System Summary Reports
Common use cases include: use as a spot check to easily review numerous items for each recorder, quickly review storage retention per recorder to audit usage, and audit user activity to uncover misuse.
Best Practices
- Set reminder emails on a weekly or monthly basis to audit recorder usage and user activity.
- Create default reports to share with admins, managers or user groups.
- Add user groups so new employees can be easily added and get access to important reports.
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Creating a System Summary Report
- Click Reports in the top navigation bar.
- Click Add New Report.
- Choose a System Summary Report.
- Enter a Report Name and Report Description.
- Click Create when finished.
Defining a System Summary Report
- Click Report Definition on the left-hand menu.
- Check the boxes next to each section you’d like included in your report.
- Click Save when finished.
Adding Recorders to a System Summary Report
- Click Reports on the top navigation bar.
- Click on a System Summary report.
- Click Recorders on the left-hand menu.
- Click Add Recorder or Add Recorder Group if available.
- Check the box next to each recorder you want to include in this report.
Note: To apply the report to every recorder connected to the OWS account, select the checkbox next to Include all recorders in this Report. This includes all existing and future recorders.
- Click Add when finished.
Defining Health Reports
- Click Health Rules on the left-hand menu.
- Define the Health Rule by selecting and customizing Events:
- Abnormal Restart : How many unscheduled restarts occur within a 24 hour period
- Hard Drive Error : Select whether to include Hard Drive Errors
- Recorder Not Reporting : Enter a threshold time for an offline recorder
- Connection Lost to Camera : Enter a threshold time for an offline camera
- No Recorded Video : Enter a threshold time since video last recorded
Use - to remove an Event from the Health Rule and + to add an Event
- Click Save when finished.
Note: Health Reports created for Reports are separate from Alert Rules and will not appear in Active Alerts or Alert History.
Note: Once a Health Rule is applied to a System Summary Report, notifications will display above Device Information.
Adding Users to a System Summary Report
Only the report creator is added automatically to the report. If any additional users/user groups need access to the report, they must be added here.
Remote Connections
Click remote connections to bring up a detailed view of users connecting to a specific recorder through OWS
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