Canon VBCollector, User Manual

Page 1: ...VBCollector User s Manual E ENGLISH ...

Page 2: ...t laws or without the consent of the owner unless intended for personal use only Notes 1 The unauthorized transfer of all or any part of the contents of this Manual is forbidden 2 The contents of this Manual are subject to change without notice 3 Every effort has been made to ensure that this Manual is flawless However if you find any oversights please let us know 4 Notwithstanding the above Canon...

Page 3: ...ollector 4 Configuring and Operating the VBCollector 6 Starting Up VBCollector 6 Registering a Server 6 Registering Tasks 9 Executing and Canceling Tasks 11 Details Displayed on the Task View 13 Starting Stopping the Service 14 Automatic Downloading by Notification 14 Viewing Recorded Images 16 Viewing Logs 20 Setting Download Capacity 23 2 ...

Page 4: ...ded by the Sever based on inputs from an external device motion detection or schedules VBCollector accesses the Sever at specific times expressed in units such as dates weeks or months and then downloads the recorded pictures Since the recorded pictures are saved one after another in the PC on which VBCollector is installed pictures can still be securely saved when the allowable limit on the numbe...

Page 5: ... you configure your system to record pictures per second with servers and perform the maximum of 16 tasks P 11 at the same time it is recommended that you use a desktop PC with Pentium 4 2 2 GHz and 512MB RAM or greater It is recommended that you configure to collect up to 10 000 still pictures day per a camera server It the total amount of still pictures exceeds this value it may take several min...

Page 6: ...ings etc Click Finish to complete the installation 6 When installation is complete VBCollector Task View is added to the Start menu 5 4 Specify the menu name to be registered in the Program menu of the Start button then click Next 3 Specify the target directory for the installation and click Next If you have no special directory preference just click Next ...

Page 7: ... To use VBCollector server from which the VBCollector downloads pictures must be registered Registering a Server To Add a New Server To add a server choose Add from the Server menu or click Add on the Server List dialog box that appeared when Edit from the Server menu was selected 1 Adding a server Add a new server to which VBCollector will download pictures 6 Configuring and Operating the VBColle...

Page 8: ...istrator account registered in the server root Administrator Password Enter the administrator password registered in the server The default setting is VB C50i Settings Page URL Enter the Path to the setting title page set in the server admin Proxy Use Proxy Server Select if connecting through a proxy server Host Name Specify a host name or IP address for the proxy server Port Enter a port number f...

Page 9: ...y an account for downloading under Details in the option dialog 3 Enter your user name and password 4 Click OK Specify an account from which you can log on to the download destination machine Set the folder access privileges so that read and write operations can be performed from the download execution account to the folder in which VBCollector is installed the default setting is C ProgramFiles Ca...

Page 10: ...t To delete a registered server click Delete 1 2 As with the procedure for adding servers change all desired items and click OK c Note Downloaded images are not deleted when a server is deleted To delete downloaded images first follow the procedure in Deleting Images P 19 and then delete the server Registering Tasks To Add a New Task To add a task choose New Task from the Task menu 1 Adding a task...

Page 11: ...ay of the month Set this day between 1 and 31 Or a day of the week for a certain week of the month can also be specified Details Repeat task Select this checkbox to repeat the task at set intervals Images are downloaded repeatedly at the specified intervals from the Start Time to the End Time specified in the schedule If this checkbox is left unselected images are downloaded once at the Start Time...

Page 12: ...te now from the Task menu Executing and Canceling Tasks c Note Up to 16 tasks can be executed by VBCollector simultaneously Please be sure not to load a schedule with 17 or more tasks to be executed VBCollector is also not able to execute multiple tasks simultaneously to the same server Please take care to ensure that multiple tasks are not executed to the same server by taking such measures as le...

Page 13: ...status and click Close to close the dialog box If you want to cancel the download click Abort Status Shows the progress of download Target Server Shows the connection status with the server Host Name Shows the host name of image download server set in the server information P 7 Image Directory Shows the name of the folder set in the server information P 7 where any downloaded image is to be saved ...

Page 14: ... currently scheduled for execution Settings damaged Inconsistencies have occurred in this task s settings and the task will not be executed Server Name The server names that were specified at Task Settings are displayed here Next Run Time The date and time when the task is to be executed next is displayed here Last Result The last results achieved by the task and the task end time are displayed he...

Page 15: ...city notification sent from the server when available space on the server falls below the value set and automatically downloads images to a specified PC thereby increasing the available space on the server Choose Automatic Download by Notification in the Tools menu 2 Perform the settings relating to notification 1 Server List Displays a list of the servers from which the images can be downloaded T...

Page 16: ...the Server Setting nor the Notification Settings is available Reception Port No Specifies the TCP port number which will receive the low server capacity warning message from the server The default is 1906 Apply button Saves a change to the reception port number in the registry If you make a change a dialog box is displayed Click Yes and the transmission port of each server is also changed Server S...

Page 17: ...ost name or the HTTP port number has not been entered correctly or in the case of servers other than the VB C50i R which support the low server capacity notification function If Host is not Other or Port is not Reception Port No in the selected server a message asking you to confirm whether it is okay to change the setting values will be displayed Click Yes and a dialog box appears If the server t...

Page 18: ...ser starts up and thumbnail images of the selected date are displayed in 100 image units on the page Click on the image to be viewed it is displayed in the original saved dimensions 17 3 When the confirmation dialog box appears click OK To View Animation 1 Animate images Downloaded images can be selected using the server name and date to be animated consecutive display The images can also be shown...

Page 19: ...l image data Image Display area Shows any image of the selected recording date If the image size is greater than the display area the image display position can be moved with scroll bar Animation Images can consecutively be displayed Top button Shows the original image Prev button Shows the previous image Play Pause button Plays pauses the animation Next button Shows the next image Last button Sho...

Page 20: ...utton If any image size is greater than the display area you can move the image display position Click Move to position the mouse cursor on the image changes the cursor into Move while pressing the left mouse button on the image The image display position will be moved Change dialog size As dialog size large or normal size is available and is automatically selected depending on the initial image s...

Page 21: ...displayed here Task The name of the task that output the log is displayed here Server The name of the server to which the task performs downloads is displayed here Message The log s message is displayed here VBCollector outputs logs concerning the execution of tasks To view a log choose Display Log from the Tools menu 20 To Make Settings Choose Filter from the View menu 1 Displaying logs according...

Page 22: ...t the error level to be displayed Specify Code Select if only logs with the corresponding identification code are to be displayed then enter the identification code Date Time Filters logs by output date and time Specify Start Date Time When this item is selected and a date and time is entered logs generated after the specified start date and time are displayed Specify End Date Time When this item ...

Page 23: ...e Searching complete will be displayed to terminate searching If the relevant string is not found the message The search item was not found will be displayed to quit searching 3 To Select Log Files Choose Open from File menu The initial log file of VBCollector is saved as vbrpd log file in the SYSTEM folder within the VBCollector installed directory When the file exceeds the size of 10 MB it will ...

Page 24: ...0 Specify an account for downloading When it is checked the execution account of download can be specified Set it when you want to download any image on the shared folder on the network from the server P 8 Windows 2000 XP only Once selected enter you user name and password 23 To Make Settings Choose Options from the Tools menu In order to perform downloads based on a task schedule you can set the ...

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