Tracing Events; Using An Event Session To Search The Event Log - Honeywell Rapid Eye Administrator's Manual

Security for a Multi-Media System

Tracing Events

Using an Event Session to Search the Event Log

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Like most of the Multi-Media security features, tracing events caused by a
event or Multi-Media Unit event
these events occur. Alarms can be sent to specific PCs. See
page 217. Tracing these events is performed on a site-by-site basis.
Use tracing to monitor:
• Power outages. A site that regularly reboots or has long gaps in its recorded video
archive can be monitored for power outages.
• A breach to site security. You can be warned about some damage, vandalism or
destruction to a Rapid Eye site, due to hurricanes, fire, criminal activity, and so on.
• Operator error. Tracking critical operator actions that result in missing video can help
when unidentified problems start occurring and you suspect operator error.
Who Can Trace a Multi-Media Unit or View Operator Event?
By using the Administrator account—or an account based on it—your Multi SA has the
Modify configuration right automatically and can record or report these or other events.
To authorize other users to do so, the Multi SA can add the Modify configuration right to
their user account. With this right, the operator can:
• Start a Maintenance Session
• Set events: to be logged, to trigger alarms or to be ignored, as needed
• Arm/disarm alarms
Event Log
A Multi-Media Unit event is always logged, to help troubleshoot your system. Use an Event
Search session to search the event log.
By default, some events are not set to be logged and no events are set to trigger alarms.
To obtain positive results from an Event session, your organization's Multi SA needs to set
events to be logged or to trigger an alarm. See
an Event to Report an Alarm
1. Using the View application, select a site in the Sites tab.
2. Click on the toolbar to display the Events window.
3. Select events that you want to search for by clicking an event tab and selecting events
(see Figure 10-13, Motion is selected).
4. Enter a date and time in the From and To fields:
a. Select a part of the time to change (minutes, for example) and either enter a new
value with the keyboard or use
is optional. You can also set a site to produce an alarm if
at a site
Logging an Event
on page 207 for more information.
to change the value.
View Operator
Multi-Media Alarm Stations
on page 208, and Setting
on