Monitor your system

The System Monitor tab gives you an overview of the current status of your servers, connected devices, and the computer running XProtect Smart Client.

For more information, see Standard tabs.

Monitor client resources

The number of cameras in a view together with the resolution, frame rateClosedA measure indicating the amount of information contained in motion video. Typically measured in FPS (Frames Per second)., and codecClosedA technology for compressing and decompressing audio and video data, for example in an exported AVI file. results in a load on your PC running XProtect Smart Client. To observe the current load on CPU, RAM, and NVIDIA GPU resources:

  1. Click and drag the System Monitor tab to undock it to a detached window.
  2. Select This computer.
  3. Select a view to monitor the load of the current view.

    Monitor the client resources in XProtect.

If your client PC has additional NVIDIA display adapters installed, the load on these GPU's are also visible.

If the load is too high, you can add GPU resources to your PC by installing multiple NVIDIA display adapters. Milestone does not recommend the use of Scalable Link Interface (SLI) configuration of your NVIDIA display adapters.

System Monitor tab with Milestone Federated Architecture (explained)

If you run Milestone Federated Architecture™, the System Monitor tab is divided into two parts:

  • One pane displays a hierarchical tree-structure representing your federated architecture
  • The other pane is a browser-based area with relevant system data for the selected server

Click any server in the site pane to see its system data.

If you move away from the tab or log out of the system and come back, the System Monitor tab remembers which server is selected in your federated architecture and continues to display system data from this server.

You can drag the System Monitor tab to an independent window to monitor multiple servers.