1. CMS Central
Version 1.0
Made by Eden Sun
Jan 2010

2. Introduction What is CMS Central?
CMS Central is a dispatch server that bridges between DVRs / IP Cameras and CMS Clients.
CMS Central serves as an agent that gathers data from its connected DVRs / IP Cameras and distributes to CMS Clients.
EX: Event Function (LAN Only) – CMS Central receives event/alive signals from DVRs / IP Camera and transfer to connected CMS Clients

3. Introduction Why is CMS Central necessary?
CMS Central reduces the loading of DVRs / IP Cameras because CMS Clients connect to CMS Central instead.
CMS Clients can directly playback from database of CMS Central, which reduces network occupancy of DVRs/IP Cameras.

4. System Diagram

5. CMS Central Main Window
Schedule Record 1
Connect All Sites 2 6
Site Tree 3
Setting 4
Lock
CMS Client Login Info. 5 7
System Log Data

6. Settings

7. Overview Click on the <Setting> button
Sites Edit: Setup and management of connection groups and sites.
Login Setting: Setup login options of CMS Central.
Users Edit: Setup and management of login user accounts.
Client Setting: Setup and management of CMS Clients.
Event: Setup event notifications from DVR sites.
File Path: Setup directory of recorded videos.

8. Sites Edit
Click on the <Setting> button and select the <Sites Edit> tab
CMS Central supports up to 10 groups, and at most 64 sites.

9. Login Setting
Click on the <Setting> button and select the <Login Setting> tab
Only accounts under Admin group have the privilege to change the settings in <Login Setting>
The username and password is used for auto login.
The <Verify> button helps check if the username and password are correct.

10. Users Edit
Click on the <Setting> button and select the <Users Edit> tab
Only accounts under Admin group have the privilege to change the settings in <Users Edit>

11. Client Setting
Click on the <Setting> button and select the <Client Setting> tab
Users can specify white and black lists of CMS Clients’ IP addresses, connect port, and maximum connections of CMS Clients.
In addition, users can choose to save system log data in selected folder.

12. Event
Click on the <Setting> button and select the <Event> tab
Alert Notification: CMS Central will transfer the alert signals to CMS Clients once it receives the alert signals from DVR
The Alert Notification options are OFF, Event, Alive, and Both.
The Alert Interval value range is from 10 seconds to 120 seconds

13. File Path
Click on the <Setting> button and select the <File Path> tab
The threshold value cannot be less than 500MB by size or 2% by percentage.
The number of selectable folders equals to the number of HDDs the PC connects to, excluding HDDs with capacity less than 1GB

14. Export & Import Config.
The configuration file will be a zip file.

15. Operation of CMS Central

16. Start up
Groups and Sites Setup
Click on the <Setting> button

17. Connect Two ways to connect
Click on the <Connect> button to connect all sites
Right click on the site in the site tree and select <ReConnect>

18. Record
Instant Record
Right click on the site in the site tree and select <Start Recording> to start recording and <Stop Recording> to stop recording.
If the time difference between CMS Central and the recording site is more than 1 day, a warning message will be displayed.

19. Record (Conti.) Schedule Record
Click on the <Record> button for schedule record window
Recording type will be OFF, NORMAL AND EVENT, EVENT ONLY

20. Talk Function
Check the box in CMS Client Login Info. area for the communication between CMS Client and CMS Central.

21. Thank you for your time