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3. Firmware upgrade

Ensure you are running the latest firmware. You will also need to download the latest
firmware from our website (

http://www.akcp.com/company/firmwareupdate.htm

). Log

into our webpage using your MAC address, this is found on a sticker on the base of the
unit. After the download navigate back to the web based interface

(units IP address.

This

manual will refer to the DEFAULT IP address, 192.168.0.1 you need to substitute this for
your own IP address if you have changed it)

Please Note:

The firmware file used for the securityProbe 5ESV is the same file used to update

the securityProbe 5ES units as it uses the same iMX25 processor.

This tutorial provides you the information needed to upgrade the firmware.

To get to the starting point of this tutorial:



Click on the settings tab

Summary of Contents for 5ESV-X20

Page 2: ...ng the IP address 3 Firmware upgrade and creating a backup configuration 4 Multi User Groups and Management 5 Services and Security 6 Setting up a sensor i Notification thresholds ii Advanced sensor s...

Page 3: ...contact inputs where the securityProbe 5ESV only has the 8 RJ 45 sensor ports More on these extra dry contacts in the sections below How to use this manual This manual is meant to provide the user wit...

Page 4: ...line LEDs These are numbered 1 8 They are used to indicate the connectivity status of the sensors connected to each port These LEDs also can be used to indicate system status when undertaking various...

Page 5: ...ts for connecting either the 8 sensor8 or the E opto16 expansion units These are also used for connecting the CCU or Cabinet Control Units Please see each of these separate user manuals for each of th...

Page 6: ...rs 6 RS485 Port Used for Modbus connectivity We support Modbus master or slave 7 Power Connector This is a 7 5V DC plug We recommend you using a 7 0 9 V 2 5 A power supply 8 Ethernet Port This RJ45 po...

Page 7: ...w shows the JUMPERS on the dry contact board set up to provide opto isolators support Opto isolators provide complete electrical separation between the securityProbe 5ESV X20 and X60 and the dry conta...

Page 8: ...s Page then click on the Dry Contact Ports link in the left hand column You can now click on the dry contact port to setup that port as shown in the screen shot above If your unit is the X60 you will...

Page 9: ...t is now Critical and we can set how we require the Normal State to be in as shown above Either in the Closed GND or Open 5VDC We can also rename our normal and critical state of the input Now we can...

Page 10: ...SV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 10 If we click on the Advanced Tab we can set the graphing to on the sensor URL set the Filter Status and enable the Calendar More on the Sensor URL and Filter St...

Page 11: ...rnet card or LAN socket 3 Power socket for the unit to connect to a Connect the unit via the Ethernet port of the unit to your computers LAN or Ethernet port with a CAT5 crossover cable b Open a web b...

Page 12: ...et network from the list on the left frame of the page Please Note Even though the screen shots included in this manual will display AKCP securityProbe 5ES there are no differences between the securit...

Page 13: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 13 Note The unit ships with DHCP disabled If you wish to use a DHCP server to obtain the IP address then see the Using DHCP section of the FAQ...

Page 14: ...est the unit This can also be used as a diagnostic tool in order to check whether your unit is connected to the network After hitting enter you will get an MS DOS prompt window that will show the ping...

Page 15: ...he download navigate back to the web based interface units IP address This manual will refer to the DEFAULT IP address 192 168 0 1 you need to substitute this for your own IP address if you have chang...

Page 16: ...k on the Upgrade button this will reboot the unit into safe mode or upgrade mode Click OK After reboot you will be redirected to the safe mode web interface This can take some time so please be patien...

Page 17: ...of the update process is working properly The second half of the update will begin in roughly 7 to 10 minutes This will show the upgrade process bar and the percentage that has completed You will noti...

Page 18: ...OFF your device 2 Connect your securityProbe via crossover cable directly to your computer s network interface card 3 Reconfigure your network interface card s TCP IP settings IP Address 192 168 0 2...

Page 19: ...ES unit You can also use the probeManager utility to push out the same configuration file to multiple units on your network simultaneously However it is not recommended to load a backup file from a se...

Page 20: ...the Settings page then System Administrator then User Group Management as shown in the screen shot below Note The following screen shots may appear small and hard to read Please use the zoom feature i...

Page 21: ...group named System Guest and entered our description Now check the objects within the web interface that this group will be able to Modify and View Then click the Finish button to save your group Now...

Page 22: ...5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 22 If you wish to modify your group settings highlight the group you wish to modify by clicking on it then click on the Properties button as shown in the scree...

Page 23: ...new Users to your groups as shown above Now enter your User details as shown above In our example we have entered Bob Smith as our Guest into our System Guest group We have also added the option so th...

Page 24: ...d until firmware 404m 24 Now as you can see the new user has been entered into our list of Users To modify a users setting first highlight the user by clicking on it then click the Properties button a...

Page 25: ...aking the unit more secure as shown in the screen capture above Closing or changing ports disabling HTTP and enabling HTTPS You can also close or change the ports used to access the units web interfac...

Page 26: ...which is the standard security technology for establishing the encrypted link between the securityProbe in our case and the web browser This link ensures that all data passed between the securityProbe...

Page 27: ...re logged into the units web interface to Acknowledge alarms which is normally reserved only for the Administrator When the unit boots up it will announce the IP address that it has been configured wi...

Page 28: ...rature sensor however this basic set up process is applicable to all of our sensors If you require information on specific functions of a particular sensor then please download the manual for that sen...

Page 29: ...ors are connected their status view the system log and also view footage from any connected cameras We will now go through some of the tools the web based interface provides for getting feedback from...

Page 30: ...shold label you can drag this marker to re configure the thresholds After dragging the marker click save In the next screen shot you can see that this marker has been moved to make a new threshold and...

Page 31: ...5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 31 Now your page will look something like below after taking the sensor offline To bring a sensor back online select your sensor type from the drop down menu a...

Page 32: ...l Updated until firmware 404m 32 Advanced sensor settings By clicking on the Advanced Settings tab you will then see the advanced settings for the sensor Advanced mode functions Units changes units fr...

Page 33: ...raps and events logged The Rearm parameter prevents this by forcing the temperature to drop by the Rearm value before changing the state back to normal In this example if Rearm is set to 2 then the se...

Page 34: ...data point on the graph is one data point collected from the sensor But for the monthly and yearly graph in order to display more data into the same size as the daily graph some consolidation on the d...

Page 35: ...tyle You can keep the sensors Display Style in the web interface as the Basic Style which will be the slide bar type or you can change it to the Gauge Style type When switching to the Gauge Style type...

Page 36: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 36 You will now see the new display where you can set the sensors threshold levels as shown above...

Page 37: ...ge feature for this sensor you can set the rate in a percentage from 1 to 50 over a period of time from 1 to 20 minutes You can set the direction to Up Down or Both and you can set the Status when the...

Page 38: ...8 Graphing Sensor Data In order to save the data from the sensors on the securityProbe 5ESV you will need to enable the Graphing feature on the unit You need to change the Enable Graph to the On posit...

Page 39: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 39 After clicking on the Click Here to View Graph link shown in the screen shot on the previous page you will then see the graphs for the sensor...

Page 40: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 40 You can download the sensor data to a text file by clicking on the Download Data button shown in the screen shot above...

Page 41: ...ated until firmware 404m 41 Which will display the pop up box as shown in the screen shot above You can also set the Graph Options by clicking on that button then Enabling the graphing page URL s as s...

Page 42: ...for each sensor What this feature does is allow you to add a Hyperlink to a sensor then this link will be displayed in the securityProbe 5ESV X20 or X60 s mapping feature for that sensor see the scree...

Page 43: ...ensor status If the status of the sensor changes very rapidly then it will report how many times the sensor status changed instead of having 36 separate entries in the syslog entry For example this wi...

Page 44: ...ng between the hours of 7 PM 9 AM Monday Friday only You can see in this picture we have selected the Do Not Report option for the hours in which we do not wish to receive any notifications or have an...

Page 45: ...f time that can be entered is between 0 and 65535 seconds which equals approximately 18 hours Continuous Time to Report High Warning As above but delays notification for High Warning Continuous Time t...

Page 46: ...value is set to 3 seconds Using internal Mic as a sound detection sensor The internal microphone or an external plugged into the line in jack can be used as a sound detector a First navigate to the co...

Page 47: ...ityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 47 b When you have clicked on the advanced settings tab you will see the advanced options presented to you Now lets look at what each of these settings...

Page 48: ...umber of emails traps and events would be logged The Rearm parameter prevents this by forcing the signal level to drop by the Rearm value before changing the state back to normal In this example if Re...

Page 49: ...and an Opto isolated sixteen dry contact expansion module In this section we will go through the basic setup of the sensor If you require information on specific functions of a particular sensor or ex...

Page 50: ...ame of the expansion module you can also disable it by clicking on the Enable Disable button Once you have clicked on the Dual sensors tab you will be directed to the familiar looking notification thr...

Page 51: ...tified that a sensors reading has reached the specified parameters high warning critical etc that we looked at in the previous section 1 Adding a notification a First click on the notification wizard...

Page 52: ...irmware 404m 52 Please Note We will now go through setting up a few different ways of notification step by step To learn what the other types of notifications do refer to the separate notification man...

Page 53: ...on is correct you can press the Add Trap Destination button After clicking this you have the option of inputting another trap or clicking on Next Now you can enter the following parameters These param...

Page 54: ...n these screens you can select the parameters for when to send the SNMP trap notification In our example we have selected to bind the SNMP trap to the temperature sensor we have connected on port 1 Th...

Page 55: ...ated the parameters for the SNMP trap we need to make it active To do this go back to the notifications tab and it should look like the following e Select the sensor and SNMP trap parameters as before...

Page 56: ...ted until firmware 404m 56 Note To remove this trap and make it inactive highlight the notification and click remove You can repeat this process to set up multiple SNMP traps for different sensors or...

Page 57: ...you can input the e mail name and message Press the Customize button and the fields will re write in a format that will allow for an automated e mail that will display the sensor information This tut...

Page 58: ...address for your e mail account Once this is correct click next d Now as with the SNMP trap you can select how many times to attempt to resend the e mail and the time elapsed between each attempt Clic...

Page 59: ...urityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 59 Click on Finish You will now be taken back to the main Notification tab f Click on create g Create the notification link as before Then click fini...

Page 60: ...High Critical and an E mail notification that will activate on a High Warning 4 SMS notification Now we will set up a notification so that you will be sent an SMS message This message can be sent via...

Page 61: ...t of notification types select SMS and click next You will then be presented with this b You can now either add multiple numbers or click next In our case we will click next c Now we will set up the m...

Page 62: ...eading and the status high low warning etc these macros are common to all sensor notifications d You will now see that the SMS message has changed its format to include the Macro script e Next we will...

Page 63: ...Updated until firmware 404m 63 f You will now be able to select the number of times you wish the SMS to be resent and the interval between sending them g Again we now select the sensor to which to bi...

Page 64: ...e will use this notification for a low critical Then select the notification name we assigned in this case we chose SMS 1 Click Finish to finalize this h Now we will add the SMS notification to our ac...

Page 65: ...s the SNMP trap E mail and SMS For the purposes of this tutorial we will not cover the set up of every type of notification However with this information you should be able to follow the procedure for...

Page 66: ...ed in you will be taken to the default summary page b You may or may not see the live image from the camera already If not then click on Camera setting and follow the instructions below PLEASE NOTE Th...

Page 67: ...s stage you will begin opening up multiple windows which my obscure valuable information displayed on the summary page To prevent this from happening each window can be dragged to a new position to ac...

Page 68: ...need to go to the Settings page then the Enable Cameras page You can then press the Check Video Signal button to scan the HD Digital ports on the unit for connected cameras After the camera or cameras...

Page 69: ...0 base unit will now show the check in the Enabled box as shown in the screen shot above You can then check to make sure the video stream is working by clicking on the Preview button If the image appe...

Page 70: ...then change the Image Size of the streaming video from your cameras to either 320 x 240 or 640 x 480 The streaming video Image Size will be displayed on the Summery page as shown in pages 61 and 62 ab...

Page 71: ...from the drop down list as shown in the screen shot above If the cameras is an AKCP branded camera you will choose the AKCP PT Camera if it is another third party Pelco D type camera you will select...

Page 72: ...a a First click on the PTZ Control button b Now we can pan and tilt the camera by way of the pan tilt arrows This tutorial provides you the information needed to setup an MMS Notification To get to th...

Page 73: ...m 73 1 2 3 4 Helpful Hint You can also pan and tilt the camera by placing your mouse on the video image and clicking the position in which you would like the camera to face This is useful when you wan...

Page 74: ...tomated camera movement This will make the camera automatically pan or tilt at preset intervals This tutorial provides you the information needed to setup automated camera movements To get to the star...

Page 75: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 75 b After clicking on the add button you will be met with the following pages...

Page 76: ...s movement so that it covers the area you require too monitor In this example we have added three different positions After clicking Save Action click on Run Continuous This will start the script runn...

Page 77: ...era please use the Java option The web interface will direct you on how to do this For this tutorial we will assume this is done a Select the Java Script as the mode of display This tutorial provides...

Page 78: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 78 b Click Record and the camera record window will now open...

Page 79: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 79 c Now we need to set up the capture parameters Click on Setup Record Test 1 2...

Page 80: ...anual Updated until firmware 404m 80 d To begin capture simply click on Record Note If you wish to record and run the automated camera movement sat the same time start the automated camera movements f...

Page 81: ...the temperature sensor reading is at High Critical a Once this is done you can add it to the active notifications so your page should now look like this As you can see from the screen shot above we ha...

Page 82: ...der to trigger a response This has triggered the picture log notification c Viewing the logged pictures Form here you can see there is a series of images These have been taken at the preset time inter...

Page 83: ...ons 1 Adding a map a First we need to add a picture file to be used as the map This can be a blueprint of your office a 3D picture of your office site being monitored or a photo of the wiring closet y...

Page 84: ...04m 84 c In this tutorial we are going to use a 3D map of a town center we are monitoring d Choose to have the map as a top level map e You will now have the option to finish or to continue adding you...

Page 85: ...404m 85 f You will now be taken to the map page where it will display your map To continue adding the sensors click next g After clicking next you will be directed to click the Unlock button You can n...

Page 86: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 86 i After you have positioned the sensors in the correct location of your map click on Unlock...

Page 87: ...Monitoring via the map interface Now we are going to look at how to monitor the sensor status and use the map interface a To see further information regarding a sensor you can click on its icon First...

Page 88: ...n to filter your sensor information which is displayed within the summary page To enter the filter menu select Sensor Filters from the dropdown tab on the left of the page Once you have clicked the ta...

Page 89: ...are 404m 89 Altering your page reload interval can be achieved by using these options shown below Once you have selected your preferred filter options your new settings will be displayed in the Sensor...

Page 90: ...Syslog filter tab found on the summary page Once you have clicked the tab you will be able to select your filter results by altering various fields of information contained within syslog filter windo...

Page 91: ...ware 404m 91 Altering your reaload interval can be achieved by using the options shown below Once you have selected your preferred filter options your new settings will be displayed in the System log...

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Page 93: ...e 192 168 0 300 This will then allow you to log into your routers administration interface You can find how to go about doing this for your router on www portforward com For an example of how to do th...

Page 94: ...connected to my unit in the web interface any longer What could be the problem 16 I just noticed this Mega SPI Error in my securityProbe s web interface What is the problem How do I clear this 17 I am...

Page 95: ...reducing the expansion ports also reduce the total number of sensors that can be connected to the SEC 5ESV X20 or X60 30 Can I add my own SD flash card to the unit If so how large can I use and what...

Page 96: ...LED is lit on the front display of the unit If this is not lit then you have no network connection present If this is the case then ensure the following 1 If connected directly to a PC ensure a good...

Page 97: ...securityProbe 5ESV Manual Updated until firmware 404m 97 LED patterns in Safe mode then...

Page 98: ...Board init 4th LED Serial port 5th LED Ethernet 6th LED NOR Flash 7th LED NAND Flash 8th LED Root file system mounted Starting init process After the root file system is mounted all green LEDs will be...

Page 99: ...hips with this disabled Therefore to turn it on you need to log into the web interface and navigate to the Ethernet settings by way of clicking the security tab Ethernet Network and then clicking on t...

Page 100: ...s will send you a multimedia message to your mobile phone This can include an image captured from one of the sensor probes cameras Relay The relay is used as a switch for example it could switch on an...

Page 101: ...raps Custom Scripts or by e mail Alive Trap settings Send Keep Alive Traps Default Off Select on if you want the system to send Alive Traps Destination enter the IP address of the server to send traps...

Page 102: ...normally and the LED s are circling around counter clockwise what should I do Leave the power connected to the unit and let it sit for 30 minutes without pressing the safe mode button and it should bo...

Page 103: ...ode 4 install the firmware again 5 restore with the backup file in normal mode 20 I am having problems with the unit but not sure what to do next Please email support akcp com and include the followin...

Page 104: ...hould be able to source these in your local area quite easily 25 What if I need to extend the cameras further than 10 meters Can I use the older digital cameras you offered before that connect to the...

Page 105: ...MX25 processor so they will use the same firmware update file 32 Speaking of firmware do I need a separate firmware version or file if my unit has the X20 or X60 dry contact inputs For example my SEC...

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