Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 41)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 41 The basics
If servers are not available at the time you log in, you cannot use cameras or features belonging to
those servers. Unavailable servers are displayed in red:
The number of servers you see reflects the number of servers retrievable from the surveillance system
at the time you logged in. Particularly if you connect to large hierarchies of servers, more servers may
occasionally become available after you log in. The server list is a static representation of server
status. If a server is unavailable, it will display a reason in the Status field when you click it. To attempt
to connect to the server, click the Load Server button. The server status for that server will then be
updated. If a server continues to be unavailable for longer periods of time, contact your surveillance
system administrator for advice.
Jobs
If your XProtect Smart Client is part of a Milestone Interconnect system and you have sufficient rights
to retrieve data from interconnected hardware devices or cameras that support edge storage, you can
view the jobs created for each data retrieval request for these devices .
Each camera where retrieval has been requested is displayed as a separate job. You can view the
progress of the running jobs and you can stop the jobs from here. Related audio will automatically be
retrieved, but these jobs will not show up anywhere. Once a job has completed, the timeline (see "The
timeline" on page 120) for the device is automatically updated.
If you would like to only see the jobs you have requested, click the Only show my jobs filter.
The System Monitor tab
Use the <, > and home icons to navigate the System Monitor.
From here you can view system information and create reports on:

Management server: shows data on your management server

Recording servers: shows data on any number of recording servers in your surveillance
setup, which can be viewed per:
o Disks
o Storage
o Network
o Cameras

Failover recording servers: shows data on any number of failover recording servers in
your surveillance setup

Additional servers: shows data on log servers, event servers etc. in your surveillance
setup

Cameras: shows data on any camera in any camera group in your surveillance setup.
Each of these corresponds to a clickable, expandable area, most of which contains sub-areas. Each
sub-area represents a server. When clicked, they provide relevant dynamic data on this server.