The invention relates to an intelligent network video monitoring method comprising: when a monitoring front end monitors an alarming event, alarming multimedia message content is formed according to a preset multimedia message strategy, and the alarming multimedia message content is reported to a central management server; the central management server sends a multimedia message request to a multimedia server, and the multimedia message request comprises the alarming multimedia message content; the multimedia message server builds a notifying multimedia message according to the multimedia message request and sends the notifying multimedia message to a monitoring terminal; and the notifying multimedia message comprises the alarming multimedia message content. The invention also relates to an intelligent network video monitoring system. The invention vividly transmits alarming events to monitoring staff in time by the multimedia message which is a carrier full of various kinds of media format information, so that the monitoring terminal does not need to be on line at real time, and monitoring staff can recheck and process alarming according to the situation expressed by the receivedmultimedia message at any time, thus ensuring intelligent alarming instantaneity, avoiding long-time on line of the monitoring terminal.