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.
NOTE: In Security Center 5.11.3.0 and later, Omnicast Federation is not supported and the role
is in a permanent warning state.
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 an 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 Lifecycle 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.