Axis Video Network tab

This view configures an Axis Video Network, which is primarily used for reader devices.

Figure 212. Axis Video Network tab

You access this tab from the main menu by clicking Controller Setup > Remote Devices > Remote Drivers followed by double-clicking the Axis Video Network row in the table.

Properties

In addition to the common Status, Enabled, Fault Cause and Health properties, this tab includes these properties.

Property	Value	Description
Alarm Source Info	additional properties	Contains a set of properties for configuring and routing alarms when this component is the alarm source.
Monitor	additional properties	Configures ping properties. Refer to Monitor properties.
Tuning Policies	additional properties	Defines the assigned tuning policy. Refer to
Fox Video Stream Preferred	`true` or `false` (default)	Selects or declines the use of Fox streaming.
Discovery Preference, Do Not Ask Again	`true` or `false` (default)	`true` uses the fox connection to route video output from the camera to the station. `false` disables this feature.
Discovery Preference, Timeout	hours, minutes, seconds
Use Tls	`true` (default) or `false`	Configures secure communication between the station and network devices. By default, the system uses TLS secure communication. You would change this network property to `false` only if a legacy device (camera) cannot support TLS. If some devices on your network support TLS and others do not, you may add two networks of the same type: one for the secure devices, and the other for those that do not support security. For example, this works for an Axis network.
Tcp Ip Port	number (defaults to 9797)	Identifies the network port. If you have more than one Axis network in your system, each network requires its own unique port. As a best practice, consider using the default port (9797) for a legacy network with cameras that to not support security. When you create a second network for the camera(s) that support security, change this value to 9798.

Monitor properties

Property	Value	Description
Ping Enabled	`true` (default) or `false`	Controls the monitor ping. If true a ping occurs for each device under the network, as needed If false device status pings do not occur. Moreover, device statuses cannot change from what existed when this property was last true It is recommended you leave Ping Enabled as true in almost all cases.
Ping Frequency	hours:minutes:seconds	Specifies the interval between periodic pings of all devices. Typical default value is every 5 minutes (05m 00s), you can adjust differently if needed.
Alarm On Failure	`true` (default) or `false`	Controls the recording of ping failure alarms. If `true`, the system records an alarm in the station’s AlarmHistory upon each ping-detected device event (“down” or subsequent “up”). If `false`, the system ignores and does not record device “down” and “up” events in the station’s AlarmHistory.
Startup Alarm Delay	hours:minutes:seconds	Specifies the period a station must wait after restarting before device “down” or “up” alarms are generated. Applies only if the Monitor’s property Alarm On Failure is true.

Axis Network Tuning Policy

During polling, the system uses the network driver’s tuning policy to evaluate both write requests and the acceptability (freshness) of read requests.

Property	Value	Description
Min Write Time	hours minutes seconds	Defines the minimum amount of time allowed between writes to a proxy point. Provides a method to throttle rapidly-changing values so that only the last value is written. A value of zero (the default) disables this property causing all value changes to attempt to write.
Max Write Time	hours minutes seconds	In case nothing else has triggered a write to a proxy point, defines the maximum amount of time the system waits before rewriting the value. A value of zero (the default) disables this property preventing timed rewrites.
Stale Time	hours minutes seconds; defaults to 0 (zero)	Defines the period of time after without a successful read (indicated by a read status of {ok}), after which a proxy point’s value becomes stale. The default value (zero) disables the stale timer causing points to become stale immediately when unsubscribed.