Cisco VSOM 6.3.2 Integration to get a video clip?

[oatinetworksupport]

I have a system which generates alarm data.  The area around the alarm 'events' is under video surveillance by Cisco VSOM and cameras.

Whenever I get an alarm event from this system, it sends me an e-mail.  Then, I log into VSOM and go to the date/time specified in the e-mail to see what happened.  I then export the video from the event into a WMV file, and e-mail it out with the event e-mail to a team of folks to research the event.

Is there some method of automating this?  The system that generates the events is very extendable with custom scripts, command-line tools, and so forth.  Can I somehow run a command-line tool to get a clip out of VSOM?  I would ideally like to give VSOM the camera, start time, and stop time and have it spit out a video clip (preferably in WMV format).  Can I do this via a command-line tool or SSH command or even XML?  Is there any integration method by which some external system can trigger VSOM to generate a clip and dump it somewhere?

If there is, I could write my script to take the event time, generate a clip, and e-mail the event alarm data along with the video clip attached, thereby preventing me from having to spend time doing this manually.

Please let me know if there is a way to do this.

Thanks,

- Erik

[oatinetworksupport]

I guess I have one more thing that could help...if I can't get a video clip exported from the system, is there a way to send out a link in the event email which would link you to VSOM, in this particular archive, at this particular time, to view the video straight out of VSOM?

[derrickmunro]

If you have Cisco cameras, you should be able to email clips through the camera interface.  Just log on to a camera, and take a look at the available applications.  There is an area to send clips via email through events (motion detection, inputs, etc.)