About the Federation™ feature - Security Center 5.9

Security Center can join (or federate) other Security Center systems and Omnicast™ systems into a large Federation™ of Genetec™ IP security systems. The system that joins other systems together is called the Federation™ host. Security Center does this by creating a specific Federation™ role for each system it needs to unify.

For a list of Security Center and Omnicast™ versions you can federate in this release, see the Security Center Release Notes.

Security Center Federation™

The Security Center Federation™ role connects a remote, independent Security Center system to your local Security Center. That way, the remote system's entities and events can be used in your local system.

The Security Center Federation™ role acts as a proxy between your local clients and the remote Security Center system they need to connect to.

Multiple instances of the Security Center Federation™ role can be created on the system.

For a list of available federated events, refer to the Properties page of the corresponding Federation™ role in Config Tool.

When the Security Center Federation™ role runs in a hosted system in the cloud, we recommend using reverse tunneling. For more information, see Deploying Security Center Federation™ using reverse tunneling.

Omnicast™ Federation™

The Omnicast™ Federation™ role connects an Omnicast™ 4.x system to Security Center. That way, the Omnicast™ entities and events can be used in your Security Center system.

The Omnicast™ Federation™ role acts as a proxy between your local clients and the remote Omnicast™ system they need to connect to.

Multiple instances of the Omnicast™ Federation™ role can be created on the system.

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.