1. Milestone XProtect™ Central 3.6
End-User Product Presentation

2. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

3. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

4. Introduction
Today’s surveillance solutions include a broad array of cameras, sensors and other devices, that need to be coordinated and centrally controlled in order to make the surveillance efficient
In larger installations, integration of distributed local branch systems is required to build an efficient solution
The Video Management Solution often consists of a large number of servers, which in case of a malfunction may cause loss of live video or video recordings
Video surveillance can be a mission critical operation that requires maximum up-time and optimum overview

5. Optimize Your Operation
XProtect Central helps you:
Manage your security operation in an efficient way, even across different locations
Secure maximum availability of the Video Management Solution

6. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

7. Introducing XProtect Central 3.6
XProtect™ Central is an add-on system monitoring and alarm management solution for video surveillance systems based on Milestone XProtect Corporate XProtect Enterprise and XProtect Professional

8. Providing Operational Overview
XProtect Central ensures optimum operation of your surveillance installation by providing consolidated overview of the video monitoring system and related security and control systems.

9. System Architecture XProtect Central Server XProtect Central Client
Connectivity to:
XProtect Corporate Management servers and Recording servers
XProtect Enterprise and Professional Recording servers
Centralized event and alarm logging
XProtect Central Client
Assign servers to monitor, set up multi-level maps and define alarms
Monitoring of operational status
Alarm management
Visual verification using live and recorded video

10. Operational Overview At-the-glance overview
Drillable maps with status propagation
Preview and pop-ups
Integrated control

11. Empowered Operation
Advanced alarm management framework helps operators to manage alarms and incident indicators in a structured way
Customizable severity levels allows operators to focus on the most critical issues
12 different alarm states support the alarm handling and incidents tracking processes
Integral support for alarm/incident reports with direct access to related video recordings
Reassignment and delegation of alarms

12. Open for Integration
System integration plug-ins for alarm and control units:
Integration of detectors and sensors
Integrated control of output devices, such as gates, lights, etc.
Integral part of Central’s map topology

13. Multi-Site Support Consolidated view of multiple and remote sites
Enables delegation and remote management
Seamless support of XProtect Corporate, Enterprise and Professional
Allows System Integrators to offer managed services

14. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

15. XProtect Central Server 3.6
Client/Server based architecture uses HTTP and XML for data communication.
Support for multiple XProtect Corporate Management and Recording servers can be distributed across different sites.
Support for multiple XProtect Enterprise Master and Slave servers in several remote locations.
Supports the same video encodings as the XProtect recording servers, including H.264
Central logging of incoming alarms and system information in MS SQL Server Express database.
The Central Server runs as a Windows Service.

16. Interface and Navigation Features
Graphical overview of operational status and alarms from XProtect Corporate and Enterprise servers, network cameras, and external devices like PIR and access control units.
Easy navigation using a map-based, hierarchical structure with hyperlinks to other maps displaying servers, cameras and devices. Optional tree view available for accessing the same entities.
Visible/audible alarm and status indications for maps, servers, cameras and devices give instant notification of active incidents.

17. XProtect Central Client 3.6
Show, hide and scale interface elements to match operator requirements for assigned tasks.

18. Alarm Management 1(2)
Detailed alarm overview with navigation tree offering filtering by entity, state or priority including incident counters for each state and priority.
Show and filter incoming alarms on time period, alarm source, ownership, priority and alarm state.
12 alarm states available: New, Open, Assigned, In progress, Processed, Resolved, Reject, Wait, On hold, Ignore, Closed and Auto Closed.
6 user-defined alarm priorities with customizable priority names and colors allow the organization to work with its own terminology and color scheme.

19. Alarm Management 2(2)
Incident management includes reassignment to other operators, change of state for one/multiple/all alarms, change of alarm priority, entering incident-specific log information and suppression of alarms (snooze).
Preview, view live or play back recorded video from one or several cameras at alarms.
Auto close alarms on corresponding event, e.g. motion stopped.
Set bookmarks in video for use in Alarm details and corresponding printed incident reports.
Generate audit trail reports including bookmarked images by incident.

20. Operations Management
Enable and disable monitoring of specific servers to avoid false alarms from equipment that is down for longtime maintenance.
Acknowledge or suppress operational status messages for either a pre-defined period of time or for a fixed time, e.g. on scheduled maintenance or by operator shift.
Multiple operators are able to share the alarm workload from the system.

21. System Configuration 1(3)
Enter DNS names or IP addresses for server connectivity.
Authenticate as Microsoft Active Directory accounts to access XProtect Corporate , Enterprise and Professional servers.
Log in to XProtect Enterprise and Professional servers using built-in accounts.
Create multi-level maps with servers, cameras and external objects.
Trigger alarms by events from servers, cameras or external devices and pre-assign them with priority, operator, optional display of live video on remote monitor and link to related cameras.
Supported events*: Archive Disk Available, Archive Failure, Archive Move Failure, Database being repaired, Camera or Server Disabled/Enabled, External Event, Motion Detected/Ended, Camera or Server Not Responding/Responding and Running Out of Disk Space, Output Activated/Deactivated, Setting Changed, Setting Changed Error
*) Actual list of events depends on version of XProtect platform.

22. System Configuration 2(3)
Import Microsoft Active Directory users and groups for operator authentication and authorization.
Define role-based groups and assign operators to these to achieve different access rights by type or camera.
Enhanced event diagnostics offer tracing and verification of the alarm configuration by optionally saving all incoming events from XProtect servers in a log file on the XProtect Central Server.
Create navigation section folders to group Alarm definitions, Alarm time profiles and Servers in a hierarchical structure.
Use Time profiles for engaging Alarm definitions within predefined time schedules as an alternative to those creating alarms around the clock.

23. System Configuration 3(3)
Alarm cleanup changes state for all alarms under a specific Alarm definition, or permanently delete them from the database – reduces the number of false alarms in connection with badly adjusted motion detection.
Plug-in support for third-party systems enables gates, access control units and other external entities to appear in XProtect Central for alarm management and operation.
Auto-detection of video destination provides seamless support for XProtect Matrix Monitor and XProtect Smart Client with Matrix plug-in.
Trigger Custom events from XProtect Central to feedback rule engagement in the XProtect Corporate Server.
Start video previewing a number of seconds before the triggering event occurred. This allows the operator to see what happened right up to the event.

24. Key Benefits
Increased operation efficiency and quality, especially of integrated and larger surveillance installations
Empowerment of surveillance operators
Improves the performance and availability of the Video Management System
Reduced system management cost of large and multisite systems

25. Key Features
Consolidated graphical overview of operational status and alarms
Hierarchical multi-level maps for easy overview and navigate to specific incident’s locations
Instant access and control of camera devices for visual verification of alarms
Advanced alarm framework enables structured and prioritized management of alarms and incidents
Open solution which enables integration of a broad set of external systems, devices and sensors
Supports XProtect Corporate, Enterprise and Professional, and any combination of theses, including multisite configurations

26. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

27. System Requirements Central Server
HW Platform:
Minimum 2 GHz CPU, RAM 512 MB (1 GB or higher recommended on Microsoft® Windows Vista™)
OS:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32 bit or 64 bit*) and Windows Server 2003 (32 bit or 64 bit*), Windows Vista Business (32 bit or 64 bit*), Windows Vista Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit*) and Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit or 64 bit*)
Software:
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework and Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.1 or newer
* Running as a 32 bit service/application.

28. System Requirements Central Client
HW Platform:
Minimum 2 GHz CPU, RAM 1 GB (2 GB or higher recommended on Microsoft® Windows Vista™)
Graphics Card:
AGP or PCI-Express, minimum 1024 x 768 (1280 x 1024 recommended), 16 bit colors
OS:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32 bit or 64 bit*) and Windows Server 2003 (32 bit or 64 bit*), Windows Vista Business (32 bit or 64 bit*), Windows Vista Enterprise (32 bit or 64 bit*) and Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit or 64 bit*)
Software:
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework and DirectX 9.0 or newer
* Running as a 32 bit service/application.

29. Installation XProtect Central Server XProtect Central Client
Follow the online instructions and use the Software License Code. This will install:
MS SQL server Express
XProtect Central Server Service
XProtect Central Client
Follow the online instructions which will install:

30. System Setup
Start the XProtect Central Client and logon to the XProtect Central Server.
Specify the Central License Key (ELK) that includes the number of connections the XProtect Central Server can establish to different XProtect Enterprise servers.
Define the XProtect Corporate and Enterprise servers you want to monitor.
Define XProtect Central users and their roles.
Define alarms which are based on events registered on XProtect Corporate and Enterprise installations.
Create maps which are visual representation of XProtect Corporate and Enterprise installations.
Define other settings, such as logging settings and video destinations (Matrix) as required.
Distribute XProtect Central Clients to operators.

31. Installation and Setup …
Your XProtect Central is now ready for operation!

32. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

33. Licensing Central Server Connection Central Client
A base server license is mandatory to install the product
Each Central Server installation requires its own Software License Code (SLC).
Connection
To monitor an XProtect Corporate, Enterprise or Professional server a connection license is required
One connection license per monitored XProtect Corporate/Enterprise/Professional server is needed
The connection licenses are called Engine License Key (ELK)
Central Client
The client is free of charge and can be installed and used on any number of computers

34. License Packages Base Server Connections 1 Central Server
1 Central Connection
n Central Clients
Connections
Additional Central Connections can be purchased in any numbers
The price is per connection

35. Product Presentation Introduction Solution overview Product features
Installation and setup
Licensing and packages
Summary

36. Key Benefits
Increased operation efficiency and quality, especially for larger surveillance installations
Empowerment of surveillance operators
Improves the performance and availability of the Video Management System
Reduced system management cost of large and multisite systems

37. Key Features
Consolidated graphical overview of operational status and alarms
Hierarchical multi-level maps for easy overview and navigate to specific incident’s locations
Instant access and control of camera devices for visual verification of alarms
Advanced alarm framework enables structured and prioritized management of alarms and incidents
Open solution which enables integration of a broad set of external systems, devices and sensors
Supports XProtect Corporate, Enterprise and Professional, and any combination of theses, including multisite configurations