With the Boring Toolbox, Milestone VMS Administrators can customize and automate alerts and notifications to monitor their security system's health and reduce false positives.
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This post features our November and December releases. We know you’d rather be spending your time drinking eggnog by the fire instead of reading about Boring security, but here we go anyways. For those of you focused on cyber-security this…
In our October release we build upon our 5.0 release by making the Live Monitoring Service more robust, adding thresholds for recording servers and adding some device management tools. Live Monitoring Updates Threaded email notifications You will now see that your LMS…
Have you ever sat with smart client open and flipped through each camera making a spreadsheet of each one that was not providing video or has a bad picture? Think of how long that took, about what you could have…
In 5.0 we focused on rebuilding the back end of the Boring Toolbox while releasing some innovative features like the IOT connector. We first started by building on the Boring Toolbox’s time savings, standardization, and compliance offerings. Then we moved…
We wanted to use Axis Loitering Guard ACAP analytic last week but found there is little to no documentation on how to get it to work with Milestone XProtect VMS. So here is how we connected the alerts from Axis…
Video security is being used more and more as an essential part of schools. Preventing crime and threats, improving student behavior, and protecting students’ safety are all benefits of adding a surveillance system to educational institutions. But with video surveillance…
We have been asked quite a bit, and most recently on our feature request forum, to create the ability in Boring Toolbox to move cameras in bulk from one Milestone XProtect recording server to another. But, we have yet to…
Simply, multi-site management (MSM) is the ability to manage and monitor multiple XProtect systems from the same application. The challenge As a video system starts to grow beyond one management server it becomes increasingly more time consuming to make changes,…
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