Eocortex Union🔗

Eocortex Union is a platform that provides convenient access from the same point to several Eocortex video surveillance systems at the same time. The Eocortex Union includes client applications, configuration and system health monitoring tools.

Warning

This feature is available only for servers licensed with ST, Enterprise and ULTRA licenses.

Eocortex Union infrastructure is shown below.

Administrator personal area is a web application that permits to configure Eocortex Union and monitor system status.

User area is a web application that provides access to client applications.

Eocortex system: Eocortex server or several interconnected Eocortex servers with IP cameras connected to them.

Only systems based on the version 3.5 or higher of Eocortex can be connected to Eocortex Union.

Connection server is a server through which the system connects to Eocortex Union. In a single-server system, the connection server is the only server in that system. In multiserver systems, any of the servers can act as a connection server.

Warning

The Connection server must be in the same network as Eocortex Union.

Access control

Eocortex Union implements multilevel access with local users of Eocortex systems and the users of Eocortex Union.

The Eocortex Union administrator adds new Eocortex systems. The rights of such users are limited to a group pre-configured by the administrator on each of the systems.

An Eocortex Union user can install several client applications to view cameras of each system simultaneously.

Advantages

Prior to version 3.5, creating large-scale distributed video surveillance systems based on Eocortex was associated with a number of limitations and inconveniences:

  • If video surveillance was provided by several Eocortex systems, each of them had to be administered separately.

  • To ensure access of one employee to several systems, it was necessary to add and configure a new user on each of the systems.

  • The user had to connect to each of the systems separately.

  • Multiserver systems required a stable connection between servers, which was often difficult to achieve in large-scale and geographically distributed systems.

  • If the connection between the servers was unstable, transferring the settings of each of the servers took a long time.

  • The user could not recover their password without the participation of the administrator.

Eocortex Union solves the above-mentioned issues, eliminating the need to combine all servers into one large-scale multiserver system.