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Monitor The Health of Your VMS From Anywhere

Monitor The Health of Your VMS From Anywhere

Our data insights dashboards and smart notifications make it easy to be proactive about the health of your cameras and recording servers and address issues immediately as they come up.

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The Boring Toolbox provides complete visibility into the status and performance of your video cameras and recording servers

The Boring Toolbox provides complete visibility into the status and performance of your video cameras and recording servers

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Time Alerts

ABOUT SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Check System Health
At-a-Glance

ABOUT DASHBOARDS

Resolve Errors
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Smart Notifications Tell You Exactly What You
Need To Know About Camera Down Events,
Without Spamming Your Inbox

Smart Notifications Tell You Exactly What You Need To Know About Camera Down Events, Without Spamming Your Inbox

HOW IT WORKS

Set Your Event Thresholds to Trigger Email Notifications

Customizing your Smart Notifications ensures every alert you receive is meaningful. Thresholds allow you set time triggers for when your cameras stop providing video and recording servers go offline helping Boring to know which down events you need to be alerted to.

Down Event Occurs & First Email Notification Is Sent

After a down event happens where your threshold is met, Boring searches your VMS to review the health status for all of your cameras and recording servers. Boring then bundles that information into a single alert, giving you a comprehensive look your systemwide health and recent down events.

Service Is Restored & Second Email Is Sent

As service is restored (your servers go back online and cameras video is received) a second email is sent, notifying you and giving you another updated snapshot on your system-wide health and all of the recent restorative events.

No need to reference or correlate information across emails or systems. Everything you need to know in one, easy-to-understand email.

HOW IT WORKS

  • Set Your Event Thresholds to Trigger Email Notifications

    Customizing your Smart Notifications ensures every alert you receive is meaningful. Thresholds allow you set time triggers for when your cameras stop providing video and recording servers go offline helping Boring to know which down events you need to be alerted to.

  • Down Event Occurs & First Email Notification Is Sent

    After a down event happens where your threshold is met, Boring searches your VMS to review the health status for all of your cameras and recording servers. Boring then bundles that information into a single alert, giving you a comprehensive look your systemwide health and recent down events.

  • Service Is Restored & Second Email Is Sent

    As service is restored (your servers go back online and cameras video is received) a second email is sent, notifying you and giving you another updated snapshot on your system-wide health and all of the recent restorative events.

    No need to reference or correlate information across emails or systems. Everything you need to know in one, easy-to-understand email.

“The Boring Toolbox has helped to make management of the surveillance system much more manageable. The dashboard provides a quick overview of the entire system. This makes it much easier to locate and isolate issues.”
Patrick Christensen, Biomedical IT, VACONTINUE READING
“The Boring Toolbox has helped to make management of the surveillance system much more manageable. The dashboard provides a quick overview of the entire system. This makes it much easier to locate and isolate issues.”
Patrick Christensen, Biomedical IT, VACONTINUE READING

What Can You Monitor With The Boring Toolbox?

  • Recording Server Storage Space
  • Which Cameras Are Consuming The Largest Amount Of Storage
  • Potential Archive Storage Configuration Issues
  • Potential SD-Card Errors
  • Which Cameras Are Providing And Not Providing Video, In Real-Time
  • Recent Up And Down Events For Your Cameras And Recording Servers
  • Cameras With Short But Frequent Down Events (“Flapping Cameras”)
  • What Cameras Are Not Recording

LIVE MONITORING DASHBOARDS

The Data You Need At Your Fingertips

  • Always know when and where there is an issue that needs your attention
  • Be Proactive About The Health of Your VMS and Prevent Future Headaches
  • Use Real-time insights to make better decisions and act more quickly

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Access Your XProtect Health Insights From Anywhere

  • Log in to The Boring Toolbox web app from any browser to monitor the health of your VMS on the go
  • Share insights easily across your team with no software needed
  • Monitor the health of your VMS on the go

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