Mount

In the Mount tab, you can mount exported archives onto Surveillance Station. The recordings in mounted archives can be played in Recording and Timeline.

To mount an archive:

  1. Click Add.
  2. If your $_DSPRODUCTNAME_$ is a CMS host, please select a server from the Source drop-down list.
  3. Select a folder from the Shared folder drop-down list. The folder can be any shared folder or an external storage device connected via USB or eSATA interface.
  4. The system will list all exported archives stored in the source. Select the archives, and click OK to mount.

Limitations:

  1. You can change the archive name when mounting. The name is case sensitive and allows 1 to 32 Unicode characters. The following symbols are excluded:
    ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , / : ; < = > ? @ [ ] \ ^ ` { } | ~
  2. The first character cannot be a minus sign or a space, and the last character cannot be a space.
  3. The same archive cannot be mounted twice.

To delete a mounted archive:

Select the archives you want to remove, and click Delete. This action will only remove the archive from the list. The original recording files and the exported archives will not be deleted.

To enable/disable mounted archives:

  1. Select the archive you would like to enable/disable.
  2. Click Enable at the top of the window.
  3. Select Enable or Disable.

Note:

To browse recordings of a mounted archive:

  1. Click Browse Recordings at the top of the page.
  2. Select an archive to browse.
  3. Click OK, and you will see the archived recordings in Recording List.