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NETAVIS Observer 4.4 User Manual
Contents
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 6
1.1 The Observer documentation set ........................................................................................... 6
1.2 What is new with this release.................................................................................................. 6
1.3 Observer data security ............................................................................................................ 6
1.4 Video streaming methods and compression........................................................................... 7
2 Observer clients on multiple platforms ................................................................................... 11
2.1 Introduction to Observer clients ............................................................................................ 11
2.2 Starting the Observer client from a desktop web browser .................................................... 12
2.3 Working with the installed Observer client ............................................................................ 15
2.4 Client multi-window and multi-screen operation ................................................................... 18
2.5 Mobile Observer clients ........................................................................................................ 20
2.6 Observer Transcoding™ for low-bandwidth client-server connections (ABS) ...................... 21
2.7 Exiting the client .................................................................................................................... 22
3 Guidelines for setting up a new system with Observer ........................................................ 23
3.1 Guidelines for setting up cameras ........................................................................................ 23
3.2 Guidelines for setting up users ............................................................................................. 23
3.3 Guidelines for setting up views ............................................................................................. 24
4 Setting up cameras ................................................................................................................... 25
4.1 Preparations .......................................................................................................................... 25
4.2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties .............................................................. 25
4.3 Setting up the camera recording archive .............................................................................. 31
4.4 Optional: Configuring video analytics (iCAT) ........................................................................ 31
4.5 Defining brightness, contrast, and saturation ....................................................................... 31
4.6 Working with camera groups ................................................................................................ 32
4.7 Changing the port mapping of analog cameras .................................................................... 33
5 Managing users ......................................................................................................................... 34
5.1 Creating a new user account ................................................................................................ 34
5.2 Setting general user privileges ............................................................................................. 35
5.3 Setting camera access rights ................................................................................................ 36
5.4 Working with user groups ..................................................................................................... 36
5.5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user ...................................................................... 36
5.6 Information about logged-in users ........................................................................................ 37
5.7 Changing the password ........................................................................................................ 37
5.8 Working with users from Active Directory or LDAP .............................................................. 37
6 Using the Online monitor.......................................................................................................... 39
6.1 Creating a new view.............................................................................................................. 39
6.2 Selecting cameras ................................................................................................................ 40
6.3 Navigating in the Online monitor ........................................................................................... 41
6.4 Modifying view port settings .................................................................................................. 42
6.5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings ................................................................ 43
6.6 Manual recording control in the Online Monitor .................................................................... 44
6.7 Working with round tours (the Smart guard™ function) ....................................................... 45
6.8 Copying views between users .............................................................................................. 46
6.9 Working with MPEG cameras and audio (MPEG-4, H.264, and MxPEG) ........................... 46
6.10 Dynamic Online monitor view control ................................................................................. 47
7 Working with archive recordings ............................................................................................. 49
7.1 Programming archive recordings .......................................................................................... 49
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