Consider the following best practices when installing and setting up your Security Center system.
- Install your system in the recommended order. Follow our pre-installation and post-installation checklists.
- For optimal performance and consistency, standardize your installations for client and
server machines.
- Install the same Security Center version on all machines.
- Use the same installation folder on all machines.
- Save backups in the same folder on all machines.
- Pre-stage your system as much as possible during deployment. You can create schedules, cardholders, credentials, access rules, and logical entities like partitions, areas, and doors before bringing units and controllers online.
- Deploy your system in the recommended order. Follow our deployment overviews: