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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Contents Before you start ............10 About minimum system requirements ......... 10 About naming of host names ..........10 About important port numbers ..........10 About daylight saving time ..........11 About virus scanning ............12 System overview ............
Page 3 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Install and upgrade ..........30 Install your system software ..........30 Install XProtect Smart Client ..........30 Install from the management server ..........30 Install silently ..................31 Install video device drivers ..........32 About removing system components ........32 Getting started ............
Page 4 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Adjust motion detection: Exclude regions ........... 49 Adjust motion detection: Motion detection ......... 49 Manage user access wizard ..........51 Manage user access: Basic and Windows users ........52 Manage user access: Access summary ..........52 Advanced configuration ...........
Page 5 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Recording and storage properties ............67 Camera properties ................85 MJPEG video format ................86 MPEG video format ................89 Microphones ..............105 About microphones ................105 Configure microphones or speakers..........105 Show or hide microphones or speakers ..........106 Microphone (properties) ..............
Page 6 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual General scheduling properties ............131 Camera-specific scheduling properties ..........134 Matrix ................136 About Matrix video-sharing .............. 136 About Matrix-recipients ..............136 Configure Matrix ................137 Matrix properties ................137 Logs ................... 139 About logs ..................139 Configure system, event and audit logging ........
Page 7 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure server access ..............161 Server access properties ..............161 Master/Slave ..............163 About master and slave ..............163 Configure master and slave servers ..........163 Master/slave properties ..............164 Users ................. 165 About users ..................165 Add basic users ................
Page 8 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual XProtect Transact introduction ............226 XProtect Transact configuration ............230 Settings ..............241 About automatic device discovery ........241 Change default file paths ........... 241 Options ................241 General ..................... 241 User Interface .................. 243 Connecting Hardware devices ............
Page 9 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Index ..............263 Contents...
Page 10: Before You Start
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Before you start About minimum system requirements Important: Your system no longer supports Microsoft Windows 2003, but you can still ® ® run/access clients from computers with Windows 2003. Important: Your system no longer supports Microsoft Windows 32-bit OS, but you can still ®...
Page 11: About Daylight Saving Time
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Used for FTP traffic. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard for exchanging files Port 20 and 21 (inbound across networks. FTP uses the TCP/IP standards for data transfer, and outbound) and is often used for uploading or downloading files to and from servers.
Page 12: About Virus Scanning
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The clock jumps forward from 02:00 standard time to 03:00 DST, and the day has 23 hours. In that case, there is no data between 02:00 and 03:00 in the morning since that hour, for that day, did not exist.
Page 13 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Product Processes RecordingServer.exe, ImageServer.exe, XProtect Professional VMS ManagementApplication.exe, ImageImportService.exe, products RecordingServerManager.exe, VideoOS.ServiceControl.Service.exe, VideoOS.Event.Server.exe Milestone Mobile VideoOS.MobileServer.Service.exe XProtect Transact VideoOS.Transact.TransactService.exe Organizations may have strict guidelines regarding virus scanning, however it is important that the above locations and files are excluded from virus scanning. Before you start...
Page 14: System Overview
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual System overview Software and system components Your system consists of a number of components, each targeted at specific tasks and user types. Software components The Management Application is the main application in which you add cameras, set up users and configure your system. Management Application You do not use the Management Application to view live, playback or archived video.
Page 15 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The Recording Server service runs to ensure that devices transfer video streams to your system. The Recording Server service is installed automatically and runs in the background on the Recording Server service surveillance system server. You manage the service through the Management Application.
Page 16: Clients
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Clients Clients are applications used for viewing live and recorded video from the hardware devices set up in the Management Application. Your system supports three different clients:  XProtect Smart Client  Milestone Mobile client ...
Page 17: Milestone Mobile Client
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual administrators can use XProtect Download Manager to control what clients and language versions should be available to users on the welcome page of the XProtect Download Manager. Milestone Mobile client About Milestone Mobile client Milestone Mobile client is a mobile surveillance solution closely integrated with the rest of your XProtect system.
Page 18: Xprotect Web Client
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual XProtect Web Client About XProtect Web Client XProtect Web Client is a web-based client application for viewing, playing back and sharing video. It provides instant access to the most commonly used surveillance functions, such as viewing live video, play back recorded video, print and export evidence.
Page 19: Recording Server Manager
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Example: The Milestone Mobile server is installed on a server with the IP address 127.2.3.4 and is configured to accept HTTP connections on port 8081 and HTTPS connections on port 8082 (default settings of the installer). In the address bar of your browser, type: http://1.2.3.4:8081 or https://1.2.3.4:8082, depending on whether you want to use a standard HTTP connection or a secure HTTPS connection.
Page 20: Xprotect Download Manager
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Resolution The resolution of the camera. The number of frames per second (frame rate) currently used by the camera. The number updates each time the camera has received 50 frames. The number of frames received from the camera since the Frame count Recording Server service was last started.
Page 21 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Default configuration of XProtect Download Manager XProtect Download Manager has a default configuration. This ensures that your organization's users can access standard features without the surveillance system administrator having to set up anything. The XProtect Download Manager configuration is represented in a tree structure. Download Manager's tree structure explained: ...
Page 22: Licenses
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Licenses About licenses When you purchase your software and licenses, you receive:  An order confirmation.  A software license file (SLC) with the .lic extension and named after your SLC (Software License Code). Your SLC is also printed on your order confirmation and consists of several numbers and letters grouped by hyphens similar to this: Product version 2014 or earlier: xxx-xxxx-xxxx...
Page 23: License Information Overview
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Most XProtect add-on products require additional license types. The software license file also includes information about your licenses for add-on products. Some add-on products have their own separate software license files. You can find more information about add-on product licenses here: ...
Page 24: About Automatic License Activation
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual in the day-to-day maintenance of your system. For more information, see About device changes without activation (on page 25).  The number of hardware devices running in a 30-day grace period. If you have already used your number of device changes without activating this or have added more hardware devices than you have purchased licenses for, the added hardware devices run in a grace period.
Page 25: About Device Changes Without Activation
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About device changes without activation On the Getting started page, the column Changes without activation shows the number of hardware devices you can replace or add without having to activate your hardware device licenses and how many changes you have already made since the last activation. Hardware devices added within your device changes without activation run as fully activated hardware device licenses and has the status Licensed in the Hardware device summary (on page 26) table.
Page 26: Hardware Device Summary
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual hardware device from his system. He has now 99 activated devices and his number of device changes without activation drops to 14. A customer buys 1000 hardware device licenses. He adds 1000 cameras and activates his licenses. His device changes without activation is now 100.
Page 27: Get Additional Licenses
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual licensed hardware device with a new hardware device and activate and license it instead. The total number of purchased hardware device licenses corresponds to the total number of hardware devices that can run on the surveillance system simultaneously. When you replace a hardware device, you must use the Replace Hardware Device wizard (see "About the Replace Hardware Device wizard"...
Page 28: About License Activation
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About license activation This topic is only relevant if your surveillance system is offline or if you want to make a manual license activation. If your system is online, your licenses are activated automatically. For more information see About automatic license activation (on page 24).
Page 29 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. Click Export to export a license request file. 3. The license request file is automatically given the same name as your SLC. If you have several sites, remember to make the name unique so you easily can identify which file belong to which site.
Page 30: Install And Upgrade
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Install and upgrade Install your system software Do not install your surveillance software on a mounted drive. A mounted drive is a drive that is attached to an empty folder on an NTFS (NT File System) volume, with a label or name instead of a drive letter.
Page 31: Install Silently
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. Open Internet Explorer and connect to the management server using the URL or IP address of that server. 2. On the Welcome page, click Language and select the language you want to use. 3. The XProtect Smart Client setup wizard starts. In the wizard, follow the installation instructions.
Page 32: Install Video Device Drivers
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual XProtect Smart Client: MilestoneXProtectSmartClient (64-bit).exe --generateargsfile=[path] Your system: Milestone XProtect Professional VMS Products 2016 System Installer.exe --generateargsfile=[path] Open the generated arguments.xml file in a text editor and perform any changes needed. Then perform the following command in the same directory to run a modified version of the silent installation.
Page 33 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual You can also remove individual components, such as XProtect Smart Client and video drivers by using the standard Windows procedure for uninstalling programs. Important: If you remove your surveillance system, your recordings are not removed. They remain on the server even after the server software has been removed.
Page 34: Getting Started
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Getting started About the Getting started page The Getting started page is always shown when you open the Management Application. The Getting started page serves as a place of reference for users. It also provides different wizards that help to configure your surveillance system quickly.
Page 35: Automatic Configuration Wizard: Scanning Options
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Automatic configuration wizard: Scanning options Choose where you want your system to scan for cameras and devices. By default, the Scan local network checkbox is selected, which means that you only scan your local network for devices. However, if you know the IP address or a range of IP addresses to which cameras and devices are attached, specify these by clicking the Plus icon next to Add the IP addresses or IP ranges to be scanned.
Page 36: Express
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual You may have a limit on the number of cameras you can use in your system. Note that you can add more cameras than you are allowed to use. If you use video encoder devices on your system, note that many video encoder devices have more than one camera connected to them.
Page 37: Manual
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Add hardware: Scanning options Choose where you want your system to scan for cameras and devices. By default, the Scan local network checkbox is selected, which means that you only scan your local network for devices. However, if you know the IP address or a range of IP addresses to which cameras and devices are attached, specify these by clicking the Plus icon next to Add the IP addresses or IP ranges to be scanned.
Page 38 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description IP Address The IP address or host name of the hardware device. The Port number on which to scan. The default is port 80. If a hardware device is located behind a NAT-enabled router or a Port firewall, you may need to specify a different port number.
Page 39 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual HardwareAddress;HardwarePort;HardwareUsername;HardwarePassword;HardwareDrive rID; 192.168.200.220;80;root;pass;128; 192.168.200.221;80;user;password;165; 192.168.200.222;80;r00t;pass;172; 192.168.200.223;80;;p4ss; 192.168.200.224;80;usEr;pASs; Add hardware: Import from CSV file - CSV file format and requirements The CSV file must have a header line (determining what each value on the following lines is about), and the following lines must each contain information about one hardware device only.
Page 40: Configure Storage Wizard
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure storage wizard The Video storage step helps you quickly configure your cameras' video and recording properties. Configure storage: Video settings and preview Control bandwidth, brightness, compression, contrast, resolution, rotation and more in Video settings. Use the list on the left side of the wizard window to select a camera and adjust its video settings.
Page 41: Configure Storage: Live And Recording Settings (Motion Jpeg Cameras)41
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use Apply Template one of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template. Select All Click button to select all cameras in the Apply Template column. Click button to clear all selections in the Apply Template Clear All column.
Page 42 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description You can store recordings from periods preceding detected motion and/or start events. Select check box to enable this feature. Pre-recording Specify the required number of seconds in the neighboring column. Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video from before recording start conditions (that is motion or start event) are met.
Page 43: Configure Storage: Live And Recording Settings - H.264/Mpeg4 Cameras43
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select which cameras you want to apply the template for. Use Apply Template one of the two Set buttons to actually apply the template. Select All Click button to select all cameras in the Apply Template column. Click button to clear all selections in the Apply Template Clear All column.
Page 44 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Required average frame rate for live video from the camera. Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour). Live Frame Rate If the camera supports dual stream and dual stream is enabled, the Live Frame Rate column will be read-only with the value Dual streaming—which cannot be altered.
Page 45: Configure Storage: Drive Selection
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description You can store recordings from periods following detected motion and/or stop events. Select check box to enable this feature. Post-recording Specify the required number of seconds in the neighboring column. Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video from after recording stop conditions (that is motion or stop event) are met.
Page 46 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Drive Letter representing the drive in question, for example C:. Select what you want to use the drive for: Not in use: Do not use the drive. Recording: Only available if the drive is a local drive on the surveillance system server.
Page 47: Configure Storage: Recording And Archiving Settings
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description If using this option (highly recommended), you should select a number of different local drives for archiving. If the path containing the surveillance system database is on one of the drives you have selected for archiving, the system always tries to archive to that drive first.
Page 48 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network drive.
Page 49: Adjust Motion Detection Wizard
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Adjust motion detection wizard The Adjust Motion Detection wizard helps you quickly configure your cameras' motion detection properties. Cameras that do not support multiple simultaneous video streams cannot connect to the surveillance server and the Management Application at the same time. Milestone recommends that you stop (see "Start and stop services"...
Page 50 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual configure such devices for motion detection and PTZ. See also View video from cameras in Management Application. You can configure motion detection settings for each camera, or for several cameras at once. Use the list in the left pane of the wizard window to select cameras. To select several cameras at a time, press CTRL or SHIFT while you select.
Page 51: Manage User Access Wizard
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Adjust the Sensitivity slider so that irrelevant background noise is filtered out, and only real motion is shown in green. Alternatively, specify a value between 0 and 256 in the field next to the slider to control the sensitivity setting. The slider determines how much each pixel must change before it Sensitivity is regarded as motion.
Page 52: Manage User Access: Basic And Windows Users
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Manage user access: Basic and Windows users Active Directory is supported in XProtect Enterprise 2013+ and XProtect Professional 2013+ only. ® You can add client users in two ways. You can combine these if you need to. Name Description Create a dedicated surveillance system user account with basic...
Page 53: Advanced Configuration
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Advanced configuration Hardware devices About hardware devices You add cameras and other hardware devices, such as video encoders, to your system through the Add Hardware Devices... wizard (see "Add hardware wizard" on page 35). If microphones or speakers are attached to a hardware device, they are automatically added as well, if your software version supports this.
Page 54: About Dedicated Input/Output Devices
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  Audio recording affects video storage capacity. The system records audio to the associated camera’s database. Therefore, it is important to bear in mind that the database is likely to become full earlier if you record audio and video than if you only record video. The fact that the database becomes full is not in itself a problem since your system automatically archives data if the database becomes full.
Page 55: Delete/Disable Hardware Devices
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Hardware Devices, right-click the relevant hardware device, and select Properties. 2. Specify Name and video channels, Network, device type and license (see "Network, device type, and license" on page 58), PTZ device (see "PTZ device (properties)" on page 59), and Fisheye lens properties as required.
Page 56: About The Replace Hardware Device Wizard
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About the Replace Hardware Device wizard Use the Replace Hardware Device wizard to replace a hardware device that you have previously added to and configured on your surveillance system. To open the Replace Hardware Device wizard, right-click the device that you want to replace and select Replace Hardware Device.
Page 57: Speaker Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The table in the left side of the wizard page lists available video channels on the new hardware device. For a regular single-camera hardware device, there are only one video channel. For video encoders, there are typically several video channels. 1.
Page 58: Hardware Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Speakers are by default enabled, meaning they can transfer audio to your system. If required, you can disable an individual Enabled speaker, in which case no audio is transferred from the speaker to the system. The name as it appears in the Management Application as well as in clients.
Page 59 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual IP Address The IP address or host name of the hardware device. The port to use for HTTP communication with the hardware HTTP Port device. The default is port 80. To use the default port, select Use default HTTP port.
Page 60: Cameras And Storage Information
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Connected cameras have Select the check box if any of the cameras attached to the video Pan-tilt-zoom capabilities encoder device is a PTZ camera. If a PTZ camera is controlled through a COM port, select the relevant option.
Page 61: About Database Resizing
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Guided configuration where you can specify video, recording and Wizard-driven archiving settings for all your cameras. Specify video, recording and shared settings (such as dynamic General archiving paths and whether to record audio or not) for all your cameras.
Page 62 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Enabled motion detection Recording Motion-based Non-motion Recordings Sequences properties setting events based events Always Never Built-in Motion Detection Built-in Motion Detection & Event or Event only Disabled motion detection Camera's recording Motion-based Non-motion Recordings Sequences settings events based events...
Page 63: About Motion Detection And Ptz Cameras
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About motion detection and PTZ cameras Motion detection generally works the same way for pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras as it does for regular cameras. However, you cannot configure motion detection separately for each of a PTZ camera's preset positions.
Page 64: Sms Notification
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual E-mail notification  Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in blue: PTZ patrolling  Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in red:  If use of one patrolling profile is followed immediately by use of another, run your mouse pointer over the red bar to see which patrolling profile applies when.
Page 65: Configure When Cameras Should Do What
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure when cameras should do what Use the scheduling feature to configure when:  Cameras should be online and transfer video to your system.  Cameras should use speedup to use a higher than normal frame rate ...
Page 66: Move Ptz Type 1 And 3 To Required Positions
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual To delete a camera, you have to delete the hardware device (see "Delete/disable hardware devices" on page 55). If you delete the hardware device, you also delete any attached microphones or speakers. If you do not want this, consider disabling the camera instead. Move PTZ type 1 and 3 to required positions For PTZ types 1 and 3, you can move the PTZ camera to required positions in several different ways:...
Page 67: Recording And Storage Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Recording and storage properties Recording and archiving paths (properties) When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 60), you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual cameras.
Page 68 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path, archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead Template of having to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Page 69 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Total amount of time for which you want to keep recordings from the camera (that is, recordings in the camera's database as well as any archived recordings). The default retention time is 7 days. Retention time Retention time covers the total amount of time you want to keep recordings for.
Page 70 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Enables the use of dynamic path selection, allowing you to select which paths you want to use. The list of selectable paths initially Enable dynamic path represents all drives on the server, both local and mapped drives. selection archives You can add further paths with the New path feature below the list.
Page 71 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path, archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead Template of having to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Page 72 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Specify the number of seconds for which you want to record video from before recording start conditions (that is motion or start event) are met. Usually, only some seconds of pre-recording is required, but you can specify up to 65535 seconds of pre- recording, corresponding to 18 hours, 12 minutes and 15 Seconds [of pre-recording] seconds.
Page 73 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Regular frame rate mode: Name Description Required average frame rate for video from the camera. Select Frame Rate number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour). Required average frame rate for live video from the camera. Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour).
Page 74 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The speedup feature lets you use a higher than normal frame rate if motion is detected and/or an event occurs. When you enable Enable speedup frame rate speedup, further columns for specifying speedup details become available.
Page 75 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description This additional stream feature lets you use the alternative stream of the camera. It enables two independent streams to the Enable dedicated live recording server—a stream for live viewing and another stream stream for recording purposes, with different resolution, encoding, and frame rate.
Page 76: Manual Recording
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description This additional stream feature lets you use the alternative stream of the camera. It enables two independent streams to the Enable dedicated live recording server—a stream for live viewing and another stream stream for recording purposes, with different resolution, encoding, and frame rate.
Page 77 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Frame rate - MJPEG When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 60), you can specify certain properties for many cameras in one go. Either in order to speed up things, or because the properties in question are shared by all cameras rather than being specific to individual cameras.
Page 78 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Required average frame rate for video from the camera. Select Frame Rate number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour). Select required unit for live and recording frame rates (per second, minute, or hour).
Page 79 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The speedup feature lets you use a higher than normal frame rate if motion is detected and/or an event occurs. When you enable Enable Speedup speedup, further columns for specifying speedup details become available.
Page 80 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Required average frame rate for recorded video from the camera. Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval Recording Frame Rate (second, minute or hour). The frame rate must be higher than the frame rate specified under normal mode.
Page 81 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path, archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead Template of having to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Page 82 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Keyframes stored at specified intervals record the entire view of the camera, whereas the following frames record only pixels that Record Keyframe Only change; this helps greatly reduce the size of MPEG files. Select the check box if you only want to record keyframes. Allows you to make exceptions if you have selected to record keyframes only.
Page 83 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual that the database becomes full is not in itself a problem since your system automatically archives (see "About archiving" on page 126) data if the database becomes full. However, you may need additional archiving space if you record audio. Example: If you use MPEG4, each one-second video GOP (Group Of Pictures) are stored in one record in the database.
Page 84 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path, archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead Template of having to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Page 85: Camera Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Drive Letter representing the drive in question, for example C:. Path to where you save the files, for example C:\ or Path \\OurServer\OurFolder\OurSubfolder\. What the storage area is used for, for example recording or Usage archiving.
Page 86: Mjpeg Video Format
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual These properties are to a large extent camera-specific. Since such properties vary from camera to camera, descriptions in the following are for guidance only. If you can access the selected camera, a live preview is displayed. Click the Camera Settings... button to open a separate window with properties for the selected camera.
Page 87 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Required average frame rate for video from the camera. Select Frame Rate number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour). Required average frame rate for live video from the camera. Select number of frames, then select the time unit interval (second, minute or hour).
Page 88 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The speedup feature lets you use a higher than normal frame rate if motion is detected and/or an event occurs. When you enable Enable speedup frame rate speedup, further columns for specifying speedup details become available.
Page 89: Mpeg Video Format
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual MPEG video format Frame rate Frame rate for viewing live and recorded video from the camera. Frame rate per second Select number of frames per second. Key frames stored at specified intervals record the entire view of the camera, whereas the following frames record only pixels that Record keyframes only change.
Page 90 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Audio When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 60) for specific cameras, properties include the possibility of selecting a default microphone and/or speaker for the camera. With a default microphone and/or speaker selected for a camera, audio from the microphone and/or speaker is automatically used when you view video from the camera.
Page 91 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Record whenever the camera is enabled (see "General" on page Always 85) and scheduled to be online (see "Online period" on page 134) (the latter allows for time-based recording). Never record. Live video will be displayed, but—since no video is Never kept in the database—users will not be able to play back video from the camera.
Page 92 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Recording and archiving paths When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 60) for specific cameras, properties include: Advanced configuration...
Page 93 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Path to the folder in which the camera's database should be stored. Default is C:\MediaDatabase. To browse for another folder, click the browse icon next to the required cell. You can only specify a path to a folder on a local drive. You cannot specify a path to a network drive.
Page 94: Event Notification
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Select which action to take if the database becomes corrupted: Repair, scan, delete if fails: Default action. If the  database becomes corrupted, two different repair methods will be attempted: a fast repair and a thorough repair. If both repair methods fail, the contents of the database will be deleted.
Page 95 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual In XProtect Smart Client, event notification is given by a yellow indicator which lights up when a relevant event has taken place. You can also add an optional sound on event notification in XProtect Smart Client itself. Three indicators are available for each camera in XProtect Smart Client: ...
Page 96 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual If you later want to remove an output from the one of the lists, select the output in question, and click the << button. Motion detection & exclude regions When you configure video and recording (see "About video and recording configuration" on page 60) for specific cameras, adjusting motion detection is important because it may determine when video from the camera is recorded, when email notifications are generated or when hardware output, such as lights or sirens, is activated.
Page 97 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Enable or disable (see "About motion detection" on page 61) the Enable built-in motion detection. Turn the grid on and off. Turning the grid off may provide a less obscured view of the preview image. You select the areas to exclude from motion detection the same way as when the grid is visible.
Page 98 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Use this setting to determine how much each pixel must change before it is regarded as motion. With a high sensitivity, very little change in a pixel is required before the system regards it as motion.
Page 99 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Enable Enable the Privacy Masking feature. Turn the grid on or off. Turning the grid off may provide a less obscured view of the preview image. Select areas to exclude the same way as you would when the grid is visible. When on, the preview image is divided into small sections by a Show grid grid.
Page 100 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual You can use PTZ preset positions for making the PTZ camera automatically go to a particular position when particular events occur, and when setting up PTZ patrolling profiles. Preset positions can also be used in clients to allow users that have been given rights (see "Configure user and group rights"...
Page 101 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Your configuration options depend on the type of PTZ camera in question:  Type 1 (stored on server): You define preset positions by moving the camera using the controls in the upper half of the window, then storing each required position on the system server.
Page 102 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Try out a preset position. In the list, select the preset position Test you want to test, then click the button to view the camera move to the selected position. Move a preset position selected in the list up and down respectively.
Page 103 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Add a new patrolling profile to the list. When you add a new patrolling profile, you can either give it a unique name, or reuse an existing name from another PTZ camera with PTZ patrolling. Using several identically named patrolling profiles can be advantageous when you later configure scheduling.
Page 104 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual defined and stored on the PTZ camera itself through the camera's own configuration interface, PTZ scanning stops working. Pause PTZ patrolling PTZ patrolling pauses automatically when users operate the camera manually as well if your system is using PTZ on Event.
Page 105: Microphones
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Event Select the relevant event. Select the relevant preset position. For this purpose, you can only use an event once per PTZ camera. However, use different events for making the PTZ camera go to the same preset position. Example: PTZ Preset Position Event 1 makes the PTZ camera go to preset position A...
Page 106: Show Or Hide Microphones Or Speakers
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configuration of microphones and speakers in your system is very basic. You control volume settings and similar settings on the microphone or speaker units themselves. Show or hide microphones or speakers If you have added more microphones or speakers to your system than you need, you can hide the ones you do not need by right-clicking the relevant microphone or speaker and select Hide.
Page 107: Events And Output
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Events and output About input and output Hardware input, such as door sensors, can be attached to input ports on hardware devices. Input from such external hardware input units can be used for generating events in your system. Hardware output units can be attached to output ports on many hardware devices, allowing you to activate lights, sirens, and more from your system.
Page 108 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description You can use analytics events as alarms and integrate seamlessly with the Alarms feature. Analytics events: Analytics events are typically data received from external third- party video content analysis (VCA) providers. An example of a VCA-based system could be an access control system.
Page 109: Add An Analytics Event
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Hardware output can be activated automatically when events occur. For example, when a door is opened (hardware input event), lights are switched on (hardware output). When you configure the output control, you can select between Output control on event: all output and events defined in the system.
Page 110: Add A Hardware Output
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual commands. Also check the release notes to verify that input-controlled operation is supported for the hardware device and firmware used. To add and/or configure a hardware input event, do the following: 1. Expand Advanced Configuration > Events and Output. Right-click Hardware Input Events >...
Page 111: Add A Manual Event
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Add a manual event With manual events, your users with required rights (see "Configure user and group rights" on page 167) can trigger events manually from their clients. Manual events can be global (shared by all cameras) or tied to a particular camera (only available when the camera is selected).
Page 112: Add A Timer Event
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Add a timer event Timer events are separate events, triggered by the type of event under which they are defined. Timer events occur a specified number of seconds or minutes after the event under which they are defined has occurred.
Page 113: Generate Alarms Based On Analytics Events
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, right-click Events and Output, and select Properties. 2. Specify required properties (see "Ports and polling" on page 114). Your system comes with two simple schedule profiles, Always on and Always off, which you cannot edit or delete. If these do not meet your needs, you can create any number of customized schedule profiles for each camera.
Page 114: General Event Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual If you are performing the test on the system server itself: telnet localhost 1234 If you are performing the test from a remote computer: Substitute localhost with the IP address of your system's server. Example: If the IP address of the surveillance system server is 123.123.123.123, type: telnet 123.123.123.123 1234 This opens a Telnet window.
Page 115: Events And Output Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Specify port number to use for handling events. Default port is Alert and generic event port port 1234. Specify the port number to use for sending event information SMTP event port from hardware devices to the system via SMTP. The default port is port 25.
Page 116 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Conditions Description Error messages and solutions If the event is new, is it saved? Or if Save changes before testing Changes saved there are changes to the event analytics event. name, are these changes saved? Solution/Explanation: Save changes.
Page 117 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Error messages Solution/Explanation Unable to find the Event Server service on the list of registered Event Server not found. services. Unable to connect to the Event Server service on the defined port Error connecting to Event (most likely due to network problems, the Event Server service Server.
Page 118 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select the check box to use selected type of input as an event in Enable the system, and specify further properties. Specify a name. Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] Event name Some cameras only support event names of a certain length and/or with a certain structure.
Page 119 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Hardware output When you add hardware output (see "Add a hardware output" on page 110), specify the following properties: Name Description Specify a name. If you are going to make the hardware output available for manual activation in clients, this is the name that client users will see.
Page 120 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Contains a Global node and a list of all defined cameras. You can configure as many manual events as required, no matter whether they are global or camera-specific. A + sign next to the Global [List of defined global node indicates that one or more global manual events have events and cameras]...
Page 121 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Specify a name. Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] Timer event name Some cameras only support event names of a certain length and/or with a certain structure.
Page 122 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Specify a name. Names must be unique, and must not contain any of these special characters: < > & ' " \ / : * ? | [ ] Event name Some cameras only support event names of a certain length and/or with a certain structure.
Page 123 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Displays the string which will be used for the actual package analysis. The field is not directly editable. However, you can position the cursor inside the field in order to determine where a new item should be included when you click the Add button or one of the parenthesis or operator buttons described in the following.
Page 124 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The same data package may be analyzed for different events. The ability to assign a priority to each event lets you manage which event should be triggered if a received package matches the criteria for several events. The priority must be specified as a number between 0 (lowest priority) and 1000 (highest priority).
Page 125: Scheduling And Archiving
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select if the system should automatically send an SMS when the event occurs. You define the recipients of the SMS notifications as part of the SMS notification configuration. When you use SMS Send SMS if this event notifications, remember that you may have set individual camera occurs scheduling.
Page 126: About Archiving
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  You want to receive any notifications regarding one or more cameras.  Archiving takes place.  PTZ cameras should patrol, and according to which patrolling profile About archiving Archiving is an integrated and automated feature with which recordings are moved to free up space for new recordings.
Page 127 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual separate subfolders for storing archives for each camera are automatically created. These subfolders are named after the MAC address of the hardware device to which the camera is connected. Because you can keep archives spanning many days of recordings and archiving may take place several times per day, further subfolders, named with the archiving date and time, are also automatically created.
Page 128 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Recordings and archives are on separate drives. Archiving takes place less quickly. Your system will first temporarily store the archive in the local default archiving directory on C:, then immediately move the archive to the archiving location on D:. Therefore, you need sufficient space to accommodate the temporary archive on C:.
Page 129 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  While you configure your cameras through the Configure Video and Recording wizard (see "Configure storage wizard" on page 40), in which case you configure your archiving schedule on the wizard's Drive selection page.  As part of the general Scheduling and Archiving properties: Expand Advanced Configuration, right-click Scheduling and Archiving, select Properties, select Archiving in the dialog, and specify relevant properties (see "Archiving"...
Page 130: Configure General Scheduling And Archiving
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual the available disk space goes below 75 MB plus 10 MB per camera (example: with ten cameras, the server would be running out of disk space if the remaining available disk space went below 175 MB (75 MB plus 10 MB for each of the ten cameras)) The difference ensures that very large disks will not necessarily be considered to be running out of disk space just because they have less than 5% disk space left.
Page 131: General Scheduling Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. Specify properties as required for Scheduling all cameras (on page 131), Scheduling options (on page 133), and Archiving (on page 134). 3. Your system comes with two simple schedule profiles, Always on and Always off, which you cannot edit or delete.
Page 132 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description The template can help you configure similar properties quickly. Say you have 20 cameras and you want to change the recording path, archiving path, and retention time for all of them. Instead Template of having to enter the same three pieces of information 20 times, you can simply enter them once in the template, and then apply the template to the 20 cameras with only two clicks.
Page 133 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Only available for PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras with patrolling, the continuous movement of a PTZ camera between a number of preset positions. Lets you select the required profile for the PTZ patrolling schedule (see "PTZ patrolling" on page 135) for the camera(s) in question.
Page 134: Camera-Specific Scheduling Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual when started on client request options in the following when setting up your scheduling properties for the camera in question. Archiving Your system automatically archives (see "About archiving" on page 126) recordings if a camera's database becomes full (in earlier versions, this was an option configured individually for each camera).
Page 135 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select the required profile (for example Always on) for the online schedule (see "Configure camera-specific schedules" on page 63) for the relevant camera(s). You specify a camera's online periods by creating schedule profiles based on: ...
Page 136: Matrix
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Only available for PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras with patrolling, the continuous movement of a PTZ camera between a number of preset positions. Lets you select the required profile for the PTZ patrolling schedule (see "PTZ patrolling" on page 135) for the camera(s) in question.
Page 137: Configure Matrix
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  Automatic triggering: Video is sent to the relevant Matrix-recipient automatically when a predefined event occurs, for example when a door sensor detects that a door is opened, or when the surveillance system detects motion in the video from a camera. ...
Page 138 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Enable Matrix Select check box to enable Matrix functionality. Lists any already defined Matrix recipients, that is computers on which Matrix-triggered video can be displayed. To change the properties of an already defined Matrix recipient, [List of Defined Matrix select the required Matrix recipient, make the changes in the recipients]...
Page 139: Logs
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual additional configuration to be done. Right-clicking an event brings up a list of options for the selected event: Component Requirement Delete [selected event] Deletes selected event on the selected device. Connects to the camera (actual camera is specified after selecting Connect action to be taken).
Page 140 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Shows Management Application activity. The system creates a new log file for every day you use the Management Application. Management Application log You cannot disable this type of logging. Management Application files log files are named according to the structure AdminYYYYMMDD.log, for example Admin20091231.log.
Page 141 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Most log files generated by your system use a shared structure complying with the W3C Extended Log File Format. Each log file consists of a header and a number of log lines:  The header outlines the information contained in the log lines. ...
Page 142: Configure System, Event And Audit Logging
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure system, event and audit logging Your system can generate various logs. To configure logging, do the following: 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, right-click Logs and select Properties. 2. Specify properties (see "Log properties" on page 142) for your system logs, including the event log and the audit log.
Page 143 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description These log files are by default placed in the appropriate All Users folder for the operating system you are using. Path To specify another location for your log files, type the path to the required folder in the Path field, or click the browse button next to the field to browse to the required folder.
Page 144: Notifications
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Notifications About notifications In case of problems with hardware, activation of motion detection on your camera or similar incidents, you can set up your system to send notifications through SMS and/or email. Email About email With email notifications, you can instantly get notified when your surveillance system requires attention.
Page 145 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select to enable the use of email notifications, allowing you to Enable specify further properties. Specify the email addresses to which the system should send email notifications. To specify more than one e-mail address, Recipient(s) separate the e-mail addresses with semicolons (example: aa@aa.aa;...
Page 146 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Select the check box to include still images in email notifications. When selected, each email notification includes one or more attached still JPEG images. Attached images includes images of before the incident, after the incident and the actual incident, with the incident that triggered Include images the notification in the middle.
Page 147: Sms
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Enter the email address you wish to use as the sender of the Sender e-mail address email notification. Type the name of the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server which you want to use to send the email notifications. Compared with other mail transfer methods, SMTP has the advantage that you avoid automatically triggered warnings from Outgoing mail server...
Page 148 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. Expand Advanced Configuration, expand Notifications, right-click SMS and select Properties. 2. Enable the use of SMS by selecting the Enable SMS check box. 3. Specify required properties. 4. Choose a schedule profile to associate with your SMS notifications. Note: Your system comes with two simple schedule profiles, Always on and Always off, which you cannot edit or delete.
Page 149: Scheduling
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Server Settings (SMS) Specify the following server settings for SMS: Component Requirement Select the serial port to use for your USB/3G modem. The list Serial port that allows you to choose ports shows open serial ports on the computer running your system.
Page 150: Central
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Select the relevant profile (for example Always on) for your notification schedule profile. You specify a notification schedule profile by creating schedule Notification profile profiles based on:  Periods of time (example: Mondays from 08.30 until 17.45), shown in blue: Central About Central...
Page 151: Central Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Central properties Name Description Enable Milestone XProtect Enables the use of Central connections, allowing you to specify Central connections further properties. Type the name used for the connection between the your system and Central servers or the Milestone Integration Platform. The Login Name name must match the name specified on the Central server or in the Milestone Integration Platform.
Page 152: Xprotect Access Licenses
XProtect Professional  XProtect Express And the following Milestone Husky™ NVR Series:  Milestone Husky M30  Milestone Husky M50 XProtect Access licenses XProtect Access requires the following access control-related licenses: A base license for XProtect Access that covers an unlimited number of Access servers.
Page 153 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Before you start the access control integration wizard make sure you have the integration plug-in installed on the event server. Some of the fields to fill out and their default values are inherited from the integration plug-in. Therefore the appearance of the wizard may differ depending on the access control system you integrate with.
Page 154: Access Control Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Access control properties General Settings tab (Access Control) Name Description Systems are by default enabled, meaning that they are visible in XProtect Smart Client for users with sufficient rights and that the XProtect system receives access control events. Enable You can disable a system, for example during maintenance, to avoid creating unnecessary alarms.
Page 155 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Type the address of the server that hosts the integrated access Address control system. Specify the port number on the server to which the access control Port system is connected. Type the name of the user, as defined in the access control User name system, who should be administrator of the integrated system in XProtect.
Page 156 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Lists the access control events imported from the access control system. The integration plug-in controls default enabling and disabling of events. You can disable or enable events any time after the integration. Access Control Event When an event is enabled, it is stored in the XProtect event database and is, for example, available for filtering in the XProtect Smart Client.
Page 157 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual You can specify one or more actions related to:  An event category  Events from the access control system  Events from the XProtect system Triggering events are from a specific access control unit or from a group of access control units. Advanced configuration...
Page 158 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select from the list an event category that should trigger an action. The list includes built-in, plug-in and user-defined event categories. Select Access control event, to create a trigger based on Trigger Event specific access control events instead of an event category.
Page 159 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure the parameters for an action: Display access request notification: Specify which cameras, microphones or speakers the  XProtect Smart Client user connects to via the notification user interface when a given event occurs. Also specify the sound to alert the user when the notification pops up.
Page 160: Server Access
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Type the characters of a cardholder name and it appears in the Search cardholder list, if it exists. Lists the names of the cardholders retrieved from the access Name control system. Lists the type of cardholder, for example: Employee ...
Page 161: Configure Server Access
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Enabled Indicates if the relevant service is enabled. Name The name of the service. Description A description of the service. Addresses The inside and outside addresses used by the service. You can change the inside and outside addresses for a service. To do this, click the Edit button and enter the relevant inside and/or outside addresses.
Page 162 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Name of the surveillance system server as it appears in clients. Server name Client users with rights to configure their clients see the name of the server when they create views in their clients. Port number to use for communication between clients and the surveillance server.
Page 163: Master/Slave
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. In the Start Address column, specify the first IP address in the range. 3. In the End Address column, specify the last IP address in the range. Repeat if you want to add other local IP address ranges. Language support and XML encoding You can select the language/character set that should be used by your system's server and clients.
Page 164: Master/Slave Properties
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. Select the Enable as master server check box. 3. Click Add to add a slave server. 4. Specify slave server properties. When ready, click OK. Master/slave properties You can set the following properties for master servers and slave servers: Master server properties Name Description...
Page 165: Users
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual If you do not select Pre version 8.0 slaves, slave status for pre version 8.0 slaves is Unreachable. Slave status for 8.0 slaves and beyond reflects the actual status. Users About users The term users primarily refers to users who connect to the surveillance system through their clients.
Page 166: Add User Groups
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual groups, make sure you add required groups before you add users. You cannot add existing users to groups. Add Windows users in two ways: One is through the Manage user access wizard. Alternatively, add Windows users this way: 1.
Page 167: Configure User And Group Rights
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure user and group rights User/group rights are configured during the process of adding users/groups, see Add basic Users (on page 165), Add Windows users (on page 165) and Add user groups (on page 166). Note that you can also add basic and Windows users through the Manage user access wizard (on page 51).
Page 168 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Client access settings Name Description Live Enables access to the Live tab in XProtect Smart Client. Playback Enables access to the Playback tab in XProtect Smart Client. Setup Enables access to setup mode in XProtect Smart Client. Enables the user to create and edit views in shared groups in XProtect Smart Client.
Page 169 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual This user/group requires Enables a restriction on the user/group which means that a authorization from another second user must authorize the log in before the user/group can user to log in log in to XProtect Smart Client or the Management Application. This user/group can Enables the right for this user/group to authorize the log in for authorize logins from other...
Page 170 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Live Features Use navigation features for PTZ (Pan-tilt-zoom) cameras. A user/group can only use this right if the user has access to one or more PTZ cameras. Use navigation features for moving a PTZ camera to particular preset positions.
Page 171: Services
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Alarm management When you add or edit basic users (see "Add basic users" on page 165), Windows users (see "Add Windows users" on page 165) or groups (see "Add user groups" on page 166), specify their XProtect Smart Client alarm management rights: Name Description...
Page 172: Start And Stop Services
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Service Description A vital part of the surveillance system. Video streams are only Milestone Recording Server transferred to your system while the Recording Server service is service running. Provides access to the surveillance system for users who log in with XProtect Smart Client.
Page 173: Lpr Servers
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual LPR servers LPR system overview About XProtect LPR XProtect LPR offers video-based content analysis (VCA) and recognition of vehicle license plates that interacts with your surveillance system and your XProtect Smart Client. To read the characters on a plate, XProtect LPR uses optical character recognition on images aided by specialized camera settings.
Page 174 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Basic data flow: LPR cameras (a) send video to the recording server (b). The recording server sends video to the LPR servers (c) to recognize license plates by comparing them with the license plate characteristics in the installed country modules. LPR servers send recognitions to the event server (d) to match with the license plate match lists.
Page 175: Minimum System Requirements
Milestone Husky™ M30  Milestone Husky™ M50. XProtect LPR 2016 is compatible with Milestone Husky M30 and Milestone Husky M50, but these products do not currently support the full functionality of XProtect LPR 2016. Minimum system requirements For information about the minimum system requirements for the various components of your system, go to the Milestone website http://www.milestonesys.com/SystemRequirements.
Page 176 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual This section helps you to prepare cameras for license plate recognition, but it also introduces you to important theories about cameras and lenses that are crucial to understand in order to get optimal images. Illustration of an LPR solution Factors that influence your configuration of LPR: 1.
Page 177 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Unwanted camera features (on page 187) Positioning the camera When you mount cameras for LPR use, it is important to get a good, clear view of the area of interest so the plate can be detected consistently. This ensures the best possible performance and low risk of false detection: ...
Page 178 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  Single-line rule: Mount the camera so that you can draw a horizontal line that crosses both the left and right edge of the license plate in the captured images. See the illustrations below for correct and incorrect angles for recognition. ...
Page 179 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Mount the camera so that the ideal snapshot of the license plate is captured when the license plate is in the center or lower half of the image: Take a snapshot and make sure that the requirements to stroke width and plate width as described below are fulfilled.
Page 180 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Minimum plate Plate type Plate width Setup width (pixels) vehicles stopped; no Single line plate width 52 cm  interlacing European plates stroke width around 1 cm vehicles are moving;  interlaced If vehicles are moving when recorded, and an interlaced camera is used, only a half of the image can be used (only the even lines) for recognition compared with a camera configured for stopped vehicles and no interlacing.
Page 181 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Recommended resolution = SVGA (800×600) Because US plates use a font with a narrow stroke, a higher resolution is needed than for European plates. Common video resolutions Name Pixels (W×H) QCIF 176×120 352×240 2CIF 704×240 640×480 4CIF 704×480...
Page 182 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Camera settings Controls... Affects... The adjustable opening that Aperture limits the amount of light to Depth of field enter the camera Shutter speed The duration of the exposure Motion blur The sensitivity of the ISO speed camera's sensor to a given Image noise amount of light...
Page 183 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The example illustrates how the depth of field is affected by the f-stop value. The blue line indicates the focus point. A high f-stop value makes it possible to have a longer distance where the license plate is in focus. Good light conditions are important for sufficient exposure.
Page 184 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual A low f-stop value reduces the focus area and thereby the area used for recognition, but is suitable for conditions with low light. If it is possible to ensure that vehicles are passing the focus area at a low speed, a low f-stop value is suitable for a consistent recognition.
Page 185 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  Smear is an effect that leads to unwanted light vertical lines in images. It is often caused by slight imperfections in the cameras’ charge-coupled device (CCD) imagers. The CCS imagers are the sensors used to digitally create the images. License plate image with smear because of overexposure ...
Page 186 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual the camera supports manual configuration of the shutter time—the shutter time can be set to a very short time. Neutral Density (ND) filters or gray filters basically reduce the amount of light coming into a camera. They work as "sunglasses" for the camera. ND filters affect the exposure of images (see "Understanding camera exposure"...
Page 187 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Good contrast Acceptable contrast; recognition is still possible Pixels in an 8-bit grayscale image can have color values ranging from 0 to 255, where grayscale value 0 is absolute black and 255 is absolute white. When you convert your input image to an 8-bit grayscale image, the minimum pixel value difference between a pixel in the text and a pixel in the background should be at least 15.
Page 188 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Left: License plate image saved with a JPEG quality level of 80% (i.e. low compression); acceptable Right: License plate image saved with a JPEG quality level of 50% (i.e. high compression); unacceptable LPR installation Install XProtect LPR To run XProtect LPR your must install: ...
Page 189 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual You cannot add LPR servers from the Management Application. If you need to install more LPR servers after the initial installation, run the Milestone XProtect LPR Server installer on these servers. Upgrade XProtect LPR To upgrade XProtect LPR, you follow the same steps as for installation (see "Install XProtect LPR" on page 188).
Page 190 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Field Description Name Here you can change the name of the LPR server. Shows the LPR server host name. The first part of the name of the LPR server consists of the name Host name of the host computer for your LPR server installation.
Page 191 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Once cameras have been mounted and added in the Management Application, adjust each camera's settings so that they match the requirements for LPR. You adjust camera settings on the properties tabs for each camera device. For the relevant cameras Milestone recommends to: ...
Page 192 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  The light; for example daylight and nighttime  Vehicle types; to define the top and bottom of the recognition area  Position in the lane; to define the left and right of the recognition area Advanced configuration...
Page 193 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  Distance to the car; to define the area where LPR analyzes license plates Add LPR camera To configure cameras for LPR, you initially run the Add LPR camera wizard. The wizard takes you through the main configuration steps and automatically optimizes the configuration. To run the wizard: 1.
Page 194 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The system automatically optimized the configuration of your LPR camera, when you added the LPR camera with the Add LPR camera wizard. If you want to make changes to the initial configuration, you can:  Change the name of the server or change server (see "Info tab"...
Page 195 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual To ensure the best possible performance and low risk of false detection, Milestone recommends that you always select a clearly defined and "well-trimmed" recognition area. The area should cover only the part of the image where the license plate is visible as the vehicle moves in and out of the image.
Page 196: Advanced Settings
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  The longer you have to wait for the results. The overlay in the snapshot displays the currently defined character height setting. The overlay grows and shrinks proportionally with the character height settings to the right. For easy comparison, you can drag the overlay on top of the real license plate in the snapshot.
Page 197 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  requires more time to return results. By adjusting the advanced settings, you define the trade-off. The recognition process stops if any of the stop criteria are met and returns the license plate it recognized at that point. Advanced configuration...
Page 198 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description In case your LPR camera sends interlaced video and you observe combing effects in the de-interlaced image in LPR, you can enable Compensate for interlacing this function. This may improve the quality of the image and thereby your recognition results.
Page 199 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual On this tab you select which license plate match list(s) you want a specific LPR camera to match license plates against. You can create as many lists as you need (see "Add new license plate match lists"...
Page 200 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Already licensed modules appear with a check mark in the Licensed column. If the country module you are looking for is not on your list, contact your vendor. Name Description Click to select or deselect a country module. The list of selected Select country modules on the right side updates automatically.
Page 201 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. Select the relevant camera. 2. In the Recognition settings tab, click Snapshots. 3. Capture snapshots from live video or import them from an external location. Click Next. The system analyzes the snapshots you have selected for the camera. 4.
Page 202 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. From the Recognition settings tab, click Auto-configure. A new dialog box appears. 2. Confirm that you want to return to auto-configured settings by clicking Next. The system optimizes the settings. 3. Click Close. 4. If prompted, confirm to save the configuration. 5.
Page 203 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual To trigger a surveillance system event, when a license plate that is not on a list is recognized, use the Unlisted license plates list. You select it for a camera like any other list (see "Match lists tab" on page 198) and set it up like any other list (see "Events triggered by LPR"...
Page 204 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Supported file formats are .txt or .csv. To import: 1. In the navigation pane, click License plate match lists and select the relevant list. 2. To import a file, click Import. 3. In the dialog box, specify the location of the import file and the import type. Click Next. 4.
Page 205 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Name Shows the name of the list. If needed, you can change the name. Click to specify which license plate entry columns that you or the Custom fields client user can add additional information to. See Custom fields (properties) (see "Edit custom fields properties"...
Page 206 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The XProtect Smart Client users can update the information in the columns but not the columns themselves. Name Description Adds a column to the match list. Type a name for the column. Edit Click to edit the name of the column. Delete Deletes a column.
Page 207 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 4. The Alarm Definition Information window appears. Select the relevant properties (see "Alarm Definitions for LPR" on page 207). 5. If prompted when done, confirm to save changes. 6. Configure the alarm data settings for LPR (see "Alarm Data Settings for LPR" on page 207). Alarm Definitions for LPR Except for defining Triggering events, the settings for Alarm Definitions are the same for LPR as for the remaining part of the system.
Page 208 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. On the Alarm List Configuration tab, select Object, Tag, and Type and click >. 3. If prompted, confirm to save changes. LPR maintenance About LPR Server Manager When you have installed an LPR server, you can check the state of its services with the XProtect LPR Server Manager.
Page 209 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. From the menu that appears, select Show LPR server status. If the system is running without problems, the status will is: All LPR cameras running. Other statuses are:  Service not responding  Not connected to surveillance system ...
Page 210: Mobile Server
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Mobile server About Milestone Mobile server Milestone Mobile server handles log-ins to the system from Milestone Mobile client from a mobile device or XProtect Web Client. A Milestone Mobile server distributes video streams from recording servers to Milestone Mobile clients.
Page 211 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual To avoid this scenario, you must restart the Milestone Mobile service manually. See the Windows Help for information about how to do this. If you are using newer versions of XProtect, the Milestone Mobile service restarts with the other services and no user action is required.
Page 212 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. Right-click the server that you want to stream video to, and click Add Hardware to open the Add Hardware wizard. 3. Select Manual as the hardware detection method, and click Next. 4. Enter credentials for the camera, as follows: To use the factory default credentials from the camera factory, click Next.
Page 213 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual  Select the channel to remove, and then click Remove in the lower right corner. Mobile server settings General The following table describes the settings on this tab. Name Description Server name Enter a name of the Milestone Mobile server. Description Enter an optional description of the Milestone Mobile server.
Page 214 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Server Status See the status details for your Mobile server. The details are read-only: Name Description Shows how long the Mobile server has been running since it was Server active since last stopped. CPU usage Shows current CPU usage on the Mobile server.
Page 215 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Video push Enable Video push on the Mobile server. Specify the number of enabled Video push channels in your Number of channels XProtect system. Shows the channel number for the relevant channel. Non- Channel column editable.
Page 216: Log Settings
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select the check box to enable the second level of limitations to Level 2 Milestone Mobile server performance. Set a threshold for the CPU load on the Milestone Mobile server CPU threshold before the system enforces video stream limitations. Set a threshold for bandwidth load on the Milestone Mobile server Bandwidth threshold before the system enforces video stream limitations.
Page 217 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Enable/disable logging of Milestone Mobile client's actions in a Enabled separate log file. Log file location Path to where log files are saved. Keep logs for Number of days to keep logs for (default three days). CPU usage Default level of CPU usage which will trigger a warning in the log.
Page 218 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About show status Right-click the Mobile Server Manager icon and select Show Status or double-click the Mobile Server Manager icon to open a window that shows the status of the Mobile server. You can see the following information: Name Description...
Page 219 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Generate a self-signed certificate Load a certificate file Generate a self-signed certificate 1. Choose the Generate a self-signed certificate option and click OK. 2. Wait for a few seconds while the system installs the certificate. 3.
Page 220: Alarms
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Alarms About alarms The Alarms feature is a Milestone Integration Platform (MIP)-based feature that uses functionality handled by the event server. It provides central overview and control of alarms in any number of system installations throughout your organization. You can configure alarms to be generated based on either: ...
Page 221: About Maps
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Alarms and XProtect Central The alarms feature covers almost the same functionality as XProtect Central and configuration of XProtect Central functionality is now included in the alarms feature. XProtect Central was an independent product consisting of two parts: a dedicated server and a number of dedicated clients.
Page 222: Add A Time Profile (For Alarms)
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. Specify required properties (see "Alarms definition" on page 222). Click OK. 3. Save your configuration changes by clicking Save in the yellow notification bar in the upper-right corner of the Management Application. For a detailed overview of Alarms and how the feature works, see About alarms (on page 220). Add a time profile (for alarms) Time profiles are periods of time used for the Alarms feature only.
Page 223 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Enable Enables the Alarms feature. Enter a name. The alarm's name appears whenever the alarm is listed. Name Alarm names do not have to be unique. Description Enter a description (optional). This first list shows both system-related events and events from plug-ins (for example access control systems or similar).
Page 224 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Select a priority (High, Medium or Low) for the alarm. Priorities Initial alarm priority can be used for sorting purposes and workflow control in XProtect Smart Client. Select a category to which the alarm should initially be assigned. Initial alarm category This could be, for example, Building01, Burglary, ElevatorEast or similar, depending on which categories have been defined.
Page 225 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual In Available columns, use > to select which columns should be available in the XProtect Smart Client Alarm List. Use < to clear selection. When done, Selected columns should contain the items to be included. Select to enable that all alarms must be assigned a reason for Reasons for Closing tabEnable closing before they can be closed.
Page 226: Mip Plug-Ins
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Component Requirement Name Type a name for the time profile. Description Enter a description (optional). Right-click the calendar and select Add Single Time. Specify Add Single Time Start time and End time. If the time covers whole days, select All-day event.
Page 227 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual XProtect Transact is a tool for observing ongoing transactions and investigating transactions in the past. The transactions are linked with the digital surveillance video monitoring the transactions, for example to help you prove fraud or provide evidence against a perpetrator. There is a 1-to-1 relationship between the transaction lines and video images.
Page 228 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Additional types of transaction sources may be supported through custom connectors developed with the MIP software development kit (SDK), for example a connector that retrieves transaction data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. About connectors A connector facilitates import of raw transaction data from the transaction source, for example the ATM, into the event server associated with the video management software.
Page 229 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual method (match type) must be specified to identify strings in the transaction data: exact match, wildcard, or regular expression. See also Define a transaction event (see "Define transaction events" on page 236) Create a transaction alarm (see "Create alarms based on transaction events" on page 237) Compatibility XProtect Transact 2016 is compatible with version 2016 of these products: ...
Page 230: Xprotect Transact Configuration
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual If you are using products from the Advanced VMS product suite, you need to acquire the trial license from Milestone. The system administrator must activate the trial license in the configuration. If you are using products from the Professional VMS product suite, the trial license is a built-in license.
Page 231 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description If you want to disable the transaction source, clear this check box. The stream of transaction data stops, but the data already imported remains on the event server. You can still view transactions from a disabled transaction source in XProtect Smart Enable Client during its retention period.
Page 232 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description If you selected Serial port connector, specify these settings and make sure that they match the settings on the transaction source:  Serial port: select the COM port.  Baud rate: specify the number of bits transmitted per second.
Page 233 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 8. For each filter, select an action to determine how the characters are transformed. The Preview section gives you a preview of how data is presented with the filters defined. For detailed information about the fields, see Transaction definitions (properties). You can also load previously collected data stored locally on your computer.
Page 234 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Name Type a name. Select the character set used by the transaction source, for example the cash register. This helps XProtect Transact convert the transaction data to understandable text that you can work Encoding with when configuring the definition.
Page 235 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Name Description Specify a start mask to indicate where a transaction begins. Horizontal lines are inserted in the Preview field to visualize Start mask where the transaction starts and ends, and will help to keep individual transactions separated.
Page 236 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Setting up transaction events and alarms In this section, you will learn how to define the transaction events and set up alarms. Define transaction events To track and investigate transaction events in XProtect Smart Client, first you need to define what the events are, for example the acquisition of a smartphone.
Page 237 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 6. Select the match type to use to identify a specific string in the transaction data as an event. You can choose between exact match, wildcard symbols, and regular expressions. For more information, see the description of match type in Transaction definitions (properties). 7.
Page 238 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. In the navigation pane, expand Alarms 2. Select Alarm Data Settings and click the Alarm List Configuration tab. 3. In the Available columns section, select the Type field. 4. Add the field to Selected columns. 5.
Page 239 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual After adding a transaction source, you can change the name or select a different transaction definition. Depending on the connector selected, there may be additional settings you can modify, for example the host name and port number of a connected TCP server. In addition, you can disable a transaction source.
Page 240 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 3. Click the Transaction sources item. Right-click the source you want to delete. 4. Select Delete. A dialog box appears. 5. Click OK to confirm that you want to delete the transaction source. See also Add transaction source (wizard) Verify XProtect Transact configuration When you are done configuring XProtect Transact and its components, you can test that Transact...
Page 241: Settings
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Settings About automatic device discovery Automatic device discovery allows you to automatically add hardware devices to your system as soon as you connect these to your network. When you enable automatic device discovery, your system configures and sets up hardware devices automatically without the need for any user interaction, making the hardware devices instantly accessible in XProtect Smart Client after the automatic installation has completed.
Page 242 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Automatic device discovery Automatic device discovery (see "About automatic device discovery" on page 241) is turned off by default in your system. Select the check box to enable this functionality. If the camera should use an additional user name and password besides the camera's default user name and password, select the Use the camera's default user name and password as well as the following credentials check box and type the relevant credentials.
Page 243: User Interface
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Classic mode Evidence collection mode When the storage on which The system deletes oldest The system stops saving new you are recording becomes recordings to make room for recordings and keeps the oldest full new recordings. recordings.
Page 244: Connecting Hardware Devices
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual If your system should show live video when you preview camera or if you would rather see a snapshot or no preview of the camera. Click Restore Default Settings below the behavior list to restore your system to its default behavior.
Page 245: Analytics Events
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Never The system never records audio from your cameras. The system only records audio from your cameras when your Only when recording video system is recording video. Always The system always records audio for your cameras. You can change the setting later for each camera individually.
Page 246 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Specify the number of days you want the system to keep closed alarms. Closed alarms are in the states Closed, Ignore, and Reject. This value is normally set to a low number to keep the capacity Keep closed alarms for requirements low, but you can define any number up to 99999 days, dependant on server space.
Page 247: System Maintenance
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual System maintenance Backing up and restoring configuration About back up and restore of configuration Milestone recommends that you make regular backups of your system configuration (cameras, schedules, views, and so on) as a disaster recovery measure. While it is rare to lose your configuration, it can happen under unfortunate circumstances.
Page 248: Restore System Configuration
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Restore system configuration 1. If you use the system on a server running any supported operating system, copy the content of the backed-up Milestone Surveillance folder into C:\Program Data\Milestone\Milestone Surveillance. 2. If you backed up the file devices.ini, copy the file into C:\Program Files\Milestone\Milestone Surveillance\devices.
Page 249 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 2. When you open the tool, you are prompted to connect to a server. Specify the name of the required SQL Server and connect with administrator user credentials. You do not have to type the name of the SQL server: if you click inside the Server name field and select <Browse for more...>, you can select the SQL Server from a list instead.
Page 250 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 1. In the Windows Start menu, open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express. 2. Connect to a server. Specify the name of the required SQL Server, and connect using the user account the database was created with. 3.
Page 251: Export And Import Management Application Configuration
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Export and import Management Application configuration You can export the current configuration of your Management Application, either as a safety measure in order to have a backup file of your configuration, or as a clone allowing you to use a similar Management Application configuration elsewhere.
Page 252: Restore System Configuration From A Restore Point
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual The same import method is used regardless of whether the Management Application configuration was exported as a backup or a clone. 1. In the File menu, select Import Configuration. 2. Browse to the location from which you want to import the configuration, select the relevant configuration file, and click Open.
Page 253: Importing Changes To Configuration
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Note: When you select a restore point, you can see information about the configuration state at the selected point in time in the right part of the dialog. This can help you select the best possible restore point.
Page 254: Import Changes To Configuration
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual When you import changes, no hardware detection takes place and no hardware functionality is changed. For example, if you replace a PTZ device with a device that does not have PTZ functionality, the new device still lists as a PTZ device. The following applies for the information present in CSV files: ...
Page 255: Glossary Of Terms
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual camera position. The required cameras and the intervals between changes are specified Glossary of Terms by the system administrator. The carousel feature is available in XProtect Smart Client. Central XProtect Central is a feature that provides a complete overview of status and alarms from Administrator any number of the system's servers,...
Page 256 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual 192.168.212.2). Many people find alphabetic Frames per second—measurement indicating names easier to remember than numeric IP the amount of information contained in a addresses. motion video. Each frame represents a still image, but when frames are displayed in succession, the illusion of motion is created.
Page 257 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual is online, your licenses are activated Hardware device automatically. When you add a digital camera to your system, you are not adding the camera itself Grace period only, but rather hardware devices. Hardware devices have their own IP addresses or host A license that gives you permission to names.
Page 258: Mac Address
Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual pixels that change. This helps greatly reduce Manual events the size of MPEG files. An I-frame is similar to You can generate an event manually from the a keyframe. client. These events are called manual events.
Page 259 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual MPEG Ping Compression standards and file formats for A computer network administration utility digital video developed by the Moving used to determine whether an IP address is Pictures Experts Group. MPEG standards use available, by sending a small amount of data so-called lossy compression as they store to see if it responds.
Page 260 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Pre-alarm images is a feature available for started only when there is a reason to do so, selected cameras only. It enables the sending for example, when motion is detected, when of images from immediately before an event an event occurs, or when a specific period of took place from the camera to ÿour system time begins.
Page 261 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Simple Mail Transfer Protocol—standard for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet sending e-mail messages between mail Protocol—combination of protocols (or servers. standards) used when connecting computers and other devices on networks, including the internet. Software License Code (SLC) A file that contains all the permissions (base Telnet licenses and other licenses) you have for an...
Page 262 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual resulting from VCA systems are called XProtect Transact can help you prevent loss analytics events. and shrinkage through video evidence combined with time-linked POS or ATM Third-party VCA tools are developed by transaction data. independent partners delivering solutions based on an a Milestone open platform.
Page 263 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About important port numbers • 10 Index About importing changes to configuration • 240, 241 About input and output • 100 About access control integration • 142 About license activation • 24, 28, 36 About accessing logs and exports • 206 About license plate match lists •...
Page 264 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual About replacing hardware devices • 26, 56 About video and recording configuration • 58, 61, 64, 67, 69, 70, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 82, About required fields for CSV files when you 83, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 99, 127 import changes to configurations •...
Page 265 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Add an analytics event • 103, 109 Alarm Definitions for LPR • 195 Add basic users • 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, Alarm management • 160 Alarms • 208 Add hardware Alarms definition • 107, 210, 212 Import from CSV file - CSV file format and Alarms properties •...
Page 266 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Configure hardware devices • 55, 59, 60 Back up and restore alarm and map Configure hardware output on event • 101, configuration • 235 103, 104, 105, 106, 118 Back up system configuration • 34, 234 Configure master and slave servers •...
Page 267 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Create alarms based on transaction events • Enable XProtect Central • 141 217, 224 Event notification • 89 CSV • 242 Event Server • 243 Event Server Settings • 232 Default File Paths • 119, 231, 234 Events and output •...
Page 268 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Get additional licenses • 27, 28 Import from CSV file • 38, 39, 40 Getting started • 36, 217 Import/export license plate match lists • 192, GOP • 243 Importing a new software license file • 22, Grace period •...
Page 269 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Logs • 131 Message Settings (SMS) • 139, 141 LPR configuration • 179 Microphone (properties) • 99 LPR installation • 178 Microphones • 99 LPR licenses • 23, 165, 178, 189 Milestone Mobile client • 17 LPR maintenance •...
Page 270 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Overview of events and output • 101 Recording • 70, 75, 76, 79, 86, 111, 162, Panomorph • 246 Recording and archiving paths • 87, 231 Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) • 246 Recording and archiving paths (properties) • Performance •...
Page 271 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Setting up transaction events and alarms • 217, 222 TCP • 248 Setting up transactions • 217, 218 TCP/IP • 248 Settings • 228 Telnet • 248 Show LPR server log • 197 Template and common properties • 76 Show LPR server status •...
Page 272 Milestone Husky - Administrator Manual Validate configuration • 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191 VCA • 107, 248 Verify XProtect Transact configuration • 227 Video • 79, 83, 127 Video encoder • 249 Video motion detection (VMD) • 249 Video Push •...
Page 273 About Milestone Systems Milestone Systems is a global industry leader in open platform IP video management software, founded in 1998 and now operating as a stand-alone company in the Canon Group. Milestone technology is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer...

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Milestone Systems Husky M30 Administrator's Manual

Before You Start

About Minimum System Requirements

About Naming of Host Names

About Important Port Numbers

About Daylight Saving Time

About Virus Scanning

System Overview

Software and System Components

Clients

Recording Server Manager

Xprotect Download Manager

Licenses

Install and Upgrade

Install Your System Software

Install Xprotect Smart Client

Install Video Device Drivers

About Removing System Components

Getting Started

About the Getting Started Page

Automatic Configuration Wizard

Add Hardware Wizard

Configure Storage Wizard

Adjust Motion Detection Wizard

Manage User Access Wizard

Advanced Configuration

Hardware Devices

Cameras and Storage Information

Microphones

Events and Output

Scheduling and Archiving

Matrix

Logs

Notifications

Central

Access Control

Server Access

Master/Slave

Users

Services

Servers

Alarms

MIP Plug-Ins

Xprotect Transact

Settings

About Automatic Device Discovery

Change Default File Paths

Options

System Maintenance

Backing up and Restoring Configuration

Importing Changes to Configuration

Glossary of Terms

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