If something critical occurs during a video capture and must be made inaccessible to
certain users, you can restrict certain user levels from viewing a segment or entire video
by blocking the camera.
Before you begin
Do the following:
- Make sure you have the Block and Unblock video user privilege.
- Make sure that the camera you want to block is not from a federated Omnicast™ system.
What you should know
You can block a camera that is displaying live or playback video in a tile from any
Security
Desk task. You can also block
and unblock cameras, and view the current block status of a camera from the
System status task.
Procedure
To block video in Security Desk:
-
Select a camera displayed in a tile.
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Right click the tile, and then select (
).
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In the Start option, select the date and time to start
blocking the video.
-
In the End option, select the
duration of video to be blocked:
- Until
- The video is blocked from users until the selected date and
time.
- For
- The video is blocked from users for the selected time (days, hours,
minutes, or seconds).
- Indefinitely
- All video from the Start time onward
(including new recordings) is blocked from users until you manually
unblock the camera.
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From the User level slider, select a minimum user
level.
NOTE: The highest user level is 1 and the lowest user level is 253.
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Click OK.
All users with a user level lower than the one you select are blocked
from viewing the video. Users that have a higher or equal user level can see
that the camera is blocked by the dashes shown on the tile’s timeline.
-
To unblock the camera, right-click inside the tile and click (
).
NOTE: To unblock a certain part of playback video, you must select the section
of the timeline and right-click from there.
To block or unblock cameras from the System Status
task:
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Select Cameras from the Monitor
list.
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Filter to the camera you want to block.
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Select the desired camera in the report pane.
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To block the camera, click
Block.
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To unblock the camera, click
Unblock.