NETAVIS Observer 4.6 User Manual (October 2015)
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Contents
1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 6
1.1 The Observer documentation set ........................................................................................................... 6
1.2 What is new with this release................................................................................................................... 6
1.3 Observer data security .............................................................................................................................. 7
1.4 Video streaming methods and compression ....................................................................................... 7
2 Observer clients on multiple platforms ............................................................... 11
2.1 Introduction to Observer clients .......................................................................................................... 11
2.2 Starting the Observer client from a desktop web browser............................................................. 12
2.3 Working with the installed Observer client ........................................................................................ 16
2.4 Client multi-window and multi-screen operation............................................................................ 20
2.5 Client preferences ................................................................................................................................... 22
2.6 Mobile Observer clients ......................................................................................................................... 24
2.7 Observer Transcoding™ for low-bandwidth client-server connections (ABS) ........................... 27
2.8 Exiting the client ...................................................................................................................................... 28
3 Guidelines for setting up a new system with Observer .......................................... 29
3.1 Guidelines for setting up cameras ....................................................................................................... 29
3.2 Guidelines for setting up users ............................................................................................................. 30
3.3 Guidelines for setting up views ............................................................................................................ 30
4 Setting up cameras .......................................................................................... 31
4.1 Preparations ............................................................................................................................................. 31
4.2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties ........................................................................ 31
4.3 Setting up the camera recording archive........................................................................................... 38
4.4 Checking the Camera status ................................................................................................................. 39
4.5 Optional: Configuring video analytics (iCAT) .................................................................................... 40
4.6 Defining brightness, contrast, and saturation .................................................................................. 40
4.7 Working with camera groups ................................................................................................................ 41
4.8 Changing the port mapping of analog cameras............................................................................... 42
5 Managing users ................................................................................................ 43
5.1 Creating a new user account ................................................................................................................ 43
5.2 Setting general user privileges ............................................................................................................. 45
5.3 Setting camera access rights ................................................................................................................ 48
5.4 Working with user groups ...................................................................................................................... 50
5.5 Defining Online Monitor views for a new user ................................................................................... 50
5.6 Information about logged-in users ..................................................................................................... 50
5.7 Changing the password ......................................................................................................................... 50
5.8 Working with Active Directory and LDAP users ................................................................................. 51
6 Using the Online Monitor .................................................................................. 52
6.1 Creating a new view ................................................................................................................................ 52
6.2 Selecting cameras ................................................................................................................................... 53
6.3 Navigating in the Online Monitor ......................................................................................................... 54
6.4 Modifying view port settings ................................................................................................................. 55
6.5 Zooming in a view port and in archive recordings ........................................................................... 58
