NETAVIS Observer 4.6 User Manual (October 2015)
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6.6 Manual recording control in the Online Monitor .............................................................................. 59
6.7 Working with round tours (the Smart guard™ function) ................................................................. 61
6.8 Copying views between users .............................................................................................................. 61
6.9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio (MPEG-4, H.264, and MxPEG) ....................................... 63
6.10 Dynamic View Control in Online Monitor ......................................................................................... 64
7 Working with archive recordings ....................................................................... 71
7.1 Programming archive recordings ........................................................................................................ 71
7.2 Playback of archive recordings ............................................................................................................ 75
7.3 Exporting recordings (images and video sequences) ..................................................................... 80
7.4 Motion detection in archive recordings ............................................................................................. 82
7.5 External archive management (NEA) .................................................................................................. 84
8 Working with simple motion detection ............................................................... 87
8.1 Observer’s own server-based motion detection .............................................................................. 87
8.2 Motion detection in archive recordings ............................................................................................. 90
8.3 In-camera motion detection................................................................................................................. 90
9 Handling events ............................................................................................... 93
9.1 Event list and event details ................................................................................................................... 93
9.2 Searching in the event database ......................................................................................................... 95
9.3 Generating an event statistics report .................................................................................................. 98
9.4 Receiving notification on events .......................................................................................................... 99
10 Working with PTZ cameras ............................................................................ 101
10.1 Setting up a PTZ camera ................................................................................................................... 101
10.2 Defining fixed PTZ positions ............................................................................................................. 101
10.3 Defining PTZ routes ............................................................................................................................ 101
10.4 Controlling PTZ cameras................................................................................................................... 102
11 Administrating Observer servers .................................................................... 108
11.1 Server system information and restarting ..................................................................................... 108
11.2 Setting Observer server parameters ............................................................................................... 110
12 Working with interconnected Observer servers ............................................... 116
12.1 Basic concepts of interconnected Observer servers ................................................................... 116
12.2 Adding and defining a remote Observer server ............................................................................ 117
12.3 Working with cameras of another server ....................................................................................... 119
12.4 Working with events of remote servers .......................................................................................... 120
12.5 Monitoring remote servers ................................................................................................................ 121
12.6 Distributed upgrades ......................................................................................................................... 121
13 Active Directory Integration .......................................................................... 122
13.1 Configuring the users on the Active Directory server .................................................................. 122
13.2 Configuring Observer ......................................................................................................................... 123
14 Working with Layout Navigation .................................................................... 126
14.1 Basic concepts and how it works .................................................................................................... 126
14.2 Installing Layout Navigation ............................................................................................................. 126
