Managing permissions to view analytics data

Once your XProtect VMS receives analytics data from analytics topics, you must determine which users should have access to the analytics data.
Depending on the analytics data type sometimes you need to give users permissions before the analytics data becomes available. Other times, the permissions automatically follow the user permissions to view a camera.

Analytics events and metadata from analytics topics

You do not have to configure permissions for the Analytics and Metadata analytics data types. If users have permissions to view video from a camera, they also have permissions to the analytics events and metadata associated to this camera.

Video from analytics topics

If you have subscribed to an analytics topic with the Video analytics data type, an analytics camera is created in the camera group Processing Server Camera Group. This analytics camera represents the stream of video sent from the IVA application.

You give operators in XProtect Smart Client permissions to these analytics cameras the same way as you give users permissions to cameras in your XProtect VMS.

If you have XProtect VMS administrators with permissions to configure cameras but not to view video from some of these cameras in XProtect Management Client, you should also restrict these administrators from viewing video from analytics topics that originate from cameras they have no permissions to view video from.