Sentinel

overview iris+™ is irisity's ai powered, open architecture video analytics solution for security, safety, and business intelligence applications iris+™ eliminates the need for continuous monitoring of surveillance cameras and helps customers uncover otherwise hidden events, insights, and information it automatically alerts you to security and safety incidents in real time, drawing your attention to an incident of interest and enabling effective responses, as events unfold the purpose of the integration is to receive and view iris+™ detected events in the integrated system this guide serves as a reference point for the successful integration of iris+™ with sentinel the integration process requires steps to be performed in both the sentinel system environment and in the iris+™ portal prepare your sentinel environment for integration the integration between iris+™ and sentinel is available for sentinel version 3 105 or higher iris+™ sends its alarms to sentinel using the following ip address 34 90 111 200 ensure this address is not blocked in sentinel, allowing incoming traffic for details regarding how to configure the integration in sentinel, please refer to sentinel administrators guide, chapter 13, section “iris+™ video analytics” define integration target in iris+™ before you start the integration targets in iris+™ are the system wide definitions required for iris+™ to integrate with your system you will define the endpoint that can receive the events sent by iris+™ to define the integration target in iris+™, do the following log in to your iris+™ account from the top module bar, select settings select integration targets click the add button the integration target screen appears define the following target name define a meaningful name such as sentinel ensure the toggle switch is enabled type select sentinel host/port enter the host ip in the first field and the port number in the second field credentials enter your username and password for the integrated system click save the integration target is defined and is listed in the integration targets list define integration actions in iris+™ before you start integration action is a folder specific action in iris+™ this action defines the detected events sent to sentinel the folders to be selected are those that hold the cameras and edge devices that you intend to monitor the folders should have matching sites in sentinel to define the integration action in iris+™, do the following select the administrator module in the hierarchy tree, select the relevant folder, which holds the cameras you are monitoring from the menu bar, select integrations and click the add button a new integration action line entry appears expand the new integration action by clicking the arrow and define the following action name enter a meaningful name such as the type of events being monitored ensure the toggle switch is enabled type select detection event target select the relevant integration target that you previously created click save identify iris+™ cameras before you start each iris+™ camera must be defined by a unique id this is required for the event created from this camera to be associated with the correct camera in sentinel if the camera is attached to a dvr or nvr, the appropriate camera number should be selected for standalone ip cameras, the id should be set to 1 to identify the iris+™ cameras, do the following select the administrator module in the hierarchy tree, select the folder you are planning to monitor select the relevant camera click edit in the external id field, enter the relevant sentinel camera unique id click save test the integration before you start an integration test is a way to ensure that events for monitored folders are being received by the integrated system when creating a test rule or test events, make sure you choose cameras under the monitored folder to test the integration for detected events, do the following as per the iris+™ training instructions, define a test rule for a camera in each of the monitored folders ensure that events are created in iris+™ under the monitor module open your integrated environment and ensure that the same events have also been received contact irisity support customer support technicalsupport\@irisity com mailto\ technicalsupport\@irisity com