System Monitor (System Dashboard node)

The System Monitor functionality provides you with a quick, visual overview of the current well-being of your system's servers and cameras.

System monitor dashboard window

Tiles

The upper part of the System monitor dashboard window shows colored tiles that represent the state of your system's server hardware and camera hardware.

The tiles change their state and thereby color based on threshold values set under System Monitor Thresholds node. For more information, see System Monitor Thresholds (System Dashboard node). Define the thresholds, so tile colors mean the following:

Tile color

Description
Green

Normal state. Everything is running normally.
Yellow

Warning state. One or more monitoring parameters is above the threshold value for the Normal state.
Red

Critical state. One or more monitoring parameters is above the threshold value for the Normal and Warning state.

Hardware list with monitoring parameters

If you click a tile, you can see the state of each selected monitoring parameter for each hardware represented by the tile in the bottom part of the System monitor dashboard window.

The monitoring parameters for one piece of hardware in the System monitor dashboard.

Example: A camera's LIVE FPS monitoring parameters have reached the Warning state.

Customize dashboard window

Select Customize in the upper right corner of the window to open the Customize dashboard window.

In the Customize dashboard window, you can select which tile to create, edit or delete. When creating or editing tiles, you can select which hardware and which monitoring parameters you want to monitor on the tile.

Details window

If you select a tile and then from the hardware list with monitoring parameters, select the Details button to the right of a camera or server, you can -depending on the selected hardware - view system information and create reports regarding:

Hardware

Information
Management server

Shows data about:

  • CPU Usage
  • Memory available

Select History to see the historical states of your hardware and create a report on the above data.
Recording server(s)

Shows data about:

  • CPU usage
  • Memory available
  • Disks
  • Storage
  • Network
  • Cameras

Select History to see the historical states of your hardware and create a report on the above data.
Failover recording servers

Shows data about:

  • CPU usage
  • Memory available
  • Monitored recording servers

Select History to see the historical states of your hardware and create a report on the above data.
Log servers, events servers, and more

Shows data about

  • CPU usage
  • Memory available

Select History to see the historical states of your hardware and create a report on the above data.
Cameras

Shows data about:

  • Storage
  • Used Space
  • Live FPS (Default)
  • Recording FPS
  • Live Video Format
  • Recording Video Format
  • Media Data Received (Kbit/s)
  • Memory available

Select the camera name to see its historical states and create a report on:

  • Data received from camera
  • Camera disk usage

If you access the system monitor's details from a server operating system, you may experience a message regarding Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration. Follow the instructions to add the System Monitor page to the Trusted sites zone before proceeding.