Integrating an AMAG Symmetry access control system in Security Center consists of a series of steps that need to be followed in sequence.
The following table lists the tasks required to integrate an AMAG Symmetry system in Security Center, and then how to verify that integration was successful.
| Step# | Description | See |
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| Learn about the release | ||
| 1 | Read the release notes to learn about any known issues, limitations, supported software, and other information about this release of the plugin. | |
| 2 | Learn which AMAG Symmetry devices, entities, events, and alarms can be imported into Security Center. | How AMAG Symmetry entities and properties are mapped in Security Center |
| Deploy and configure your AMAG Symmetry system | ||
| 3 | Make sure that your AMAG Symmetry access control system is operating as required by your organization, and that all of its devices are operating as expected and available in Symmetry SMS. |
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| 4 | Make sure that your AMAG Symmetry readers and credentials meet the requirements for integration in Security Center. | About importing AMAG Symmetry Credentials. |
| 5 | Make sure your AMAG Symmetry server runs the required software and API. | Supported plugins in Security Center |
| 6 | In Symmetry SMS, define the screen privileges in a user account for the plugin, and enable or disable graphics on door status. | Configuring Symmetry SMS |
| Install the plugin and proxy | ||
| 7 | Verify that the Security Center license has a valid certificate for the AMAG Symmetry plugin, by going to the Config Tool home page, clicking About > Certificates, and confirming that AMAG Symmetry is in the list. |
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| 8 | On the AMAG Symmetry server, download the AMAG Symmetry proxy service and the Security Center SDK, and then install both. | Downloading and installing the SDK and the AMAG Symmetry proxy service |
| 9 | Ensure that the expansion server where the plugin will be installed meets the recommended system requirements and is running a compatible version of Security Center. | |
| 10 | On the Security Center expansion server, download the plugin and install it. | Downloading and installing the AMAG Symmetry plugin |
| Configure the plugin | ||
| 11 | On the expansion server, in Config Tool, create the AMAG Symmetry plugin role. | Creating the AMAG Symmetry plugin role |
| 12 | From the plugin role, configure the connection settings and choose recipients for alarms. | Configuring the AMAG Symmetry plugin role |
| 13 | From the plugin role, configure the proxy settings, polling frequency, and door status. | Configuring the AMAG Symmetry proxy service |
| 14 | Confirm that all of your AMAG
Symmetry devices have been imported.
Enable the plugin to import AMAG Symmetry cardholders, visitors, and credentials. |
Synchronizing entities and alarms from AMAG Symmetry |
| 15 | (Optional) Choose the events and alarms to ignore. | Ignoring AMAG Symmetry alarms and events in Security Center |
| 16 | In the Monitoring task of Security Desk, add your entities to the Event monitoring list and enable alarm monitoring. | |
| 17 | Link Security Center cameras to AMAG Symmetry doors (readers) and intrusion detection areas. | Linking Security Center cameras to AMAG Symmetry devices |
| Confirm that the integration works as expected | ||
| 18 | Confirm that you can monitor video from an AMAG Symmetry door in the Monitoring task of Security Desk. | |
| 19 | Confirm that you can send commands to AMAG Symmetry entities. | Triggering actions on AMAG Symmetry entities from Security Center |
| 20 | Confirm that you can manually trigger an output. | Triggering AMAG Symmetry outputs in Security Center |
| 21 | Confirm that you see the AMAG Symmetry entities, events, and alarms in the related Security Center reports. | How AMAG Symmetry events and alarms are displayed in Security Center |
| Set up your operator workstations | ||
| 22 | On each Security Center client
workstation from which you want to control AMAG
Symmetry entities, install the AMAG
Symmetry plugin. NOTE: When the plugin
is installed on a server but not your client workstation, the client
receives events and alarms from AMAG
Symmetry, and users can send native
actions to AMAG
Symmetry entities,
but they do not have the custom actions (manual commands). For a list of
the custom actions installed by the plugin, see Actions available for AMAG Symmetry entities.
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Downloading and installing the AMAG Symmetry plugin |
| 23 | In the Monitoring task of Security Desk, add your AMAG Symmetry entities to the Event monitoring list and enable alarm monitoring. | |
| 24 | Confirm that your workstation works as expected. If it does, you have successfully completed the integration. | Repeat steps 18 to 21. |