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c. 

Place the enclosure over the turret 
module. 

d. 

While feeding the drop cable through 
the cable channel or through the hole 
of the mounting surface, reposition the 
enclosure with the turret onto the base, 
then secure it with lock screw. Do not 
tighten the screw at this time.

12. 

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pply power to the camera. 

Step 2.  Install the Alibi Discovery Tool

Alibi Discovery Tool is a software utility used to “discover” Alibi cameras and NVRs/DVRs installed on the 
physical Ethernet network (LAN) and change their network settings. Discovery Tool is provided in the 

Alibi 

Power Tools 

software suite available for download from 

AlibiSecurity.com/resources

. It should be 

installed on a Window PC attached to the same LAN as your camera. To install the Alibi Power Tools suite 
and use the Discovery Tool: 
1. 

Download the 

Alibi Power Tools

 installer file and user manual from 

AlibiSecurity.com/

resources. 

2. 

Copy the installer file to a Windows PC that is attached to the same Ethernet network your camera 
is installed on. 

3. 

Install Alibi Power Tools. Refer to the 

ALIBI™ Power Tools Installation and User Manual

. When the 

program opens, the following screen appears.

4. 

Double click on the 

Discovery Tool

 icon. The tool will automatically discover Alibi cameras and 

recorders installed on the network. For example, in the example below, Discovery found the  
ALI-NS2023R camera. 

Enter new 

password in the 

New and Confirm 

fields

Notice that the IP address of the camera is 192.168.1.64 (default IP address), and the camera Security 
is 

Inactive

. The camera must be “activated” before it can be used. 

NOTE

If an Alibi digital video recorder exists on the same LAN as the camera, the recorder may automatically 
activate the camara, assigning the same admin user password setup in the recorder to the admin user 
of the camera, and configure the network settings to be compatible with the LAN and the recorder. If 
this occurred automatically, skip this step and the nest step of this procedure. 

To 

Activate

 the camera: 

a. 

Click on the camera entry in the 

Online Devices

 list to select it. The Network Parameters 

and other device information will appear in the right column. 

b. 

Enter a “strong” password in the 

New Password

 and 

Confirm Password

 fields. Strong 

passwords have: 8 to 16 characters and include at least one character from two of the 
following groups: uppercase, lower case, numbers and special characters. 

c. 

Click 

OK

 to set the new password. The Security status should change to 

Active

5. 

To change the network settings of the camera to be compatible with the LAN where it is installed, 
do the following: 

a. 

Click on the new camera to highlight it. 

b. 

In the right frame, click the box to 

Enable DHCP

 to acquire network settings from a 

DHCP server on the network, or enter a new IP address, Subnet Mask, and Gateway that is 
compatible with your LAN (see below). 

Password field

c. 

Enter the password for the camer ain the password field, and then click 

Save

. If the new 

settings were applied, the following window will appear. 

If the window above didn’t appear, use the information provided to adjust the parameters, 
and then Save the settings. 

d. 

Close the Discovery tool. 

Step 3.  Login to the camera

To access the camera from a computer on the LAN: 
1. 

Open your Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) browser on your computer and enter the IP address of the 
camera in the URL field. In the example below, the IP address of the camera is 192.168.3.111.

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