Add a generic event

You can define generic events to help the VMS recognize specific strings in TCP or UDP packets from an external system. Based on a generic event, you can configure Management Client to trigger actions, for example to start recording, or alarms.

Requirements
You have enabled generic events and specified the source destinations allowed. For more information, see Generic Events tab.

To add a generic event:

1. Expand Rules and Events.
2. Right-click Generic Events and select Add New.
3. Fill in the needed information and properties. For more information, see Generic event properties.
4. (optional) To validate that the search expression is valid, enter a search string in the Check if expression matches event string field that corresponds to the expected packages:
   • Match - the string can be validated against the search expression.
   • No match - the search expression is invalid. Change it and try again.

In XProtect Smart Client, you can verify whether your generic events have been received by the event server. You do this in the Alarm List on the Alarm Manager tab by selecting Events.

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