Every Rule on Map must be associated with a camera or a device. The Rule on Map icon helps emphasize alarm notification by either flashing for 10 seconds at every new alarm, or by flashing until security personnel mark the alarms as real/false/actionable.
Because you can always create more than one rule for the same camera, with Rules on Maps, you can see exactly which rule is triggered. The name of the rule is displayed when hovering over a map.
Any rule created for a server in the active server farm in the Rules Wizard will be listed in the Rules tab of the Map Configuration dialog box.
Alarms
Only alarms that appear in the Alarm Log will appear on the map. (If you start the Symphony Client and there are pre-existing unacknowledged alarms loaded, the map will display flashing alarm icons (if this has been configured).
When you left-click on the rule icon, Symphony Client will display the last unacknowledged alarm image for the associated camera (the first camera if there are multiple cameras).
1. Click the Settings icon and select Settings. The Client Settings dialog box opens. Click the Customize tab.
2. In the Maps section, select options:
Flash when alarm occurs - Flashes for 10 seconds when a new alarm occurs; otherwise, remains invisible
Flash while alarms are unacknowledged - Otherwise, remains invisible. Once you have acknowledged all alarms (related to that rule), the rule disappears from the map.
Always show rule icon
Default color: select color and transparency.