Chapter Four Auxiliary Utilities - Vivotek ND8401 User Manual

Chapter Four Auxiliary Utilities

In addition to LiveClient and Playback, the NVR system comes with a variety of auxiliary utilities
including:
Utility
Setup Wizard
Service
Import/ Export
Installation
Wizard 2
Shepherd
Upgrade
File Manager
Keyboard
Below are the functions available through the menu bar:
Menu
Disk Status Disk Status provides a glimpse of Logical Volumes, Physical disk statuses, HDD status
reported through S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology), and
a test tool to check the integrity of individual disk drives.
Network Status Displays the network statuses of the NVR's two GbE Ethernet ports, including network
type, IP address, subnet, and gateway information.
System Status Reports system overall working status.
The Setup Wizard has been described in Chapter One
Services enables you to restart or stop the embedded NVR server (VAST
server).
The Import/ Export utility helps preserve current system configuration or reload
a previously-saved configuration.
The IW2 utility offers a glimpse of VIVOTEK cameras and the access to them
in a local area network.
You can use shepherd to quickly duplicate individual camera configuration
(system, video streams, network, security, etc.) to multiple cameras. Please
refer to page xxx for more about this utility.
The Upgrade provides access to NVR system updates.
The File Manager helps locate particular system or video data when the need
arises, say, for retrieving forensic evidences.
If a keyboard is not available, use this virtual keyboard for entering data.
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