General

In the General settings, you can change a number of settings that affect the general behavior and look of the Management Application.

Customer Dashboard

Select if your system should send system information to the Customer Dashboard.

System mode

Important: Do not change system mode unless you are absolutely sure that you want the new setting to be in effect immediately after saving.

At some point in time when you save recordings on your system, the storage you save recordings on may become full. Your system offers you two system modes which handle this scenario differently, Classic or Evidence collection.

Classic mode means that the system automatically deletes the oldest saved recordings in order to make room for new recordings. This is how saved recordings have been handled so far in all previous versions of your system. When you remove a hardware device in the Management ApplicationManagement Application, recordings from the relevant device are deleted from your storage. You can no longer play back recordings from the removed camera in XProtect Smart Client as these recordings will be deleted from your storage.
Evidence collection mode means that the system stops recording when you reach full storage capacity. All your old recordings are kept in the storage and the system does not save any new recordings. This ensures that video recorded as evidence is never deleted automatically and remains on the hard disk drive until you change system settings in your system or you manually remove the recordings from your storage. Similarly, if you remove a hardware device from the Management Application, recordings from the device are still kept on your storage. You can playback recordings in XProtect Smart Client even if you have removed the device in the Management Application.

Summary:

	Classic mode	Evidence collection mode
When the storage on which you are recording becomes full	The system deletes oldest recordings to make room for new recordings.	The system stops saving new recordings and keeps the oldest recordings.
When you delete a device in the Management Application	The system deletes all recordings from the removed device.	The system keeps all recordings from the removed device.
Playback in XProtect Smart Client	If you have removed the device from the Management Application, playback is no longer possible in XProtect Smart Client because the system deletes recordings from the device when you remove it.	Even if you have removed the device from the Management ApplicationManagement Application, playback is still possible in XProtect Smart Client as the system keeps the recordings.
Retention time	You can set and customize retention time for your recordings.	You cannot set retention time for your recordings as your system never deletes recordings.

Choose a system mode that fits your system needs. Most users need the most recent recordings to be available in their storage and should select Classic mode. Evidence mode provides an alternative in cases where all recorded video is considered evidence and therefore must remain on your storage.

Important: If you run your system in trial mode, only Classic mode is available.

Important: If you have upgraded from a previous version of your system, Classic mode is the default selection in your system. You must manually change your selection to use Evidence mode.

Language

The Management Application is available in several languages. From the list of languages, select the language you want to use. Restart the Management Application to make the change of language take effect.