoadevice

Select the device , right-click and select Tag.

Remove a tag from a device First sele ct the tag under Tags in the De v ice Tags pane. Then se

lect the device, right-click and

select Untag.

Logs

The Logs workspace shows alarm, event and audit logs for easy navigation and an instant overview o f the system. The workspace is

divided in three tabs:

Alarms Displays events and system alarms that have been triggered. Listed are the date and time of the alarm, the alarm

title and an alarm description. For information on how to set up alarms, see Event C onﬁguration Wizard, on pa ge 43.

Events Displays camera and server ev

ents such as recordings, triggers, alarms, errors and system mess ages. Listed are the

date and time of the event, the event category and an event message.

Audit Displays all user actions such as manual recordings, vid eo streaming started or stopped and event conﬁgurations.

Select Live logs in the Logs pane to display co ntinuously updated lists of alarms, events and audits. To search for logs from speciﬁc

time period, select the Search option and specify a range of dates, a start time and an en d time. Click Search to sta rt the sear ch.