The Boring Toolbox Health Monitoring & Dashboards
Manage, deploy and monitor XProtect faster with bulk configuration, reporting and dashboards
Updated on Tuesday, April 18, 2023
The Boring Toolbox was created to make the monitoring & management of Milestone XProtect more efficient. Save hours (days) of time, provide better customer support and finally finish those boring management tasks, while at the same time monitoring VMS and camera health, compliance and cyber-security
What is needed
From The Boring Lab, LLC
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Boring Server
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Boring Client
Requires Windows 8 Pro or Server 2012 R2 Std and above
From Milestone Systems
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Milestone XProtect
XProtect Corporate 2018R2 or higher
XProtect Expert 2018R2 or higher
XProtect Professional+
XProtect Express+
Support for XProtect 2022 R3 Tested
XProtect Expert 2018R2 or higher
XProtect Professional+
XProtect Express+
Support for XProtect 2022 R3 Tested
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Overview
How it works
How to install
Overview
The Boring Toolbox Health Monitoring & Dashboards - Manage, deploy and monitor XProtect faster with bulk configuration, reporting and dashboards
How much would you give to have another team member to perform those critical but boring tasks that take up so much of your time? Well dream no more...meet your new team member, The Boring Toolbox, who will be a force-multiplier by helping with...* monitoring camera health & recording server storage
* creating reports with always accurate information
* taking snapshots of all your cameras to insure video quality
* insuring compliance with video retention policies
* changing passwords on your cameras
* Renaming cameras to keep them consistent with your new naming standards
* curating device groups by camera model & recording server
* configuring adaptive streaming settings across all your cameras
* updating IP addresses for your cameras in Milestone
* and more...
Ready to meet your new team member in person? Reach out today for a demo or trial today!
Key features
- Visualize Milestone XProtect VMS and camera health with beautiful dashboards
- Perform management tasks in bulk including renaming devices and hardware, enabling and disabling, deploying HTTPS & updating IP addresses
- Create beautiful reports with information from across the Milestone VMS including device data, snapshots, video retention and server information
- Increase cyber-security with password synch between Milestone XProtect, Axis, Bosch, Hanwha, Arecont & Sony
- Deploy adaptive streaming quickly. Update codec, frame rate, resolution and streaming mode in bulk regardless of driver or camera model
How it works
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30s Teaser of what you can do with the Boring Toolbox
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20s Challenge: Disable all microphones
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20s Challenge: Find cameras using the most storage
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20s Challenge: Reporting on cameras with no video
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20s Challenge: Quickly report on camera retention for Milestone XProtect cameras recording in the VMS. This is perfect for those industries that require compliance with specific video retention.
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How to manage multiple Milestone XProtect Sites using Global Dashboard
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Quickly rename hardware and devices in bulk
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View passwords stored in Milestone, change passwords in bulk in the Milestone and synchronize passwords to supported hardware devices as well (currently Axis only)
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Instantly create beautiful and complete reports that you can either provide to you client as a deliverable or use it internally as an audit document.
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Instantly create device groups based on camera model, storage config or other templates. No more curating special groups or hunting and pecking for the right cameras!
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How to create HI and LOW streams in XProtect regardless of camera model or driver. Supported cameras only.
How to install
Documentation
This is where you can find additional documentation
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Specification
Required The Boring Lab, LLC product(s)
All versions of The Boring Toolbox and server are supported
Has proven compatibility with the following Milestone versions:
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XProtectExpress+2022 R3, 10/11 2022
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XProtectCorporate2022 R3, 10/11 2022
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XProtectExpert2022 R3, 10/11 2022
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XProtectEssential+2022 R3, 10/11 2022
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XProtectProfessional+2022 R3, 10/11 2022
Is also expected to work with:
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XProtectExpress+2018 R2, 06/07 2018 and later
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XProtectCorporate2018 R2, 06/07 2018 and later
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XProtectExpert2018 R2, 06/07 2018 and later
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XProtectEssential+2018 R2, 06/07 2018 and later
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XProtectProfessional+2018 R2, 06/07 2018 and later
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