Standard tabs

XProtect Smart Client comes with a set of standard tabs allowing you to perform your daily surveillance tasks.

Some of the XProtect add-ons have tabs that are specific to the functionality of the add-ons. See Add-on products.

Finally, some tabs may be custom-made through the MIP SDK and specific to your XProtect VMS system. Functionality that depends on MIP SDK is not documented in the current manual.

If you can't see some of the standard tabs, it is because you do not have the permissions required to access the tabs.

When in live mode, you can view live video feeds, and work with audio, carousels, hotspots, Matrix, smart map, pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) control, digital zoom, independent playback, and more.

When in playback mode, you can investigate recorded video by playing it back. The main timeline gives you advanced features for browsing recorded video. You can also start search from any camera or view, and then document what you find by exporting evidence. To protect the evidence from being deleted from the database, you can also add evidence locks to recorded video.

You can also:

  • Listen to audio when connected to selected Milestone surveillance systems
  • If your XProtect VMS supports smart map, you can get access to the cameras in your system in a geographical interface, which is easy to navigate
  • Use hotspots, digital zoom, or carousels, navigate fisheye lens images, print images, and more

When in live or playback mode, you can enter into setup mode, where you can set up views for your cameras and other types of content.

First, when you want to export video data, you add the sequences that you want to export to the Export list. Next, for each item on the Export list, you can change the time span by clicking the Start time and the End time. See also Export video, audio, and still images.

You can choose which formats to use for the export, and for each format, you can change the Export settings. See also Export settings.

After you click the Export button, you specify an Export name and an Export destination. Then, you can create the export.

The exports that you create are stored in the folder that you specified in the Create export window > Export destination field. See also View exported video.

On the Search tab, you can search across the different types of data available in your VMS system. This includes:

  • Video recordings in general
  • Recordings with motion
  • Recordings with motion in selected areas
  • Bookmarks
  • People
  • Vehicles
  • Video recordings with alarms
  • Video recordings with events

For each search category, you can apply filters to refine your search.

From the search results, multiple actions are available. See also Actions available from search results (overview).

On the Alarm Manager tab, you can view and respond to incidents or technical problems that have triggered an alarm. The tab displays an alarm list, an alarm preview, and a smart map or map if one is available.

On the System Monitor tab, you can get a visual overview of the current state of your system servers, cameras, other devices, and the computer running XProtect Smart Client.

By default, the tiles represent Recording servers, All servers, Failover servers, and All cameras. Your system administrator specifies the tiles and the threshold value for each state.

Here is a description of the colors used:

  • Green: Normal state. Everything is running normally
  • Yellow: Warning state. At least one monitoring parameter is above the defined value for the Normal state
  • Red: Critical state. At least one monitoring parameter is above the defined value for the Normal and Warning state

If a tile changes color and you want to identify the server or parameter that caused the change, click the tile. This opens an overview in the bottom of the screen. Click the Details button for information about why the state changed.

If a tile displays a warning sign, a data collector for one of your monitored servers or cameras may not be running. If you place your mouse above the tile, the system shows you when it last collected data for the relevant tile.