Alarms and events (configuration)

Add alarms to views

By adding the Alarm List to your view, you can share a list of prioritized alarms that people should address, or just an individual alarm to put focus on one particular incident.

Steps:

On the Views pane, select the view where you want to add the Alarm List.
Click Setup to enter setup mode.
On the System Overview pane, expand Alarms and drag the Alarm List overview to a view item.
Click Setup again to exit setup mode.

Alarm preview settings

If alarms or events have video associated with them, when you select a particular alarm in the alarm list, the alarm preview displays the recorded video from the selected alarm or event. If there are many cameras associated with an alarm, or if you have selected more than one alarm, the preview displays several previews. If there is no video associated, the alarm preview will be gray. You can change the alarm preview's properties in setup mode.

Name	Description
Show duplicate cameras	Select to display video from duplicate cameras several times in the alarm preview. The alarm preview reflects what is selected in the alarm list. Because you can select multiple alarms or events, video from the same camera may appear several times in the alarm preview if some of the selected alarms or events relate to the same camera.
Show event source cameras	Select to display video (if any) from the camera for which the alarm or event has been set up on the surveillance system server. We do not recommend clearing this field.
Show related cameras	Select to display video from related cameras in the alarm preview. You can display associated video from up to 16 related cameras for a single alarm or event. You cannot determine the number of related cameras in the XProtect Smart Client; the number may vary from alarm to alarm, and is specified as part of the surveillance system configuration.
Show overlay	Only relevant if using the alarm preview together with a plug-in capable of displaying overlay information, such as lines tracking the paths of moving objects, or similar. This is not standard functionality in the XProtect Smart Client.

Alarm list settings

In setup mode, you can select whether or not you want to see the alarms or events grouped by servers in a navigation tree and how many alarms or events you want the list to display at a time. This is also where you specify whether you want the alarm list to display alarms or events.

Name	Description
Show navigation tree	Select to display the navigation tree on the left of the alarm list. We recommend that you keep this option selected, because the navigation tree provides an overview of alarm priorities and states, and—not least—the number of alarms in each priority and state.
Max. rows to fetch	Controls the maximum number of lines to fetch and display in the alarm list. By default, the alarm list displays up to 100 lines, that is up to 100 alarms or events at a time. This provides a good response time, since fetching and displaying larger numbers of alarms or events can take time. There can of course easily be more than 100 alarms or events, and if you want to view more than the first 100 alarms or events, you simply use the buttons in the top right part of the alarm list to browse to the next alarms or events, which will then be fetched and displayed. In the field, you can set the maximum numbers of rows from 1 to 999, but remember that the more alarms or events in the list, the longer it takes to display the list. If you change the number, note that the number of rows in the list will not be updated until you select another element than the Max. rows to fetch field, for example a row in the alarm list.
Data Source	Select whether you want to display a list of alarms or events in the Alarm List. The event list does not display system- or user-generated events, such as motion detection or archive failure.

Name

Description

Show navigation tree

Select to display the navigation tree on the left of the alarm list. We recommend that you keep this option selected, because the navigation tree provides an overview of alarm priorities and states, and—not least—the number of alarms in each priority and state.

Max. rows to fetch

Controls the maximum number of lines to fetch and display in the alarm list. By default, the alarm list displays up to 100 lines, that is up to 100 alarms or events at a time. This provides a good response time, since fetching and displaying larger numbers of alarms or events can take time. There can of course easily be more than 100 alarms or events, and if you want to view more than the first 100 alarms or events, you simply use the buttons in the top right part of the alarm list to browse to the next alarms or events, which will then be fetched and displayed.

In the field, you can set the maximum numbers of rows from 1 to 999, but remember that the more alarms or events in the list, the longer it takes to display the list. If you change the number, note that the number of rows in the list will not be updated until you select another element than the Max. rows to fetch field, for example a row in the alarm list.

Data Source

Select whether you want to display a list of alarms or events in the Alarm List.

The event list does not display system- or user-generated events, such as motion detection or archive failure.

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