User manual

AXIS M1014 Network Camera

System Options

Use NAT traversal when the Axis product is loca ted on an intranet (LAN) and you wish to make it available from the ot her

(WAN) side of a N AT ro u ter. With NAT traversal properly conﬁgured, all HTTP trafﬁc to an external HTTP port in the NAT router

isforwardedtotheproduct.

NAT traversal is conﬁgured under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced.

Note

• For NAT trave rsal to w ork, this mus t be supporte d by the router. The router must also support UPnP

• The router has many diffe re nt names: “NAT router”, “Network router”, “Internet Gateway”, ”Broadband router”, “Broadband

sharing device” or “Home ﬁ rewall” but the essential purpose of the device is the same.

Enable/Disable - When enabled, the Axis product attempts to conﬁgure port mapping in a NAT router on your network, using UPnP

Note that UPnP

must b e enabled in the product (see System Options > Network > UPnP).

Use manually selected NAT router - Select this option to manually s elect a NAT router and enter the IP address for the router in

the ﬁeld. If no router is speciﬁ ed, the product automatically searches for NAT routers on your network. If more than one router is

found, the default router is selected .

Alternative HTTP port - Select this option to manually deﬁne an external HTTP port. Enter the port number in the ﬁeld. If no port is

entered here, a port numbe r is automatically selected when NAT traversal is enabled.

Note

• An alternative HTTP port can be used or be active even if NAT traversal is disabled. This is useful if your NAT router does

not support UPnP and you need to manually conﬁgur e port forwarding in the NAT route r.

• If y ou attempt to manually enter a port that is already in use, another avail able port is a utomatically selected.

• When the p ort is selected au tomatically it is displayed in this ﬁeld. To change this, enter a new port number and click Save.

FTP

The FTP server running in the Axis product enables upload of new ﬁrmware, user applications, etc. The FTP server can be disabled

under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced.

Note

This FTP server has nothing to do with the product’s ability to transfer images via FTP to other l ocations and servers.

RTSP

The RTS P server running in the Axis product allows a connecting client to start an H.264 stream. The RTSP port number can be

changed under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced. The default port is 554.

Note

H.264 video streams will not be available if the RTSP server is disable d .

SOCKS

SOCKS is a networking proxy protocol. The Axis product can be conﬁgured to use a SOCKS server to reach networks on the other

side of a ﬁrewall or proxy server. This functionality is useful if the Axis product is located on a local network behind a ﬁrewall, and

notiﬁcations, uploads, alarms, e tc need to be sent to a destination outside the lo cal network (for e xample the Internet).

SOCKS is conﬁgured under System Options > Network > SOCKS. For more information, see the online help

QoS (Quality of Service)

QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees a certain level of a speciﬁed resource to selected trafﬁc on a network. A QoS-aware network

prioritize

snetworktrafﬁc and provides a greater network reliability by controlling the amount of bandwidth an application may use.

The QoS

settings are conﬁgured under System Options > Network > QoS. Using DSCP (Differentiated Services Codepoint) values, the

Axis product can mark the following types of trafﬁc: live vide o , event/alarm trafﬁc and management trafﬁc.