You can use the four inputs on the Cloud Link Roadrunner™ appliance to monitor the physical
installation of the appliance. For example, you can connect an input to a tamper switch on the
enclosure in which the appliance is installed.
What you should know
- You can set a special behavior for each input. Each special behavior corresponds to
an event you can receive in the Monitoring task:
Special behavior |
Security Center
event |
AC failure |
AC fail |
Tamper switch |
Hardware tamper |
Battery failure |
Battery fail |
- You can view the state changes of the inputs on the I/O
diagnostics page in the Cloud Link Roadrunner™ Portal.
Procedure
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From the Config Tool homepage, open
the Access control task, and click the Roles and
units view.
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Select your Cloud Link Roadrunner unit, and
click the Hardware tab.
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Click the Onboard IO tab, and then configure the
inputs:
- Special behavior
- The special behaviors determine the event you receive in the
Monitoring task when the input is in non-normal
state. By default, the special behavior is set to
None. Select one of the following:
-
AC failure
-
Tamper switch
-
Battery failure
- Input configuration
- Select one of the following:
- Unsupervised
- Inputs are unsupervised by default.
- Three states
- Select one of the pre-configured options, which selects the
Resistance range for you, or select
Custom, and enter the Lower
Limit (Ohms) and Higher Limit
(Ohms) in ohms yourself.
- Four states
- Select one of the pre-configured options, which selects the
Closed range and Open
range for you, or select
Custom, and enter the Lower
Limit (Ohms) and Higher Limit
(Ohms) values yourself.
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Click Apply.
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Click the Peripherals tab, and double-click the input you
configured on the Hardware page.
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(Optional) In the Edit Input dialog box, enter a new name and
logical ID.
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Set the Contact type:
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Select Not supervised, 3 state
supervised, or 4 state supervised to
match the value you selected for the Input configuration
on the Hardware page.
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Select Normally open or Normally
closed.
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Click Save.
Results
When an input is in an non-normal state, the Cloud Link Roadrunner™ Portal unit turns yellow, and you receive an
entity warning. If you were monitoring the Cloud Link Roadrunner™ Portal unit and the special behavior events,
you receive the event corresponding to the input's special behavior in the
Monitoring task.