Pelco dx8100 manual

OPERATION/CONFIGURATION

C2630M-B (4/08)

Server Application Software

DX8100 Series

Digital Video Recorder

Contents

Main Page Contents Operation and Programming Page Page Page List of Illustrations Page Page Page List of Tables Operation and Programming Welcome to the DX8100 Series DVR DX8100 CLIENT EMERGENCY AGENT DX8100 VIEWER DX8100 MOBILE CLIENT DX8100 WEB CLIENT NEW DX8100 FEATURES Getting Started with DX8100 DVR Software UPGRADE POLICY SOFTWARE UPGRADES HARDWARE UPGRADES STARTING AND SHUTTING DOWN THE DX8100 STARTING THE DX8100 SHUTTING DOWN THE DX8100 DX8100 DOCUMENTATION Logging In to the DX8100 Application LOCAL DX8100 LOGIN LOGGING IN TO A LOCAL DX8100 LOGGING OUT OF THE LOCAL DX8100 EXITING TO THE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM REMOTE DX8100 LOGIN CONNECTING TO A REMOTE SITE DISCONNECTING FROM A REMOTE SITE LOGGING IN TO A REMOTE SITE LOGGING OUT OF A REMOTE SITE WORKING WITH DUAL MONITORS CONFIGURING THE DUAL DISPLAY CARD Understanding the DX8100 Application Window DESCRIPTION OF THE DX8100 MAIN WINDOW Page Page DX8100 MENU BAR File Menu Edit Menu View Menu Export Menu Favorite Menu Help Menu DX8100 TOOLBAR DISPLAYING THE DX8100 WINDOW FROM A PAGE DESCRIPTION OF OPERATING MODES DISPLAYING VIDEO IN FULL SCREEN VIEW Displaying Live Video in Full Screen View Displaying Playback Video in Full Screen View UNDERSTANDING VIEW PANES AND PANELS WORKING WITH VIEW PANES AND PANELS CONFIGURING VIEW PANELS NAVIGATING VIEW PANELS Navigating Between View Panels Expanding and Collapsing View Panes Manually Cycling Through Hidden View Panels Automatically Cycling Through View Panels Starting an Automatic Cycle View Mode Stopping an Automatic Cycle View Sequence MAPPING CHANNELS ON THE EXTENDED MONITOR Page VIEWING VIDEO ON THE EXTENDED MONITOR MODIFYING AN EXTENDED MONITOR VIEW Page ASSIGNING CAMERAS TO VIEW PANES SETTING UP LINKS Manually Turning On and Off a Relay Linking Alarm Inputs to a Camera Linking a Relay Output to a Camera Linking Relay Outputs to Alarm Inputs REMOVING LINKS Removing a Linked Alarm Input from a Camera Removing a Linked Relay Output from a Camera Removing a Linked Relay Output from an Alarm Input Working in Live View Mode ASSIGNING AND REMOVING CAMERAS FROM VIEW PANES SETTING UP FAVORITES ADDING A CAMERA VIEW TO FAVORITES ORGANIZING FAVORITES IN FOLDERS Creating a Favorites Folder Organizing Favorites in Folders Page LIVE VIEW ON-SCREEN DISPLAY (OSD) CUSTOMIZING THE ON-SCREEN DISPLAY (OSD) INSTANT RECORDING ENABLING AND DISABLING INSTANT RECORDING Enabling Instant Recording Disabling Instant Recording ADDING INSTANT RECORDING TO OSD STARTING AND STOPPING INSTANT RECORDING Starting Instant Recording Stopping Instant Recording OPERATING THE ON-SCREEN PTZ CONTROLS OPERATING THE PTZ CONTROLS ADJUSTING THE CAMERA LENS ADJUSTING THE CAMERA ZOOM USING PC KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS TO OPERATE PTZ AND LENS FUNCTIONS PTZ PRESETS PROGRAMMING A PRESET ACTIVATING A PRESET CLEARING A PRESET PTZ PATTERNS PROGRAMMING A PATTERN Start Programming a Pattern Stop Programming a Pattern ACTIVATING A PATTERN CLEARING A PATTERN ACCESSING PROGRAMMING FEATURES OF REMOTE CAMERAS Using the PTZ OSD Menu Control Accessing a Remote Camera Programming Menu Page SENDING AUXILIARY COMMANDS TO A DEVICE CONFIGURING PRESET TOURS PROGRAMMING A PRESET TOUR Accessing a Preset Tour Group Page Page ACTIVATING A PRESET TOUR DEACTIVATING A PRESET TOUR USING THE KBD300A KEYBOARD KBD300A STANDARD MODE OPERATIONAL FEATURES KBD300A SHIFT MODE OPERATIONAL FEATURES Working in Playback Mode ACCESSING PLAYBACK MODE ASSIGNING CAMERAS TO VIEW PANELS PLAYBACK ON-SCREEN DISPLAY (OSD) Page Page Page PLAYING BACK VIDEO BY TIME STARTING PLAYBACK FROM A SPECIFIC POINT IN TIME UNDERSTANDING INSTANT PLAYBACK PLAYING BACK VIDEO BY EVENT OPERATING PLAYBACK DIGITAL ZOOM Page ZOOM USING THE MOUSE PANNING A ZOOMED IMAGE Working in Search Mode SEARCH WINDOW DISPLAYING A DEINTERLACED IMAGE IN THE SEARCH MODE REUSING THE SEARCH TIME RANGE INDEX VIDEO SEARCH THUMBNAIL VIDEO SEARCH POS SEARCH Page Page SEARCHING AND DISPLAYING POS DATA BY DEVICE NAME Searching POS Data by Device Name Page SEARCHING BY POS TRANSACTION NUMBER SEARCHING FOR ALL TRANSACTIONS WITH EXCEPTIONS SEARCHING FOR TRANSACTIONS THAT SATISFY SPECIFIC EXCEPTIONS SEARCHING FOR TRANSACTIONS BY LINE ITEM b 3 SEARCHING FOR TRANSACTIONS BY ACTION CODE PIXEL VIDEO SEARCH Page VIEWING A VIDEO THUMBNAIL WORKING WITH SPECIAL VIEW AND SEARCH METHODS VIEWING VIDEO IN THE DEINTERLACED MODE VIEWING LIVE AND PLAYBACK VIDEO SIMULTANEOUSLY Exporting Video EXPORTING BOOKMARKED VIDEO REGIONS CREATING BOOKMARKS CLEARING BOOKMARKS Clearing a Single Bookmark BOOKMARKING AND EXPORTING MULTIPLE CHANNELS INSERTING AND REMOVING A USB FLASH DRIVE INSTALLING A USB FLASH DRIVE REMOVING A USB FLASH DRIVE ENABLING THE DEINTERLACING FILTER MAPPING AND DISCONNECTING A NETWORK DRIVE MAPPING A NETWORK DRIVE DISCONNECTING A NETWORK DRIVE PERFORMING THE EXPORT STARTING AN EXPORT PROCESS Page ASSIGNING A CUSTOM EXPORT VIDEO FILE NAME SELECTING THE EXPORT FORMAT EXPORTING A SEQUENCE OF STILL IMAGES FINALIZING AN EXPORT PROCESS STOPPING AN EXPORT WHILE IN PROCESS Retaining Video When Stopping an Export Process Deleting Video Data When Stopping an Export Process WORKING WITH DX8100 BACKED UP VIDEO u v Logs and Health Status VIEWING LOGS FROM THE APPLICATION WINDOW VIEWING SYSTEM HEALTH STATUS WORKING WITH SYSTEM HEALTH STATUS VIEW WORKING WITH SYSTEM HEALTH LOG VIEW Setting Up the DX8100 ACCESSING THE SETUP MODE Page CAMERA SETUP BASIC CAMERA SETUP Page MOTION DETECTION SETUP Page Setting Up the Standard Audio Options Setting Up the Expanded Audio Options LISTENING TO LIVE AUDIO Listening to Live Audio at a Local Server Listening to Live Audio from a Remote DX8100 System CONFIGURING VIDEO LOSS DETECTION APPLYING SETTINGS TO ALL CAMERAS LINK SETUP 2a 2a 2 CONFIGURING BASIC RELAY AND ALARM SETTINGS Understanding How Relays and Alarms React to a Power Outage 3 b 3c 3c 3a 3a Configuring Basic Alarm Input Operating Properties LINKING RELAY OUTPUTS TO EXTERNAL EVENTS Linking Relay Outputs to Motion Events Page Page Linking Cameras to Record in Response to Motion Events Linking Cameras to Record in Response to Alarm Events Linking Cameras to Record in Response to ATM/POS Events b Linking Cameras to Record in Response to Video Loss Events LINKING PTZ PRESETS AND PATTERNS TO EXTERNAL EVENTS Page Page Page SCHEDULE SETUP ACCESSING THE SCHEDULE SETTING UP THE CAMERA RECORDING MODE Scheduling a Record Mode Clearing a Scheduled Recording Page CREATING YEARLY RECORDING SCHEDULES Creating a Yearly Recording Schedule Scheduling Individual Days Using the Year View Copying Schedule Attributes to a Different Day CREATING MONTHLY OR MULTIPLE-DAY RECORDING SCHEDULES Creating Multiple-Day Schedules Creating Single-Day Schedules Working with Single-Day Schedules Page EDITING SCHEDULES Changing an Existing Schedule Profile Page WORKING WITH CUSTOM CAMERA SETTINGS Configuring Custom Camera Settings Page CONFIGURING THE FRAME RATE Accessing the Frame Rate Configuration Dialog Box Setting the Frame Rate Page Setting the Resolution and Frame Rate Page Understanding DX8100 Server Maximum IPS Recording Setting Up DX8100 for Maximum IPS Recording Page Understanding the DX8100 Frame Rate Calculations SETTING UP ADVANCED RELAY OUTPUT Configuring Advanced Motion-Activated Relay Output Configuring Advanced Alarm-Activated Relay Output Page Page SETTING UP NETWORK PROPERTIES CONFIGURING THE DX8100 FOR NETWORK ACCESS Setting Up DX8100 Network Access Setting Up DHCP Setting Up a Static IP Address SETTING UP TCP/IP AND BANDWIDTH THROTTLE WORKING WITH MULTICASTING Multicast Requirements Enabling Multicasting ACCESSING NETWORK INFORMATION SETTING UP DNS/WINS WORKING WITH TIME SYNCHRONIZATION Adding a NTP Time Server Editing a NTP Time Server Deleting a NTP Server Comparing the DX8100 and NTP Server Time Manually Synchronizing the DX8100 Time Setting Up Automatic Time Synchronization Enabling Database Overwrite Page Page SETTING UP ATM/POS DEVICE COMMUNICATION PORTS Setting Up COM1 Port Properties Setting Up RS-422/RS-485 Communication Port Properties SETTING UP ATM/POS DEVICE PROPERTIES Selecting the ATM/POS Device Mode and Communications Options Page Page Page Page Setting Up an ATM/POS Data Format Page Page Using Custom Device Filters Creating a New Data Format Editing a Data Format Deleting a Data Format Assigning a Data Format to an ATM/POS Device Page Using Action Codes Page Page Editing an ATM/POS Exception Deleting an ATM/POS Exception Assigning an Exception to An ATM/POS Device Page Recording ATM/POS Events Page Configuring KBD300A Communication Settings KBD300A Standard Mode Operational Features KBD300A Shift Mode Operational Features INSTALLING OR UPDATING DEVICE PROTOCOLS DATA BACKUP SETUP ACCESSING THE BACKUP CONFIGURATION PAGE ADDING A BACKUP SCHEDULE EDITING AN EXISTING BACKUP SCHEDULE DELETING AN EXISTING BACKUP SCHEDULE INITIATING AN INSTANT BACKUP SCHEDULE Page SELECTING A BACKUP MEDIA DEVICE VIEWING BACKED UP VIDEO USER SETUP ACCESSING THE USER PAGE Page BUILT-IN USER ACCOUNTS DEFINITION OF USER ACCESS LEVELS DEFINITION OF CAMERA SECURITY ACCESS MODIFYING USER ACCESS RIGHTS ADDING NEW USERS Page CHANGING USER PASSWORDS CHANGING A USERS GROUP AFFILIATION DELETING EXISTING USERS SETTING LOGIN TIMEOUT ASSIGNING AUTOMATIC LOGIN PERMISSION TO A USER SITE SETUP ADDING A REMOTE SITE Adding a Site with a Static IP Address Page Page FINDING ACTIVE REMOTE CAMERAS ACTIVATING REMOTE SITES MODIFYING A REMOTE SITE Editing a Remote Site Deleting a Remote Site SYSTEM SETUP ACCESSING THE SYSTEM PAGE WORKING WITH THE EXPORT FEATURE Exporting Current DVR Settings Using the Edit Menu to Perform an Export 5a5 WORKING WITH THE IMPORT FEATURE Importing DVR Settings Using the Edit Menu to Perform an Import USING SYSTEM LOGS Viewing a Log File Exporting Log Information SELECTING THE LANGUAGE SETTING THE SYSTEM TIME Setting System Time Page Using Ctrl+Alt+Del SETTING UP AUTO REBOOT SPECIFYING THE DATA RETENTION TIME LIMIT WORKING WITH ONLINE HELP EXTERNAL MONITOR SETUP ACCESSING THE EXTERNAL MONITOR SETUP SETTING UP CAMERA MAPPING Setting Up Automatic Camera Mapping 3e Setting Up Manual Camera Mapping d Page Page Page Appending an Existing Sequence List CONFIGURING DISPLAY OVERRIDE USING THE EXTERNAL MONITOR OPTION EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SETUP ACCESSING THE EMERGENCY AGENT NOTIFICATION SETUP ADDING CLIENT EMERGENCY AGENTS TO BE NOTIFIED CHANGING CLIENT EMERGENCY AGENT PROPERTIES DELETING CLIENTS FROM THE NOTIFICATION LIST LINKING CAMERAS TO CLIENT EMERGENCY AGENTS SETTING SERVER EVENT TRANSMISSION TIME EMERGENCY E-MAIL NOTIFICATION SETUP ACCESSING THE EMERGENCY E-MAIL NOTIFICATION SETUP CONFIGURING EMERGENCY E-MAIL NOTIFICATION Enabling or Disabling E-mail Notification Setting Up the E-mail Server Page SETTING UP THE TIME PERIOD Configuring E-Mail Notification Frequency Setting the Time of Day Sending E-mail Notifications in Response to Motion Events Sending E-mail Notifications in Response to Alarm Events Sending E-mail Notifications in Response to Video Loss Events SETTING UP E-MAIL NOTIFICATION GROUPS Adding an E-mail Notification Group Modifying an E-mail Group Name Deleting an E-mail Group Page Page Page Page y Administering and Maintaining the DX8100 UPDATING THE DX8100 SERVER AND CLIENT APPLICATIONS Page UPDATING DX8100 CONFIGURATION FILE RECOVERING A PASSWORD 2b PERFORMING PERIODIC MAINTENANCE 2 a Page Index A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S Page T U V W Z Page PRODUCT WARRANTY AND RETURN INFORMATION