System Administrator’s Guide

To Trace the Clearing of Storage

Track the moment it happens by making this event an alarm. See Tracing Events, on p. 191, and Events Defined, on p. 187.

Prevent future attempts by changing the Administrator account password.

Security and unit availability considerations

Clearing of a unit’s entire storage or of one of its streams can have

a major impact on that site’s security. All recorded video is lost. During the time that a unit is emptied a Multi-Media unit cannot record video, nor send alarms, and so on. Your Multi SA should warn View operators that use of the Clear storage and Clear stream buttons, whether planned or carried out, should be communicated to your organization’s security personnel.

Updating Security on a Multi-Media Unit

Fig. 8–2. Securing a Unit, after Changing Passwords.

1.Use View to start a Maintenance Session for the Multi-Media unit.

2.Click Update security on the Security tab of a Maintenance Session. See fig. 8–2, above. Information from the Multi db is copied to the Multi-Media unit. Please wait until “Updated security” appears.

3.You have the option of updating security on other units, or/and ending the Maintenance Session, as explained in Ending Maintenance on p. 62.

Purpose

A unit’s security settings need to be updated if a Multi SA adds, changes or removes:

Alarm stations. See Adding an Alarm Station: Name and Reports, on p. 203 and Making an Alarm Station Operational, p. 218.

The system password. See System Password, on p. 166, and Security Priorities, p. 162.

Authorized operators of a site. See Denying Access, p. 198.

Authorized onsite operators. See Central User Management, p. 154.

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