About events and output

Available functionality depends on the system you are using. See the Product comparison chart for more information.

You can use events and output of various types to automatically trigger actions in your system. Examples of actions: starting or stopping recording on cameras, switching to a particular video frame rate, triggering notifications, making PTZ cameras move to specific preset positions. You can also use events for activating hardware output. You can also configure events and output to generate alarms.

Events can be divided in to:

Internal events (system-related): for example, motion, server responding/not responding, archiving problems and lack of disk space.
External events (integrated): for example, MIP plug-in events.