To serve our clients better we would like to be notified if a camera, NVR, or any part of the system is malfunctioning.
We use both Servers with Windows-based VMS (Avigilon, Exacq), MAC-based VMS (HIKVision, Exacq) as well as Linux-based VMS (HIKVision).
What works and what doesn't?
Hmm.. I think there's an article here about this very topic. But in the mean time there's a lot of references in this thread: http://ipvm.com/forums/video-surveillance/topics/vms-health-check-status
There a lots of options as the list below is just a couple off the top of my head.
PRTG
Viakoo
Optigo Networks
Labtech
Nagios
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