Video Alarm Classes (Video Alarm Recipient) view

The Video Alarm Recipient is a special class that is used to specify properties related to routing alarms to a video surveillance system. The video alarm recipient is similar to other alarm recipients except that the alarm turns on video monitoring.
Figure 317.   Video Alarm Recipient view
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This view opens when you click the Video Alarm Classes submenu under the System Setup > Alarm Setup menu.

For related video information refer to the “Video Installation” chapter in the Niagara Enterprise Security Installation and Maintenance Guide.

Properties

In addition to the standard properties (Status and Fault Cause), these properties support an video alarm recipients.

Property Value Description
Time Range Start Time, End Time
Specify when during the day (start and stop times) this recipient receives alarms.
Days of Week check boxes
Specifies the days of the week to include.
Transitions (general) drop-down list
Selects which alarm transitions to display in the console. Only those transitions selected display although the station saves all transitions in alarm history.

Options are: toOffnormal, toFault, toNormal, toAlert

Route Acks true (default) or false
Enables (true) and disables (false) the routing of alarm acknowledgements to the recipient. The framework does not route trap (event notification) acknowledgements if you select false.
Default Time Range drop-down list and additional properties Suggests a variety of pre-defined time ranges.
Preset on Normal true (default) or false Moves the camera to a preset position when a video alarm returns to normal (true) or leaves the camera at the current position (false) .