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In the Security Management System application, click the Install tab and then click the Digital Video button.
In the dialog box that appears, select 3VR Video Recorder and then click the New button.
In the dialog box that appears, enter the values that identify the VMS Server.
The parameters needed for the integration are: IP Address, Username, Password, and Connection Timeout.
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The Connection Timeout value is used to determine when to stop waiting for a connection with the 3VR VMS Server. A longer timeout value allows for remote connections to wait longer for the connection to the VMS Server to succeed. |
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Run the 3VR.EventConfiguration.exe application to set up the mapping. You can also use this application later to change/edit the mappings.
The mapping screen looks like the example shown. The main table shows the existing mappings.
Before adding mappings, you need to set up the connection to the Symmetry system and to the 3VR appliances of interest.
Click the Symmetry button to connect to the desired Symmetry system.
Click the 3VR Appliances button to set up the necessary parameters for the 3VR appliances of interest.
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Users need credentials in order to query the Symmetry system for events and devices. Different credentials provide access to different devices. In many cases, just one username/password combination is enough. If not, enter as many credentials as you need. |
Setting Up Connections to 3VR Appliances
The next step is to add 3VR appliances. For this, you need to know each appliance’s IP address and credentials for accessing the appliance web service (you need to enable web services on the appliance).
Click the 3VR Appliances button. The following dialog box appears:
Click the Add or Edit buttons to enter or change connection info.
Setting up Mappings
You need to map a Symmetry device type to a 3VR appliance channel. 3VR VMS currently supports these Symmetry device types: Reader, Floor, Intrusion Area, and Trigger Command.
Click the Add or Edit button in the main screen.
Use the drop-down menus to generate a mapping. You can add as many mappings as you wish.
When done, click the Save button. This activates the current mappings. They will be used for sending Symmetry events to 3VR appliances.
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Setting Up Generic Parameters
Click the Settings button in the main dialog box. The Edit Settings dialog box appears. The settings below apply globally.
Event Start Time Delta – This is the number of seconds that will be recorded before the Symmetry event.
Event End Time Delta – This is the number of seconds that will be recorded after the Symmetry event.
Search Start Time Delta – This is the number of seconds before the event time that the system will search for image-comparison images.
Search End Time Delta – This is the number of seconds after the event time hat the system will search for image comparison images.
Polling Period – The 3VR event adapter needs to poll the Symmetry web service for events. This parameter sets how often this polling happens. The shorter the period, the quicker events are reported, but at the cost of extra network traffic.
Using 3VR Camera Alarms
Alerts configured in 3VR OpCenter, such as a watched face or a motion alarm, generate Symmetry device alarms for the 3VR cameras.
Setting up 3VR Camera Alarms in Symmetry
You can enable or disable camera alarms individually for each camera. To do this, use the Symmetry Install tab. The alarms currently supported are Motion, Analytic (which correspond to Face alarms in the 3VR VMS), and Video Loss.
If you need recorded video related to an alarm, please make sure to enable recording in 3VR System Manager (select either the Continuous or Demand setting).
Viewing 3VR Camera Alarms in Symmetry
You can view 3VR camera alarms the same way as any other Symmetry alarm and use them to trigger commands.
The example shown demonstrates how to use the Activity view from the Home tab:
Appendix A
Logging and Trouble Shooting
The 3VR integration components generate log data that you can use for troubleshooting and for collecting historical data. The log files are text files that you can open with a text editor.
All log files are located in the folder : %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\3VR\Symmetry
On Windows 7, the files are in: C:\ProgramData\3VR\Symmetry
This folder contains two log files: VideoLog.txt and EventLog.txt. The first file logs the Video Integration information and the second the Event Integration information.
Each log file has an optional configuration file, which has the same name as the log file, but whose name contains the “.config” extension. Only the first line of the configuration file is relevant and editable with a text editor; the other lines are for documentation purposes only. A sample of a .config file is shown below:
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You can edit the first line to replace Error with Info or some other desired logging level. The higher the level, the more information
is logged. For example, Warning logs more info. than Error.
You can add the word Console to activate the console to display log messages from other components that log to stdout. Changes
take effect when you restart the application or the service using it.