RC-E User Manual
Management Client (RC-E Manager)
On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc.
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It is
not
possible to mix domain(s) and workgroup(s), i.e. connect sites from a domain to sites from a
workgroup and vice versa.
Options
Options
The Management Client's
Options
dialog lets you specify a number of settings related to the appearance of the
application, to logging, to mail server configuration, etc.
You access the
Options
dialog from the Management Client's menu bar (see "Management Client Overview" on page
34), by selecting
Tools
>
Options
.
The
Options
dialog features the following tabs:
General
The
General
tab lets you specify the following:
Number of log rows to retrieve per page:
Lets you select the number of log rows you want to view on a single
log page. Default is 50 rows. If a log contains more than the specified number of rows, you will be able view the
remaining rows on subsequent log pages.
Default preview frame rate:
Lets you select which frame rate to use for the thumbnail camera images displayed
in the preview pane (see "Panes Overview" on page 36). Default is 1 frame per second.
Refreshing the Management Client' layout (by pressing F5 on your keyboard or selecting
Action
>
Refresh
from the menu bar) is required for a change to take effect.
Note that a high frame rate (i.e. a high image quality) in combination with a large number of thumbnail images
in the preview pane may slow the system down. You are able to limit the number of thumbnail images with
the
Max. number of previews
setting.
Max. number of previews:
Lets you select the maximum number of thumbnail images displayed in the preview
pane. Default is 64 thumbnail images.
Refreshing the Management Client' layout (by pressing F5 on your keyboard or selecting
Action
>
Refresh
from the menu bar) is required for a change to take effect.
Note that a large number of thumbnail images in combination with a high frame rate (i.e. a high image quality)
may slow the system down. You are able to limit the frame rate used for the thumbnail images with the
Default preview frame rate
setting.
Motion detection 'on' when adding camera devices:
Lets you select whether motion detection should be
enabled while cameras are being added to a recording server through the
Add Hardware
(see "
Add Hardware
(Cameras, etc.)
" on page 49) wizard.
Select check box to enable motion detection while using the wizard (default).
Note that this setting only applies while
Add Hardware
is in use. When the wizard is not in use, motion
detection will be active for all cameras for which it has been enabled, regardless of this setting.
Why would I want to disable motion detection while using Add Hardware?
Motion detection is a key
element in the surveillance system, and is thus by default enabled for all cameras on the system. However,
motion detection uses a relatively large amount of computing resources. If your system features a very large
