Milestone Paxton Integration Component User’s Manual
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Target Audience for this Document This document is aimed at system administrators and operational users and provides a description of how to ® install, configure and use the Milestone Paxton Integration component for the Milestone XProtect Servers and ® Client products together with the Paxton Net2 Access Control product. www.milestonesys.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Contents ................................................................................................................................ 1 Copyright ........................................................................................................................... 4 Trademarks ....................................................................................................................... 4 Disclaimer ..........................................
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Access Control profiling in XProtect Corporate .............................................................. 25 USING THE SMART CLIENT ......................................................... 27 Setting up MAP view .......................................................................................................... 27 Setting up alarm viewing ...................................................................................................
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide General Description ® The Milestone open video management platform XProtect enables you to integrate custom, best-in-class security solutions with your surveillance, such as access control, mobile devices and video analytics. The Milestone Paxton Integration Component is an integration solution that combines Paxton Net2 Access Control monitoring with market-leading XProtect® video management software (VMS).
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide ® Milestone XProtect Smart Client 6.0d/7.0a Supported Platforms and features Beware that some features of the Paxton Integration Plugin is only supported on the XProtect Corporate platform and the XProtect Enterprise platform. This is a general overview of the most important features.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Installation The Paxton Integration plug-in comes with an installer. Double-click EventLinkForPaxtonInstaller_x86_en-US.msi to start the installation of the Milestone Event Link for Paxton. You first have to read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue the installation. Then click Install to install. Figure 1: Installation www.milestonesys.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Licensing A trial period of 30 days will be granted automatically when the software runs for the first time. The 30-day trial period provides time to upgrade the Milestone Software License Code (SLC) to include the MIPPaxtonIntegrationLicense. The status of the license is shown in the overview of the Paxton Integration.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Configuration This chapter provides detailed guidance in the configuration of the Milestone Paxton Integration Component with some additional basic guidance regarding the configuration of the Paxton Net2 and the XProtect servers. However, it is still recommended to obtain a detailed knowhow about the configuration of these products before proceeding.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide To establish the connection from the XProtect server to the Net2 server, start the XProtect Management Client/Application and use Site Navigation to locate the “Net2 Servers” node as illustrated here: Figure 4: The plug-in is found by expanding the MIP Plug-ins tree. Right click on the Net2 Servers panel, choose Add New and fill out the relevant information. Figure 5: Define a server The Name field defaults to Paxton but can be changed if needed.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Expand the tree view for the Paxton Integration until the Doors item with the door icon appears ( and select Create New. The Door dialog should appear as shown below: ). Right-click it Figure 6: Define a door to device mapping in Enterprise Click the Camera.. button to bring a tree view with the available Milestone controlled cameras. The cameras are mapped on-demand so a short delay may occur the first time a node is expanded.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Remove mappings between doors and cameras. You may remove the mapping between a specific door and camera by selecting the door in the item tree and then click on the camera entry in the Related Devices list. Select the Delete option. In case a door is removed from the Net2 configuration, you should also remove the whole door<->camera mapping from the XProtect configuration. Select the door in the item tree, right-click it and select Delete.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 10: The triggering events drop down list. The Net2 events appear in the drop down box with the “Net2” prefix. Next step is to configure the sources filter. Click the Sources button to open the item picker. Select the All Doors entry to accept events from all Net2 doors or drill down the containment tree to select a specific door. This operation may be repeated to add several specific doors to the filter.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Configuration on Enterprise, Professional, Express, NVR This section contains a detailed guide on how to configure the Milestone Paxton Integration component installed on either of the XProtect server products Enterprise, Professional, Express or NVR. Go through the “Initial configuration steps” before proceeding with this part of the configuration. This guide is divided into the following tasks: 1) Using Net2 events to control cameras.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 12: The Manual Event Properties dialog Before you continue, you have to decide whether this event is to be placed beneath the Global node or beneath a specific camera. If the event is to be triggered on Net2 events which are not related to a specific camera, then you should place it under the Global node, otherwise place it beneath the specific camera. This is not a mandatory approach, but it will simplify the management of the events in the future.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 14: The Camera Properties dialog Select the option to be automated, e.g. PTZ on event. In this case, the Camera has been configured to go to “Position 1” when the manual event “Door 1 opened” is triggered. Most of the options offer the possibility to be controlled by manual events. In the section “Start/Stop Recording on Net2 events” guides you specifically on how to automate the Recording Properties.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 15: The Event Mapping Dialog If the manual event should only be triggered on Net2 events from a specific door, then select the specific door node below the “Doors” node below the Server node (named “Paxton” in the sample figure above). www.milestonesys.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 16: The Event Mapping Dialog Click on one of the cameras associated with the door and select the Map Events menu option. The event mapping dialog appears, but only with the selected camera. To create a mapping, first click on one or more Net2 events to highlight them, then select a Milestone event. After selecting one or more Net2 events and a manual event, relations can be added to the event map by using the > button.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide The symbol to the left of an event indicates the presence of a mapping between this event and one or more manual events. Click once more Show all button to expand the tree. Note that this window will stay on top. To close the window click on the X in the upper right corner or click on the Hide all button.
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XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Access Control Profiling in Enterprise, Professional, Express, NVR Potentially, several different types of users may have access to the XProtect server for different purposes. Some of these users should only be allowed access to certain resources in the Paxton system and maybe only be allowed to do some limited tasks. By means of the access control profiling function, specific users may be restricted in their access to these resources.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 20: Ensuring that the user can both open and close doors in Enterprise. If the user e.g. by default is to be granted access to the operation “Open door” on all doors, then check that option. When finished with this level, hit the OK button to save the settings.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Configuration on XProtect Corporate This section contains a detailed guide on how to configure the Milestone Paxton Integration component installed on XProtect Corporate. Go through the “Initial configuration steps” section before proceeding with this part of the configuration.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 22: An example of a Net2 event(s) to Milestone event mapping. Set up a rule To make a camera move when the “Door opened” event is invoked, you have to create a rule. Locate the Rules and Events section, right-click Rules and select Add rule to open the Manage rule dialog. Give the rule a name, like “Move Camera on door open”. In the section Edit the rule description, select the event. This opens the Select an Event dialog.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 23: Xprotect Corporate rule that will move cameras associated with a door to point at the door when it is opened. Access Control profiling in XProtect Corporate Potentially, several different types of users may have access to the XProtect server for different purposes. Some of these users should only be allowed access to certain resources in the Paxton system and maybe only be allowed to do some limited tasks.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 24: Authorizing the user to control the server in Corporate Expand Net2 Server and observe that rights have inherited down to the server. Now expand down to Door and give appropriate rights. If you want to make users able to configure and use the server, make sure that the Net2 Server also has Manage and Read checked. To sum it up: For full access and control every check box must be checked. Figure 25: Authorize door handling in Corporate. www.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Using the Smart Client Setting up MAP view This option is not available with XProtect Professional, XProtect Express or XProtect NVR. When using XProtect Corporate and XProtect Enterprise, it is possible configure a Map layout of the installation illustrating the location of doors and cameras on the site with animation of the alarm state of the doors and cameras. It also allows for interactive operation of the doors and cameras.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide In the Map view, there is a floating toolbar. Click the jigsaw puzzle icon to get the MIP settings. Figure 27: Map options. Figure 28: MIP options Expand Paxton Integration and drag the server icon onto the map at the relevant position. Figure 29: Net2 Server on the map. www.milestonesys.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Right-click the Paxton3 Server and choose, for example, Initiate lockdown. The functionality is to simply mimic the clicking of the Lockdown button in the Net2 UI. Figure 30: Server context menu The server must be configured to allow lockdown or the error Security lockdown not configured will appear in the log. Status Details provides an overview by counting the number of open doors, tripped alarms, etc.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Figure 32: Finally a door to open. Right-click the big door icon and select Open door Figure 33: The door’s context menu. The door will automatically close with a delay which can be configured in the Paxton Net2 software. It is also possible to close the door earlier from the context menu. www.milestonesys.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Setting up alarm viewing When, for example, a tampering event is received and has a matching alarm definition, an alarm indication is displayed around the door icon and a new alarm appears in the Alarm List. It is possible to add an Alarm Preview to the view and get the signal from the corresponding cameras there. Figure 34: Smart Client Alarms Figure 35: Door has been tampered with.
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Index —A— Access Control profiling On Corporate...................................................................................................................................................... 25 Access Control Profiling On Enterprise, Professional, Express, NVR ....................................................................................................... 21 alarm viewing set up ..................................................................
XProtect Paxton Integration Plug-in User's Guide Mapping of Net2 events to User Defined events .................................................................................................... 23 Mapping of Net2 events to XProtect alarms ........................................................................................................... 12 mappings between doors and cameras .................................................................................................................
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