central in professional plus

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We used the CentralDemo example in their SDK and created a Windows service that connects to all Milestone servers on a network using the port 1237.

We had to enable Central on each server first.

Then we catch some events (like CameraNotResponding) and regroup them to send only one email per device per day.

Now with the plus version of Xprotect there is no Central service anymore to connect to.

So we are looking for advice on how to get the events of those plus Xprotect servers.

To do the same thing we do with the Central events, regroup them and send the emails once per day.

Is there an example in your new SDK that we could use?

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Central is part of XProtect e-code servers, it is not present in XProtect c-code servers (XProtect Corporate, Expert and plus products).

The closest equivalent to the Central API (in e-code) is the Status API (in c-code). The Status API is different but provides the same information and more.

Instead of using the Status API protocol it is possible to get status information from the Event Server. This approach will work for c-code and e-code. My advise is to explore the StatusViewer sample which uses this approach.