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VIVOTEK ST3402
User’s Manual
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105BContents Chapter 1 Installation.................................................................................................1-3 1.1 System Hardware Requirements...............................................................1-3 1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware requirements ...............1-3 1.1.2 Suggestions......................................................................................1-4 1.2 Software Installation..................................................
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4.1.1 Starting the Scheduling tool...........................................................4-59 4.2 The Layout and Functionalities ..............................................................4-59 4.2.1 Introduction....................................................................................4-59 4.2.2 The Functionalities of Configuration Components........................4-61 4.2.3 The Schedule Scheme operations ..................................................4-61 4.3 Primar
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Chapter 1 0BInstallation 1.1 5BSystem Hardware Requirements Before installing the application software, make sure your system has the following recommended minimum hardware requirements. 1.1.1 Recommended minimum system hardware 28B requirements The system requirement recommended for this application is as follows. OS: MS Windows 2000/XP/98SE/Me CPU: Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium IV or above and AMD Athlon or above SDRAM: 512 MB SDRAM or above for 16 channels 256 MB SDRAM for 9 channels
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1.1.2 29BSuggestions The following suggestions will help you to run our software faster and smooth. All suggestions are optional. 1. Maximum supported hard disk space － 200GB is the maximum tested supported hard disk space. Performance can’t be guaranteed if the recording hard disk space is greater than 200GB. 2. In Window XP system, close system restore － In Window XP, system restore will help you to back to the previous restore point that recorded a snapshot of your computer. But
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As shown in Figure 1- X 1, you can disable sy X stem restore of all disk or specified disk. 3. Exclude file protectation for specified files in AntiVirus － The following XTable 1-2 represent X s the specified files that should be excluded in AntiVirus to accelerate our application. Suggest to Exclude DBS, DES, DIA, DSK, DSS HGD, WAP, BCK Table 1-2 Specified Files to Exclude There are two ways to exclude file protection of above files from AntiVirus: Method One: Find “Option
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Figure 1-3 Auto-Protect Exclusion List 4. Exclude file protectation for specified files in PC-cillin － As shown in XFigure 1-4X, find “Settings \ Real-time scan \ Selected files \ Select File Types” and ensure the files described in table 1-1 do not exist in the list. Click Files list Figure 1-4 The File List in PC-cillin 1-6
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NOTE: If the above settings cannot help you to improve performance, try to use disk defragmenter “Start \ All Programs \ Accessories \ System Tools \ Disk Defragmenter” to reconfigure your hard disk may help your computer more efficient. 1.2 6BSoftware Installation The following are steps for the software installation. STEP 1: Put the Installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and installation should start automatically. If installation does not start, click on “Start” on the lower lef
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Figure 1-6 Welcome page for the VIVOTEK ST3402 STEP 3: If you click on “Next” and XFigure 1-7 appears, it means you have inst X alled a previous version of the recording software (the previous version is the video-only version, which means it would not get the audio stream from servers). If you want to keep the previous version, choose the second option. If you are new to the Smart VS-IP recorder software, this window will not appear; skip on over to Step 4. Figure 1-7 Video only
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to continue. Figure 1-8 User information for Smart VS-IP Recorder STEP 5: Set up the administrator’s password by entering a password and confirm the password as shown in XFigure 1-9X. Click on “Next” to continue. Figure 1-9 Confirm Password 1-9
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STEP 6: Select the installation directory for this application software and click on “Next”, as shown in XFigure 1-10. X You can also change the installation directory from the Default directory by clicking on “Browse…” Figure 1-10 Destination Location for Installation STEP 7: Select a program folder to install the application software into and then click on “Next”, as shown in XFigure 1-11X. Figure 1-11 Select Program Folder 1-10
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STEP 8: After checking all the set up information shown in XFigure 1-12X, click on “Next” to start file movement and registries update. Figure 1-12 Check Setup Information STEP 9: Click on “Finish”, as shown in Figure 1-13 X , to finish inst X allation. This completes the program installation. Figure 1-13 Finish the Installation 1-11
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1.3 7BFirst Start up After installation, one of the IE settings needs to be changed before you can start running the Monitor program. Enable the mechanism for submitting non-encrypted data in the path “Start->Settings->control Panel->Internet Options->Security->Custom Level…\Setting:” You can also find the path from the IE browser, as it is depicted in the following. You can follow the instructions to complete this setting, as shown in Figure 1-14 X X. 2 1 3 5 6 4 Figure 1-14 En
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Chapter 2 Launcher 1B Launcher is a controller program that allows 1B starting the recording procedure before the user logs in and the program will run as a service procedure after Window starts up automatically. LauncherUI is the program that provides a uer interface to allow the user to invoke Monitor or Playback quickly. In the following we refer to Launcher for both Launcher and LauncherUI. 2.1 8BSecurity for Launcher Starting Launcher does not require passing the username/password
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Figure 2-1 Login Dialog When the Launcher is locked, the unlock window is as follows: Figure 2-2 Unlock Dialog The input area of the dialog will be grayed (disabled) for 60 seconds after three failure attempts. 2.2 User Interface 9B This is the user interface for Launcher: Figure 2-3 Popup Menu The main user interface for Launcher is an icon on the system tray. The popup menu 2-14
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is displayed by clicking on the right or left buttons on the mouse. The menu items are listed below: 1. Lock Launcher – When this item is selected, Launcher will enter Lock mode. In Lock mode, whenever the user wants to invoke the menu, a dialog asking for username and password appears. The interface for this dialog is covered in the previous section. 2. Tools – This contains utilities; currently only change password and user management are implemented. I. Change password: The
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Figure 2-5 User Management Window Figure 2-6 Add and Modify User Windows Functionalities may be disabled according to the login user’s group. The following XTable 2-1 represent X s the privilege of each group in Lanuncher. 2-16
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Item Root Power UserGeneral User Monitor Start Up ˇ Mode User Management ˇ Playback ˇ ˇ Change Password ˇ ˇ ˇ Exit ˇ ˇ ˇ Lock / Unlock ˇ ˇ ˇ Logout ˇ ˇ ˇ Table 2-1 The Privilege in Launcher 3. Monitor start up mode – The option decides the program type of Monitor that is described in section 3 after Window boot up. There are three kinds of types: Service: Do not Autorun – The Monitor will be run as a service but it will not be invoked automatically after Window boot up.
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closing (click on the close button in Monitor). It means that the recording procedure will be continued and user does not need to worry about missing media data that you like to record. As the following XFigure 2-8X, a useful hint can help user to monitor the state of running channel, monitoring channel and recording channel. Move cursor on Launcher icon on system tray and the hint will pop up automatically. Figure 2-8 The Hint of State Running – The number of current running chan
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6. Exit – This ends Launcher. If the user chooses this option, a message box will pop up to confirm whether the user really wants to exit. It warns the user that exiting Launcher will also close Monitor and Playback. 2-19
