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CHAPTER 4 MENUS
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4.4 ADVANCED
The settings in this menu cover user accounts, hard disk management, video display, and
system maintenance.
CAUTION!
Reformatting the hard drive will erase all recorded events.
HDD MANAGE
This displays some of the same information found in the
HDD Info
window in the
Info
menu
(see
Section 4.2
) but this window allows you to make additional settings.
The drive name and status is displayed.
The status indicators are:
Clicking on
Alarm Set
opens the
Abnormality
window which is covered immediately
following this section.
Alarm Release
– this turns off any disk alarm that may be occurring.
You can set the hard drive to four states:
O
Drive is operating normally.
X
Indicates an error
-
Hard drive not installed
?
Hard drive is damaged
Read/Write
Normal operation. The device records (writes) files to disk and plays (reads)
them.
Read Only
No more files can be recorded onto the drive, but existing files can be viewed.
Format
Reformats the hard drive.
Recover
If you are having problems with the hard drive, including corrupted files,
selecting Recover causes the drive to re-set, but does not erase its contents.
No changes will take place unless the Execute button is pressed once you’ve made your
selection. The drive’s status will be displayed next to the Type heading below the pull-downs.
If you make changes and press
Execute
, the DVR will restart once you press
OK
to exit. You
cannot right-click out of the menu.
ABNORMALITY
This window allows you to set up alarms for disk and system disconnection errors as well as
how these alarms are handled. Each type of alarm can be independently enabled along with
what events that type of alarm will trigger.
ABNORMALITY
Event Type
Enable
Show Message Alarm upload Send Email
Buzzer
No Disk
Save
Cancel
Event type
– Chose from No Disk, Disk Error,
Disk No Space, Net Disconnected
and IP Conflict.
Latch
– This is the “hold time” that the DVR
will wait before issuing another alarm.
The delay can be set to between 1 to
300 seconds (5 minutes).
Show Message
– When enabled, this will
display the event notification on the
DVR’s screen.
Alarm Upload
– This feature is not available
on this model.
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Send E-mail
– this will send an e-mail notification to the recipient address set up in the
Network
menu (see
Section 1.2 Advanced Network Setup
in the
Remote
Monitoring Guide
).
RECORD
This is the
Manual Recording
window covered in
Section 3.4
.
ACCOUNT
This is the account management window which allows you to add or delete users, create user
groups, modify the access privileges of users, and create or change passwords.
There are three pre-configured default users;
Admin, 888888 and 666666. The first two
have administrator rights.
When adding a user, you not only create their
user name and password, but you can grant
or deny control over specific activities on the
DVR, including which cameras that user can
view or play back. These privileges can be
changed later by an administrator-level user
using the
Modify User
button. Administrator
Users have control over 60 different functions
while basic Users have 35 functions that can
be allowed or denied.
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A user or group name can consist of at most eight characters and no two users may have the
same user name. There is no limit to the number of users or groups.
