Alarms (explained)

Important: This feature only works if you have XProtect Event Server installed.

Based on functionality handled in the event server, the alarms feature provides central overview, control and scalability of alarms in any number of installations (including any other XProtect systems) throughout your organization. You can configure it to generate alarms based on either:

• Internal system related events

  For example, motion, server responding/not responding, archiving problems, lack of disk space and more.

• External integrated events

  This group can consist of several types of external events:

  • Analytics events

    Typically data received from an external third-party video content analysis (VCA) providers.

  • MIP plug-in events

    Through the MIP Software Development Kit (SDK) a third-party vendor can develop custom plug-ins (for example, integration to external access control systems or similar) to your system.

Legend:

1. Surveillance system
2. Management Client
3. XProtect Smart Client
4. Alarm configuration
5. Alarm data flow

You handle and delegate alarms in the alarm list in XProtect Smart Client. You can also integrate alarms with the XProtect Smart Client's map functionality.

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