Milestone Systems XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Contents BEFORE YOU START ....................................................................10 ABOUT MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ........................................................... 10 ABOUT IMPORTANT PORT NUMBERS ................................................................... 10 ABOUT ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS ......................................................................... 11 ABOUT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME .............................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual UPGRADE......................................................................................................... 29 About upgrading ................................................................................................................ 29 About updates .................................................................................................................... 29 Upgrading from one product version to another product version ..........
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure storage: Online schedule ................................................................................ 44 Configure storage: Live and recording settings (motion JPEG cameras) ................... 45 Configure storage: Live and recording settings (MPEG cameras) ............................... 47 Configure storage: Drive selection ..................................................................................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure when cameras should do what ....................................................................... 67 Configure motion detection .............................................................................................. 67 Disable or delete cameras ................................................................................................. 67 Move PTZ type 1 and 3 to required positions .............................................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Camera-specific scheduling properties ......................................................................... 129 LOGS ............................................................................................................. 130 About logs ......................................................................................................................... 130 Configure system, event and audit logging .......................................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual SERVICES ...................................................................................................... 155 About services .................................................................................................................. 155 Start and stop services .................................................................................................... 156 SERVERS ..................................................................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Export and import management application configuration ......................................... 183 Import changes to configuration .................................................................................... 184 Restore system configuration from a restore point ..................................................... 185 GLOSSARY OF TERMS................................................................ 186 INDEX ...............................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Copyright, trademarks and disclaimer Copyright 2014 Milestone Systems A/S. Trademarks XProtect is a registered trademark of Milestone Systems A/S. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective owners.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Before you start About minimum system requirements Important: Your system no longer supports Microsoft® Windows® 2003 (however, you can still run/access clients from computers with Windows 2003). Important: Your system no longer supports Microsoft® Windows® 32-bit OS (however, you can still run/access XProtect Web Client and XProtect Smart Client from computers with Windows 32-bit OS).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Your organization may also have selected to use any other port numbers, for example if you have changed the server access (on page 147) port from its default port number (80) to another port number. About administrator rights When you install the surveillance system, it is important that you have administrator rights on the computer that should run the system. If you only have standard user rights, you cannot configure the surveillance system.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About virus scanning As is the case with any other database software, if an antivirus program is installed on a computer running XProtect® software, it is important that you exclude specific file types and locations, as well as certain network traffic. Without implementing these exceptions, virus scanning uses a considerable amount of system resources.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual System overview System overview Your video surveillance system is the right product for small to mid-sized installations that need robust single-server surveillance software with the full functionality of advanced management, flexible scheduling, fast searching and analysis. The system supports up to 48 cameras simultaneously with the widest choice of network video and computer hardware equipment.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Milestone® Mobile client A free application designed by Milestone that allows you to view video from your system from almost anywhere on your smartphone or tablet. You can also control outputs, such as opening and closing doors and switching lights on or off, allowing you to gain control and dynamically respond to incidents in the system.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Clients Clients are applications used for viewing live and recorded video from the hardware devices set up in the Management Application.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual To download XProtect Smart Client, you must connect to the surveillance system server which presents you with a welcome page that lists available clients and language versions. System administrators can use XProtect Download Manager to control what clients and language versions should be available to users on the welcome page of the XProtect Download Manager.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual To run a silent installation using the default values for all parameters, start a command prompt (cmd.exe) in the directory where the installation program is located and execute following command: o XProtect Smart Client: MilestoneXProtectSmart Client_x64.exe --quiet Your system: MilestoneXProtectProfessionalVMS_installer_x64.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual If you want to use Milestone Mobile client with your system, you must add a Mobile server to establish the connection between the Milestone Mobile client and your system. Once the Mobile server is set up, download the Milestone Mobile client for free from Google Play or App Store to start using Milestone Mobile. Install Milestone Mobile client 1. Access Google Play or App Store℠ on your device. 2.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual XProtect Web Client About XProtect Web Client XProtect Web Client is a web-based client application for viewing, playing back and sharing video. It provides instant access to the most commonly used surveillance functions, such as viewing live video, play back recorded video, print and export evidence. Access to features depends on individual user rights which are set up in the Management Application.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Example: The Milestone Mobile server is installed on a server with the IP address 127.2.3.4 and is configured to accept HTTP connections on port 8081 and HTTPS connections on port 8082 (default settings of the installer). In the address bar of your browser, type: http://127.2.3.4:8081 or https://127.2.3.4:8082, depending on whether you want to use a standard HTTP connection or a secure HTTPS connection. You can now begin using XProtect Web Client. 4.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Place your mouse pointer over a camera in the status window to view details about the relevant camera. The information appears as a pop-up and updates approximately every 10 seconds. Name Description Resolution The resolution of the camera. FPS The number of frames per second (frame rate) currently used by the camera. The number updates each time the camera has received 50 frames.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Immediately after you install your system, the welcome page provides access to XProtect Smart Client in all languages. You can also download XProtectSmart Client in 32- or 64-bit if you run a 64-bit operating system and in 32-bit if you run a 32-bit operating system. This initial look of the welcome page is automatically provided through XProtect Download Manager's default configuration.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual surveillance system server's Installers or relevant language folder, so you can re-install them later if required. To do so: 1. In XProtect Download Manager, click Remove features... 2. In the Remove Features window, select the features you want to remove. 3. Click OK and then click Yes. www.milestonesys.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Licenses About licenses There are different types of licenses available for your XProtect system: Base license. This license is for the XProtect software. You need this to use your system beyond the initial 30-day trial period. Hardware license. Every device you add to the software requires a license. Add-on license.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Note that if your system is connected to the Internet, your licenses are automatically activated as you add devices to system. You do not need to specify any user name or password. The system checks every fifteen minutes if the license file corresponds to the number of installed cameras. If you have added cameras within that time frame, the system automatically adds the license for these cameras as well.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual When you replace a camera, you must use the Replace Hardware Device wizard (see "About the Replace Hardware Device wizard" on page 58) to map all relevant databases of cameras, microphones, inputs, outputs, and more. Remember to activate the license once you are finished. www.milestonesys.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Install and upgrade Install your system software Do not install your surveillance software on a mounted drive. A mounted drive is a drive that is attached to an empty folder on an NTFS (NT File System) volume, with a label or name instead of a drive letter. If you use mounted drives, critical system features may not work as intended. You do not, for example, receive any warnings if the system runs out of disk space.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 1. Locate the XProtect Smart Client .exe file MilestoneXProtectSmart Client_x64.exe. Find the file in a subfolder under the folder httpdocs. The httpdocs folder is located under the folder in which your Milestone surveillance software is installed.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual MilestoneXProtectProfessionalVMS_installer_x64.exe --arguments= [full path]args.xml --quiet Install video device drivers Video device drivers are installed automatically during the initial installation of your system. New versions of video device drivers, known as XProtect Device Pack, are released from time to time and made available for free on the Milestone website.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual When a new version of your VMS software is available, a message in the yellow notification bar informs you that you can update the software. Milestone recommends that you always install the latest version of your surveillance software to ensure that your software is running as smoothly as possible.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Upgrading from one current XProtect Professional VMS product to another current XProtect Professional VMS product About upgrading from one current XProtect Professional VMS product to another current XProtect Professional VMS product If you use one of the XProtect Professional VMS Products*, for example XProtect Express and decide that you want to use the additional features and functionality found in a different XProtect VMS product, for example, XP
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual If you remove your surveillance system, your recordings are not removed. They remain on the server even after the server software has been removed. Configuration files also remain on the server. This allows you to reuse your configuration if you install the system again at a later time. www.milestonesys.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual First time use Get your system up and running This checklist outlines the tasks typically involved when you set up a working system. Note that although the information is presented as a checklist, a completed checklist does not in itself guarantee that the system matches your exact needs. To make the system match the needs of your organization, Milestone highly recommends that you monitor and adjust the system once it is running.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure scheduling Set up when do you want to archive and if you want cameras to transfer video to your system at all times, and other cameras to transfer video only within specific periods of time as well as when specific events occur. Also specify when you want to receive notifications from the system. See Configure general scheduling and archiving (on page 125) and Configure camera-specific schedules (on page 65).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Power outages: use a UPS The single-most common reason for corrupt databases is the recording server being shut down abruptly, without files being saved and without the operating system being closed down properly. This may happen due to power outages, due to somebody accidentally pulling out the server's power cable, or similar.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual changes are applied to the system. If you want to apply the changes, click Save. If you do not want to save your changes, click Discard. Once you have made changes to the configuration of your Management Application and saved these, your system contacts the system services (such as the Recording Server service and the Image Server service).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About restarting services Some changes in the Management Application require that your system restarts the Image Server service or Recording Server service.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 2. View the Storage Usage Summary for information about, which drives are available, what drives are used for, the size of each drive, as well as how much video data, other data, and free space there is in each drive. View video from cameras in Management Application You can view live video from single cameras directly in the Management Application: 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, and expand Cameras and Storage Information. 2.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Getting started About the Getting started page The Getting started window is always shown when you open the Management Application. The Getting started page provides you with an easy way to go through wizards and serves as a place of reference for users.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Note: By default, all manufacturers are selected. If you want to reduce the scanning time or know the specific manufacturers of your cameras, only select the checkboxes that represents these manufacturers. Automatic configuration wizard: Scanning for hardware devices Scanning for hardware devices that match your selected manufacturers begins. A status bar indicates how far in the scan process you are.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Specify details about each hardware device separately. A good choice if you only want to add a few hardware devices, and you know their IP addresses, required user names and passwords and more. See Add hardware: Manually specify the hardware to add (see Manually specify the hardware "Manual" on page 42). to add Alternatively, import data about cameras as comma-separated values from a file.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Once you have added the number of devices and cameras you want to add, your system sets up storage for you. Storage is the location to which your system saves recordings. By default, your system chooses the location with most available disk space. Overview and names Manual With the Manually specify the hardware to add method, you can specify details about each hardware device separately.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Import from CSV file Import data about hardware devices and cameras as comma-separated values (CSV) from a file. This is a highly effective method if you set up several similar systems. Add Hardware Devices wizard - Import from CSV File - example of CSV file The following is an example of a CSV file for use when cameras and server are online.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Separators can be commas, semicolons or tabs, but cannot be mixed All lines must contain valid values—pay special attention to the fact that camera names, user names and similar items must be unique, and must not contain any of the following special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] There is no fixed order of values, and optional parameters can be omitted entirely Boolean fields are considered true unless set to 0, false or no
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual For each camera, you can initially select between two online schedules: Always on: The camera is always online. Always off: The camera is never online. If these two options are too simple for your needs, use the Create / Edit... button to specify online schedules according to your needs, and then select these schedules for your cameras.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Post-recording You can store recordings from periods following detected motion and/or stop events. Select check box to enable this feature. Specify the required number of seconds in the neighboring column. Seconds [of post-recording] Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video from after recording stop conditions (that is motion or stop event) are met.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure storage: Live and recording settings (MPEG cameras) This wizard page only appears if one or more of your cameras use the MPEG video format. Specify which frame rate to use for each camera, and whether to record all frames or keyframes only. You can also select pre- and post-recording, allowing you to store recordings from periods preceding and following detected motion and/or specified events.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Pre-recording You can store recordings from periods preceding detected motion and/or start events. Select check box to enable this feature. Specify the required number of seconds in the neighboring column. Seconds [of pre-recording] Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video from before recording start conditions (that is motion or start event) are met.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure storage: Drive selection Specify which drives you want to store cameras' recordings on. You can specify separate drives/paths for recording and archiving (see "About archiving" on page 120). Properties available for all XProtect software versions: Name Description Drive Letter representing the drive in question, for example C:. Select what you want to use the drive for: Not in use: Do not use the drive.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Only editable if not using dynamic paths for archiving (see "About archiving" on page 120). Path to the folder in which the camera's archived recordings should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. Archiving Path To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the relevant cell.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network drive. If you use a network drive, it is not be possible to save recordings if the network drive becomes unavailable.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Adjust motion detection wizard The Adjust Motion Detection wizard helps you quickly configure your cameras' motion detection properties. Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance server and the Management Application at the same time.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance server and the Management Application at the same time. Milestone recommends that you stop (see "Start and stop services" on page 156) the Recording Server service when you configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ. See also View video from cameras in Management Application (on page 38).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Detection interval Specify how often motion detection analysis is carried out on video from the camera. The default is every 240 milliseconds (close to once a quarter of a second). The interval is applied regardless of your cameras' frame rate settings. Adjusting this setting can help lower the amount of system resources used on motion detection.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Add Windows users 1. Click Add Windows User... to open the Select Users or Groups dialog. You can only make selections from the local computer, even if you click the Locations... button. 2. In Enter the object names to select, enter the user name(s), then use the Check Names feature to verify the user name. If you enter several user names, separate each name with a semicolon. Example: Brian; Hannah; Karen; Wayne. 3. When done, click OK.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Advanced configuration Hardware devices About hardware devices You add cameras and other hardware devices, such as video encoders, to your system through the Add Hardware Devices... wizard (see "Add hardware wizard" on page 40). If microphones or speakers are attached to a hardware device, they are automatically added as well (if your XProtect version supports this).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual database’s records is used for storing audio. If you use very high frame rates, which means less time between each JPEG, a smaller portion of the database is used for storing audio records, and consequently a larger portion is available for storing video. The result is that the database runs full sooner, and automatic archiving takes place more often than if you were only recording video. The above examples are simplified.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Delete hardware devices IMPORTANT: If you delete a hardware device, you not only delete all cameras, speakers and microphones attached to the hardware device. You also delete any recordings from cameras on the hardware device. 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Hardware Devices, right-click the hardware device you want to delete, and select Delete Hardware device. 2. Confirm that you want to delete the hardware device and all its recordings. 3.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual New hardware device information Specify details about the new hardware device: Name Description IP Address IP address or host name of the hardware device. Port Port number on which to scan. The default is port 80. If a hardware device is located behind a NAT-enabled router or a firewall, you may need to specify a different port number.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual o Inherit existing database(s): The cameras you selected to be inherited by the new hardware device inherit camera names, recordings databases as well as any archives from the old hardware device. Databases and archives are renamed to reflect the new hardware device's MAC address and video channels. The rights of users with access to the inherited cameras are automatically updated so they can view both old and new recordings.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Video channel # enabled Enable/disable each of the selected hardware device's video channels. Many hardware devices only have a single video channel, in which case only one channel will be listed. Other hardware devices—typically video encoder devices—have several video channels. If some of the channels are unavailable, this is because you are not licensed to use all of a video encoder device's channels.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Replace Hardware Device Opens a wizard (see "About the Replace Hardware Device wizard" on page 58), with which you can replace the selected hardware device with another one if you need to. This can be relevant if you replace a physical camera on your network. The wizard helps you take all relevant issues into account: for example, deciding what to do with recordings from cameras attached to the old hardware device, etc.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Cameras and storage information About video and recording configuration Once you have added hardware devices and attached cameras, you can configure video and recording settings in three ways: Name Description Wizard-driven Guided configuration where you can specify video, recording and archiving settings for all your cameras.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Time spent on finding the best possible motion detection configuration for each camera helps you avoid unnecessary recordings. Depending on the physical location of the camera, it may be a good idea to test motion detection settings under different physical conditions such as day/night and windy/calm weather.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual The system is not overloaded from too much recording. The users are not missing results from too little recording. Motion detection and PTZ cameras Motion detection generally works the same way for pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras as it does for regular cameras. However, you cannot configure motion detection separately for each of a PTZ camera's preset positions.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 The two options can be combined Administrator's Manual , but they cannot overlap in time. Speedup Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in olive green: E-mail notification Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in blue: PTZ patrolling Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual o To delete an unwanted part of a schedule profile, right-click it and select Delete. o To quickly fill or clear an entire day, double-click the name of the day. o As an alternative to dragging inside the calendar section, use the Start time, End time and Day fields, then the Change Period or Set Period button as required. When using the Start time and End time fields, remember that time is specified in increments of five minutes.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual To delete a camera, you have to delete the hardware device (see "Delete hardware devices" on page 58). If you delete the hardware device, you also delete any attached microphones or speakers. If you do not want this, consider disabling the camera instead. Move PTZ type 1 and 3 to required positions For PTZ types 1 and 3, you can move the PTZ camera to required positions in several different ways: 1.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Recording and storage properties Recording and archiving paths (properties) When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 63), you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual cameras. You can edit all properties on a white background.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network drive. If you use a network drive, it is not be possible to save recordings if the network drive becomes unavailable.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Dynamic path selection (properties) When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 63), you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. In the case of dynamic path selection, this is because the properties are shared by all cameras. With dynamic archiving (see "About archiving" on page 120) paths, you specify a number of different archiving paths, usually across several drives.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual cameras. The term recording means saving video and, if applicable, audio from a camera in the camera's database on the surveillance system server. Video/audio is often saved only when there is a reason to do so, for example as long as motion is detected, when an event occurs and until another event occurs, or within a certain period of time.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Select under which conditions video from the camera should be recorded: Always: Record whenever the camera is enabled (see "General" on page 81) and scheduled to be online (see "Online period" on page 129) (the latter allows for timebased recording). Never: Never record. Live video will be displayed, but— since no video is kept in the database—users will not be able to play back video from the camera.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Post-recording You can store recordings from periods following detected motion and/or stop events. Select check box to enable this feature. Specify the required number of seconds in the neighboring column. Seconds [of post-recording] Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video from after recording stop conditions (that is motion or stop event) are met.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Maximum duration of manual recording Maximum allowed period of time for user-driven recording. This maximum is not relevant in connection with manual recording started from the Smart Client, since such manual recording will always take place for a fixed time.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Regular frame rate properties Properties available in all XProtect software versions: Name Description Frame Rate Required average frame rate for video from the camera. Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour). Time Unit Select required unit for live and recording frame rates (per second, minute, or hour). Note that you can only select time bases that let you speed up frame rates.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Time Unit Select required unit for live and recording frame rates (per second, minute, or hour). Note that you can only select time bases that let you speed up frame rates. Example: If you have specified 15 frames per second in normal mode, you cannot specify 16 frames per minute or hour in speedup mode. Motion Detection: Select this to speed up when motion (see "Motion detection & exclude regions" on page 94) is detected.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Frame Rate - MPEG When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 63), you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual cameras.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Allows you to make exceptions if you have selected to record keyframes only. Motion Detection: Select this to record all frames when motion is detected. Two seconds after the last motion (see "Motion detection & exclude regions" on page 94) is detected, the camera will return to recording keyframes only. Event: Select this to record all frames when an event occurs and until another event occurs.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Apply Template Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use one of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template. Camera Name The name as it appears in the Management Application as well as in clients. You can overwrite the existing name with a new one. Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] Default Microphone Select a default microphone.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual half of the database’s records is used for storing audio. Consequently, the database runs full sooner, and automatic archiving takes place more often than if you were only recording video. o Example: If you use MJPEG, audio is stored in one record for every JPEG for as long as the audio block size does not exceed the time between the JPEGs.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Enabled Cameras are by default enabled, meaning that provided they are scheduled to be online (see "Online period" on page 129) and that they can to transfer video to XProtect Express. You can disable an individual camera, in which case no video/audio is transferred from the camera source to your system. Preview Select this check box to show a preview of your camera's video.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual MJPEG video format With MJPEG, you can define frame rates for regular as well as speedup modes. If the camera offers dual stream, you can also enable this. Note that there are three places where you can set frame rate: Live Frame Rate - used for the regular recording stream Live Frame Rate - used when speeding up recordings in connection with motion detection or similar functionality.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Start Event Select required start event. The camera begins using the speedup frame rates when the start event occurs. Stop Event Select required stop event. The camera returns to the normal frame rates when the stop event occurs. Properties available in XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional only: Live Frame Rate Required average frame rate for live video from the camera.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Record keyframes only Keyframes stored at specified intervals record the entire view of the camera, whereas the following frames record only pixels that change. This helps greatly reducing the size of MPEG files. Select the check box if you only want to record keyframes. Note that you can specify exceptions if motion is detected or events occur.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Record keyframes only Keyframes stored at specified intervals record the entire view of the camera, whereas the following frames record only pixels that change. This helps greatly reducing the size of MPEG files. Select the check box if you only want to record keyframes. Note that you can specify exceptions if motion is detected or events occur.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Live Frame Rate - used when speeding up recordings in connection with motion detection or similar functionality. FPS (Frames per second) - used for the additional stream used for live viewing. Regular frame rate mode: Properties available for all XProtect software versions: Name Description Frame Rate Required average frame rate for video from the camera. Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name On event Administrator's Manual Description Select this check box to use the speedup frame rates when an event occurs and until another event occurs. Use of speedup on event requires that events (see "Overview of events and output" on page 104) have been defined, and that you select start and stop events in the neighboring lists. Use the Configure events list, located below the other fields to define events that suit your needs.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Audio When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 63) for specific cameras, properties include the possibility of selecting a default microphone and/or speaker for the camera. With a default microphone and/or speaker selected for a camera, audio from the microphone and/or speaker is automatically used when you view video from the camera.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Built-in motion detection Select this check box to record video in which motion (see "Motion detection & exclude regions" on page 94) is detected. Unless postrecording (see the following) is used, recording will stop immediately after the last motion is detected. On event Select this check box to record video when an event occurs and until another event occurs.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Component Administrator's Manual Requirement Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network drive. If you use a network drive, it is not be possible to save recordings if the network drive becomes unavailable.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Component Administrator's Manual Requirement Select which action to take if the database becomes corrupted: Repair, scan, delete if fails: Default action. If the database becomes corrupted, two different repair methods will be attempted: a fast repair and a thorough repair. If both repair methods fail, the contents of the database will be deleted. Repair, delete if fails: If the database becomes corrupted, a fast repair will be attempted.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Event notification When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 63) for specific cameras, properties include event notification. Event notifications inform XProtect Smart Client users that an event has occurred on your system. Event notifications can be valuable for client users, as they can quickly detect that an event has occurred.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 o Administrator's Manual On manual activation list, in which case the output is available for manual activation in XProtect Smart Client. and/or o On motion detected list, in which case the output is activated when motion is detected in video from the camera. If required, the same output can appear on both lists. 3. Repeat for each required output. If you later want to remove an output from the one of the lists, select the output in question, and click the << button.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Enable this functionality to be able to adjust the Sensitivity slide for motion yourself. Drag the slider to the left for a higher sensitivity level, and to the right for a lower sensitivity level. The higher the sensitivity level, the less change is allowed in each pixel before it is regarded as motion. The lower the sensitivity level, the more change in each pixel is allowed before it is regarded as motion.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Adjust the Motion slider so that motion detection is only triggered by the required level of motion. The selected motion level is indicated by the black vertical line in the Level bar above the sliders. The black vertical line serves as a threshold. When motion is above (to the right of) the selected level, the bar changes color from green to red, indicating a positive motion detection.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Show privacy mask Turn the red area indicating privacy masking on or off. Turning off the red area may provide a less obscured view of the preview image. Clear Clear the privacy masking. 360° lens 360° lens technology allows you to view 360° panoramic video through an advanced lens. If a camera is going to use 360° lens technology, you must enable the technology and, in some cases, enter a special license key.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Fisheye When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 63) for specific cameras, you may be able to set fisheye properties. Fisheye is a technology that allows you to view 360-degree panoramic video through an advanced lens. You do not see the fisheye properties until certain conditions are met: the camera must be either a dedicated fisheye camera or be equipped with a special fisheye lens.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Description Set as Home Button Administrator's Manual Use after navigating to a suitable viewpoint using the navigation buttons. Sets the current viewpoint as home position (that is default position), so that when client users viewing the camera click their clients' Home button, their view of the camera changes to that position.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual following), verify that their names do not contain other characters. If they do, change the preset position names before you import them. Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance server and the Management Application at the same time.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Only available when you have selected PTZ type 1 or 3. Lets you delete an already defined preset. In the list, select the preset position you want to delete, then click the button. Delete Before you delete a preset position, make sure it is not used in PTZ patrolling or PTZ on event.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance server and the Management Application at the same time. Therefore, Milestone recommends that you stop (see "Start and stop services" on page 156) the Recording Server service when you configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ. See also View video from cameras in Management Application (on page 38).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Microphone properties Enabled Microphones are by default enabled, meaning that they can transfer audio to your system. If needed, you can disable an individual microphone, in which case no audio is transferred from the microphone to your system. Name The name as it appears in the Management Application as well as in clients. You can overwrite the existing name with a new one.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual If you want to configure hardware output and automatically trigger output when events occur, so that, for example, lights are switched on when a door is opened or when motion is detected in video, see Add a hardware output (on page 106) and Configure hardware output on event. About events and output You can use events and output of various types to automatically trigger actions in your system.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Events may be generated manually by the users selecting them in their clients. These events are called manual events. Manual events can be of the type Global events or Timer events: Manual events: Global events apply to all hardware whereas timer events are separate events, triggered by the hardware input event, manual event or generic event under which they are defined.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 2. In the Hardware Input Event Properties window's list of hardware devices, expand the required hardware device to see a list of pre-defined hardware input. 3. Select the required types of input to use them as events. The types of input often vary from camera to camera.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual As start and stop events for use when scheduling cameras' online periods (see "Online period" on page 129). For example, you can make a camera start or stop transferring video to the surveillance system based on a manual event. As start and stop events for controlling other camera settings. For example, you can make a camera use a higher frame rate based on a manual event or you can use a manual event for triggering PTZ on event (on page 101).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual minutes after the event under which they are defined has occurred. Timer events may be used for a wide variety of purposes, typically for stopping previously triggered actions. Examples: A camera starts recording based on a hardware input event, for example when a door is opened. A timer event stops the recording after 15 seconds Lights are switched on and a camera starts recording based on a manual event.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 2. Select Event Notification and select the required generic event. Make sure that your generic event is the only event appearing in the Selected Events list while you are performing the test, otherwise you cannot be sure that it is your generic event which triggers the event notification. Once you are done testing, you can move any temporarily removed events back to the Selected Events list. 3.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 8. Go to XProtect Smart Client. If the yellow event indicator lights up for the required camera, your generic event works as intended.: General event properties Ports and polling The General Event Properties window lets you specify network settings to be used in connection with event handling. Name Description Alert and generic event port Specify port number to use for handling events. Default port is port 1234.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Events and output properties Analytics event When you configure analytics events (see "Add an analytics event" on page 105), specify the following: Name Description Name Type a name for the event. Description Enter a description (optional). Test the validity of the event by clicking this button (optional). Test Event Tip: You can carry out this test at any step of the analytics event creation/editing process and as many times as you wish.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Conditions Description Error messages and solutions Send analytics event Did sending a test event to the Event See table below. Server succeed? Error messages and solutions for the condition Send analytics event: Error messages Solution/Explanation Event Server not found. Unable to find the Event Server service on the list of registered services. Error connecting to Event Server.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Properties available in all XProtect software versions: Name Description Enable Select check box to use selected type of input as an event in XProtect Express, and specify further properties. Specify a name. Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] Event name Some cameras only support event names of a certain length and/or with a certain structure.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Select if the system should automatically send an SMS when the event occurs. You define the recipients of the SMS notifications as part of the SMS notification configuration. When you use SMS Send SMS if this event occurs notifications, remember that you may have set individual camera scheduling. The setting is only available if you have enabled SMS notifications.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Select if the system should automatically send an SMS when the event occurs. You define the recipients of the SMS notifications as part of the SMS notification configuration. When you use SMS Send SMS if this event occurs notifications, remember that you may have set individual camera scheduling. The setting is only available if you have enabled SMS notifications.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Lets you specify the individual items for which XProtect Express should look out for when analyzing data packages. Specify one or more terms, then click the Add button to add the specified term(s) to the Event message expression field, the content of which will be used for the actual analysis.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Displays the string which will be used for the actual package analysis. The field is not directly editable. However, you can position the cursor inside the field in order to determine where a new item should be included when you click the Add button or one of the parenthesis or operator buttons described in the following.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Event priority The same data package may be analyzed for different events. The ability to assign a priority to each event lets you manage which event should be triggered if a received package matches the criteria for several events. The priority must be specified as a number between 0 (lowest priority) and 1000 (highest priority).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Select if the system should automatically send an SMS when the event occurs. You define the recipients of the SMS notifications as part of the SMS notification configuration. When you use SMS Send SMS if this event occurs notifications, remember that you may have set individual camera scheduling. The setting is only available if you have enabled SMS notifications. Delete Delete a selected event. Add Add a new event.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Scheduling and archiving About scheduling The scheduling feature lets you specify: When you want to archive That some cameras transfer video to your system at all times That some cameras transfer video only within specific periods of time or when specific events occur When you want to receive notifications from the system You can set up general scheduling properties for all your cameras or individual properties per camera.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual time for which you want to keep recordings from a camera (that is recordings in the camera's database as well as any archived recordings). Backup of archives Milestone does recommend that you create backups based on the content of camera databases as it may cause sharing violations or other malfunctions. Instead, create backups based on the content of archives.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About archiving to other locations When you archive to other locations than the default archiving directory, your system first temporarily stores the archive in the local default archiving directory, then immediately moves the archive to the archiving location you have specified. Archiving directly to a network drive can mean that archiving time varies depending on the available bandwidth on the network.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About archiving audio If you have enabled an audio source (for example, a microphone) on a hardware device, audio recordings are archived together with video recordings from the camera attached to the hardware device. If the hardware device is a video encoder with several channels, audio is archived with the camera on channel 1. When you have enabled an audio source, the system records audio to the associated camera’s database.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Same drive: Automatic moving or deletion of archives if drive runs out of disk space If your system server is running out of disk space, and the archiving drive is identical to the camera database drive, your system automatically does a number of attempts to free up space. Most of these attempts will result in the loss of your data from archives or databases. First, the system attempts to move archives.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Different drives: Automatic archiving if database drive runs out of disk space In case the system server is running out of disk space, and the archiving drive is different from the camera database drive, and archiving has not taken place within the last hour, archiving automatically begins in an attempt to free up disk space. This will happen regardless of any archiving schedules.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual General scheduling properties Scheduling all cameras When you configure general scheduling and archiving (see "Configure general scheduling and archiving" on page 125), you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual cameras.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Set selected template value on Apply only a selected value from the template to selected cameras. selected cameras New schedule profile Create a new schedule profile of any type by clicking the Create... button. Properties available in XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional only: SMS PTZ Patrolling Select the required profile for the SMS notification schedule for the camera(s) in question.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Schedule profile for new cameras Select which online schedule profile to use as default for cameras you subsequently add to your XProtect Express system. Note that your selection only applies for the online schedule, not for any other schedules. Default selection is Always on, meaning that new cameras will always be online, that is transferring video to the XProtect Express server for live viewing and further processing.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Archive on event Administrator's Manual If selected, your system starts archiving when a certain event occurs. Select the event from the list. Camera-specific scheduling properties Online period When you configure scheduling (see "Configure camera-specific schedules" on page 65) for specific cameras, your Online Period settings are probably the most important, since they determine when each camera should transfer video to XProtect Express.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Speedup Administrator's Manual Description For specific MJPEG cameras, specify speedup periods. Before you can define this type of schedule, you must enable (see "Frame rate - MJPEG" on page 75) speedup. You specify a camera's speedup periods by creating schedule profiles based on periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Shows Image Server service activity. A new log file is created for each day the service is used. Image Server service log files You cannot disable this type of logging. Image Server service log files are named according to the structure ISLog_YYYYMMDD.log, for example ISLog_20091231.log. Shows Image Import service activity, when this service is used for fetching pre-alarm images, and storing the fetched images in camera databases.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Log integrity checks All log files, except Management Application log files, are subjected to an integrity check once every 24 hours. The integrity check is performed by your system's Log Check service. The result of the integrity check is automatically written to a file named according to the structure LogCheck_YYYYMMDD.log, for example LogCheck_20091231.log.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 3. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upperright corner of the Management Application. Log properties Your system can generate various types of logs.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Audit Log Name Description Enable audit logging Audit logging is the only type of XProtect Express logging which is not compulsory. Select/clear the check box to enable/disable audit logging. These log files are by default placed in the appropriate All Users folder for the operating system you are using.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure email notifications To set up email notifications, do the following: 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Notifications, right-click Email and select Properties. 2. Enable the use of email by selecting the Enable email check box. 3. Specify required properties (see "Message Settings (email)" on page 135). 4. Choose a schedule profile to associate with your email notifications.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Use schedule profile Select the schedule profile you want to use. By default, you can choose between Always On, Always Off or choose Add new... to set up a custom schedule (see "Notification Scheduling properties" on page 137). Server Settings (email) Specify the following server settings for email: Component Requirement Sender e-mail address Enter the email address you wish to use as the sender of the email notification.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Component Administrator's Manual Requirement Select the check box to include still images in email notifications. When selected, each email notification includes one or more attached still JPEG images. Include images Attached images includes images of before the incident, after the incident and the actual incident, with the incident that triggered the notification in the middle.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Central About Central Central Settings lets you specify the login settings required for an XProtect Central server to access the surveillance system in order to retrieve status information and alarms. If you are a user of the Milestone Integration Platform, this is also the dialog that lets you specify the login settings for the Milestone Integration Platform to access the surveillance system. Enable XProtect Central 1.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Access control About access control integration The use of XProtect Access Control Module requires that you have purchased a license that allows you to access this feature. You can use XProtect Access Control Module with access control systems from vendors that have a vendor-specific plug-in for XProtect Access Control Module.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Some of the fields to fill out and their default values are inherited from the integration plug-in. Therefore the appearance of the wizard may differ depending on the access control system you integrate with. To start the wizard, select Access Control in the node tree, right-click, and click Create new. Steps in this wizard: Create access control system integration .............................................
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual You can refine the configuration in the Management Client. Access control properties General Settings tab (Access Control) Name Description Enable Systems are by default enabled, meaning that they are visible in XProtect Smart Client for users with sufficient rights and that the XProtect system receives access control events. You can disable a system, for example during maintenance, to avoid creating unnecessary alarms.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description User name Type the name of the user, as defined in the access control system, who should be administrator of the integrated system in XProtect. Password Specify the password for the user. Associated Cameras tab (Access Control) Provides mappings between door access points and cameras, microphones or speakers. You associate cameras as part of the integration wizard, but you can change the setup at any time.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Assign none, one or more event categories to the access control events. The system automatically maps relevant event categories to the events during integration. This enables a default setup in the XProtect system. You can change the mapping at any time.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Triggering events are from a specific access control unit or from a group of access control units. Name Description Select from the list an event category that should trigger an action. The list includes built-in, plug-in and user-defined event categories. Trigger Event Select Access control event, to create a trigger based on specific access control events instead of an event category.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Configure the parameters for an action: Display access request notification: Specify which cameras, microphones or speakers the XProtect Smart Client user connects to via the notification user interface when a given event occurs. Also specify the sound to alert the user when the notification pops up. To enable more commands in the notification, see Add Command.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Name Lists the names of the cardholders retrieved from the access control system. Lists the type of cardholder, for example: Employee Type Guard Guest If your access control system supports adding/deleting pictures in the XProtect system, you can add pictures to the cardholders. This is useful if your access control system does not include pictures of the cardholders.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Enabled Indicates if the relevant service is enabled. Name The name of the service. Description A description of the service. Addresses The inside and outside addresses used by the service. You can change the inside and outside addresses for a service. To do this, click the Edit button and enter the relevant inside and/or outside addresses. Note that you cannot edit all services.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Enable internet access Select the check box if the server should be accessible from the internet through a router or firewall. If you select this option, also specify the public (“outside”) IP address and port number in the following fields.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Language support and XML encoding You can select the language/character set that should be used by your system's server and clients. Component Requirement Select required language/character set. Example: If the surveillance server runs a Japanese version of Character encoding/Language Windows, select Japanese.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 3. Specify General Access and Camera Access properties. These properties determine the rights of the user. Click OK. 4. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upperright corner of the Management Application.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 2. Specify a name. Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special characters: <> & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] 3. Click OK. 4. Specify General access (on page 152) and Camera access (on page 153) properties. These properties will determine the rights of the group's future members. 5. Click OK. 6. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upperright corner of the Management Application. 7.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual directory services such as, for example, Active Directory®. If you want to use groups, make sure you add groups (see "Add user groups" on page 150) before you add users: You cannot add existing users to groups. Finally, the Administrators group is also listed under Users. This is a default Windows user group for administration purpose which automatically has access to the Management Application.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Name Administrator's Manual Description Ability to create and edit views in shared groups in XProtect Smart Client. Edit shared views Edit private views Every user can access views placed in shared groups. If a user/group does not have this right, shared groups are protected, indicated by a padlock icon in XProtect Smart Client. Ability to create and edit views in private groups in XProtect Smart Client.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Live Administrator's Manual Features Use navigation features for PTZ (Pan-tilt-zoom) cameras. PTZ A user/group can only use this right if the user has access to one or more PTZ cameras. PTZ preset positions Use navigation features for moving a PTZ camera to particular preset positions. A user/group can only use this right if the user/group has access to one or more PTZ cameras with defined preset positions.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual filled. Another example: Camera C is a PTZ camera for which you have allowed the PTZ preset positions feature whereas camera D is not a PTZ camera. If you select both camera C and camera D in the list, the PTZ preset positions check box is square-filled.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Service Description Milestone Log Check service Performs integrity checks on your system's log files. For more information, see Overview of Logs. Milestone Event Server service Manages all alarms and map-related communication. It stores events, image files and map configurations, and makes status information about the surveillance system available.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About direct streaming By default, when your system transfers video from cameras to your system, the Milestone Mobile server decodes video images from the codec used on the camera into JPEG files. This decoding process is somewhat resource-intense for the Milestone Mobile server.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Delete a Mobile server 1. From the navigation pane, expand Servers > Mobile Servers in order to see existing servers. 2. Right-click the unwanted server and select Delete. 3. Click Yes. Rename a Mobile server 1. From the navigation pane, expand Servers > Mobile Servers in order to see existing servers. 2. Select the required Mobile server. 3.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 2. Choose the Manual option. The Video push driver will not be detected in automatic hardware searches. 3. Specify hardware device settings (see "Add hardware devices settings" on page 159) and select the hardware driver manually. 4. Once finished, your Video push driver must be associated with your Video push channel. To do so, return to your Mobile server > Video Push tab and click Find Cameras.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Mobile server: Choose between all Milestone Mobile servers currently installed to the specific XProtect system. Only Milestone Mobile servers that are running are shown in the list. Connection type: Choose how clients should connect to the Milestone Mobile server. You can choose between the following options: HTTP only, HTTP and HTTPS or HTTPS Only.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description External bandwidth Shows the current bandwidth in use between the mobile device and Mobile server. User Name column Shows user name(s) of the Mobile server user(s) connected to the Mobile server. State column Shows the current relation between the Mobile server and the Milestone Mobile client user in question.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Export Select to enable export in clients. Include timestamps Select to add timestamps to exported video. Used codec for AVI files Choose a codec to use to encode your exported AVI video files. Export to Specify the location to which recordings should be exported. Enter the number of days to pass before recordings are deleted.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual User column The name of the user who provided the exported recording. MB column The size of the exported recording. Type The type of export. This can be Manual or Automatic. Note: Click Refresh to update the list of exported recordings shown.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Level 2 If you would rather like to enforce a different level of limitations that the default one in Level 1, you can select the Level 2 check box instead. You cannot set any settings higher than what you have set them to in the first level. If you, for example, set the Max FPS to 45 on Level 1, you can set the Max FPS on Level 2 only to 44 or below.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Fill in and specify the following log settings: Name Description Enabled Enable/disable logging of Milestone Mobile client's actions in a separate log file. Log file location: Path to where log files are saved. Keep logs for: Number of days to keep logs for (default 3 days). CPU usage: Default level of CPU usage which will trigger a warning in the log.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual If you right-click the Mobile Server Manager and select Show Status... (or double-click the Mobile Server Manager icon), a window opens, showing the status of the Mobile server. You can see the following: Name Description Server running since: Time and date of the time when the Mobile server was last started. Connected users: Number of users currently connected to the Mobile server.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 3. Once finished, a window opens and informs you that the certificate was installed successfully. The Mobile service is restarted for the changes to take effect. Locate a certificate file 1. Choose the Load a certificate file option. 2. Fill in the path for the certificate file or click the ... box to open a window where you can browse for the file. 3. Fill in the password connected to the certificate file. 4. When finished, click OK.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Alarms About alarms The Alarms feature is a Milestone Integration Platform (MIP)-based feature that uses functionality handled by the event server. It provides central overview and control of alarms in any number of system installations throughout your organization.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual and use that time profile to make sure that certain alarm definitions are only enabled within this period of time. Alarms and XProtect Central To a large extent, the Alarms feature covers the same functionality as XProtect Central. However, configuration of former XProtect Central functionality is now included in the Alarms feature.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual When you edit an existing time profile, remember that a time profile may contain more than one time period, and that time periods may be recurring. Analytics events are typically data received from external third-party video content analysis (VCA) providers. An example of a VCA-based system could be an access control system.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Events triggered Select the event to be triggered if the operator does not react withing the time limit specified in Time limit. This could be, for example, sending an email, SMS or similar. Related cameras Select (a maximum of 15) cameras for inclusion in the alarm definition even though they are not themselves triggering the alarm.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Sound Select the sound to be associated with the alarm. Use one if the default sounds or add more in Sound Settings (on page 172). Alarm Data Levels tab, States Level In addition to the default state levels (numbers 1, 4, 9 and 11, which can not be edited or reused), add new states with level numbers of your choosing. These state levels are only visible in the Smart Client's Alarm List. Name Type a name for the entity.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Name Description Add Lets you add sounds. Browse to the sound to upload one or several .wav files. Remove Test Remove a selected sound from the list of manually added sounds. Default sounds cannot be removed. Lets you test the sound. In the list, select the sound. The sound will be played once.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Settings About automatic device discovery Automatic device discovery allows you to automatically add hardware devices to your system as soon as you connect these to your network. When you enable automatic device discovery, your system configures and set ups cameras automatically without the need for any user interaction, making the camera instantly accessible in XProtect Smart Client's default view after the automatic installation has completed.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 4. Once changes are confirmed, restart all services. Options General In the General settings, you can change a number of settings that affect the general behavior and look of the Management Application. Automatic device discovery Automatic device discovery (see "About automatic device discovery" on page 174) is turned off by default in your system. Select the check box to enable this functionality.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Classic mode Evidence collection mode When the storage on which you are recording becomes full The system deletes oldest recordings to make room for new recordings. The system stops saving new recordings and keeps the oldest recordings. When you delete a device in the Management Application The system deletes all recordings from the removed device. The system keeps all recordings from the removed device.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 o Administrator's Manual If your system should show live video when you preview camera or if you would rather see a snapshot or no preview of the camera. Click Restore Default Settings below the behavior list to restore your system to its default behavior. Default File Paths Your system uses a number of default file paths: File paths Description All new cameras you add use this path by default for storing recordings.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Specify whether events from all IP addresses/host names are accepted, or only events from IP addresses/host names specified in a list—see the following. All network addresses or Specified network addresses In the Address list specify a list of trusted IP addresses/host names that you want this service to recognize. The list is used to filter incoming data so that only events from certain IP addresses/host names are allowed.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual System maintenance Back up and restore configuration About back up and restore of configuration Milestone recommends that you make regular backups of your system configuration (cameras, schedules, views, and so on) as a disaster recovery measure. While it is rare to lose your configuration, it can happen under unfortunate circumstances. Luckily, it takes only a minute to back up your existing configuration.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Restore system configuration 1. If you use the system on a server running any supported operating system, copy the content of the backed-up Milestone Surveillance folder into C:\Program Data\Milestone\Milestone Surveillance. 2. If you backed up the file devices.ini, copy the file into C:\Program Files\Milestone\Milestone Surveillance\devices.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual 1. Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express from Windows' Start menu by selecting All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2008 > SQL Server Management Studio Express. 2. When you open the tool, you are prompted to connect to a server. Specify the name of the required SQL Server and connect with administrator user credentials.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual You can now begin to configure your system through its Management Application. For more information, see Get your system up and running (on page 33). Step 4: Restore alarms data in SQL Server Express database Luckily, most users never need to restore their backed-up alarm data, but if you ever need to, do the following: 1. In the Windows Start menu, open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express. 2. Connect to a server.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Server's transaction log from time to time is therefore a good idea, however flushing it does not in itself make the transaction log file smaller, rather it prevents it from growing out of control. Your system does not, however, automatically flush the SQL Server's transaction log at specific intervals. This is because users have different needs. Some want to be able to undo changes for a very long time, others do not care.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual new system does not use the exact same physical cameras as the cloned system. When you use the cloned configuration later in a new system, the GUIDs are replaced with GUIDs representing the specific components of the new system. After you have marked GUIDs for replacement, the configuration files are combined into one single .xml file, which you can then save at a location specified by you.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Restore system configuration from a restore point Restore points allow you to return to a previous configuration state. Each time you apply a configuration change in the Management Application, a new restore point is created. All restore points in the current and previous five sessions are stored and can be selected again.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual A technology for compressing and decompressing audio and video data, for example, in an exported AVI file. MPEG and Indeo are examples of frequently used codecs. Glossary of Terms CSV Symbols & Numeric Comma-separated values data format that stores tabular data, where the lines represent rows in a table and commas define the columns, in a simple file. For example, data about cameras may appear as commaseparated values in a .
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Group of pictures: individual frames grouped together, forming a video-motion sequence. Dual stream Some cameras support two independent streams (which can be sent to the recording server): one for live viewing and another for playback purposes. Each stream has its own resolution, encoding, and frame rate. Grace period When you install your system, configure it and add recording servers and cameras, your system runs on temporary licenses.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual A computer connected to a TCP/IP network. A host has its own IP address, but may— depending on network configuration—also have a host name to make it easily identifiable. A technology that allows the creation and viewing of 360-degree panomorph (fisheye) images. J Hotspot JPEG Particular position for viewing enlarged and/or high quality video in the Smart Client.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Motion JPEG—compressed video format where each frame is a separately compressed JPEG image. The method used is quite similar to the I-frame method used for MPEG, but no interframe prediction is used. This allows for somewhat easier editing, and makes compression independent of the amount of motion. specified intervals. The I-frame records the entire view of the camera, whereas the frames that follow (the P-frames) record only the pixels that change.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual The ability to store recordings from periods following motion and/or specified events. Based on incoming video being buffered on the XProtect Express server in case it is going to be needed for a motion- or event-triggered recording.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual A file extension (.scs) for a script type targeted at controlling clients. TCP Transmission Control Protocol—protocol (or standard) used for sending data packets across networks. TCP is often combined with another protocol, IP (Internet Protocol).
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual V Video encoder A device, typically a standalone device, that can stream video from a number of connected client cameras. Video encoders contain image digitizers, making it possible to connect analog cameras to a network. Video server Another name for a video encoder. View In XProtect Express, a collection of video from one or more cameras, presented together in the Smart Client.
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About important port numbers • 10 Index About input and output • 106 3 About licenses • 25 360 degrees panomorph support • 190 About logs • 132 360° lens • 99 About microphones • 58, 104 A About Milestone Mobile client • 18 About access control integration • 141 About accessing logs and exports • 168, 169 About administrator rights • 11 About alarms • 171, 172 About archiving • 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 65, 72, 73, 75, 82, 93, 122, 130, 181
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual About server access • 149 Access control management • 158 About services • 65, 158 Access control properties • 143 About show status • 169 Access XProtect Web Client • 20, 168 About the benefits of archiving • 123 Add a generic event • 110 About the Getting started page • 40 Add a hardware input event • 107, 108, 115 About the Replace Hardware Device wizard • Add a hardware output • 95, 106, 108, 121 27, 60, 64 About time servers • 11 Abo
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Exclude regions • 54, 69 Administrator's Manual Automatic response if running out of disk space • 126 Motion detection • 54 Adjust motion detection wizard • 53 Advanced configuration • 58 Alarm data settings • 174 AVI • 190 B Back up and restore alarm and map configuration • 184 Alarms • 171 Alarms definition • 172, 173, 174, 175 Alarms properties • 173 Analytics event • 108, 113 Analytics Event Settings • 181 API • 190 Back up and restore configuration • 183 Back up
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Configure general scheduling and archiving • 35, 127, 128, 129 Configure hardware devices • 59, 63, 64, 100 Configure microphones or speakers • 104 Configure motion detection • 69 Configure server access • 35, 56, 150 Configure storage Drive selection • 50 Administrator's Manual DirectX • 190 Disable information collection • 178 Disable or delete cameras • 69 DNS • 190 Driver • 190 DST • 190 Dual stream • 191 Dynamic path selection (properties) • 65, 73, Live and recordi
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Fisheye • 59, 100, 191 Host • 192 FPS • 191 Hotspot • 192 Frame rate • 191 HTTP • 192 Frame rate - MJPEG • 77, 132 I Frame Rate - MPEG • 80 G I/O • 192 If the camera uses the MJPEG video format • 88 General • 49, 75, 83, 91, 96, 163, 179 General access • 154, 155, 157 If the camera uses the MPEG video format • 87 General event properties • 112 I-frame • 192 General scheduling properties • 128 Image Server • 192 General Settings tab (Acces
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Licenses • 25 Administrator's Manual Motion detection & exclude regions • 49, 69, 75, 79, 81, 92, 96, 108 Local IP ranges • 151 Log properties • 135 Move PTZ type 1 and 3 to required positions • 70 Log Settings • 168 MPEG • 193 Logs • 132 N M Network, device type, and license • 59, 63 MAC address • 192 New hardware device information • 61 Manage user access Notification Scheduling properties • 138, 139 Access summary • 57 Basic and Windows users • 56 Notifications •
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual Ports and polling • 59, 111, 112 Scheduling all cameras • 127, 128 POS • 193 Scheduling and archiving • 122 Post-recording • 194 Scheduling options • 46, 127, 129, 131 Pre-alarm • 194 SCS • 195 Pre-buffer • 194 SDK • 195 Pre-recording • 194 Server access • 11, 149, 150 Privacy masking • 98, 194 Server access properties • 150 PTZ • 194 Server Settings (email) • 138 PTZ device (properties) • 59, 64 Server Status • 163 PTZ on event • 1
Milestone XProtect® Express 2014 Administrator's Manual System maintenance • 183 Video server • 196 System overview • 14 View • 196 T View video from cameras in Management Application • 39, 53, 54, 96, 102, 104 TCP • 195 TCP/IP • 195 VMD • 196 Telnet • 195 W Template and common properties • 77 Wizard for access control system integration • 141 Test a generic event • 111, 118 X Time profile • 176 Timer event • 110, 117 U XProtect Download Manager • 22 XProtect Smart Client • 16 XProtect Web Cl
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