Recommended settings for Avigilon Alta and Avigilon Ava cameras

Last modified: Monday July 28, 2025.

When adding Avigilon Alta and Avigilon Ava cameras to your deployment, we recommend that you consider the following:

  • Use the default configuration to use Password Renewal for all Avigilon Alta and Avigilon Ava cameras. This causes the passwords used to connect between Alta Video and the Avigilon Alta and Avigilon Ava cameras to be renewed daily.
  • Create System Rules for each camera to warn of any tampering with cameras. At a minimum, these should include anti-tampering rules, including:
    • SD card failure (which could indicate that an SD card has been removed from the camera).
    • Camera top cover removed (for cameras fitted with cover removal detection).
    • Image health (to be alerted if the position of the camera, or its focus, changes.

Task — Check the Password Renewal configuration

    Open the System System tool.From Deployment, select Settings.
  1. Select the General tab.
  2. Ensure that the Password Renewal slider is enabled.

    Do not disable Password Renewal unless requested to do so by Avigilon Alta Video Support.

  3. Click Done.

Task — System Rules to warn of camera tampering

Refer to the following topic for instructions on creating System Rules: