Instruction Manual

Milestone Husky M30/M50
Administrator's Manual
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Advanced configuration
Camera-specific
Specify video, recording and camera-specific settings (such as
event notification, PTZ preset positions and fisheye view areas) for
each individual camera.
About database resizing
In case recordings for a camera get bigger than expected, or the available drive space is suddenly
reduced in another way, an advanced database resizing procedure automatically takes place:
 If archives (see "About archiving" on page 126) are present on the same drive as the camera's
database, the oldest archive for all cameras archived on that drive is moved to another drive
(moving archives is only possible if you use dynamic archiving (see "Dynamic path selection"
on page 72), with which you can archive to several different drives) or—if moving is not
possible—deleted.
 If no archives are present on the drive containing the camera's database, the size of all
camera databases on the drive is reduced by deleting a percentage of their oldest recordings,
temporarily limiting the size of all databases.
When the Recording Server service (see "About services" on page 170) is restarted upon such
database resizing, the original database sizes are used. Therefore, you should make sure to solve the
drive size problem. Should the database resizing procedure take place, you are informed on-screen in
XProtect Smart Client, in log files, and, if set up, through notifications.
About motion detection settings
Motion detection settings are linked to the Recording properties (see "Recording" on page 90) settings
for the camera. Motion detection is enabled as default. Disabling it will improve CPU and RAM
performance of your Milestone Husky product system, but will—depending on your system settings—
also affect your motion detection, event and alarm management. In the following two tables, you can
see the differences between enabling (table 1) and disabling (table 2) built-in motion detection for a
camera.
Enabled motion detection
Recording properties
setting
Recordings
Motion-based
events
Non-motion
based events
Sequences
Always
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Never
No
Yes
Yes
No
Built-in Motion
Detection
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Built-in Motion
Detection & Event or
Event only
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes