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ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Legal Notice Disclaimer The information contained in this document is intended for general information purposes. ACTi Corporation shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages arising from the furnishing, performance, or use of this manual. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Copyright Copyright © 2003-2013 ACTi Corporation All Rights Reserved.
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ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual About This Manual Target Audience This manual is intended for System Administrators who are responsible for installing and setting up ENR-1000 surveillance system. The reader is expected to know the fundamentals of IP surveillance system integration and to own the administrative privileges to achieve all the tasks. You may also check the product page http://www.acti.com/ENR1000 for updates and documents.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Table of Contents 1 Legal Notice 2 Disclaimer 2 Copyright 2 Trademarks ............................................................................................ 2 Regulatory Compliance Information .................................................... 3 2 About This Manual 4 Target Audience .................................................................................... 4 Technical Support .....................................................................
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual 6 Installation 14 Prepare the Devices ............................................................................. 14 Cameras ...................................................................................... 14 Monitor ......................................................................................... 15 USB mouse & Keyboard .............................................................. 15 USB Mass Storage Device .........................................
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Delete Cameras ........................................................................... 33 Change Camera Settings ............................................................ 33 Configure PTZ preset points........................................................ 34 Network Settings................................................................................. 36 Configure LAN1 Settings .............................................................
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Introduction Product Overview ACTi ENR-1000 (hereafter referred to as ENR) is a compact, delicate and reliable 2-bay 4-channel standalone NVR for small-medium sized IP video surveillance system. It features a stable embedded Linux operation system and capabilities of supporting mega-pixel resolution H.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Remote Client PC Requirements ENR itself is a self-contained unit. The table below provides basic guidelines only for selecting proper hardware for the remote PC client. PC Spec (*1) CPU Processor Minimum Requirements Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66 GHz RAM Network Operation System 4GB Ethernet (1000 Base-T recommended) Windows 7 ( all versions) (*2) Display Resolution Browser 1080p Internet Explorer 9.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Get Started What’s in the Box This product package includes the following items: 2 3 1 Quick Installation Guide 5 AC Power Adapter 6 4 Disk Screws Adapter Converter Set ENR-1000 Item Description 1 ENR-1000 network video recorder x 1 2 Printed quick installation guide x 1 3 12V AC Power Adapter x1 4 Hard disk screws x 8 5 Adapter converter set x 1 This unit contains three types of adapter plugs – UK type, US type and Europe type.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual At A Glance Front Panel Power Button USB 2.0 Ports Reset Button LED Indicators Rear Panel LAN 2 Power Connector HDMI Output 11 LAN 1 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Power Button & Reset Button You can turn on/turn off the device with Power Button; with Reset Button, you may restore the device to factory default settings. Turn On the Device Press down the Power Button and release, the Power LED will light up and turn solid blue. Turn Off the Device As the device is powered on, the Power LED and System LED are both lit, and the Power Button is in pressed state. To turn ENR off, please do the following: 1.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Reset to Factory Default By resetting this device, all your system settings will return to factory default, while the previous recording files and system logs are still kept on storage disks. It is strongly recommended that you back up previous settings by Backup function before resetting to factory default. 1. To begin, please turn off the device first. 2.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Installation The installation procedures may vary depending on your site conditions. The procedures provided in this manual are based on an example condition consisting of (1) local network, (2) an ENR unit, (3) ACTi network cameras, (4) a POE network switch and (5) necessary peripherals. Prepare the Devices Before starting connecting all the devices together, please read the instructions below to make sure your devices are ready for ENR system.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Monitor The monitor should supports HDMI port and 1080p full HD resolution display. USB mouse & Keyboard Please use a USB mouse or keyboard with a cable. USB Mass Storage Device The USB mass storage device is required for system backup / system log export / snapshot / video export. ENR supports all FAT/FAT32/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4/NTFS file systems. Hard Disks For system log and recording, you should install at least ONE certified 3.5-inch SATA hard disk.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Install the Hard Disks This system requires at least one hard disk to store video recordings, system log and firmware image when upgrading system. Please follow the instructions below to install your hard disks in correct order to make sure the physical disk locations accord with the Disk ID shown in by ENR server’s Storage Device List. Step 1 Remove the Case Cover Remove the four front panel screws, and then remove the three back panel screws.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Lock Disk SATA-2 using disk screws in this sequence: ABCD Step 3 Install Disk SATA-1 Repeat Step1~Step3 to install Disk SATA-1 to the upper bay. Remember to connect Disk SATA-1 with Disk SATA-1 SATA data cable 1 shown in the illustration in Step 2 Disk SATA-2 Step 4 Install the Case Cover Back Install the case in reverse order of removal step (see Step 2), slide the case cover back until it clicks. Lock the back panel and then front panel with its screws.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Network Connection Architecture When connecting ENR with your network, please make sure you plug the network cable into the right port. LAN 2 Port (WAN Port) LAN 1 Port (Camera Port) Default: Dynamic /192.168.1.10 Default: 192.168.0.10 LAN 1 Port LAN 1 port is the default camera port for a typical local network. Via this port, the DHCP server built in ENR automatically assigns IP addresses to network cameras once they are connected.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual LAN 2 Port LAN2 port is a typical Ethernet port. You will have to use this port to connect with a different network segment when your system requires (1) the connection with a remote PC client or network camera, (2) the use of event-triggered Email service via external SMTP server (3) the use of date/time synchronization with external NTP server.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Connect the Devices Follow the procedures to connect the devices. These devices are supposed to get connected in the sequence shown below. 1 5 2 6 4 3 1. Plug the power adapter into ENR and electricity outlet. 2. Connect the HDMI monitor. 3. Connect the USB mouse, USB keyboard or USB Mass storage device. 4. Press down Power Button. The power status LED will turn solid blue. 5. Attach the network cables to ENR LAN Port(s) 6.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Quick Setup By the first time you log in to ENR, the Setup Wizard with bring you through the initial setup process. Step 1: Log in to ENR After the device starts, you will see ACTi splash screen then system interface. By default, you will login in using the administrator account. Click anywhere on screen to bring up the Login window. Click in the Password field and enter “123456” then “Login”. 21 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Step 2: Format the Hard Disks The hard disks you installed in ENR need formatting before use. On HDD setup wizard window, select the unformatted disk and click “Format”. Repeat this step to format the other disk, and then click “OK”. Step 3: Add Cameras You may choose either Auto Add or Manual Add to add cameras to ENR system based on your site conditions.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Log In/ Out ENR By default, an administrator account has already been existing in your system. To log into ENR system for the first time, you will have to key in the password in Login window. Log In If you are not logged in yet, click on screen to bring up the Login window. Log Out On Live View screen, right-click anywhere to bring up the Live View menu, click the icon. 23 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Live View Menu Live View menu is a toolbar listing the most used functions required for Live view operations and system setup. You can always bring it up on Live View screen by right-clicking anywhere.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Input Devices The input devices are ready to use when you connect them to ENR via USB ports. Keyboard The onscreen keyboards allow you to input characters without using a physical one. By clicking in a character field (e.g. Account or Server name) or number field (e.g. IP address or Port), the specific onscreen keyboard will be brought up. 3 4 1 5 2 No 1 6 Description Press once to change a single input to uppercase.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Mouse Settings You may adjust the mouse’s cursor speed via the path below: On Live View screen, right-click to bring up Live View menu Select “Setup Menu” click “System Settings” tab click “Mouse”.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Set Cameras ENR user interface also allows you to easily configure or copy camera setting, add or delete cameras without the use of another web browser. Live View Camera Channel Positions Please be aware of the Camera ID when you add cameras manually or by auto search.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual As ENR supports only H.264 video compression format for live view, you can only add an H.264 video stream into a channel. Note ENR will synchronize with devices upon connecting to them. To make sure the settings on ENR side are prior to and always overwrite those on camera sides, please check “Auto save ENR settings into device upon connection”. Auto-Add This is strongly recommended when only four required cameras have connected to the system.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Search This search method is recommended when there are more than four cameras within the network. By performing Search, you will be provided with a list of all devices connected to the network. You may select any desired stream to add to your system. Input the User Name and Password to access the camera (this user account must be the root account) and click “OK”. After a while, the search result will pop up, select your desired cameras/streams, and click “Add”.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual 5 6 7 Resolution Frame Rate Status 8 Search 9 Add Image resolution. Please select a resolution size. Video frame rate Blank: this camera is accessible and not added yet. In Use: this camera/stream has been added to the system. Un-access: this camera is inaccessible. You will have to try access it using another Username or Password, (make sure this account is that camera’s root account), and click Search again.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual 3 3. The camera settings will appear. Click “Save” to save it to this camera channel. The saved camera channel will immediately appear in its channel window on Live View screen. A green indicator will appear by the camera ID icon and ENR has started recording this channel. 111...K K C M KC CM M555222111111 31 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Copy Camera Settings You may copy an added camera’s settings another channel. In this way, it is easier to manually add more than one camera of the same properties. 1 2 1. Select n existing channel. 2. Click “Duplicate”, the camera properties will be copied to the next empty channel. In the example shown above, Camera 1 properties will be copied to Camera 2 and immediately saved to the system. 32 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Delete Cameras You may delete a single channel one at a time or delete them all at once. The deletion of certain channel will not include the previous recordings of it. 1. Select an existing channel. 2. Click “Delete to delete the selected channel or “Delete All” to delete all channels. 2 1 2 Change Camera Settings After the cameras are added, you may change their properties on Camera Settings page.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual If you have to change certain settings that are not available on ENR interface (e.g. video motion region settings, stream mode) for a saved channel, please do the following, 1. Uncheck the “Auto save ENR settings into device upon connection”. 2. Via camera’s web interface, change the camera settings, you will have to use a computer to do this. 3. On ENR Camera Settings page, click “Get Camera Settings”, ENR will apply the current camera settings. 4. Click “Save”.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Function 8 directional arrow keys: Click to pan or tilt the camera. ( only available for cameras with Pan/Tilt/ capability) Pan/Tilt/Zoom speed: Click to change the speed. Provided speed scale is from 1 to 5.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Network Settings You may check the network adapter setting of LAN1 and LAN2 via the path: Live View Menu Select “Setup Menu” click “System Settings” tab click “Network”. Configure LAN1 Settings As LAN1 port supports only DHCP server function. Without the DHCP client capability, it cannot get IP from another DHCP server, and you will have to define its IP Address and Subnet Mask manually if necessary. The default IP is 192.168.0.10.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Configure LAN2 Settings LAN2 port is originally in DHCP mode. You may change the mode to Static to manually define its network propertiers. In Static mode, the default IP is 192.168.1.10. Set the Port Change the ENR Port here if you have setup port forwarding service for ENR’s IP. 37 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Date & Time ENR provides three methods to synchronize the time setting; you can (1) manually set the date and time, (2) sync with Time Zone or (3) synchronize with NTP server. On Live View screen, right-click to bring up Live View menu Select “Setup Menu” click “System Settings” tab click “Date & Time” 1 2 3 Setup Manually In Date & Time section, click the button that shows date and time information on it.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Email Settings ENR supports email notification for Event Handling sent through an SMTP server. To enable this service, you will have to configure the SMTP mail settings in advance. In order to reach out to an SMTP server, your network cable should go through ENR LAN 2 port which communicates with a network other than ENR local network. 1. On Live View screen, right-click to bring up Live View menu Select “Setup Menu” click “Email”. 1 2 3 4 2.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual symbols (.), (_), (-) are valid. ENR server supports the SMTP services with SSL protocol. If you wish to use a free webmail SMTP service, you may choose certain webmail providers such as Yahoo (SMTP: smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port:25) or Gmail (SMTP: smtp.gmail.com Port:25 or 465 for SSL protocol / 587 for TLS protocol) Port Set the SMTP port, allowed value is from 1~65535, default is 25. Account Input the name of the SMTP server account.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Disk Management ENR keeps the recordings on SATA hard disks installed in it. Whenever recording is taking place, ENR writes data to one of the disks, and switch to the other as the original one is full. Once the available space of the whole system is less than the reserved size, ENR will start deleting the oldest file to make the amount of space allowing each active channel to record for another 10 minutes.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Format Hard Disks You may execute disk formatting toward a newly-installed disk. You should follow the installation procedures ( refer to Install the Hard Disks on page 16 ) to format the disks before ENR system start carrying out the surveillance task, for a disk that is not formatted to ENR file system format is not ready for recording. After the disk is installed and detected in Storage Device list, select it and click “Format”.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Schedule Recordings Unlike the traditional analog surveillance system, the IP surveillance system provides a target-oriented recording schedule for devices; the view of each device can be recorded based on your required time segments and event types. For example, you may have a camera installed on the office ceiling do continuous recording during work hours, and record only upon the triggers (incidents that detected by system) at night.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Event-Recording File Length Before setting the recording schedule, you may define the length of an event recording. To do this, configure the following properties shown as below, which will make an event recording as long as 10+30 second: Field Pre-event Recording Buffer (sec): Description ENR keeps a short cache of video received from devices. If an event is triggered, ENR will automatically store the pre-event buffer along with the recording of the event itself.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Set the Event Schedule The Event Schedule defines when the event handling is activated. To set the event rules, please refer to Setup Event Rules on page 46 for Event Rules settings. By default, the event handling is full-time activated; you may disable it for certain time period. 1. Click on the recording mode “No Event Handling”. 2. Click and drag over the “Time Track” to set time period. 3. Click “Save”. 45 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Event Management When something happens on camera site, such as someone walks by, the door opens or a fire breaks out – these are all Events. The event which occurs in the environment and was pre-programmed in the camera serves as Triggers. Triggers cause the device to react with Responses. The link between trigger and response is governed by Event Rules. Each event rule detects one specific trigger and may initiate multiple responses.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual 1. Once a device is added to ENR server, the server would provide empty rules with compatible trigger types for you to configure such as Motion 1, Motion 2, Motion 3, DI 1, DI 2, Network Loss and Network Recovery. Select the Event Type, then click “Set”. 2. Select the trigger type: Trigger DO Setup the DO to become ON or OFF upon trigger, only the devices supporting DO functions are available.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual “Subject” field and mail body in “Body” field, then choose to attach a snapshot of which camera from Attach snapshot dropdown list. Clik “OK” to confirm. Please note that if you want to attach a snapshot to the notification email, make sure your local display stays no Live View screen during the event handing period, in this way, ENR can tale the snapshots for motion events.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual “Enable” to enable this function. Input the duration time and times of the Beep. Click “OK” to confirm. Enlarge Live View screen will display certain channel view in full screen for a while when the system is triggered. On Enlarge tab, check the “Enable” to enable this function. Select the camera whose live view will be enlarged on Live View screen and the duration time. Click “OK” to confirm. 3.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual User Group Management In ENR, the access permissions are managed by User Groups. User Groups defines what functions are allowed for a group of users. Different User Groups will have different access rights in terms of permitted operations like Live Vie or Playback. For example, an Administrator User is allowed for all the operations in ENR, while a standard User may only be permitted to do Live View and Playback.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Edit / Delete a Group You may edit an existing group by changing its Name, Description or Permissions or delete it. Once you delete a group, the Users belonging to it will be removed altogether. Select the group on Group List, click “Edit” or Delete”. Add a User By default, the Administrator User already exists, which you may not delete. 1. Click “User” to bring up Add New User window, enter the Name, Password, Email and select its User Group from dropdown list.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Edit / Delete a User You may edit an existing user or delete it. Select the user on User List, click “Edit” or Delete” ` 52 www.acti.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Upgrade Firmware You may check ACTi corporate website for latest ENR firmware package and download it. Unzip the package and save the *.upg file to a USB disk and Insert it into ENR USB port. 1. On Live View screen, right-click to bring up Live View menu Select “Setup Menu” click Maintenance tab select “Firmware Upgrade”. 2. Click “Browse” , find the target *.upg file and click “Open”. 3. Click “Upgrade”.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Backup / Restore Settings Making regular system backups is always recommended in case of unexpected disasters or accidents that may damage ENR server. ENR server can create a backup file of the whole system settings as Backup_[yyyymmdd].nvr file and save it to a connected USB disk within one click.
ENR-1000 System Administrator’s Manual Restore Before starting restoring the system, make sure you have connected the USB disk with the desired .nvr backup file in it. 1. On Live View screen, right-click to bring up Live View menu Select “Setup Menu” click Maintenance tab click “Setting Backup / Restore”. 1 2 3 2. Click “Browse” to select the backup file. 3. Click “Restore” to start restoring the settings. The server will restore the settings from the backup file and reboot. 55 www.acti.
