Making An Alarm Station Operational - Honeywell Rapid Eye Administrator's Manual

Making an Alarm Station Operational

Document 800-02953V4 Rev A
03/10
4. Enter the RAS server modem's telephone number in the Phone Number field.
5. Enter the RAS server's area code in the Area Code field, as in
6. Obtain the PPP User Name and PPP Password of Multi Alarm Stations that use a
modem. This information is either kept by your network administrator or set by the
user of the workstation in the Windows Dial-up Networking program. Enter one of the
RAS server's PPP User Name and its PPP Password in their fields. This authorization
is obtained from the network administrator responsible for the RAS server's network,
as indicated in Overview
7. Enter the PPP password a second time in the Confirm PPP Password field.
Click Save and Close. In the Alarm Stations tab's Connection Method column, a (d)
8.
appears, standing for dial-up, followed by the telephone number that calls the RAS
server; then an (n), standing for network, followed by the IP address of the Multi
alarm station.
9. The next step is Making an Alarm Station
Customizing a RAS Dial-up Connection
toll-free use of long distance codes, and so on), use the same procedures and suggestions
as indicated in Customizing a Dial-Up Connection to an Alarm
International Dial-Up on page 230.
Processing a Dial-up Callback
When a Rapid Eye Multi-Media unit uses telephone lines to communicate with a Multi alarm
station, the unit needs to use the alarm station's PPP user name and password for dial-up
networking. After answering its modem, the alarm station must recognize the PPP user
name and password before the Multi-Media unit can access the View application.
After adding an alarm station (see
to it (see page 219):
• You need to update security for each Multi-Media unit involved. See
on a Multi-Media Unit
• An alarm station is of little use if you have not set any events to trigger alarms. See
Events Defined on page 205.
• Use the Update Site dialog box in the Admin application, to prioritize alarm stations.
See Sequencing Site Alarm Stations
• Operators of PCs not designated as alarm stations can also receive alarms sent by a
Multi-Media unit by running an Alarm session with the View application. To find out
how to run an Alarm session, see the
Remote View Operator
Rapid Eye Multi-Media DVR System Administrator Guide
on page 217.
Operational, page 233.
To customize a RAS dial-up (irregular or
page 218), and defining how a Multi-Media unit connects
on page 143.
on page 57
Rapid Eye™ Multi-Media Digital Video Recorder
Guide.
Figure 11-11.
Station, page 227, and
Updating Security
for more information.
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