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Alarms and Events
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Table 16
Event reference, by source and tab.
Source Event in maintenance,
except where noted
Cause: an alarm or log entry
could indicate …
outside
world
System: no video recording* a cut cable, dead camera, power
outage
Inputs: activate, input ports 1
to 16
Inputs: deactivate, input
ports 1 to 16
security sensor has been triggered or
the Multi-Media unit is booting
security sensor has been reset or the
unit is booting
Video: signal unlock,
cameras 1 to 16
cut cable, hardware failure in a Rapid
Eye Multi Multi-Media unit, faulty
camera… Can be momentary.
Video: lock
†
, cameras 1 to 16 a buggy camera; time since video
unlock helps troubleshooting
Motion: Not on Event tab; on
the Video tab.
intruder, a change in lighting, fire, an
explosion, vermin, and so on.
customer-
device
user defined: Not on Event
tab; on Serial Devices tab.
transaction made using hardware at a
customer’s facility
View
operator
Session: connect, reject and
disconnect
use/misuse of View to connect to or
disconnect from a site. Session
rejections can also be watched
Maintenance: changes to
configuration, security, time,
storage and so on…
‡
use/misuse of maintenance by an
operator or Multi SA; for example to
monitor Clear storage or Synchronize
time by operator of View
Outputs: activate, output
ports 1 to 8
use/misuse of an onsite device by a
View operator ex.: locking a gate at a
site, by remote control
Outputs: deactivate, output
ports 1 to 8
use/misuse of an onsite device by a
View operator
ex.: unlocking a gate at a site, by
remote control
System: no video recording* camera disabled by View operator
System: reboot use/misuse of Reboot command by
operator
Multi-Media
unit
System: failure, self-restart,
reboot
†
power failure or catastrophic failure of
unit
System: No video recording* failure of unit’s video hardware
System: time server,
no synch, clock drift…
failure of network or network’s time
server
System: disk failure warning of imminent failure of storage
* Some events are repeated in the table: their source can vary. For example: an alarm
triggered by an “outside world” events can also be triggered by rebooting a unit.
†
A Multi SA can set a Video lock event to be only logged rather than trigger an alarm.
‡
Some configuration settings can be changed onsite, using LocalView. These changes
are not logged nor do they trigger an alarm when the configuration event is set tot do so.