Linear Products Knowledge Base

The Monitoring Desktop:

Select Monitor: Monitoring Desktop.

The Monitoring Desktop tabbed pages display all system functions that can be monitored.  

Events Tab:

By default events display sorted in priority order. You can click on the arrow next to the column title Priority to reverse the sort order. You can also click to the right of the column titles Date/Time and Name to sort events by those columns.

Events will display as long as they are still active and/or require acknowledgment.

Click-able icons on the events page allow you to execute the following actions:

1. Click the camera icon to display the video browser. Using the video browser window you can monitor a live feed, rewind, fast forward, pause, and go forward and back one frame at a time to find a specific sequence.
2. Click the Details button and an additional window displays the Operator long message from the Setting up Alarm Events page.
3. Click the Camera button to display the camera associated with that alarm event in the upper camera monitor.
4. Click the Acknowledge button to acknowledge the event. Otherwise the event will remain active until the event actions are concluded or the Maximum Duration counter from the Setting up Alarm Events page expires and the event auto-acknowledges.
5. Click the Clear Actions link to stop the alarm event actions from occurring.

Activity Log Tab:

The Activity Log displays the 300 most recent entries in the log of system activity.

See also: Monitoring the Activity Log.

Cameras Tab:

You can select any camera configured in the system for viewing.

Camera Views Tab:

You can monitor a four-camera view or a picture-in-a-picture view.

Floor plans Tab:

You can monitor any floor plan that is configured in the system.

• Note: Viewing and configuring floor plans requires a browser plug-in from Macro-media called Flash Player 9.0 or later. Your operating system and browser will automatically determine which version of the plug-in to install.

Camera Monitors:

You can select from the drop-down above the camera images on the right the specific camera you wish to have displayed in that monitor pane. You can select I.P. cameras or D.V.R. cameras.

• Note: The camera monitors on the Monitoring Desktop will, by default, display the first two cameras in the Camera Menu Order.

Select from the drop-down beneath the camera image the preset position you wish to set the camera to.

• Note: The preset positions must already be defined at each camera web site and they must already be created in the security system.

Click-able icons in the monitor window allow you to execute the following actions:

• Note: If the camera does not have these capabilities, or you have not set up the home, tilt, pan and zoom URLs these controls will not appear.

1. Click the camera icon to take a snapshot of the current camera image.
2. Click the screen icon to open a video browser window.  Using the video browser window you can monitor a live feed, rewind, fast forward, pause, and go forward and back one frame at a time to find a specific sequence.
3. Click the home icon to move the camera to its preset home position.
4. Click the arrows to move the camera one step in the arrow direction.

• Note: If the camera is connected to a Dedicated Micros D.V.R. then a single click starts the camera movement and a second click is required to stop the camera movement. If the camera moves too quickly for accurate positioning then select a lower speed number from the camera speed drop-down. (See below.)

1.   Click the magnify + icon to zoom in.
2.   Click the magnify - icon to zoom out.

Select from the # drop-down the speed of camera movement. 1 is the slowest, 10 is the fastest.