Managing Cameras

Procedure

1. Choose Maintenance Management > Security Protection > Camera Management.
2. In the navigation tree on the left, choose Camera Information.
3. On the Camera Information page, you can perform operations as required.
   • Viewing camera information

     The detailed information about all cameras is displayed.

   • Creating a camera

     Table 1 Creating a camera

     Operation	Procedure
     Creating a directly connected camera	Select Directly connected camera from the drop-down list box in the upper left corner of the page. On the Planning Configuration page, create a directly connected camera. For details, see Adding a Device Through Automatic Discovery.
     Creating a camera in automatic discovery mode	Select Video surveillance subsystem from the drop-down list box in the upper left corner of the page. On the Video Surveillance Subsystem page, click Create. In the Creating a Video Subsystem dialog box, select a video subsystem type, set related parameters according to Table 2, and click Test. NOTE: If the test fails, check whether the parameters are correctly set. Click Save.

     Table 2 Parameters of the video subsystem

     Parameter	Description	Example
     IP	IP address of the video subsystem	192.168.8.10
     Port	Port number of the video subsystem	9900
     User Name	User name for logging in to the client of the video subsystem NOTE: The NetEco needs to have browse and query permissions. Configure the video system users with browse and query permissions. You are advised to use a new user created in the video subsystem to connect to the camera. Before the connection, ensure that the initial password of the user has been changed and the user has successfully logged in to the video subsystem. You are advised to set the number of clients that can be logged in to by the user on the video subsystem to a value greater than 5. Otherwise, when the user has logged in to the video subsystem, the user cannot connect to the video subsystem through the NetEco.	Admin
     Password	User password for logging in to the client of the video subsystem.	Change_Me

   • Playing videos

     Click the name or of an online camera.

     

     On the View page, click to view the camera information. Click the name of an online camera in the Name column to play videos.