The relationship between events and alarms

Incidents or technical problems that occur in your XProtect system are known as events. The term event refer to any occurrence or activity captured by the surveillance system that may require user attention or action. For example, if you have motion detection enabled on your cameras, and something or someone moves, motion is detected and the VMS is alerted. This is an event.

To respond to events, your system administrator sets up alarms in XProtect. When an event is detected, an alarm is triggered and displayed in XProtect Smart Client.

So, when the motion detection event is detected, a corresponding alarm is triggered and shown in XProtect Smart Client to indicate that motion was detected.

You can view alarms and events on the Alarm Manager tab, which provides a central overview of your incidents, statuses, and possible technical problems. Users of XProtect Smart Client cannot set up alarm triggers directly. The system administrators can set up alarm triggers when they configure the XProtect VMS system.

Your system administrator defines whether to display or hide the Alarm Manager tab.

The Alarm Manager tab provides users with a dedicated view for alarm or event handling. The tab itself displays the number of active alarms. When more than nine alarms have been triggered, they are indicated with a notification button that says (9+) .

The Alarm Manager tab also includes an alarm list, an alarm preview for previewing video associated with individual alarms or events, and possibly also a map that displays the geographical location of the camera associated with the alarm.