
VIVOTEK
22 - User's Manual
NVR Desktop Elements
Menu Bar
Desktop Shortcuts
Control Center
Normally the desktop defaults to the Control Center view, which provides direct access to
various functional utilities such as LiveClient and Playback. The functions of these utilities are
summarized as follows:
Utility
Description
Setup Wizard
The Setup Wizard guides your through important steps on initial setup. Most of
the storage-related settings are managed through this wizard, such as creating
disk volumes, formatting, and breaking down existing disk volumes.
LiveClient
LiveClient and Playback are the most important interfaces to the NVR's
various functionalities. LiveClient provides a centralized management interface
to the NVR system, provides live viewing, PTZ / E-PTZ operation, PiP, E-Map,
etc. Refer to Chapter Two on page 24 for the operation details.
Playback
Playback enables access to recorded videos, snapshot, bookmark, backup,
and retrieval of recorded video, and more. Refer to Chapter Three on page
154 for the operation details.
Service
Services enables you to restart or stop the embedded NVR server (VAST
server).
Import/ Export The Import/ Export utility helps preserve current system configuration or reload
a previously-saved configuration.
Installation
Wizard 2
The IW2 utility offers a glimpse of VIVOTEK cameras and the access to them
in a local area network.
Shepherd
You can use Shepherd to quickly duplicate individual camera configuration
(system, video streams, network, security, etc.) to multiple cameras. Please
refer to page 203 for more about this utility.
Except for LiveClient and Playback, detailed description of the auxiliary functions can be found
in
Chapter Four
on page 199.