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Chapter 5  
Alarm settings 
This chapter describes setting up how the system will respond when an alarm is 
triggered. 
Enter menu mode by pressing the Menu button on the front panel or use the 
mouse menu to select Menu (see “Controlling live view” on page 60 for further 
information). See Menu overview on page 55 for a list of the menu icons. 
Description of alarm notification types 
When setting up the rules for alarm detection, you can specify how you want the 
DVR to notify you about an alarm. You can select more than one notification 
type. Not all notifications types are available for all types of alarms. 
The alarm notification types are: 
•  Full-Screen Monitoring: Triggers the camera image in alarm to appear as 
full-screen view. 
•  Audible Warning: Triggers an audible beep when a notification or alarm is 
detected. 
•  Notify Surveillance Center: Sends a signal to TruVision Navigator or other 
software applications when an alarm or notification is detected. 
•  Send Email: Sends an email when an alarm or notification is detected. See 
“Configuring email” on page 37 for information on how to configure the DVR 
to send an email. 
•  Upload Captured Pictures to FTP: Sends snapshots to a designated FTP 
site. See “Configuring an FTP server to store snapshots” on page 39 for more 
information. 
•  Trigger Alarm Output: Triggers an alarm output when a notification is 
detected for an external alarm. See “Setting up external alarms” on page 28 
for information on configuring an alarm output.