You can view the recording state and statistics of each individual camera controlled by
an Archiver or Auxiliary Archiver to verify whether each encoder is streaming video and audio,
and whether the role is recording the data.
Procedure
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From the Config Tool homepage, open the Video task and click the
Roles and units view.
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Select the archiving role in charge, click its Resources tab,
and then click Statistics (
).
The Active cameras and Archiving cameras
fields show you how many cameras are active, and how many have archiving enabled.
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Click See details.
In the
Archiving cameras dialog box, the recording states of the
cameras are listed. The possible recording states are:
- Recording off
- Recording is enabled but the Archiver is not recording.
- If you suspect a problem, click the Description column. The
possible causes are:
- Database lost.
- Disks full.
- Cannot write to any drive.
- Recording on
- Recording was started by a user.
- Recording on (locked by system)
- Recording is currently controlled by the Archiver, following an On motion or
Continuous schedule.
- Recording off (locked by system)
- Recording is currently disabled on this camera by a schedule.
- Recording about to stop
- Recording was started by a user and is within the last 30 seconds of
recording.