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  • Page 1 AXIS Camera Station User’s Manual...

  • Page 2: About This Document

    • download user documentation and software updates • find answers to resolved problems in the FAQ database. Search by product, category, or phrases • report problems to Axis support staff by logging in to your private support area • visit the Axis Support Web at www.axis.com/techsup/ AXIS Camera Station User’s Manual...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    IIS Secure Login from the AXIS Camera Station Web interface....... .

  • Page 4: Requirements And Recommendations

    AXIS Camera Station - Requirements and Recommendations Requirements and Recommendations Install AXIS Camera Station on a stand-alone computer dedicated mainly for running this application Hardware: • Intel Pentium 4 with 2 GHz processor • CD-drive • 512 MB RAM • Hard disk: 1 GB available space for installation •...

  • Page 5: User's Interface

    Background service: • The background service retrieves images from the connected cameras and stores them on the hard disk. From the AXIS Camera Station you can start or stop the background service, click File > Start Server or Stop Server.

  • Page 6: Controls

    AXIS Camera Station - User’s Interface Controls The control pad contains buttons for quick access to the many functions of AXIS Camera Station. View Selection - Select one of the layouts for viewing live images from multiple network cameras. The views are configured under Options >...

  • Page 7: Playback Buttons

    AXIS Camera Station - User’s Interface Click on the camera button to open the device's window with live image stream. Buttons for starting and stopping an output are also shown. I/O Status window can also be opened by selecting menu items Views >...

  • Page 8: File Menu

    Start/Stop Server From the File menu you can start or stop AXIS Camera Station as a background service. This is the part of the program that gets images from the cameras and stores them to hard disk. Images are available in the main window at any time, but images are only saved to disk when the service is running.

  • Page 9: How To

    After installing the software, it must be configured for your cameras and video servers. Among other things this chapter describes how to configure and maintain AXIS Camera Station as well as how to set up recording, motion detection, and alarms. For installation instructions refer to AXIS Camera Station Installation Guide.
  • Page 10 Note: The WAN IP address is where AXIS camera Station will get live images. This might be the same as your LAN IP address, but depends on your network/Firewall/NAT. The WAN must be specified if a Client or Web Interface Client is run from another network than AXIS Cam- era Station.

  • Page 11: Axis Image Enhancer

    AXIS Image Enhancer improves the quality of images taken in conditions such a fog, smoke, rain and snow. If you have a registered license for AXIS Image Enhancer follow these steps to enable it for a device. To register your license for AXIS Image Enhancer, Select menu item Options > General Settings > License.

  • Page 12: Recording

    With this procedure you can set the server to continuously save images. Note that this option uses more disk space than an Alarm triggered recording. 1. From the AXIS Camera Station, click Options > Camera settings. Select the camera to configure by double-clicking on it or click on the camera then the Edit button.

  • Page 13: Motion Triggered Recording

    AXIS Camera Station - How to... Motion triggered recording Motion detection can be triggered by AXIS Camera Station or AXIS Network Cameras that have built-in motion detection software. Use of the feature is recommended, as it saves on hard disk space than continuous recording.
  • Page 14 Different motion detection settings are used for when it’s dark as images become more noisy or grainy at night which would be misinterpreted as movement. The Low-light threshold or the point set on the slide bar will instruct AXIS Camera Station to which Motion detection settings to use (Normal or Low-light) when detecting movement.

  • Page 15: Recording Database

    Specify where to store your images. Recordings will be deleted when the reserved hard disk space for AXIS Camera Station is full, or when the recording is older than the amount of days specified in Keep for Days. Set up a recording database 1.

  • Page 16: Schedules

    AXIS Camera Station - How to... Schedules Under Schedule you can set up timetables for Continuous recording, Alarm/Motion recording and Send mail on alarm/motion. Depending on the types of recordings that were enabled under Recordings (see page 12) interval bars become active.

  • Page 17: Views

    Views Set up camera views from AXIS Camera Station To define the camera views as seen from the main AXIS Camera Station user interface, click on Options > Views from the file menu. 1. Select the view according to the number of cameras you want to set up.

  • Page 18: Users

    Using the integrated Windows user database, a high level of security can be implemented in AXIS Camera Station where users are granted or denied access to a specific camera. Before a user can be granted access to AXIS Camera Station, users must be registered on the local computer or have an Active Directory user account.

  • Page 19: Sequences

    External I/Os This section defines alarms coming from devices connected to Axis network camera and video server I/Os in the system. Set up a new alarm 1. Click the Add Alarm button. Give the alarm a descriptive name in the pop-up window and click OK.

  • Page 20: Event Search

    AXIS Camera Station - How to... Event Search An event is a recording which is triggered by an alarm or scheduled. AXIS Camera Station offers easy ways to search for recorded events in Event Search and 4-Camera Playback. 4-Camera Playback enables a user to view simultaneous recordings from different cameras to get a comprehensive picture of an event.
  • Page 21 AXIS Camera Station - How to... How to do an advanced search 1. From the Event search window click on the Advanced Search button 2. The Advance Search window opens 3. Under Controls select the camera and the interval to search by choosing FROM date/time and TO date/time from the drop-down lists.

  • Page 22: Axis Image Enhancer

    The unique AXIS Image Enhancer functionality within the AXIS Camera Station software is activated with a separate license key. Refer to your AXIS Camera Station Installation guide for information on activating your license. It works with color digital or analog video sources, operates with all Axis network cameras and video servers (except MPEG-2 products) and supports full frame rate for live viewing.

  • Page 23: Axis Camera Station Client

    Important! AXIS Camera Station uses port 11007 to communicate with the client. On the server (dedicated PC where AXIS Camera Station is installed), make sure that port 11007 is open and available for the clients in your network and in your firewall. See Network Configuration, on page 27.

  • Page 24: Axis Camera Station Client Interface

    AXIS Camera Station - AXIS Camera Station Client AXIS Camera Station Client Interface The AXIS Camera Station Client interface is similar to that of the AXIS Camera Service with a few differences under file menu that are described here. Connection - To establish a connection between the AXIS Camera Station (server application) and AXIS Camera Station Client, the server’s IP address and password must be entered under File >...

  • Page 25: Axis Camera Station Web Application

    Web interface simultaneously. This limitation is not present in other operating systems. • To be able to log into AXIS Camera Station from a Web browser, the user must be created in the Windows user database. See How to set up Users, on page 18.

  • Page 26: Axis Camera Station Web Control Buttons

    A live image from the camera connected to the I/O can be activated using the push button with the camera number. Event Log search - This page will show you all logged events sent from the camera to AXIS Camera Station. Initially the logged events from the selected camera are shown. Press Show all cameras to see the log of the entire camera group.

  • Page 27: Network Configuration

    Internet, port 11007 must be opened in the firewall/router. See the diagram below for an example of a firewall configuration. Note: Both AXIS Camera Station and AXIS ThinWizard software use port 80 as default. You must change the port on one of these programs if you intend to install them on the same server. NTFS file system The NTFS file system must be implemented on your PC and the Indexing Service must be activated.

  • Page 28: Windows Security

    AXIS Camera Station - Network Configuration Windows security The AXIS Camera Station has a Windows-integrated security system. If you want to enable secure login facilities, you must authorize the administrative users in Windows: 1. Go to the Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy.

  • Page 29: Multi-User Login

    Choose “Guest only- local users authenticate as Guest” from drop-down list. Multi-user login If you want multiple users to have access to login on the AXIS Camera Station PC and differentiate the camera access, follow these steps: 1. Make sure that Simple File sharing mode is disabled. You can disable simple file sharing like this: •...
  • Page 30 3. Right-click on the folder C:/TempACS and go to Settings > Security. Make sure that all users have access to read and write to the TempACS folder. All users defined in the AXIS Camera Station, should now be able to access the it. Only users with Windows Administrator rights, can start/stop the background service.

  • Page 31: Removing Axis Camera Station

    C:\Program Files\Axis Communications\AXIS Camera Station • C:\TempACS The location for recordings is defined in AXIS Camera Station on the server: Options > General Settings > Recording Database, the default is C:\Recording. Deleting recordings may take a while if the files are large.

  • Page 32: Troubleshooting

    PC gets locked, you will have to delete the recordings manually or reformat the hard disk. No images are shown in the • Verify that the IP address of the AXIS Camera Station server Web interface under Options > General Settings > General > Camera Sta- tion Web Access.
  • Page 33 4. OK to close dialog. Customer Support Before contacting technical support please create a Server Report of your system by selecting Help > Server Report from AXIS Camera Sta- tion’s main menu. Screen shots (copying what is currently displayed on a screen to a file) will assist Customer Support in assessing your problem.

  • Page 34: Glossary Of Terms

    MAC address for an IP address. Contrast - Defines the degree of difference between the lightest and darkest ARTPEC (Axis Real Time Picture Encoder) - This chip is used for image parts of an image or video stream.
  • Page 35 AXIS Camera Station - Glossary of Terms scan, each frame is scanned line-by-line and not interlaced; most are also The Internet Protocol ensures that the data packets all arrive at the intended displayed at 30 and 25 Hz. address. As IP is a connectionless protocol, which means that there is no...
  • Page 36 AXIS Camera Station - Glossary of Terms related technology. The primary uses for the MPEG-4 standard are Web there are hardware protocols and software protocols. (streaming media) and CD distribution, conversational (videophone), and Proxy server - In an organization that uses the Internet, a proxy server acts broadcast television.
  • Page 37 AXIS Camera Station - Glossary of Terms unauthorized users, such as spammers. VOP (Video Object Plane) - A VOP is an image frame in an MPEG-4 video stream. There are several types of VOP: SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) - SNMP forms part of the Internet Protocol suite, as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

  • Page 38: Index

    Advance Search 21 No Live Images 6, 8, 17 Alarm 19 Alarm triggered recording 13 Audit Log 8 Operator 18 AXIS image enhancer 11 Options Menu 8 Overview 26 Background service 5 password protection 18 Playback 20 Camera access 18...
  • Page 39 AXIS Camera Station - Index...

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