Permissions

The Permissions field is where you select which camera permissions are to be edited. When a group and permission category—such as Live View permission, in our example—have been chosen, a structure will appear that contains a logical arrangement of cameras and sites.

Permissions are established at the site or camera level. Individual camera or site permissions can remain as the default setting, group setting, or user setting -- each subsequent group supersedes the previous one. Changing the site setting will cause all cameras assigned to that site to reflect the change in permissions.

Each site has icons depicting Default and Group settings. The camera structure icons in the Group and User settings indicate one of three states. The red color indicates denied access. The color green indicates permitted access. A yellow icon indicates inconsistencies in permissions further down in the camera structure. Access or Deny permissions can be selected for either a site or camera within a site.

In our example, the group DEMO USERS can view live cameras at the sites ‘Hallways’ and ‘Exterior’ as indicated by the green icons. They cannot view live cameras at site ‘Warehouse’ as indicated by the red icon.

Default settings

Every site and resource listed in each site has a default capability setting (permission) that applies across all groups. Select a group from the Groups field at the left, and a permissions group from the Permissions field in the center.

The default setting for any capability is to deny access, indicated by the color red. The color green indicates access is allowed. The default column is the left-most column after the site icon, and can be further identified by the solid line across the bottom of the icon.

Default settings can be changed by hovering over the icon and left-clicking the mouse to toggle between settings. Two boxes are located above the icon. When neither of the boxes is checked, the default setting is selected. The first click of the mouse will highlight the green allow box, and the second click will highlight the red deny box.

Changing the default setting also changes the default for other groups. To prevent accidental changes, the system will warn the user by asking “Are you sure?”

Permissions fields

Detect Live View Permission   Permits access to real-time video and audio.

Recorded View Permission   Permits access to recorded video and audio.

Incident Export Permission   Permits user to export an incident.

Actioner Permission   Permits user to have PTZ  control and use camera presets, if the camera has that capability.

PTZ Priority   Assigns a priority number to a group or user for accessing PTZ controls.

Stream Profile   Assigns a stream profile to each camera. See “Stream profiles” for more information.

Stream Type   Three options are Multi-cast, Unicast, and TCP.

Camera Event   Camera events such as a virtual tripwire or I/O input violations.

Microphone   Determines whether speaking capabilities are available

Speaker   Determines whether listening capabilities are available

NVR Event   Loss of recorded video.

NVR Maintenance   Includes failure of a power supply or fan, failure of a hard drive causing the system to run in degraded mode, or loss of network connection.

Alarm Schedule Profile   A list of assigned alarms

Site-Administrator Number   Determines the site administrator permissions allowed by a group.