Axis Communications 250S user manual Events and Event Types, Configuring Event Types

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Events and Event Types

Your AXIS 250S MPEG-2 Video Server is capable of performing various actions when certain types of events occur. The terminology used to describe this is as follows:

•Event type - a defined set of parameters that specify how and when something will trigger an action.

•Event - one occurrence of an event type.

•Action - what occurs when the event triggers. Examples are the upload of video to an FTP server, email notification, etc.

•Trigger - the circumstances that start an event. This could be e.g. a pre-programmed time or a signal from an external device, such as a door switch or a motion sensor.

Configuring Event Types

An event type is a set of parameters describing how and when the server will perform certain actions. An event type may result in one single event, or it may result in many, depending on its configuration. The most common kind of event type will trigger the upload of images to a specified destination. Other actions performed by event types can include the sending of e-mail, the activation of the output port and various types of event notification.

Setting up a new event type

Click the menu link to Event Types. This opens the list of event types as in the example below. The list shows various information about the event types currently configured.