To set up a Security
Center
Federation™ in a hosted system, you must connect the Security
Center
Federation™ role to the remote Security
Center system, and select events to
federate.
What you should know
In a hosted system, all the Security
Center
Federation™ roles needed to federate your remote systems
are created in advance for you. You must then configure these roles to connect to your
remote systems with the required options.
Procedure
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Log on to the hosted system using Config
Tool.
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Open the System task, and click the Roles
view.
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In the entity tree, select the required Security
Center
Federation™ role and click the
Properties tab.
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Configure the following options:
- Allow untrusted connections
- (Stratocast™ system only) Allow connections to
Security
Center servers using legacy
authentication.
- Directory
- Name of the main server for the remote Security
Center system.
- Username and password
- Credentials used by the Federation™ role to log on to
the remote Security
Center system. The rights
and privileges of that user determine what your local users can see and do on the
federated remote system.
- Resilient connection
- When this option is turned on (default=OFF), if the connection between the Federation™ role and the federated Security
Center Directory server is temporarily
interrupted, the Federation™ role attempts to reconnect
to the Directory for a set amount of time before the connection is considered lost and
the role goes into a warning state.
NOTE: Activating Resilient
connection is highly recommended for remote systems that might have an
unstable connection to the cloud.
- Reconnection timeout
- Specify the number of seconds that the Federation™
role attempts to reconnect to the Directory before the connection is considered
lost.
- Forward Directory reports
- When this option is turned on
(default=OFF), user activities (viewing cameras, activating the PTZ, and so on) and
configuration changes performed at the remote site can be viewed from the Federation™ host through the Activity
trails and Audit trails reports, as long as the
Federation™ user has the privileges and access
rights to view them.
IMPORTANT: Forward Directory reports is only
supported with 5.8 systems and higher (including federations). This means that if your
federated system is 5.7 and lower, the Forward Directory reports option is greyed out
and not available.
- Default live stream
- Default video stream used for viewing live video from federated Security
Center cameras.
- Enable playback requests
- When this option is turned on, users can view playback video from federated Security
Center cameras.
- Federate alarms
- When this option is turned on, alarms are received from the federated Security
Center system.
- Federated events
- Select the events you want to receive from the federated Security
Center system. Events are necessary if you
plan to monitor the federated entities in Security
Desk, or to configure event-to-actions
for the federated entities.
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Click Apply.
The
Security
Center
Federation™ role (
) is configured.
The connection status should say
Synchronizing entities, or
Connected.
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After the role has successfully connected to the remote system, open the Area
view task.
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Expand the Security
Center
Federation™ role () in the area view, and ensure all the federated entities were
imported by the role.
The entity hierarchy corresponds to the area view on the federated remote
system.
NOTE: It can take up to an hour after a new role is synchronized for video to
work.