About alarms

The Alarm and Map features are only available when connected to certain types of surveillance system. Particular user rights may be required.

On the surveillance server, virtually any kind of incident or technical problem (events) can be set up to trigger an alarm. These can all be viewed from the Alarm Manager tab, which provides a central overview of your surveillance system incidents, status, and possible technical problems.

The Alarm Manager tab is either displayed or hidden depending on the settings defined by your surveillance system setup.

You cannot set up alarm triggers in the XProtect Smart Client, this is done by the surveillance system administrator as part of the surveillance system configuration.

The Alarm Manager tab provides a dedicated view for your alarm or event handling. The tab itself displays the number of active alarms (up to nine—more alarms than this are shown with a 9+) . The Alarm Manager tab includes an alarm list, an alarm preview (for previewing video associated with individual alarms or events), and, if available, a map position (for geographical display of alarm indicators). Click the Report button, to display relevant reports on the incidents.