1. Select your
Time Zone
from the drop-down list. The time zone that you set here is used by the
recording schedules defined in the ACC Client software.
2. Select whether you want to keep synchronized time through a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server
(recommended) in the NTP field.
Tip:
To synchronize time with ONVIF devices (that is, non-Avigilon cameras), you can connect
to port 123 on the AI NVR to use it as an NTP server.
Select:
l
DHCP
to automatically use the existing NTP servers in the network.
l
Manual
to enter the address of NTP servers in the Servers list. Controls to add and delete
addresses in the list, and reorder them are activated.
l
Off
if you do not use an NTP server.
Note:
The default set of NTP servers is always present in the Servers list. However, this list is
only used if NTP is enabled and not provided by your DHCP server. The default list cannot
be rearranged or deleted.
l
0.pool.ntp.org
l
1.pool.ntp.org
l
2.pool.ntp.org
l
3.pool.ntp.org
3. Click
Apply
to save the time settings.
Manage Certificates
Trusted certificates are used by the device to authenticate other servers and clients to which it needs to
connect, and to secure those connections. Avigilon provides a self-signed Web Certificate to secure the
connection to Server Management and to the WebEndpoint service, and a set of system-level signed
certificates from well-known trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs) to ensure secure connections to any
needed servers. Optionally, you can provide your own certificates and CAs.
The level of security provided by the certificates included with the device should be sufficient for any
organization that does not deploy a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) on its internal servers.
The certificate management feature on the appliance controls only the appliance web certificate used by
Server Management and the ACC WebEndpoint product. Within the ACC server the certificate authorities
configured by this feature are only used to validate secure email servers used by the ACC Email and Central
Station Monitoring features. ACC Server to ACC Server and ACC Server to ACC Client connections are not
controlled or validated using the appliance certificate management feature.
For example, if your organization uses a public email server such as Google Mail, when email notifications
are triggered, the ACC software accesses the Google Mail server and receives a certificate identifying the
Google Mail server. The ACC software verifies the certificate by confirming the CA that signed the Google
Manage Certificates
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