User guide
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CMT User Guide
Introduction
Dedicated Micros’ Centralized Management Tool (CMT) is designed to reduce the burden of
management and maintenance for administrators of large video surveillance systems. The CMT
automates many tasks which are otherwise very repetitive and time consuming.
Features and Functions
1. Control multiple DVRs from a single management tool.
2. Grant and revoke individual viewing permissions across many DVRs.
3. Upgrade rmware on multiple DVRs simultaneously.
4. Congure DVRs.
5. Time sync DVRs to a NTP Server’s time.
6. Back up, restore, and copy DVR congurations.
7. Share a common set of viewing permissions by grouping DVRs and then
associating users to the DVR Group.
8. Each DVR can be in more than one Group.
9. In addition to inheriting the viewing permissions of their assigned groups, certain
users (DVR Administrators) will also be assigned conguration and maintenance
rights for the DVRs in their Groups.
10. All system conguration data is backed up to the CMT database.
11. All conguration changes and alert messages are captured in the CMT database
and accessible via the Audit Log Tab.
12. Upon login to CMT, system “alerts” are displayed to Administrators.
13. CMT allows for the creation of three types of users:
• CMT Administrators have all permissions for all DVRs
• DVR Administrators have a subset of permissions for a subset of DVRs
• Viewing Users have video viewing permissions (live and/or recorded) for
a subset of DVRs and a subset of cameras via NetVu Observer and other
Viewers.