Defaults Actions

Each item - server, channel, or other resource - has a set of default actions that have identical behavior on all servers and cannot be altered (edited) or deleted. These are:

• Generate Alert: generate an alarm that can be used as recording basis in recording profiles; this action is available for each channel

• Generate Alert Substream: generate an alarm that can be used as recording basis in recording profiles; this action is available for each channel substream

• Send Global Event: send a global event notification to all servers; this action is available for each defined global event

• Pop-up On Screen: display the object on all Macula Monitor windows that accept pop-ups of the target object type; action is available for channels, maps and shared layouts

• Pop-up Playback On Screen: display instant playback for a channel in Macula Monitor application while keeping the live view mode; action is available for all channels

• Disable channel: change the target channel state by disabling it; the action is visible on each server, allowing you to choose the target channel when creating the event rule

• Enable channel: change the target channel state by enabling it*; the action is visible on each server, allowing you to choose the target channel when creating the event rule

• Enable device channel VA: Turn on the Video Analytics attached to the device Channels. You must preconfigure VA inside the Channel settings to trigger this Action with the particular Channel.

• Disable device channel VA: Turn off the Video Analytics attached to the device Channels. You must preconfigure VA inside the Channel settings to trigger this Action with the particular Channel.

• Set Condition: change the target condition state to ON; this action is available for each condition

• Unset Condition: change the target condition state to OFF; this action is available for each condition

• Increment/Decrement/Reset: change counter value; this action is available for each software counter

• Send global event: broadcast a global notification to all servers; this action is available for every global event

*Make sure your license has enough free channels for this action to work properly.

User-defined Pop-ups with empty source

You can create your own Pop-up On Screen actions without specifying a source. Such actions are automatically attached to every channel, map, shared layout, and server as parametric entries (the channel parameter behaves exactly like in the built-in Pop-up actions). This lets a single rule show the correct channel wherever it fires.

When you generate an alert for main stream or substream, all channels having alert-based recording enabled will start recording for the duration of time period defined in the profile as post-recording time; after that, the profile operation will be terminated and target channel will return to its normal recording configuration.

Default actions are available in the Event & Action Configurator and can be used in the same way as the user-defined actions. These actions are not listed under Actions as they are not configurable.