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Analytics Email attachment is causing a High CPU utilization

Description

When setting Event Linking for analytics to attach a video to the email notification, it would cause a high CPU utilization

Product

exacqVision Server 23.09.6.1

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create event linking for analytics to trigger and send an email notification and set the profile to attach a video.

Expected Results

Send emails with attachments without any issues.

Actual Results

Not sending all the emails and causing a high CPU utilization and may crash the Exacq Server or reboot the unit.

Solution

This issue has been addressed and will be fixed in exacqVision Server version 24.03.

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Can’t Set an Email Profile When Kantech Software is Connected to The Exacq Server

Description

When having Kantech Board connected to the Exacq Server, Client Software keeps refreshing the configs and that prevents the Exacq client from creating an Email notifications profile.

affected version is 23.03 or lower

Solution

Updating ExacqVision Server and Client to version 24.03 or above.

Updating the Kantech Entrapass to version 8.80 or above.

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exacqVision Enterprise

EM 22.03.2.0 issue with Passwords for Email Accounts not being saved in Data Base.

Description 

On new installs of EM version 22.03.2.0 the passwords for emails settings to do not save to the DataBase.

Product 

EM 22.03.2.0

Steps to Reproduce 

  • Install exacqVision Enterprise Manager version 22.03.2.0
  • Set up Emails settings and apply password in EM settings.
  • Tested email with a IP camera disconnect.
  • Logs Seen in the WebServer EM logs:

Expected Results 

Once you enter the password and hit apply it should save the password.

Actual Results 

The Password is not saved to the database.

Solution

Roll back to version 22.03.1.0 or wait until the 22.06 release in June.

Ticket AESW-1150

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Knowledge Support Support exacqVision Client

Troubleshooting E-Mail Message Profiles 

Description 

Troubleshooting notification e-mail server configuration settings when e-mail message profile tests fail.   

Product 

ExacqVision Client  

Solution

If the profile test fails, review the exacqVision Verbose System Logs (Configuration > YOURSERVER > Systems Logs tab) for information about the cause.    Pro Tip:  Filter the displayed search results for entries relevant to notifications by typing “notifypi” in the filter box.   

Here are some common causes including coresponding log entries.   

Invalid E-mail Server Password

Invalid E-mail Server Username

Invalid E-mail Server Port 

Invalid E-mail Server Security Type – STARTTLS

Invalid E-mail Server Security Type – Default

Invalid E-mail Server Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) Address

Blocked by Firewall 

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Setting up Email Notifications to send a Start and a Stop email when the event starts and ends.

When setting up email notifications to work with a IP Camera Connection event there is setting in the Notifications to send on the event start and end.

Once the Email Profile has been tested and confirmed to be working we need to set up 2 rules for this to work properly

  1. Event Linking

To set up the trigger to allow the notification to work we must set up an Event linking event.
In this Example we are using a single camera to to send an email when the camera disconnects and reconnects to the server. The email profile will send out an email that will show the start of the event and the end of the event with a Start and End status in the email that is receive.

The event rule should be set similar to the picture above.

Event Type: IP Camera Connection
Event Source: Is the camera that you want to monitor.
Action Type: Notify (the Email Notifications)
Action Target: The Email Profile Created in the Notifications section. Alert Emails.

Notification Email Message Profiles

To configure your email profile Page correctly to send the notifications with a start and an end see the picture below.

When setting up the Email Message Profile Page there are 2 things we need to make sure are selected from the menu options.

1.Make sure to Select the WHEN drop down menu and select Alarm Starts and Ends. (If you want only on start select Alarm Start)
2. In the Add Field drop down menu select EVENT STATE and a Date format.

When the event is triggered the email profile will send an email out on the start of that event and then at the end of that event.

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Email Notification for “No Recording” event may not contain source name

Issue

Emails for a “No Recording” event do not contain the source name, but instead say “Unknown”.

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Workaround

None

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Version Affected

 exacqVision Server 9.2.0 – 19.06

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Version Fixed

exacqVision Server 19.09

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Create an Email Notification Watchlist in Entrapass Web

Description

A watchlist will display a visual notification about abnormal events from system components such as a relays, inputs, elevators and doors. It can also send email notifications via a SMTP/POP3 connection (non-SSL/TLS).

Entrapass Web

Navigate to the Operation menu and select Door

Click on the eyeball icon of desired system component.

The timeline on the bottom will now generate visual notifications.

Right click on the timeline visual notification to display interactive options.

Left click on the timeline eyeball icon to enable or disable email notifications.


Click on Tool menu to adjust email recipients and schedule.

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Create-an-Email-Notification-Watchlist-in-Entrapass-Web.pdf
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Special Characters Cause Video Clip to be Removed from Email Notification

Affected Versions

exacqVision 7.6 and prior

Description

If a camera name contains characters that are not allowed by the file system on the server’s operating system, the attachment cannot be included in an email notification. The server’s file system prevents the attachment file from being created.

Workaround

In Windows, the following characters are NOT allowed in the name:

Less than symbol [Greater than symbol [>]
Colon [:]
Quotation mark [“]
Forward slash [/]
Backslash [\]
Vertical pipe/bar [|]
Question mark [?]
Asterisk [*]


In Linux, all bytes are allowed except NUL (‘\0’) and ‘/’.

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Special-Characters-Cause-Video-Clip-to-be-Removed-from-Email-Notification.pdf
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Important Notes About exacqVision Enterprise Health Monitor Email Notifications

exacqVision Server

Each exacqVision Server notification profile has an optional Send Rate Limit setting. When an event link is triggered and a particular notification profile is sent, the notification profile does not send additional emails until the Send Rate Limit has elapsed. For example, both an IP Camera Connection event source and Video Loss event source might be configured in Event Linking to execute the same notification profile. However, if the Send Rate Limit is set to 60 seconds and the IP camera loses connection, the Video Loss Alarm email is discarded unless it occurs more than 60 seconds after the IP Camera Connection alarm.

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Enterprise Health Monitor

If Enterprise Health Monitor detects any active, monitored events, an email containing a list of events is sent at regular intervals as configured on the Email tab under Options. The Max Events per Message option specifies the maximum number of active events that are listed in each e-mail. For example, if Max Events per Message is set to 20, and there are 25 active events, you will receive details on 20 of the 25 events. After the email has been sent, the email queue is reset and notifications are not sent for those ongoing active events. The system then begins monitoring for new active events to send notifications for.

Thus, if you receive an email for video loss on Camera 1, and the subsequent email also lists video loss on Camera 1, consider checking the event database for server disconnections or video recovery and subsequent loss that might have happened between the time the two emails were sent.

For video-related alarms (such as motion, video loss, or IP camera connection), alarms are ignored if the camera is disabled and they are omitted from email notifications. To enable a camera, select the Record Enable checkbox on the Camera Recording Setup page in exacqVision Client.

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Email Notifications Not Sent from Linux-based exacqVision Server

If you install exacqVision Server software on a Linux-based system that does not have certain Perl modules installed, email notifications can fail. This does not apply to Linux-based exacqVision systems shipped by Exacq because the Perl modules are installed on the systems when they are manufactured.

If you do not receive expected email notifications, check the Linux system log for the following message from NotifyPI:

Can’t locate method “new” via package “IO::Socket::SSL” at sendEmail.pl line 1844

The following message should also appear on the Notifications page for the system in the exacqVision Client software:

This server does not support SSL or TLS connections

To install the necessary Perl modules, type the following commands in a Terminal window:

sudo apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl

sudo apt-get install libnet-ssleay-perl

Alternatively, you can install the modules using the Synaptic Package Manager.

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