User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Copyrights and Trademarks
- Disclaimer
- Welcome to NetVision
- Common / Daily Tasks- 5 Starting your Software and Logging In
- 6 Alarm / Reporting Features and 'Chatting'
- 7 Playing or Downloading Video Recordings- 7.1 Overview--Types of Playback
- 7.2 Playback--Technical Details
- 7.3 Synchronized Playback (v2.3 SP2)
- 7.4 Video Search (v2.3 SP2)
- 7.5 Searching for Motion
- 7.6 Working with the Playback Screen
- 7.7 Viewing and Printing 'Snapshots'
- 7.8 Working with the File List
- 7.9 Quad Playback
- 7.10 Server Management--Identifying Remote Servers for Playback
 
- 8 Viewing Live Cameras
- 9 Recording Camera-Views
 
- System Administration and Maintenance- 10 Tasks Applicable to Remote Stations and the Video Server- 10.1 PC Date and Time
- 10.2 Checking your Software Version
- 10.3 Introduction to Video File Management (Filekeeping and Housekeeping)
- 10.4 To Allow Using a Blank CD (Roxio - Easy CD Creator 5 basic with DirectCD)
- 10.5 Filekeeping (v2.3 SP2)
- 10.6 Housekeeping
- 10.7 Automatic Video File Management (Self Housekeeping)
 
- 11 Tasks Performed at the Video Server Only
 
- 10 Tasks Applicable to Remote Stations and the Video Server
- System Configuration
- Software Installation and Network Set Up- 19 PC Requirements
- 20 Software Installation or Upgrade
- 21 Network and Connectivity Issues- 21.1 General Network Requirements
- 21.2 IP Addressing on the Network
- 21.3 Network Services
- 21.4 Network Ports
- 21.5 To Connect via the Internet
- 21.6 Remote User Permissions
- 21.7 For Remote Viewing, Recording, Playback, and/or Audio Monitoring
- 21.8 For Alarm Alerts
- 21.9 For E-Mail Alerts
- 21.10 Windows Dial-Up Networking Connection (i.e., not via the Internet)
- 21.11 Network Usage
 
 
- Reference Topics- 22 Using the Small Remote Module
- 23 Remote Configuration
- 24 The WatchDog Feature
- 25 Hardware Reference
- 26 Troubleshooting
- 27 Using the ATM Interface Option
- 28 Working with the Older Playback Engines- 28.1 The Video Playback Feature (Micro DVR)
- 28.2 Step 1: Open the Video Player
- 28.3 Step 2: Local / Remote, and Connection Screen
- 28.4 Step 3: Searching for Video/Alarm Files
- 28.5 Smart Motion Search (Micro DVR)
- 28.6 Step 4: Playing a Video
- 28.7 Window Options and File Properties (Micro DVR, Quad Player)
- 28.8 Viewing and Printing 'Snapshots' (Micro DVR)
 
- 29 Viewing Cameras through a Web Browser
- 30 Setting up an IP Camera or Video Server module (v2.3 SP2)
- 31 Panoramic Video Surveillance--PVS (v2.3 SP2)
 

96  NetVision Plus/Elite and Micro DVR v2.3 SP2 User's Guide  21-0400E v2.3.3 
Control Panel, ÖWindows Firewall, 
ÖExceptions, Ö[Add Program]. 
NetVision includes the following software 
components that must be allowed to run: 
• DSR HTTPSVR; • DSR Relay; 
• MDSERVER; • Playback Server; • Chat 
Server; • Audio Server; • Digital 
Surveillance Recorder. 
Note: Installing or upgrading the NetVision software 
must be done by someone with NT administrator 
authority (i.e., logged in as administrator). 
Before you Begin: Refer to the PC requirements 
section to determine if your computer will provide 
adequate performance. 
Related Topics:   
19.2 Remote Station PC Requirements 
1)  If upgrading from an existing version 
of the NetVision software: 
Note: This is a general reference only. For more 
information, look for a 'readme' and/or other PDF file(s) 
in the "Documents" folder on your NetVision CD. 
a)  Make backup copies of any 
alarm/video files that you wish to keep
(under C:\DSR-video)
. 
b)  Ensure the existing NetVision software 
is shut down, and then remove it 
(Control 
Panel Ö "Add/Remove Programs").
2)  Insert the NetVision™ CD and wait 
briefly for the installation program to 
start. (If it doesn't start automatically, 
eject and reinsert the CD.) 
3)  Follow any prompts that appear. 
Tip: Say Yes if asked to delete existing 
alarm/video files.
4)  Select the type of software to install: 
Remote Station: The full-featured multi-camera 
remote viewer. Intelligent Remote Module
: A 
small, single camera viewer. 
xx Camera NetVision Server
: These selections 
pertain to Video Servers only.
5)  Follow any additional prompts that 
appear. 
Tip: Say Yes if asked to delete 
existing alarm/video files.
6)  When finished, put the CD in a safe 
place. 
Related Topics: 
19.2 Remote Station PC Requirements 
21 Network and Connectivity Issues 
20 
Software Installation or Upgrade 
20.1 
 Installing or Upgrading the Remote Station Software 










