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  • ContentsNx Witness User Manual

    Nx Witness User Manual

    Table of ContentsWorking with Nx Witness 1

    ................................................................................................................................... 1Opening and Closing Nx Witness Client

    ................................................................................................................................... 3Connecting to Nx Witness via Web-Client

    ................................................................................................................................... 4Connecting to Enterprise Controller and Working Offline

    ................................................................................................................................... 7Launching Nx Witness in Compatibility Mode

    ................................................................................................................................... 8Introducing User Roles

    ................................................................................................................................... 9Nx Witness User Interface Overview .......................................................................................................................................................... 10Main Menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 11Showing and Hiding Side Panels .......................................................................................................................................................... 11Tabs and Layouts .......................................................................................................................................................... 12Context Menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 13Items on Layouts and Scene .......................................................................................................................................................... 16Working with Resource Tree and Renaming Resources .......................................................................................................................................................... 18Search .......................................................................................................................................................... 19Playback Panel .......................................................................................................................................................... 20Full Screen and Window Mode .......................................................................................................................................................... 20Getting Context Help

    ................................................................................................................................... 21Customizing Look and Feel of Nx Witness

    ................................................................................................................................... 22Run Nx Witness when computer boots up

    ................................................................................................................................... 22Nx Witness Quick Start

    ................................................................................................................................... 23Obtaining and Activating Nx Witness Licenses

    ................................................................................................................................... 26System-Wide Configurations

    ................................................................................................................................... 27Obtaining and Configuring Servers Additional Settings (Admin Only) .......................................................................................................................................................... 28Configuring Server Storages (Admin Only) .......................................................................................................................................................... 29Deleting Server (Admin Only) .......................................................................................................................................................... 30Monitoring Servers (Admin Only) .......................................................................................................................................................... 32Using Server's Web Interface

    ................................................................................................................................... 33Configuring Multi-Server Environment (Admin Only) .......................................................................................................................................................... 33Understanding Multi-Server Architecture and Basics .......................................................................................................................................................... 34Joining and Splitting Servers ......................................................................................................................................................... 34Join Server from Different System to Current-One......................................................................................................................................................... 34Split Server to Different System......................................................................................................................................................... 35Merge all Servers to Another System.......................................................................................................................................................... 36Configuring Failover .......................................................................................................................................................... 37Configuring Routing within Multi-Server Environment .......................................................................................................................................................... 37Configuring Time Synchronization w ithin Multi-Server Environment

    ................................................................................................................................... 38Cameras and Encoders Management .......................................................................................................................................................... 39Viewing Full Camera List .......................................................................................................................................................... 41Adding Cameras and Encoders ......................................................................................................................................................... 41Discovering Cameras Automatically......................................................................................................................................................... 42Disabling Automatic Discovery (Admin Only)......................................................................................................................................................... 43Adding Cameras and Encoders Manually (Admin Only)......................................................................................................................................................... 46Adding RTSP or HTTP Streams as Cameras (Admin Only).......................................................................................................................................................... 47Setting Up Cameras

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    Nx Witness User Manual

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 48Setting up Analog Cameras

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 49Renaming Cameras (Admin Only)

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 50Obtaining Cameras IP, MAC, Firmware and Model

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 51Configuring Audio on Camera

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 52Configuring Camera's Authentication

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 53Forcing Aspect Ratio for Cameras

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 54Setting up Camera Orientation

    ......................................................................................................................................................... 55Setting Up Fish-Eye Cameras

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