Management Software Administration
Description
The SMS, the main administration software of the SMS consists of: Status, e-Map, Configand Backup. The SMS program is the integrated software that controls system management, video monitoring, e-Mapping and Backup of multiple remote digital video recorder (DVR, hereinafter) system. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the SMS is shown below, and the description of each GUI is followed.
Functions of the SMS
Status
- Remote Site List: Displays the list of remote sites registered in the SMS.
- Client Setup: Allows to set up the Client PC (Please refer to the next page).
- Close Button: Closes the SMS program.
- Minimize Button: Minimizes the SMS program.
- Live Viewer Open Button: Activates the Live Viewer program.
- Search Viewer Open Button: Activates the Search Viewer program.
- e-Map Tab: Opens the e-Map page.
- ConfigTab: Opens the Configuration page.
- Backup Tab: Opens the Backup page.
- Status Window: Displays the status of the remote DVR system currently connected (motion detection, alarm In status, Alarm Out, Camera On/Off and Video Loss).
- Server Information: Displays the Server Information of the remote DVR system currently connected (Name, IP Address, Software Version, connected Camera and Alarm numbers).
- Emergency Event List: Displays the event(s) called back from the remote DVR system currently connected.
- Save Button: Saves the Emergency Event List to the “C:\Program Files\SMS\Backup\Log” folder
- Load Button: Loads the saved Emergency Event Log files from the“C:\Program Files\SMS\Backup\Log”folder in your computer.
To make the Remote Server List, press the right button of the mouse after locating the mouse pointer on the Remote Site List area and press “Add GROUP”. The below window will appear. Enter the Group name.
After adding a Group, press the right button on the Group name and select “Add DVR”. You can enter the DVR name, IP Address(orDomain or PSTN), Port, ID and password.
Default: Port 7000, ID remote, Password 1111.
To connect to the DVR, double click the DVR on the Remote Server List.
The connection status window will be popped up and the SMS Status Screen will display the live images from the Server when the connection is completed.
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Client Setup
When double-clicking the Client Setup button on the Status page, the below screen will be displayed.
You can change the backup path by pressing the [...] button and the Client Setup screen will display the Disk Status. Also, you can turn on or off select the Disk Overwrite function. When not using the disk overwrite function, you can turn on Disk Full warning and selectthe Disk Usage % from the down list menu.
e-Map
The e-Map functions allows you mapping by using your local map in .bitmap format. You can locate any camera from any remote server to your map by dragging and dropping from the list. The live screen on the map has convenient hot key by pressing the right button of the mouse.
When clicking the right button of the mouse after locating the mouse pointer on a Live Screen, the Pop-up Menu will appear.
- Viewer Size Adjustment: You can adjust the viewer size by selecting x1/4, x1or x4.
- Digital Zoom: You can zoom in or out to x1.5 or x2.
- Live Audio: You can turn on or off the live audio.
- OSD Setup: You can set up the On Screen Display (OSD) for DVR and Camera Name, Date/Time and Event.
- Print & Save: You can print the Live Image and save it in .jpg format.
- Live Recording: You can record the live screen to your computer. The files will be save to the “C:\SMS\Backup\Live\Server Name”folder.
- You can delete the live camera on the map.
When clicking the right button of the mouse after locating the mouse pointer on the Base Group Icon, the Pop-up Menu will appear and you can add/modify/delete Groups and addDVR servers.
When clicking the right button of the mouse after locating the mouse pointer on a DVR server, you can add/modify/delete DVR server or check the server information.
When clicking the right button of the mouse after locating the mouse pointer on the e-Map Icon, the pop-up menu allows you to add e-Map or load new maps.
Config
The SMS allows to change the local server settings remotely but this function is user password protected.
You can save the current configuration by pressing the Save button and load the saved configuration by pressing the Open button.
You can control most of menus of the remote server. Select the server first by pressing the Server selection button.
It will allow you to open the server GUI menu and to change the menus. These changes can be applied to the local servers. For the server menus, please refer to the included Server Manual into the DVR package.
After changing the details in the sub-menu, press the Save button to save the changes or press the Cancel button to exits from the menu without saving.
To apply these changes to the local servers, press the Setup Servers button.
The default password is 1234 and you can change the password by pressing the Change button.
Keep the password confidential to prevent changes by unauthorized users.
Type the password and press the Enter button.
When double-clicking the Server names on the list, the clicked server will be listed to the right screen. After listing server names that you want to change the configuration, please the Upload button. Then, the changed configuration will be applied to the selected servers byturn. It will allow you to apply same configuration to multiple servers once.
Also, you can save configuration to your PC by pressing the Savebutton after changing the menu or you can load saved configuration from your PC.
When pressing the Save button, the current configuration will besaved to the “C:\Program Files\SMS\Backup\Config”folder.
Software Upgrade
You can upgrade the local servers remotely by using S/W upgrade function on the Configpage of SMS. Press the S/W upgrade button. Then the below screen will be popped up.
Backup
The SMS Backup Screen displays 4 different backup pages and you can back up the recorded images by
4 different backup methods, Direct, Event, Schedule and CD Backup.
Direct Backup
- Press the Server Selection Button and select a Server for Backup.
- When selecting a Server, the Days on the calendar that have recorded video will turn to the Blue Color. Click a Day that you want to back up.
- When selecting a Day, the Time Line that has recorded video willbe turned to the Blue color and you can select the time by moving the selection bar.
- Double-click the channels that you want to back up on the Channel list.That channels will be shown on the Download List.
- Press the Start Download button.
- You can playback the downloaded files by using the Mini Player. Double-click one of the downloaded files on the download list. The Mini Player will be activated.
The downloaded files will be save to the “C:\SMS\Backup\Direct\Server Name\Date”folder.
The Mini Player can playback the downloaded files that have been completed.
Event Backup
This Event Backup means the live event backup from the local server to the client PC. Please select the channels, time and days on the below screen. When pressing the Add Event Backup button, a list will be created to the Download List. Then, press the Start button. The SMS program will be start downloading videos which has events only.
Turn on the image on the event action menu of the local server menu.
This function is very useful when downloading videos that have events for certain time, days.
Schedule Backup
The Schedule Backup has the Timer backup function allowing to start downloading at the assigned
time.
- Press the Server Selection Button and select a Server for Backup.
- Select Channels and Days that you want to back up.
- Set the Begin Time and End Time.
- Set the Download Start Time.
- Press the Add Schedule Backup button.
- The SMS will start downloading at the assigned Download Start Time.
The downloaded files will be saved to the “C:\SMS\Backup\Schedule\Server Name\Date”folder.
CD Backup
The SMS allows you the Command CD Backup to the Remote Server Site. It’s a command to the remote
DVR server from the SMS software and the video will be downloaded to the CD-RW or DVD Combo in the
remote DVR Server.
- Press the Server Selection button and select a server that you want to download to.
- Select Channels.
- Set the Start Date/Time and Finish Date/Time.
- Press the Get List Button and the Download list will be displayed.
- Select the Channels for downloading.
- Press the Start Burning Button.
When the file size is bigger than one CD, you will asked to put another one.