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Panasonic Camera Motion May Be Ignored

Issue

 When iVMD analytic support was added in exacqVision Server version 20.03.0, it caused motion data to be ignored from older or non-iVMD camera models.  Resulting in video not being recorded when using motion-based recording. 

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Workaround

 Use free-run recording or downgrade to exacqVision Server version 19.09

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Resolution

 Same for resolution 10pt

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Version Affected

exacqVision Server 20.03.0 thru 20.03.9

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Version Fixed

 exacqVision Server 20.03.10

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“Can change password” should be locked as false for LDAP users

Description

LDAP users (or LDAP administrators) have all the tools needed to administer their LDAP account credentials. We do not provide (or need to or want to provide) any tools to administer LDAP credentials.

This evServer fix is a guard to block this setting in the xml. If config is sent to the server containing this value, it is removed. No evAPI changes are needed or expected.

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Version introduced

v8.6.0

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Platform

All

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Steps to reproduce

  • Configure an LDAP user with Full Admin privileges
  • Connect as the LDAP user

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Expected result

  • Change Password panel should be hidden
  • Actual result
  • Change Password panel is visible

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Core crash on Start system when user changes their own username

Description

Core crash on Start system when user changes their own username. This was seen in a unit test. It has not been seen from an evClient.

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Version introduced

8.6.0

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Platform

All

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Steps to reproduce

  • Apply a Start license to your system
  • Login as a user with FullAdmin or UserAdmin privileges.
  • Change your own username.

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Expected result

Expected the username to be changed.

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Actual result

Exacq service crashed

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Workaround

Downgrade

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Removing exacqVision Server Dependency from RTSP Server Integration (Windows Only)

Issue

This article applies only to the stand alone RTSP Server Integration not the built-in RTSP support available in exacqVision Server version 19.12 and higher. 

The original stand-alone RTSP Server has the exacqVision Server listed as one of its dependencies.  This causes scripts to fail and has been observed to prevent the following: 

  • Failover/Failback 
  • Silent Install 
  • Remote Update

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Resolution

To remove exacqVision Server dependency from RTSP Server integration. (Windows Only)

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Stop RTSP Server service.

  • Open services.msc.
  • Find and click on service with name “exacq RTSP Server”.
  • Click stop.

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Back up the registry.

  • Open regedit.exe. Note: Administrator access may be needed
  • Right-click “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” and click “Export”.
  • Save exported “.reg” file.

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Update the registry entry for exacq RTSP Server.

  • Double-click the exacqRTSP.reg file
  • This will remove the integrations dependency on exacqVision Server automatically.

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Kantech Integration Not Getting All Relay Events

Issue

 Large Kantech integration was failing to get relay events from all zones.

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Workaround

 None

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Resolution

Kantechpi polls devices by identifier and had a limit of 1600 devices. This is an arbitrary limit and has now been doubled to support 3200 devices.

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Version Affected

exacqVision Server 19.09 and lower

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Version Fixed

exacqVision Server 19.12

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Enterprise Manager Updating Java Version in Solr

Issue

Enterprise Manager uses a package called Solr which in turn uses Java.  Currently, we do not offer an update path for Solr that will update the Java version.  The following instructions can be used if the need arises were Java needs to be updated.  

Resolution

Windows 64-bit

  • Assumes EM is installed at C:\program files\exacqVision\EnterpriseManager for Windows 64 bit
  • Download the 64 bit JRE for Windows from the Oracle website
  • Shut down all enterprise manager services
  • Shut down solrApache service
  • Shut down solrJetty service
  • Rename the existing java folder to java.old inside C:\Program Files\exacqVision\EnterpriseManager\apache_solr\
  • cd to the path where the jre.exe is located
  • Execute the following command

jre-8u231-windows-x64.exe /s INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\exacqVision\EnterpriseManager\apache_solr\java" STATIC=1

  • This command does not block until installation is complete, but if you cd to the install dir, you will notice the new java folder getting created, and new JRE installed to it.
  • There is no accurate way to determine whether installation has completed, so please check if the jre.exe process is running in task manager.
  • Once the installation is complete, start all the enterprise manager services, solrApache and solrJetty.
  • Perform a sanity check of the installation by accessing the Solr home page and making sure it loads,  and is able to query successfully with pre-existing data.
  • Remove the renamed folder java.old 

Windows 32-bit

  • Assumes EM is installed at C:\exacqVisionEM for Windowx 32 bit installation
  • Download the 32-bit jre from Oracle website
  • Shut down all enterprise manager services
  • Shut down solrApache service
  • Shut down solrJetty service
  • Rename the existing java folder to java.old inside C:\exacqVisionEM\apache_solr
  • Execute the following command to update jre

jre-8u231-windows-i586.exe /s INSTALLDIR="C:\exacqVisionEM\apache_solr\java" STATIC=1

  • This command does not block until installation is complete, but if you cd to the install dir, you  will notice the new java folder getting created, and new JRE installed to it
  • There is no accurate way to determine whether installation has completed, so please check if  the jre.exe process is running in task manager.
  • Once the installation is complete, start all the enterprise manager services, solrApache and  solrJetty.
  • Perform a sanity check of the installation by accessing the Solr home page and making sure it  loads, and is able to query successfully with pre-existing data.
  • Remove the java.old renamed folder

Linux 32 and 64-bit

  • Download the appropriate jre-linux-x64.tar.gz or jre-linux-i586.tar.gz from Oracle website
  • Shut down all enterprise manager services
  • On linux stopping enterprise-webservice will also stop apache and solr servers
  • rename the existing java directory to java.old
  • Assuming EM is located at /usr/local/exacq/esm
  • Extract the jre-linux-*.tar.gz to the enterprise manager install dir

sudo tar -zxf jre-linux-*.tar.gz -C /usr/local/exacq/esm/apache_solr

  • Rename the extracted dir from jre-* to java
  • Remove the renamed folderjava.old

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LDAP user First time logging in from client to ESM results in Error

Description

From the client’s “Synchronize with ESM” page, using an LDAP username and password results in ‘Check your URL’ error. This happens even though the LDAP domain and group associations (with ESM access) is correctly configured on ESM.

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Tested version

4.8.2

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Platform

All

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Steps to reproduce

  • Create a domain and associations on ESM with “ESM access” enabled
  • From client’s “Synchronize with ESM” page, use a username and password belonging to the LDAP domain
  • Click Apply

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Expected result

The client shows ‘Connected’ and downloads the server list from ESM.

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Actual result

The client shows ‘Check your URL’ error message dialog box.

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Work around

The work around is to attempt the same action twice from the client. The client does not enable the ‘Apply’ button unless one of the parameters changes. So in order to attempt the same action again, the user will have to modify one of the parameters and revert it back.

Another option is to login to ESM using the same credentials and then attempt to do the sync action from client.

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notifypi – failure to send email on falling edge

Description

A NotifyPI enhancement was released with 8.4 which added the ability to specify ‘when’ to send an email: ‘Alarm Starts’, ‘Alarm Ends’ or ‘Alarm Starts and Ends’). However, the ‘Alarm Ends’ selection was failing to send the email when the trigger event (alarm) duration was shorter than the ‘Send Rate Limit’.
If the event duration was longer than ‘Send Rate Limit’, the email was sent as expected.

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Version introduced

8.4

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Platforms

All

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Steps to reproduce

* Configure a Notifications email server
* Configure a Notifications email profile
– Alarm Ends
– Send Rate Limit 10
* Configure a new ‘Event Linking’ entry
– Soft Trigger
– – new trigger
– Action Type: Notify
– Action Target: the email profile
* Set, then within 10 seconds, clear the Soft Trigger

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Expected result

Expect to receive an email

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Actual result

No email was sent

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Workaround

Create an event Source Group
– Add the Soft Trigger
– Select ‘Any source’
– Select ‘When not alarmed’
– Modify the Notification email profile ‘When’ to ‘Alarm Starts’

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EM GUI displays red status banner indicating data stopped importing

Issue

The Enterprise Manager browser interface will display red banners indicating that data stopped importing, data stopped rolling off, and sendmail has stopped when the OS time on the client/browser workstation doesn’t match the time on the EM server.  Below are screen shots illustrating the issue.

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Resolution

Ensure that the EM server and client workstation are syncing to a time server or manually adjust client workstation time to match EM server time

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Illustra Flex Gen 2 Models and IFS03D1LCWTT

Issue

Cameras will not record on motion due to a firmware issue.  Currently there is a ticket that needs to be re opened and worked on with Illustra.

Motion will not work on JPEG/H264/H265 if the camera was originally configured with the Enhanced Security Mode enabled by default.

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Workaround

Default the camera and log into the GUI of the camera and select Standard security mode.

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Version Affected

All