If something critical occurs during a video capture and it must not be made
accessible to certain users, you can restrict users from viewing a segment or entire video
capture 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. For example, you can block a camera that is displaying live
video from the Monitoring task, or block a video archive that is displaying
playback video from the Archives task. Users with a lower user level than the
one that you select cannot view video (live, playback, or cached) or export video
for the amount of time that you set. If they try to view video from that camera
during the blocked period, Blocked is displayed in the tile.
NOTE: In the System status task, you can block and unblock cameras,
and view the current block status of a camera.
To block users from viewing captured video:
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Select a camera displayed in a tile.
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Right-click in the tile, and click (
).
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In the Start option, select
the date and time to start blocking the video.
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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.
All users with a user level lower than the one you select are blocked from
viewing the video. The highest user level is 1 and the lowest user level is
254.
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Click OK.
The camera is blocked to users that have a lower user level than the one that
you selected. Users that have a higher or equal user level can see that the
camera is blocked because dashes appear on the tile’s timeline.
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To unblock the camera, right-click inside the tile and click (
).
