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46 47CHAPTER 5 MENUSPICTURE 5-26PICTURE 5-275.4 ADVANCEDThe settings in this menu cover user accounts, hard disk management, video display, andsystem maintenance.CAUTION! Reformatting the hard drive will erase all recorded events.HDD MANAGEThis displays some of the same information found in the HDD Info window in the Info menu(see Section 5.2) but this window allows you to make additional settings.The drive name and status is displayed.The status indicators are:Clicking on Alarm Set opens the Abnormality window which is covered immediatelyfollowing this section.Alarm Release – this turns off any disk alarm that may be occurring.You can set the hard drive to four states:O Drive is operating normally.X Indicates an error- Hard drive not installed? Hard drive is damagedRead/Write Normal operation. The device records (writes) files to disk and plays (reads)them.Read Only No more files can be recorded onto the drive, but existing files can be viewed.Format Reformats the hard drive.Recover If you are having problems with the hard drive, including corrupted files,selecting Recover causes the drive to re-set, but does not erase its contents.No changes will take place unless the Execute button is pressed once you’ve made yourselection. The drive’s status will be displayed next to the Type heading below the pull-downs.If you make changes and press Execute, the DVR will restart once you press OK to exit. Youcannot right-click out of the menu.ABNORMALITYThis window allows you to set up alarms for disk and system disconnection errors as well ashow these alarms are handled. Each type of alarm can be independently enabled along withwhat events that type of alarm will trigger.Event type – Chose from No Disk, Disk Error,Disk No Space, Net Disconnectedand IP Conflict.Alarm Out – The alarm can be sent to upto three external alarm devicesconnected to the DVRLatch – This is the “hold time” that the DVRwill wait before issuing another alarm.The delay can be set to between 1 to300 seconds (5 minutes).Show Message – When enabled, this willdisplay the event notification on theDVR’s screen.PICTURE 5-28PICTURE 5-29Alarm Upload – This will send the alarm signal to a network, including an alarm monitoringcenter.Send E-mail – this will send an e-mail notification to the recipient address set up in theNetwork menu (see Section 1.2 Advanced Network Setup in the RemoteMonitoring Guide).ALARM OUTPUTAlarm configuration is covered in Chapter 7. This window allows you to quickly change theoperating mode of connected alarms – Schedule, Manual (on) or Stop (off) - as well asshowing the status of any connected alarms.You can turn change the mode of the alarmsindividually or all at once by clicking the circlein the All column. In addition to activatingthem to operate based according to theirschedule, you can turn them on or off. Thiswill override the scheduling set up in Section7.3 and elsewhere.If alarms are properly connected, theStatus indicator boxes for that alarm will behighlighted.