General settings

Video

Setting Description

Time based video playback restriction applied at

This setting determines how long (in minutes) after video is recorded that a user can view the video in the VMS China Client.

Video storage

Setting Description

Limit the number of days video is stored

This setting determines whether VMS China deletes video older than the set number of days.

Keep metadata longer

This setting determines whether VMS China retains metadata from video for the set number of days after it deletes the video.

Video decorations

Setting Description

Frame rate stats

This setting determines whether the frame rate (in frames per second) appears in video.

Frame rate variance

This setting determines whether the frame rate variance decoration appears in the video. The frame rate variance decorations show how much the frame rate changes over the last 50 frames.

Overlay camera name on video

This setting determines whether the camera name appears in video.

Overlay camera ID on video

This setting determines whether the camera ID appears in video.

Overlay logo on video

This setting determines whether a custom logo appears in video.

Decoration Text Color

This setting determines the color of the text for decorations.

Background sensitive

This setting determines whether the text color for decorations automatically adjusts to the colors in the video to provide more contrast.

Decoration Text Background

This setting determines the color of the background for decoration text.

Transparency

This setting determines the transparency of the background for decoration text.

Event log

Setting Description

Enable Event Log

This setting determines whether VMS China logs events.

Never archive logs

This setting prevents VMS China from archiving event logs.

Archive logs weekly

This setting causes VMS China to archive event logs every week.

Event archive retention

This setting determines how long (in days) VMS China retains archived event logs.

SNMP

Setting Description

Enable SNMP

The setting determines whether SNMP is enabled.

Data polling rate

This setting determines how often (in seconds) the SNMP agent polls VMS China for data.

Footage size polling rate

This setting determines how often (in seconds) the SNMP agent polls VMS China for the size of video footage.

Web Client

Setting Description

Randomly redirect master server logins to other available servers in the farm

This setting determines if the master VMS China Server redirects users to other servers in the server farm. This provides load balancing for the Web Client.

Refresh rate

This setting determines how often the Web Client updates information from VMS China.

Use an ICE Server

This setting determines if you are using an ICE server with the Web Client.

Type

This setting determines what type of an ICE Server you are using, STUN or TURN.

URL

This setting is the URL of the ICE Server.

Username

This setting is the user name for the ICE Server.

Password

This setting is the password for the ICE Server.

SMTP

Setting Description

SMTP server

This setting is the URL of the SMTP server.

Use Secure Sockets Layer

This setting determines whether VMS China uses SSL for communication with the SMTP server.

Sender email account

This setting defines the email account that VMS China uses to send email.

SMTP server requires authentication

This setting determines whether the SMTP requires authentication.

Username

This setting is the user name that VMS China uses to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Password

This setting is the password that VMS China uses to authenticate with the SMTP server.

Send a test email to address

This setting allows you to test the SMTP settings. Type an email address and click Send Test to send a test email.

User Connections

Setting Description

Do not allow more than one concurrent connection per user

This setting determines if users can log in to more than one server configuration interface concurrently per server farm.

Automatically log out inactive Server Configuration users

This setting determines if VMS China automatically logs users out of the server configuration interface after a period of inactivity.

Minutes of Inactivity

This setting determines the timeout period for the server configuration interface.

Farm Location

Setting Description

GPS Latitude

This is the latitudinal coordinate of the VMS China server farm.

GPS Longitude

This is the longitudinal coordinate of the VMS China server farm.

Mobile Connections

Setting Description

SSL Certificate

This setting displays the SSL certificate that VMS China uses to communicate with mobile devices.

Mobile Port

This setting determines the port that VMS China uses to communicate with mobile devices.

Video Proxy Port

This setting determines the port that VMS China uses for sending video to and retrieving video from mobile devices.

Enable iOS Notifications

This setting determines whether push notifications are enabled for iOS devices.