User guide

SerVision MVG 400 System Guide
Configuring the MVG 400 81
Note: If the Enable Anonymous Authentication checkbox is selected, the username is
anonymous and the password is guest.
4. Click Update, and then save the settings. They will be implemented after the unit is
restarted (see Saving Configuration Changes, page 139).
SMS and E-mail Notifications
You can choose to send an SMS or an e-mail to a predefined list of people whenever events of
specified types are detected.
Figure 73: E-mail notification
In order to use the SMS functionality, you must set up an account with Clickatell
(http://www.clickatell.com
).
In order to send e-mails, you must have a valid SMTP e-mail account that can be used as the
“sender” of the e-mail messages.
NOTE: Web-based e-mail does not always support SMTP settings.
The MVG 400 sends out e-mail notifications with standard messages that contain the
following information:
• Name of the MVG 400 unit
• Name of the device that triggered the event
• Type of the event
• Date and time of the event
Depending on the notification settings of each device, e-mail notifications may sometimes
include snapshots of the first frame of an event. If VGA recording is activated (see Advanced
Recorder Settings, page 112), you can choose whether images sent with e-mail notifications
are sent as standard-sized SIF images, or large VGA images. If AVV is activated (see
Automatically Uploading Video to an AVV Server, page 87), an image and a link to the
uploaded video are always included.
You can specify the text of SMS messages that are sent by defining a message template. The
template can contain any text you wish. It can also contain variables that will be replaced by
the system with relevant values in the actual message. For example, the message can include
the name of the recipient, the time, and the name of the device that triggered the event. For
additional information, see SMS Message Templates, page 85.