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Security Center Administrator Guide 5.11

Product: Security Center
Content type: Guides > Administrator guides
Version: 5.11
Language: English
Last updated: 2024-07-05

Introduction
Security Center at a glance
About Security Center
Security Center architecture overview
How Security Center is organized
Logging on to Security Center through Config Tool
Logging on using web-based authentication
Closing Config Tool
Saving your workspace automatically when closing the client
Homepage overview
Overview of the About page
Administration task workspace overview
Contextual commands in administration tasks
Maintenance task workspace overview
About the area view in Config Tool
About areas
Organizing the area view
Creating areas
Turning features on and off
Configuring the notification tray
Notification tray icons in Config Tool
Changing passwords
Opening Security Desk from Config Tool
Sending feedback
Collecting diagnostic data
Shortcuts to external tools
Backing up and restoring your user options
Tasks
Opening tasks
Saving tasks in Security Center
Organizing your saved tasks in Security Center
Adding tasks to your Favorites list
Hiding the Favorites and Recent items lists from your homepage
Sending tasks in Security Center
Moving the taskbar
Customizing task behaviour in Config Tool
Reports
About visual reports
Generating reports
Exporting generated reports
Printing generated reports
Print report dialog
Customizing time zone settings
Generating visual reports
Generating and saving reports
Customizing the report pane
Customizing report behavior
About the Report Manager role
Setting maximum report results for automated reports
Keyboard shortcuts
Default keyboard shortcuts in Config Tool
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Common Security Center administration
Entities
About entities
Entities created automatically in Security Center
Changing entities' icons
Setting geographical locations of entities
Searching for entities
Searching for entities using the search tool
Copying configuration settings from one entity to another
Settings copied for each entity type using the Copy configuration tool
Assigning logical IDs to entities
Modifying logical IDs
Customizing how entities are displayed in the canvas
Deleting entities
Entity states
Troubleshooting: entities
About custom fields
Creating custom data types for custom fields
Modifying custom data types
Creating custom fields
Servers and roles
About servers
Opening Server Admin using a web browser
Server Admin - Overview page
Server Admin - Main server page
Server Admin - Expansion server page
Adding expansion servers
Converting the main server to an expansion server
Converting an expansion server to the main server
Connecting expansion servers to the main server
Activating Security Center license using the web
Activating Security Center license manually
Reapplying Security Center license
Replacing the main server
About roles
Moving roles to other servers
Deactivating and activating roles
About the Directory role
About Web-based SDK
Databases and networks
Databases
Moving databases to other computers
Connecting roles to remote database servers
Granting SQL Server permissions
Restricting the memory allocated to database servers
Creating databases
Deleting databases
Upgrading the Security Center Directory database
Shrinking Security Center databases after an upgrade
Viewing database information
Receiving notifications when databases are almost full
Backing up databases
Backing up the Directory database
Backing up role databases
Backing up databases on a schedule
Restoring databases
About networks
About the Network view
Adding networks
Creating direct connections between networks
Customizing network options
High availability
About the high availability features in Security Center
Role failover
Roles supporting failover
Setting up role failover
Changing the server priority for role failover
Directory failover and load balancing
Preparing Directory failover and load balancing
Setting up Directory failover and load balancing
Forcing a Directory server to always be the main server
Setting up a Directory server for disaster recovery
Switching the main server
Reactivating Security Center license for Directory failover systems
Reapplying Security Center license on Directory failover systems
Replacing the main server in a Directory failover environment
Removing servers from the Directory failover list
Bypassing load balancing on workstations
Directory database failover
Setting up Directory database failover through backup and restore
Backing up the Directory database with failover
Setting up Directory database failover through mirroring
Setting up Directory database failover through SQL AlwaysOn
Archiver failover
Setting up Archiver failover
Changing the server priority for Archiver failover
Assigning archiving priorities for standby servers
Configuring different retention periods for each Archiver server
Consolidating video archives after Archiver failover
Troubleshooting failover
System automation
About schedules
About twilight schedules
Creating schedules
Defining daily schedules
Defining weekly schedules
Defining ordinal schedules
Defining schedules with specific dates
Defining twilight schedules
About events
Assigning colors to events
Creating custom events
Creating event-to-actions
Adding conditions when creating event-to-actions for license plate reads
Elements used in event-to-action conditions for license plate reads
Modifying event-to-actions
Scheduled tasks
Scheduling a task
Adding audio files
About macros
Creating macros
Unit management
About the Unit enrollment tool
Configuring unit enrollment settings
Discovering units on your network
Adding units
Clearing added units
Ignoring units
Removing units from list of ignored units
Viewing unit properties
Report pane columns for the Hardware inventory task in Security Center
Undoing the "Never ask me again" option for renaming hardware units
About the Unit Assistant role
Unit certificate management
Enabling unit certificate management in Security Center
Securing the communication between the Unit Assistant role and the Certificate Signing role
Exporting and importing certificates
Creating the Certificate Signing role
Configuring the Unit Assistant role for certificate management
Configuring Security Center to renew unit certificates automatically
Renewing unit certificates manually
Unit password management
Exporting unit passwords
Record fusion and data ingestion
About data ingestion
Creating Record Caching Service roles
Creating record types
Defining the record format
Configuring the record display properties
Configuring records for map display
Importing external data from flat files
Federation™
About the Federation™ feature
What is Security Center Federation™?
What is Omnicast Federation?
About federated entities
About people counting through Federation™
Setting up a Security Center Federation™
Creating and configuring a Security Center Federation™ user
Creating and configuring a Security Center Federation role
Setting up an Omnicast Federation
Using default Security Desk settings to view federated cameras
Configuring federated entities
Requirements for large Federation™ systems
Adding Federation™ role groups
Maps
How to work with maps in Security Center
Configuring the Map Manager role
Installing the BeNomad mapping solution for Security Center
Connecting Map Manager to a Bing or Google map provider
Connecting Map Manager to the Esri ArcGIS map provider
Connecting Map Manager to a WMS map provider
Connecting Map Manager to a TMS map provider
URL format for web tile servers
Creating maps
Configuring map presets
Configuring default information to display on maps
Adjusting the opacity of the information displayed on maps
Configuring map objects that move
Configuring maps as floors of a building
Creating maps from image files
Importing map objects from AutoCAD
Setting the scale of an imported map image
Replacing image map background
Georeferencing a map image
Creating maps by connecting to a GIS
Importing map objects from AutoCAD to geographic maps
Overview of the Map designer task
Supported map objects
Best practices for map search
Enabling the AutoCAD import feature
Updating map objects imported from AutoCAD
Importing map objects from flat files
Adding map objects to your maps
Adding access control units to your maps
Adding areas to your maps
Adding areas as map thumbnails to your maps
Adding areas for people counting to your maps
Adding text, images, and shapes to your maps
Adding doors to your maps
Adding readers to your maps
Adding cameras to your maps
Drawing walls to block the cameras' fields of view
Adding camera sequences to your maps
Adding layouts to your maps
Adding ALPR cameras to your maps
Adding alarms to your maps
Adding intrusion detection areas to your maps
Adding zones to your maps
Adding input pins to your maps
Adding output relays to your maps
Adding KML objects to your maps
Adding macros to your maps
Plugins
About plugin roles
About tile plugins
Creating tile plugins that link to a website
Creating tile plugins that link to an executable file
Health monitoring
About the Health Monitor role
Resetting the Health Monitor database
Selecting health events to monitor
Configuring predefined reasons for maintenance mode
Setting entities to maintenance mode in Security Center
Enabling events for cameras in maintenance mode
Setting Security Desk to maintenance mode
Reviewing system messages
Viewing system health events
Report pane columns for the Health history task
Viewing entity health status and availability
Report pane columns for the Health statistics task
Monitoring your computer resources
Hardware information dialog box
Using the hardware benchmark tool
Overview of the System status task
System status task columns
Monitoring the status of your Security Center system
System audits
Investigating user-related activity on your Security Center system
User activity you can investigate in Security Center
Report pane columns for the Activity trails task
Configuring event logging for video sequences
Finding out what changes were made to the system configuration
Report pane columns for the Audit trails task
Configuration changes logged by the Security Center system
Mobile access
About Genetec Mobile
About the Mobile Server role
Configuring Mobile Server roles
Showing mobile users on maps
Web access
About Genetec Web App
About Security Center Web Client
About the Web Server role
Creating Web Server roles
Configuring Web Server roles
System security
Introduction to system security
Defining who can access Security Center
Protecting your data center against outside threats
About hardening
How the Security score widget works
Partitions
About partitions
Creating partitions
Updating the content of partitions
Granting access rights for partitions
Users and User groups
About user groups
Creating user groups
Adding subordinate user groups
Adding users as members of user groups
About users in Security Center
Creating users
Configuring user settings
Deactivating user profiles
Changing password settings for users
Creating encrypted user password files in Security Center
About privileges
Privilege templates
Assigning privileges to users
About the Privilege troubleshooter
About video watermarking
Configuring video watermarking
Performance impact of video watermarking on client workstations
Customizing user logon options in Config Tool
Forcing Security Desk to run in full screen mode
Setting Security Desk to start in full screen mode on workstations
Selecting which workstations users can remotely control
Granting extra access rights and privileges to specific workstation users
Selecting which user activities to log
TLS and Directory authentication
What is Transport Layer Security protocol?
What is Directory authentication?
Changing the Directory authentication setting
Disabling backward compatibility (Advanced)
Enabling backward compatibility
Replacing default certificates
Creating custom certificate requests for Security Center
Active Directory integration
Integration with Windows Active Directory
About Active Directory synchronization
Default Active Directory attribute mapping
About universal groups and global catalogs
Creating an Active Directory role in Security Center
Importing security groups from an Active Directory
Linking AD attributes to Security Center fields
Selecting which credential fields to synchronize with Active Directory
Resolving conflicts caused by imported entities
Deactivating users imported from an Active Directory
Global catalog attributes
Third-party authentication
What is third-party authentication?
Integration overview for third-party authentication using OpenID Connect
How to integrate Security Center with Azure Active Directory using OpenID Connect
How to integrate Security Center with Okta using OpenID Connect
Integration overview for third-party authentication using SAML 2.0
How to integrate Security Center with Okta using SAML 2.0
Importing user groups from a CSV file for third-party authentication
Deploying third-party authentication through ADFS using WS-Federation or WS-Trust
Configuring claim rules for a third-party claims provider
Adding a relying party trust for Security Center
Configuring claim rules for Security Center
Mapping remote ADFS groups to Security Center
Creating Authentication Service roles for WS-Federation or WS-Trust
Fusion stream encryption
What is fusion stream encryption?
How does fusion stream encryption work?
Fusion stream encryption scenarios
Performance impact of fusion stream encryption
Best practices for managing private keys
Setting up fusion stream encryption
Requesting and installing encryption certificates (Advanced)
Enabling fusion stream encryption (Advanced)
Disabling fusion stream encryption
Preventing users from viewing encrypted data on a specific machine
Preventing compromised certificates from being used in your system
Authorizing a client to view new data from an encrypted camera
Authorizing a new client to view all data from an encrypted camera
Removing encryption from video archives
Video
Video at a glance
About Security Center Omnicast
Entities related to video surveillance
Video deployment
Preparing to deploy your video surveillance system
Deployment overview for your video management system
About the Archiver role
Configuring Archiver roles
Moving the Archiver role to another server
About video units
Adding video units manually
Changing video unit passwords
Viewing video unit password history
Updating video unit passwords in batches
Configuring default camera settings
Configuring recording settings for cameras
Schedule conflicts
Configuring audio codecs
Viewing recording states of cameras
About the Auxiliary Archiver roles
Differences between the Archiver and Auxiliary Archiver
Creating Auxiliary Archiver roles
Adding cameras to Auxiliary Archiver roles
Removing cameras from Auxiliary Archiver roles
Configuring camera recording settings for an Auxiliary Archiver
Configuring HTTPS for video unit extensions
About the Media Router role
Configuring the Media Router role
Adding redirectors to the Media Router in Security Center
Configuring network card usage for a redirector
Viewing Archiver statistics
Report pane columns for the Archiver statistics task
Investigating Archiver events
Report pane columns for the Archiver events task
About the Media Gateway role
Creating Media Gateway roles
Configuring Media Gateway roles
Limiting Media Gateway connections
About the Genetec™ Web Player Library
Configuring the Media Gateway role for the Genetec Web Player
Cameras
About cameras (video encoders)
About video streams
Configuring camera settings
Configuring video streams of cameras
Boosting video recording quality on important events
Boosting video recording quality manually
Changing multicast addresses of cameras
Changing multicast ports of cameras
Testing video settings of cameras
About motion detection
Configuring motion detection
Automatically calibrating motion detection sensitivity
Defining motion detection zones
Selecting which events are triggered on motion
Testing motion detection settings
Adjusting camera color settings
About visual tracking
Configuring visual tracking
Viewing camera settings
Configuring PTZ motors
Calibrating PTZ coordinates
Testing PTZ controls
PTZ widget
Overriding user levels for specific areas and cameras
About camera sequences
Creating camera sequences
About analog monitors
Configuring analog monitors
Adding analog monitors as alarm recipients
Testing analog monitor settings
About body-worn cameras
Configuring body-worn cameras
Adding cameras and officers to the Wearable Camera Manager role
Deactivating officers
Backing up the Wearable Camera Manager server configuration
Recovering the Wearable Camera Manager role on another server
Video archives
About video archives
Archive database
Archive storage
Managing video archives
Distributing archive storage over multiple disks
Monitoring disk space available for video files
Freeing up storage space for video files
Transferring video archives
Retrieving video recordings from units
Turning on edge recording
Configuring video transfer settings for cameras
Duplicating video archives
Backing up video archives on a schedule
Bypassing archive transfer schedules
Transferring video archives on demand
Restoring video archives
Archive transfer status and details
Protecting video files from deletion
Enabling digital signature to ensure the integrity of video files (Basic)
Setting up a cryptographic key for digital signatures
Viewing video file properties
Report pane columns for the Archive storage details task
Managing the effects of Daylight Saving Time on video archives
Effects of time adjusted backward
Effects of time adjusted forward
Changing the time zone to UTC
Importing external video files to Security Center
Cloud storage
About Cloud Storage
Best practices for Cloud Storage
Limitations for Cloud Storage
Activating Cloud Storage
Applying Cloud Storage policies
Monitoring Cloud Storage
Subscribing to Cloud Storage usage reports
Troubleshooting and maintenance for video
Finding missing files on your system
Finding orphan files on your system
Upgrading video unit firmware (Basic)
Access control
Access control at a glance
About Security Center Synergis
Entities related to access control
Access control deployment
Preparing to deploy your access control system
Deploying your access control system
Deploying your access control system with video
About the Access Manager role
Configuring Access Manager roles
Configuring access control events to have multiple source entities
Adding access control unit extensions
Access control units
About access control units
About unit synchronization
How access control units operate
About minimal cardholder synchronization
Enabling minimal cardholder synchronization
Changing access control unit passwords in Config Tool
Viewing access control unit password history
Updating access control unit passwords in batches
Preparing to add HID access control units
Adding HID access control units
Configuring access control unit settings
Resetting the trusted certificate
Enabling reader supervision on HID VertX controllers
Enabling external access control devices
Areas, doors, and elevators
About doors
About door templates
Creating doors
Mapping door entities to physical door wiring
Assigning cameras to local doors
Assigning local cameras to federated doors
Configuring doors with lock sensors
Selecting who has access to doors
About elevators
Creating elevators
Selecting output relay behavior for elevator floors
Mapping elevator entities to physical elevator floor wiring
Assigning cameras to elevators
Selecting who has access to elevators
Best practices for configuring exceptions to controlled access
About secured areas
Configuring secured areas
Adding doors to areas
Applying antipassback to areas
Enabling global antipassback on Access Manager roles
Defining area occupancy limits
Interlocking doors within areas
Enforcing a supervisory presence on secured areas
Requiring visitors to be escorted to access secured areas
Configuring visitor escort for turnstiles in delegation mode
Enabling Duress PIN
About access rules
Creating access rules
About double-badge activation
Changing the lock access decision timeout on Aperio hubs
Enabling double-badge activation
Configuring a door for double-badge activation
Cardholders
About cardholders
Creating cardholder groups
Creating cardholders
Assigning access rules to cardholders
Assigning temporary access rules to cardholders
Cropping pictures
Applying transparent backgrounds to pictures
Defining the maximum file size of pictures
Assigning credentials
Requesting credential cards
Printing credential cards in batches
Printing paper credentials
Setting up smart card encoding stations
Modifications to cardholders imported from an Active Directory
Assigning pictures to imported cardholders
Modifying the status of imported cardholders
Using signature pads
Time zones for cardholder and visitor activation and expiration
Removing the option for cardholders and credentials to never expire
Creating a custom data type for time zones
Creating time zone custom fields for cardholder and visitor activation and expiration
Configuring time zones for cardholder and visitor activation and expiration
Receiving notifications when cardholders are expiring
Credentials
About credentials
About FASC-N credentials
Configuring MIFARE DESFire in Security Center
Exporting MIFARE DESFire configurations
Encoding cardholder information on MIFARE DESFire cards
Using MIFARE DESFire cards to auto-fill cardholder information
Importing MIFARE DESFire configurations in Security Center
Configuring MIFARE DESFire cryptographic keys in Security Center
Exporting MIFARE DESFire keys to Synergis Cloud Link units
Credential enrollment methods
Enrolling multiple credentials automatically
Enrolling multiple credentials manually
Creating credentials
Adding reasons for credential card requests
Responding to credential card requests
About the Mobile Credential Manager role
Creating the Mobile Credential Manager role
Setting up mobile credential profiles
Creating mobile credentials in the Mobile Credential Manager
How credential card formats work with Active Directory in Security Center
Custom card formats
Custom card format editor tool
Creating custom card formats
Defining ABA fields
Defining Wiegand fields
Adding parity checks
Designing badge templates
Viewing print previews of badge templates
Global cardholder management
Global cardholder management
Architecture of Global cardholder management
Differences between Federation™ and GCM
Differences between Active Directory integration and GCM
About Global Cardholder Synchronizer roles
Rules and restrictions for Global cardholder management
Preparing to synchronize entities across sites
Synchronizing entities across sites
Setting up partitions for synchronizing
Synchronizing your system with the sharing host
Sharing entities with other sites
Stopping entity sharing with other sites
Overriding synchronized cardholder statuses
Upgrading Security Center with Global Cardholder Synchronizer roles
Import tool
About the Import tool
CSV files and the Import tool
Notes about imported entity names
Importing cardholders and credentials
Replacing credentials
Replacing cardholder groups
Database fields supported by the Import tool
Testing your access control system
Access troubleshooter tool
Testing access rules at doors and elevators
Identifying who is granted access to doors and elevators
Report pane columns for the Door troubleshooter task
Identifying who is granted or denied access at access points
Report pane columns for the Cardholder access rights task
Testing cardholder access rights
Testing cardholder access rights based on credentials
Viewing credential properties of cardholders
Report pane columns for the Credential configuration task
Viewing properties of cardholder group members
Report pane columns for the Cardholder configuration task
Identifying which entities are affected by access rules
Report pane columns for the Access rule configuration task
Viewing I/O configuration of access control units
Report pane columns for the I/O configuration task
Troubleshooting access control
Viewing access control health events
Report pane columns for the Access control health history task
Investigating events related to access control units
Report pane columns for the Access control unit events task
Moving access control units to a different Access Manager
Moving Mercury and Honeywell controllers to different Synergis units
Preparing to replace an access control unit
Replacing access control units
Upgrading access control unit firmware and platform, and interface module firmware
Supported HID EVO firmware upgrade paths
Enabling or disabling support logs for access control units in Security Desk
Troubleshooting: HID unit discovery and enrollment issues
Troubleshooting: HID units cannot be discovered
Troubleshooting: HID units cannot be enrolled
Troubleshooting: Too many request to exit door events
Troubleshooting: Credentials not working
Troubleshooting: Cards not working at readers
License plate recognition
ALPR at a glance
About Security Center AutoVu
About Sharp ALPR units
Entities related to AutoVu ALPR
ALPR roles and units
About the ALPR Manager role
ALPR data management
Configuring the ALPR Manager role
Setting up the Archiver role for ALPR
Storage requirement for ALPR images
ALPR matcher
ALPR matcher technique: OCR equivalence
ALPR matcher technique: Number of character differences
ALPR matcher technique: Common and contiguous characters
About matcher settings files
Best practices for configuring ALPR matcher settings
MatcherSettings.xml file
MatcherSettings.xml file example
Configuring ALPR matcher settings
Modifying the auto-complete suggestions for filters in the Reads report
Hotlists
About hotlists
Creating hotlists
Editing hotlists
Selecting which hotlists and permits a patrol vehicle monitors
Installing the Hotlist Permit File Updater plugin
Filtering out invalid characters from hotlists and permit lists
Adding privacy settings to license plate reads and hits
Adding privacy settings to hotlists
Allowing users to edit hotlists and permits
Receiving notifications when hotlist hits occur
Receiving Match and No match events in Security Desk
Wildcard hotlists
Activating wildcard hotlists
Default hotlist and permit attributes
Configuring hotlist and permit attributes
Configuring past-read matching on the ALPR Manager
Using a hotlist when the ALPR Manager role is hosted on an expansion server
Configuring advanced hotlist settings
AutoVu third-party data exporter
About the AutoVu Third-party Data Exporter
Configuring the HTTPS endpoint to export read and hit events
Configuring the SFTP endpoint to export read and hit events
High-volume data export using RabbitMQ
AutoVu fixed systems
Preparing to deploy a fixed SharpV ALPR system
Deployment overview for your fixed AutoVu system
Connecting SharpV cameras to the ALPR Manager role
SharpV camera connections to the ALPR Manager role
Adding a SharpV camera to the ALPR Manager
Adding a Cloudrunner camera to the ALPR manager
Upgrading a SharpV to use the LPM protocol
About port forwarding for SharpV cameras using the LPM protocol or SSH tunnel
About port forwarding for SharpV cameras using the Security Center (legacy) extension
Adding a SharpV camera to the Archiver
Replacing SharpV units
ALPR access control
Configuring access control using vehicle license plate credentials
Creating event-to-actions for ALPR events or hotlist events
Free-Flow
About Free-Flow
About parking sessions
Parking session states
Common parking scenarios for Free-Flow
Parking zone events
Linking permits using the Free-Flow plugin
Configuring Free-Flow for transient parking
Configuring Free-Flow multiple tenants with extra transient parking
Configuring Free-Flow to track employee parking
Configuring Free-Flow general settings
Adding and configuring parking rules
Adding and configuring parking zones
Linking cameras to parking zones
Configuring automatic enforcement of parking zone violations
How parking zone occupancy is calculated
Recommendations for improving parking zone occupancy metrics
About shared permits in Free-Flow
Enabling shared parking permits
Assigning a map to a parking zone
Adding a parking zone to a map
Adding drill-down views to maps
AutoVu mobile systems
Preparing to deploy a mobile SharpZ3 system
Deployment overview for your mobile AutoVu system
About Patroller
Connecting Patroller to Security Center
Configuring the Patroller entity in Security Center
Adding user custom fields to license plate reads and hits
Creating user custom fields for reads and hits
Defining custom fields for Patroller users
Adding custom fields as annotation fields
Sound files used in Patroller
Changing sound files for ALPR events
Changing sound files for ALPR events using the updater service
AutoVu Law Enforcement systems
About Law Enforcement
Creating hit accept and hit reject reasons for hotlist hits
Creating New Wanted attributes and categories
AutoVu City and University Parking Enforcement systems
About City Parking Enforcement
City Parking Enforcement with Wheel Imaging
Long-term overtime
About University Parking Enforcement
Differences between City and University Parking Enforcement
Deploying AutoVu City and University Parking Enforcement systems
About overtime rules
Creating overtime rules
Configuring overtime rules
About permits
Creating parking permits
Configuring parking permits
About permit restrictions
Creating permit restrictions
Configuring permit restrictions
Configuring parking lots in Security Center
Importing KML files in Security Center
Configuring advanced permit settings
AutoVu Mobile License Plate Inventory systems
Mobile License Plate Inventory
About parking facilities
Creating parking facilities
Configuring parking facilities
Federated reads matching
About federated reads matching
Limitations of federated reads matching
Outcomes in Read reports for federated read matching
Configuring federated reads matching for Federation™ systems
Troubleshooting ALPR
Moving Patroller or ALPR units to a different ALPR Manager
Troubleshooting: Federated read matches the host hotlist but does not generate a hit
Migrating ALPR images to another server
Upgrading SharpV unit firmware
Alarms and critical events
Alarms
About alarms
Creating alarms
Selecting video display options for alarms
Setting optional alarm properties
Hiding alarms without source entities
Testing alarms
Troubleshooting: Alarms not received
Setting up alarms using event-to-actions
Event types that can require acknowledgment conditions
Triggering alarms manually
Threat levels
About threat levels
Threat level actions
Differences between threat levels and alarms
Defining threat levels
Threat level scenario: Fire
Threat level scenario: Gunman
Zones and intrusion detection
About zones
Differences between the types of zone
About Zone Managers
About output behaviors
Creating hardware zones
Configuring hardware zone settings
Creating virtual zones
Configuring virtual zone settings
Creating I/O zones
Configuring I/O zone settings
Intrusion panel integration
About Intrusion Managers
Creating the Intrusion Manager role
About intrusion detection units
Limitations in monitoring intrusion panel inputs
About intrusion detection areas
Creating intrusion detection areas
Assigning cameras to intrusion detection areas
Assigning cameras to intrusion detection inputs
Configuring Security Center to trigger intrusion alarms on any intrusion panel
Moving intrusion detection units to a different Intrusion Manager
Config Tool reference
Entity types
Common configuration tabs
Access control unit - HID - Identity tab
Access control unit - HID - Properties tab
Access control unit - HID - Synchronization tab
Access control unit - HID - Peripherals tab
Access control unit - Synergis - Identity tab
Access control unit - Synergis - Properties tab
Access control unit - Synergis - Portal tab
Access control unit - Synergis - Hardware tab
Access control unit - Synergis - Synchronization tab
Access control unit - Synergis - Peripherals tab
Access rule - Properties tab
Alarm configuration tabs
Analog monitor - Properties tab
Area configuration tabs
Badge template - Badge designer tab
Camera - Video tab
Camera - Recording tab
Camera - Video analytics > Motion detection tab
Camera - Video analytics > Visual tracking tab
Camera - Color tab
Camera - Hardware tab
Camera sequence - Cameras tab
Cardholder configuration tabs
Cardholder group - Properties tab
Credential configuration tabs
Door configuration tabs
Elevator configuration tabs
Hardware zone configuration tabs
Hotlist configuration tabs
I/O zone - Properties tab
Intrusion detection area - Properties tab
Intrusion detection unit configuration tabs
ALPR unit - Properties tab
Macro configuration tabs
Monitor group - Monitors tab
Network - Properties tab
Output behavior - Properties tab
Overtime rule configuration tabs
Parking facility - Properties tab
Partition - Properties tab
Patroller - Properties tab
Permit - Properties tab
Permit restriction configuration tabs
Schedule - Properties tab
Scheduled task - Properties tab
Server - Properties tab
Tile plugin - Properties tab
User configuration tabs
User group configuration tabs
Video unit - Identity tab
Video unit - Properties tab
Video unit - Peripherals tab
Virtual zone configuration tabs
Role types
Access Manager configuration tabs
Active Directory configuration tabs
ALPR Manager - Properties tab
Examples of JSON files for the AutoVu third-party data exporter
Examples of XML files for the AutoVu third-party data exporter
ALPR Manager - Resources tab
Archiver: Camera default settings tab
Archiver: Extensions tab
Archiver: Resources tab
Authentication Service - Properties tab (OpenID)
Authentication Service - Properties tab (SAML2)
Authentication Service - Properties tab (WS-Federation or WS-Trust)
Auxiliary Archiver - Camera recording tab
Auxiliary Archiver - Cameras tab
Auxiliary Archiver - Resources tab
Cloud Playback configuration tabs
Directory Manager configuration tabs
Global Cardholder Synchronizer configuration tabs
Health Monitor configuration tabs
Intrusion Manager configuration tabs
Map Manager configuration tabs
Media Gateway configuration tabs
Media Router configuration tabs
Mobile Credential Manager configuration tabs
Mobile Server configuration tabs
Omnicast Federation configuration tabs
Record Caching Service configuration tabs
Record Fusion Service configuration tabs
Report Manager configuration tabs
Security Center Federation configuration tabs
Unit Assistant - Properties tab
Unit Assistant - Certificate profile tab
Unit Assistant - Resources tab
Web-based SDK configuration tabs
Web Server configuration tabs
Zone Manager configuration tabs
Administration tasks
ALPR task - General settings view
Access control task - General settings view
System task - General settings - Custom fields page
System task - General settings - Events page
System task - General settings - Actions page
System task - General settings - Logical ID page
System task - General settings - User password settings page
System task - General settings - Activity trails page
System task - General settings - Audio page
System task - General settings - Threat levels page
System task - General settings - Incident categories page
System task - General settings - Features page
System task - General settings - Updates page
Events and actions
Event types
Action types
Appendices
License options
Viewing license information
License options in Security Center
HID reference
Supported HID hardware
Supported HID VertX controllers
Supported HID VertX sub-panels
Supported HID Edge controllers
Supported HID Edge interface modules
Supported HID controller firmware in Security Center
HID hardware installation do's and don'ts
HID VertX V1000 RS-485 connections
HID VertX V1000 I/O behavior
HID I/O linking considerations
HID Power and Comm LEDs
HID features and models supported by Security Center
Enabling long PIN support on HID units
Supported HID unit configurations
Security Center features supported by HID units
Multiple-Swipe feature
About the multi-swipe feature
Implementing the multi-swipe feature

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