What is Omnicast™ Federation™? - Security Center 5.10

Security Center Administrator Guide 5.10

Applies to
Security Center 5.10
Last updated
2023-06-12
Content type
Guides > Administrator guides
Language
English
Product
Security Center
Version
5.10

With Omnicast™ Federation™, you can connect multiple Omnicast™ 4.x systems into a single virtual system. Users on the central Security Center system can access entities that belong to the remote systems.

How Omnicast™ Federation™ works

You view, monitor, and control remote entities from a central system called the Federation™ host. On the Federation™ host system, you create a Omnicast™ Federation™ role for each independent Omnicast 4.x system that you want to federate. The role connects the remote system to the Federation™ host.
NOTE: Omnicast™ 4.8 has reached End of Life. For more information, see the Genetec™ Product Lifecyle page.

Limitations with Omnicast™ Federation™

Federating an Omnicast™ system has the following limitations:
  • Some playback capabilities are not supported on federated cameras. Smooth reverse playback is not available and the rewind speed is limited to -10x, -20x, -40x, and -100x.
  • Camera sequences are federated, but they behave as a single camera on the Federation™ host. This means that the users on the Federation™ host cannot unpack nor stop the camera cycling on camera sequences () federated from Omnicast™.
  • Sites () are federated as areas () in Security Center.
  • Sites with a Map (URL) property () are federated as areas () with a web page tile plugin attached.